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• Letter | 14 June 2021

  Kirigami-inspired stents for sustained local delivery of therapeutics

  A kirigami-inspired stent-based system has been developed for extended local drug delivery to the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts as well as the vascular system.

  • Sahab Babaee
  • , Yichao Shi
  •  & Giovanni Traverso

• Article | 26 November 2018

  Highly mechanosensitive ion channels from graphene-embedded crown ethers

  Tuning ionic permeation across nanoscale pores is important for areas ranging from nanofluidic computing to drug delivery. Complex formation between crown ethers and dissolved metal ions is used to demonstrate graphene-based ion channels with high mechanosensitivity.

  • A. Fang
  • , K. Kroenlein
  •  & A. Smolyanitsky

• Article | 07 November 2016

  Collagen intrafibrillar mineralization as a result of the balance between osmotic equilibrium and electroneutrality

  A new model for collagen intrafibrillar mineralization shows the need for a balance between osmotic equilibrium and electroneutrality to establish Gibbs–Donnan equilibrium.

  • Li-na Niu
  • , Sang Eun Jee
  •  & Franklin R. Tay

• Review Article | 04 July 2016

  Pursuing prosthetic electronic skin

  This Review discusses the materials and electronic requirements for flexible sensors and electronic systems to mimic the mechanical and sensing properties of natural skin, with the goal of providing artificial prostheses with sensing capabilities.

  • Alex Chortos
  • , Jia Liu
  •  & Zhenan Bao