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52 selected articles
2026-10-16 03:30 – 2026-10-23 03:30 (Beijing time)
Nanoedge-regulated impedance sensing tracks cardiomyocyte mechanophysiology and supports functional drug assessment. The approach links cellular mechanical states to continuous electrical readout. The approach may help connect a cell-level electrical measurement to changes in mechanical function when screening biological responses to a treatment.
Basement-membrane-inspired nanomesh bioelectronics monitor oxidative stress at the alveolar–capillary barrier. The ultrathin interface offers a reference for conformal bioelectronics and local chemical sensing. The conformal interface may offer ideas for placing electrochemical sensing close to a biological barrier while limiting the mechanical burden of the sensor.
A starfish-inspired sensor separates radial strain channels from isolated pressure nodes to decouple global deformation and local touch. The study reports 99.27% test accuracy for six thumb motions, with relevance to wearable human–machine interfaces. The mechanical separation of sensing regions may inform designs that need to distinguish distributed deformation from contact at a particular location.
A standardized chewable conductive-hydrogel sensor directly records masticatory dynamics. It provides a reference for intraoral mechanical monitoring and durable soft sensing interfaces. The chewable form factor may offer ideas for placing a mechanical sensor at the point of oral loading, where the interface must accommodate repeated contact and deformation.
Biodegradable capacitive-coupling bioelectronics combine wireless electrical stimulation, nerve guidance and longitudinal compound-action-potential recording. A rat sciatic-nerve model demonstrates recovery trends consistent with wired electrophysiology, with relevance to resorbable implants and external coupling. The integration of intervention and electrophysiological follow-up may inform temporary nerve interfaces that need to track recovery as well as deliver stimulation.
An analysis of 25 piezoelectric microcantilever material combinations compares performance in air and water. Reported AlN–SiC sensitivities are 1.10 and 0.025 Hz pg⁻¹, respectively; Sobol and Pareto analyses show that material selection depends on the medium and readout metric. The comparison highlights why a resonant material that performs well in air may not remain optimal in liquid, which is relevant to fluid-loaded implantable sensors.
Higher-order piezoelectric resonant membranes focus particles in droplets near regions of maximum vibration and then weigh them by resonance. The integrated actuation–sensing platform is relevant to liquid-phase mass sensing, fluid damping and mechanical biochemical readout. Using resonant motion for both particle positioning and measurement may inform systems where analyte location would otherwise complicate interpretation of a liquid-phase signal.
An eight-solenoid field generator controls 250 × 250 × 1,250 μm magnetic microdrillers within a 20 × 20 × 20 cm³ workspace. In 0.6 wt% agarose, the study reports speeds up to 155 μm s⁻¹ and steering errors below 3°, with relevance to actuation in viscoelastic media. The combination of field generation and trajectory control may inform the design of magnetic actuation systems in soft media; the reported accuracy applies to the demonstrated agarose setting.
A flexible microlaser emitter supports mechanical sensing and pulse mapping. The optical readout offers a complementary route to flexible biomechanical monitoring. The potential relevance is a mechanical measurement encoded in an optical emitter, offering a comparison point for sensor architectures that use electrical or magnetic readout.
The 1.0 g Airscope records more than 8,500 neurons per animal across a 6 mm field of view at 12.5 Hz. Demonstrations include swimming and simultaneous recordings from multiple animals or brain and spinal cord, with relevance to monitoring during natural behaviour. The combination of low mass and broad spatial coverage may inform trade-offs between recording extent, payload and freedom of movement in wearable neural instrumentation.
Digital pixel fibres integrate display, touch localization, computation and multimodal input/output. A sleeve prototype provides 96 × 54 pixels at 30 fps with 8-bit colour, alongside flexibility, breathability and washability. The integration may provide a useful reference for wearable systems that need both user input and feedback within the same fabric, rather than separate rigid interface modules.
A wrist-worn hollow-microneedle system extracts interstitial fluid and uses electrochemical interfacial alkalinization for nonenzymatic glucose measurement. Demonstrations include quasi-continuous monitoring in rats and an initial test in one person. A removable sensor cartridge addresses maintenance of the skin interface. The separation between the skin-access interface and a replaceable sensing cartridge may be useful when considering maintenance and repeat measurements in wearable chemical monitoring.
A hierarchical iontronic skin combines more than 10,000 sensing units, a density of 1,110 units cm⁻² and parallel readout at 100 fps. Frequency-position encoding and hierarchical compression address crosstalk and bandwidth; a robot resolves 300 μm surface features. This architecture may inform tactile-array designs where the main challenge is transmitting and processing many sensing channels while preserving spatial detail.
Bioresorbable metal-free molecular magnets based on modified graphitic carbon nitride are integrated into epicardial patches or injectable hydrogels. External Hall arrays support organ readout with motion-artifact suppression; a porcine study tracks ejection fraction over four weeks. The material and readout approach is relevant to resorbable magnetic implants. The combination of a resorbable magnetic material and external field readout may inform temporary organ-monitoring systems; translation to other organs would require separate validation.
