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Thermal Responsive Silk Composite Membrane for Magnetic Field Triggered Controllable Drug Delivery

Drug delivery implant which provides localized and controlled drug release is beneficial for the therapies of chronic diseases and tumors. This dissertation aims to develop thermal responsive composite membranes that can be utilized as smart drug release i ...

EPFL2020

Nanopore Generation in Biodegradable Silk/Magnetic Nanoparticle Membranes by an External Magnetic Field for Implantable Drug Delivery

Jürgen Brugger, Giovanni Boero, Xiao Sheng Zhang, Ya Wang

Implantable devices for localized and controlled drug release are important, e.g., for therapies of cancer and chronic pain. However, most of the existing active implants are limited by the usage of nonbiodegradable materials; thus, surgery is needed to ex ...

2022

Recent progress in silk fibroin-based flexible electronics

Jürgen Brugger, Xiao Sheng Zhang, Ya Wang

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the emergence of 5G, traditional silicon-based electronics no longer fully meet market demands such as nonplanar application scenarios due to mechanical mismatch. This provides unprecedented op ...

2021

A transparent silk-fibroin-based triboelectric microgenerator for airflow energy harvesting

Jürgen Brugger, Xiao Sheng Zhang, Ya Wang

We present a new transparent high-performance triboelectric microgenerator (TEMG) based on an emerging material, silk fibroin. Silk fibroin has a strong ability to lose electrons and occupies a top-level positive position in the triboelectric series. It th ...

IEEE Xplore2017

All-fiber hybrid piezoelectric-enhanced triboelectric nanogenerator for wearable gesture monitoring

Jürgen Brugger, Xiao Sheng Zhang, Ya Wang, Xiaohang Zhang

With the increasing potential of smart clothing, the demand for generating energy directly in the tissue fibers has prompted for increased research in the field of energy harvesters based on wearable nanogenerators. Current challenges remain in the combina ...

Elsevier2018

Thermal and pH Sensitive Composite Membrane for On-Demand Drug Delivery by Applying an Alternating Magnetic Field

Jürgen Brugger, Giovanni Boero, Xiao Sheng Zhang, Ya Wang

Implantable drug delivery systems that can realize a scheduled drug release according to the needs of patients would be highly beneficial for the treatment of chronic diseases and cancer. Here, micrometer‐sized hydrogel particles with both thermal and pH s ...

2020

Multi- and Gray-Scale Thermal Lithography of Silk Fibroin as Water-Developable Resist for Micro and Nanofabrication

Mohammadreza Rostami, Jürgen Brugger, Ya Wang, Joffrey Pernollet

Silk fibroin (SF) is a natural material with polymorphic structures that determine its water solubility and biodegradability, which can be altered by exposing it to heat. Here, a hybrid thermal lithography method combining scalable microscale laser-based p ...

Wiley2024

Fabrication and Characterization of Biodegradable, Thermal-Responsive Silk Composite Membrane

Jürgen Brugger, Xiao Sheng Zhang, Ya Wang

In this work, we present a study on a thermalresponsive biodegradable membrane composed of silk fibroin and iron oxide nanoparticles as potential candidate material for implantable smart drug delivery microsystems. Ethanol annealing increased the content o ...

2018

Reversible Drug Delivery: Thermal and pH Sensitive Composite Membrane for On‐Demand Drug Delivery by Applying an Alternating Magnetic Field (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 17/2020)

Jürgen Brugger, Giovanni Boero, Xiao Sheng Zhang, Ya Wang

In article number 2000733 by Juergen Brugger and co‐workers, a novel composite membrane of silk fibroin, microgels and magnetic nanoparticles whose permeability can be adjusted by temperature for controlled drug release is studied. The temperature induced ...

2020