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Soft micro-sensotransmitters emerging

Nature Nanotechnology volume 13, pages 770–771 (2018)Cite this article

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Two-dimensional materials allow the realization of soft smart dusts.

The development of ingestible sensors is accelerating1,2. These devices are ‘sensotransmitters’ (sensor circuits that can receive and transmit data) that can autonomously operate inside the gastrointestinal tract. The next frontier is to reduce the dimensions of sensotransmitters to make them small enough to be injected into the human blood circulation system for transmitting information about certain blood biomarkers for health monitoring and diagnostics. However, this is not yet possible due to the challenges associated with the development of ‘smart dusts’, of which the sensotransmitter family is an important category.

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Kalantar-Zadeh, K. Soft micro-sensotransmitters emerging. Nature Nanotech 13, 770–771 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-018-0198-8

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