Silicon electronics on silk as a path to bioresorbable, implantable devices
- Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
- Tufts Univ., Medford, MA (United States)
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington, VA (United States)
Many existing and envisioned classes of implantable biomedical devices require high performance electronics/sensors. An approach that avoids some of the longer term challenges in biocompatibility involves a construction in which some parts or all of the system resorbs in the body over time. Furthermore, this paper describes strategies for integrating single crystalline silicon electronics, where the silicon is in the form of nanomembranes, onto water soluble and biocompatible silk substrates. Electrical, bending, water dissolution, and animal toxicity studies suggest that this approach might provide many opportunities for future biomedical devices and clinical applications.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; U.S. Army Research Laboratory; US Army Research Office (ARO)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-07ER46471; FG02-07ER46453; W911 NF-07–1-0618
- OSTI ID:
- 1876186
- Journal Information:
- Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 95, Issue 13; ISSN 0003-6951
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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