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Water-based, highly tunable and biocompatible silk-based bioink
SUMMARYTufts investigators have developed biopolymer-based ink formulations that are useful for inkjet printing and other applications.PROBLEMPreparation of water-based, highly-tunable and biocompatible bioinks remains a challenge. It often requires complicated multistep manufacturing process that is time-consuming, energy-intensive and...
Published: 1/15/2025
Inventor(s): Fiorenzo Omenetto, David Kaplan, Hu Tao, Benedetto Marelli, Miaomiao Yang
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Category(s): Biomaterials
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Electronic components on paper-based substrates
Electronic components on paper-based substratesThe present disclosure relates to paper-based substrates and apparatus comprising such substrates. The apparatus may include a patterned conductive structure coupled to the paper-based substrate, wherein the patterned conductive structure responds to electromagnetic radiation. Since paper-based substrates...
Published: 1/15/2025
Inventor(s): Fiorenzo Omenetto, David Kaplan, Hu Tao
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Category(s): Diagnostic
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Silk Water Lithography
SUMMARYTufts University investigators have developed a room temperature lithography technique that eliminates the need for expensive equipment and minimizes the use of harsh chemicals without sacrificing resolution.DESCRIPTION A resist film that is composed of a biocompatible and biodegradable polymer (derived from silk) combined with a water-based...
Published: 1/15/2025
Inventor(s): Fiorenzo Omenetto, David Kaplan, Miaomiao Yang, Hu Tao, Benedetto Marelli, Sunghwan Kim
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Category(s): Materials
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Gold Nanoparticle-Doped Biocompatible Silk Films as a Path to Implantable Thermal-electrically Wireless Powering Devices
Tufts researchers have developed silk-based photothermal devices capable of wirelessly converting light energy into heat. These devices are mechanically robust, implantable, biocompatible and biodegradable, which makes them useful for a wide range of in vivo applications including photothermal therapy, controlled drug delivery, wireless powering of...
Published: 1/15/2025
Inventor(s): Fiorenzo Omenetto, Hu Tao, David Kaplan
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Category(s): Energy, Materials: polymers, Optics, Medical devices, Therapeutic
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Silk Metamaterials
SUMMARYResearchers at Tufts University have developed a wireless, passive radio frequency identification device (RFID) built entirely from silk. This flexible sensor consists of a gold RFID antenna array on a silk polymer substrate. The array is less than 100 micrometer thick, and is fully biocompatible. EXISTING SOLUTIONSPassive RFID tags applied to...
Published: 1/15/2025
Inventor(s): Fiorenzo Omenetto, David Kaplan, Jason Amsden, Richard Averitt, Andrew Strikwerda, Xin Zhang, Hu Tao, Konstantinos Tsioris
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Category(s): Biomaterials