A meandering spoof surface plasmon polariton transmission line combines frequency-diverse sensing with neural reconstruction to localize touch using a single wire. The authors report a super-resolution factor above 10,000 across skin areas of 2,500–28,800 mm², with demonstrations in dynamic touch and object recognition. The architecture is relevant to reducing wiring in large-area tactile interfaces. Preprint; not peer reviewed. The single-wire architecture may offer an alternative to dense point-to-point connections when scaling tactile coverage, although adapting it to another surface would require recalibration.
Physics-guided inverse design arranges printed carbon-nanotube/PDMS cells into aperiodic strain-sensing architectures. One design achieves a gauge factor of 1.55 with R² above 0.98 over 30% strain, improving sensitivity relative to its most linear constituent. Respiratory monitoring illustrates a wearable application. The method offers a route to tailoring sensor response through architecture rather than filler composition alone. Preprint; not peer reviewed. The result may help frame sensor optimization as a spatial design problem, making it useful for studies that need a predictable response across an extended deformation range.
The wireless ECHO implant uses electrocatalysis for glucose control and can interface with a commercial continuous glucose monitor. The study reports glucose normalization within 1 h in diabetic mice and six weeks of treatment. Its closed-loop architecture offers a reference for wireless therapeutic systems. The combination of sensing and electrocatalytic intervention may help frame design choices for autonomous implantable therapy; the reported efficacy remains evidence from mice.
Wireless implantable optoelectronics provide local control of Cre-regulated genetic models in vivo. Device miniaturization, wireless power and local stimulation are relevant to battery-free implantable systems. The combination of wireless actuation and spatially localized optical delivery may guide implant layouts when the target response must remain confined to a selected tissue region.
A millimetre-scale capsule uses a reed switch for magnetically gated power delivery and demonstrates cardiac pacing in large animals. The system offers an approach to leadless electrotherapy and externally triggered implants. The magnetic gate provides a design reference for externally controlling when an implanted stimulation system delivers power, rather than relying on a continuously active link.
A magneto-mechano-electrochemical fibre regulates ion transport and combines motion-energy harvesting with magnetoelastic sensing. In its undeformed state, the study reports battery-lifetime and capacity increases of (374 ± 79)% and (61 ± 20)%, respectively, at 1.0 A g⁻¹. The coupling between deformation, ion transport and electrical behavior may inform multifunctional fibres; the quoted battery improvements should be interpreted under the reported test conditions.
This preprint uses fixed-frequency phase measurements from a leaky-wave antenna to estimate glucose-dependent dielectric changes. Tests in two participants report correlations of 0.939 and 0.906 against reference glucose values. This is an early proof of concept and has not been peer reviewed. The phase-based approach may inform electromagnetic readout design, but the very small participant sample cannot establish general clinical accuracy or robust glucose specificity.
This theoretical and COMSOL preprint proposes a conductive-ring implant for magnetic neuromodulation. At 10 kHz and 1 kA m⁻¹, the model predicts a local field of ~50 V m⁻¹ across a gap. Experimental validation is still required; the work has not been peer reviewed. The conductive-ring geometry may offer a way to explore local field enhancement near an implant; the simulated field should not be treated as demonstrated neural activation.
This review compares temporal, frequency, spatial, optical, code and hybrid multiplexing. It discusses signal integrity, calibration, materials, mechanics, power and data processing for distributed physiological sensing arrays. The review provides a framework for choosing how channels share wiring, power and bandwidth, rather than treating sensor count alone as the measure of array capability.
Bio-derived polyurethane ionoelastomers use hierarchical dynamic networks for wide-range iontronic pressure sensing. The material strategy may inform the balance between sensing range and sensitivity in soft tactile devices. The network design may offer a materials route to balancing large deformation with pressure response; device-level calibration and durability remain important comparison points.
A flexible neuromorphic system distinguishes softness. The approach offers a reference for array-level processing of tactile and tissue-mechanics signals. The potential connection to tissue assessment is the conversion of a softness-related response into a processed sensory output, rather than retaining only an unprocessed force signal.
Spatiotemporal force mapping in three-dimensional spheroids reveals how macrophage–fibroblast interactions affect tumour mechanics. The method offers a reference for quantitative studies of tissue mechanics and the mechanical microenvironment. The three-dimensional model may help relate interactions between different cell populations to a changing mechanical environment, informing the interpretation of local force measurements.
A conjugated radical polymer connects biosensing with hardware-level data security. The concept offers a potential route to secure encoding in distributed wearable or implantable nodes. For distributed biosensing, the potential relevance is the connection between material-level signal generation and secure information handling, rather than a separate security layer added after measurement.
Minimally invasive in vivo fabrication offers a material and integration route to multiscale biohybrid systems. The approach may inform in situ formation and delivery of complex implants. The in vivo construction concept may be useful when considering how to place or form a functional interface with limited surgical access; specific device applications need their own validation.
