TY - JOUR
T1 - Edible and Nutritive Electronics
T2 - Materials, Fabrications, Components, and Applications
AU - Wu, Yingzhu
AU - Ye, Dongdong
AU - Shan, Yingfa
AU - He, Shuohai
AU - Su, Ziyue
AU - Liang, Jiahao
AU - Zheng, Jinren
AU - Yang, Zihang
AU - Yang, Haokai
AU - Xu, Wenwen
AU - Jiang, Hanqing
N1 - Funding Information:
Y.W. and D.Y. contributed equally to this work. This work was supported by the Guangdong Province Special Innovation Project (2017KTSCX182) and the scientific research startup funds for high‐level talents in Wuyi University (AL2018010). H.J. acknowledges support from Arizona Commerce Authority, AZ Partnership for Economic Innovatio, and Vantronics LLC.
Funding Information:
Y.W. and D.Y. contributed equally to this work. This work was supported by the Guangdong Province Special Innovation Project (2017KTSCX182) and the scientific research startup funds for high-level talents in Wuyi University (AL2018010). H.J. acknowledges support from Arizona Commerce Authority, AZ Partnership for Economic Innovatio, and Vantronics LLC.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/10/1
Y1 - 2020/10/1
N2 - The emerging novel edible and nutritive electronics indicate an important advance in ingestible and implantable electronics, covering multiple disciplines such as biomedicine, electronics, and nutriology. This review focuses on the feasibility and critical technical problems of fabricating fully edible and nutritive electronics. Recently, a limited number of fully edible and nutritive electronics, operating single functions, have been applied to monitor the condition of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and diagnose its disorders. However, fully edible, nutritive, miniaturized, and well-functioning electronics with multiple functions are challenging to fabricate. The toxicity of materials used in edible electronics is controllable. The lifetime of edible electronics can be predicted by theoretical and empirical models, and can be tuned by integration strategies. The discipline of edible and nutritive electronics is still in its infancy. In the future, many novel edible materials, integration strategies, and advanced biosensing and wirelessly communicating technologies may be applied to sensing target biomarkers. A more realistic GI tract simulator will be widely used to evaluate the various properties of edible and nutritive electronics rapidly during the process of degradation in the GI tract. Finally, the ethical and legal issues of edible and nutritive electronics will attract more attention.
AB - The emerging novel edible and nutritive electronics indicate an important advance in ingestible and implantable electronics, covering multiple disciplines such as biomedicine, electronics, and nutriology. This review focuses on the feasibility and critical technical problems of fabricating fully edible and nutritive electronics. Recently, a limited number of fully edible and nutritive electronics, operating single functions, have been applied to monitor the condition of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and diagnose its disorders. However, fully edible, nutritive, miniaturized, and well-functioning electronics with multiple functions are challenging to fabricate. The toxicity of materials used in edible electronics is controllable. The lifetime of edible electronics can be predicted by theoretical and empirical models, and can be tuned by integration strategies. The discipline of edible and nutritive electronics is still in its infancy. In the future, many novel edible materials, integration strategies, and advanced biosensing and wirelessly communicating technologies may be applied to sensing target biomarkers. A more realistic GI tract simulator will be widely used to evaluate the various properties of edible and nutritive electronics rapidly during the process of degradation in the GI tract. Finally, the ethical and legal issues of edible and nutritive electronics will attract more attention.
KW - bioabsorbable electronics
KW - conductive biomaterials
KW - diagnostics and therapy
KW - edible and nutritive electronics
KW - gastrointestinal tract
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U2 - 10.1002/admt.202000100
DO - 10.1002/admt.202000100
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85087721436
SN - 2365-709X
VL - 5
JO - Advanced Materials Technologies
JF - Advanced Materials Technologies
IS - 10
M1 - 2000100
ER -