Bioinspired and biohybrid robots can help respond to diverse, sustainable application needs.
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Bioinspir Biomim
December 2024
Bioinspired Soft Robotics (BSR), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Via Morego 30, 16163 Genova, Italy.
Smart agriculture tools as well as advanced studies on agrochemicals and plant biostimulants aim to improve crop productivity and more efficient use of resources without sacrificing sustainability. Recently, multiple advanced sensors for agricultural applications have been developed, however much less advancement is reported in the field of precise delivery of agriculture chemicals. The organic electronic ion pump (OEIP) enables electrophoretically-controlled delivery of ionic molecules in the plant tissue, however it needs external power-supplies complicating its application in the field.
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January 2025
Department of Pharmaceutics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, (NIPER), Hyderabad 500037, India. Electronic address:
Nanotechnology-based delivery systems have brought a paradigm shift in the management of cancer. However, the main obstacles to nanocarrier-based delivery are their limited circulation duration, excessive immune clearance, inefficiency in interacting effectively in a biological context and overcoming biological barriers. This demands effective engineering of nanocarriers to achieve maximum efficacy.
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February 2025
Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples 'Federico II', Via D. Montesano 49, 80131, Naples, Italy; BAT Center-Interuniversity Center for Studies on Bioinspired Agro-Environmental Technology, University of Napoli Federico II, 80055, Naples, Italy; Bioelectronics Task Force at University of Naples Federico II, Italy. Electronic address:
One of the greatest challenges for the future is represented by the conservation of global agricultural production: it is necessary to implement early monitoring of the health conditions of crops through innovative technologies that allow a sustainable development. To reach this goal, the development of portable biosensors might represent a robust strategy for monitoring agricultural sites in agreement with the requirement of precision agriculture. In this work, an electrochemical inhibition biosensor has been engineered onto a glove to quantify organophosphorus pesticides directly on fruits peels.
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October 2024
Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems, Aalto University, Aalto, 00076, Finland.
Developing bioinspired materials to convert sunlight into electricity efficiently is paramount for sustainable energy production. Fluorescent proteins are promising candidates as photoactive materials due to their high fluorescence quantum yield and absorption extinction coefficients in aqueous media. However, developing artificial bioinspired photosynthetic systems requires a detailed understanding of molecular interactions and energy transfer mechanisms in the required operating conditions.
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October 2024
Institute of Advanced Structure Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.
The high computility of electronic components put urgent requirements on the dissipation efficiency of a high thermal conductive substrate. Herein, inspired by the nature structure, leaf-vein-like AlO skeleton was first designed though topology optimization algorithm and manufactured via vat photopolymerization (VPP) 3D printing, then compounded with epoxy (EP) to prepare leaf-vein-like biohybrid structures. The biohybrid structure had a high λ (14.
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