A toolkit of thread-based microfluidics, sensors, and electronics for 3D tissue embedding for medical diagnostics

Microsystems and Nanoengineering

Volumn 2, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Mostafalu, Pooria ^a   Akbari, Mohsen ^b,c,d,e   Alberti, Kyle A ^a   Xu, Qiaobing ^a   Khademhosseini, Ali ^b,c,d,f   Sonkusale, Sameer R ^a  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^f KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

3D microfluidics; Flexible electronics; Flexible sensors; Glucose sensor; Implantable devices; pH sensor; Strain sensor; Thread diagnostics; Wearable devices

Indexed keywords

EID: 85048964081     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20557434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/micronano.2016.39     Document Type: Article

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