This work examines structural strategies for strain-insensitive conductors in stretchable electronics. These strategies are relevant to interconnect stability, fatigue and suppression of deformation-related readout changes. The design question is how to keep the conductor electrically stable while the surrounding structure stretches, a useful distinction from deliberately strain-sensitive sensing elements.
A plant-wearable electrochemical patch uses acid-responsive ZIF-8 nanocontainers to separate an enzyme from its substrate until activation. A conformal MXene hydrogel supports leaf attachment. The reported phoxim detection limit is 2.8 ng/mL; the material-controlled activation method may inform other flexible biochemical sensors. The controlled separation and activation of reagents may be transferable to other wearable chemical interfaces where premature mixing would complicate measurement.
A four-channel wearable fNIRS device combines optical acquisition with Bluetooth Low Energy transmission for cable-free hemodynamic recording. Vascular, breath-hold and cognitive tasks validate its responses. The work also proposes a task-evoked oxygenation metric, with potential relevance to wearable measurements of cognitive engagement. The combination of optical channels and wireless transmission may inform a practical balance between measurement coverage and wearable complexity during cognitive tasks.
Flexible neural probes combine T-die-cast cyclic olefin copolymer films, femtosecond laser machining and iridium oxide electrodes. The study reports 681.04 ohms impedance at 1 kHz and insulation leakage below 1 nA after 320 days of accelerated soaking at 75 °C. These results concern fabrication and accelerated reliability, rather than long-term clinical validation. The extended soaking test offers a useful reliability reference, while the difference between accelerated conditions and chronic implantation remains important when comparing lifetimes.
A self-supervised autoencoder optimizes the distribution of passive ferromagnetic shims in a portable MRI magnet. The study reports an improvement in field homogeneity from 4,873 to 547 ppm. The optimization method offers a transferable reference for magnetic-field design, although the demonstrated application is MRI. The learning-based distribution of magnetic material may offer ideas for field-shaping problems beyond MRI; the reported homogeneity improvement remains specific to the tested magnet.
A vectorized design representation embeds linewidth, spacing and smoothness constraints into MEMS topology optimization. Reported examples reduce microheater temperature variation from 4.04% to 1.22% and increase microspring displacement by 30.6% with a 16.3% reduction in peak stress. Embedding process constraints in the representation may help reduce the gap between an optimized geometry and a microstructure that can actually be fabricated.
This study examines creep recovery in pseudo-free-standing polymer thin films. Its findings are relevant to long-term drift, fatigue and mechanical stability of wearable substrates and packaging. Understanding recovery after sustained deformation may help distinguish reversible mechanical effects from persistent baseline changes in thin-film wearable components.
This Nature commentary discusses a machine-washable textile interface that integrates display, touch sensing and wireless interaction. The associated research article is also included in this edition. It offers perspective on integrating several electronic functions into a textile interface; device specifications and experimental evidence belong to the accompanying research paper.
Surface repair after ion milling and shadow-mask metallization reduce losses in lithium-niobate nanomechanical resonators. The study reports phonon lifetimes up to 21 ms at 3.6 GHz and quality factors above 4 × 10⁸, with fabrication lessons for resonant sensors. The fabrication strategy may help identify which surface and electrode processes merit attention when optimizing resonant sensor losses; the reported lifetime concerns the stated resonator platform.
A first-principles channel model and capacity-achieving scheme address backscatter transmission in thermal noise. The analysis is relevant to link budgets and decoding at low signal-to-noise ratios in passive wireless readout. The theoretical link analysis may help assess how passive readout architectures trade transmission performance against a weak received signal, before selecting a particular sensor implementation.
The genetically encoded fluorescent biosensor mechanoLight visualizes 5-HT2AR mechanotransduction in living cells. The approach provides a reference for optical interrogation of biochemical and mechanical signal transduction. The relevance to biosensing lies in visualizing a mechanically triggered cellular pathway, which may complement measurements of tissue-level force or deformation.
A prospective, nonrandomized five-centre study evaluates a tissue-mimicking acoustic coupling fluid during glioma surgery. Among 44 patients, 40 paired comparisons show improved ultrasound image ratings and reduced artefacts below the resection cavity. The reported improvement concerns image quality; benefits for resection extent or patient outcomes remain unproven. Acoustic-medium engineering may be useful for intraoperative sensing systems. Preprint; not peer reviewed. The work suggests that engineering the acoustic medium can complement hardware improvements, while the nonrandomized study design limits conclusions about clinical benefit.
Quantum-control sequences extract temporal and spatial magnetic-field derivatives from a single spin-based sensor. The proposed implementation combines nitrogen-vacancy diamond sensing, nuclear-spin memory and controlled motion. Numerical simulations explore magnetic-anomaly detection and neuronal action-potential sensing; these are not biological recording experiments. The approach may inform compact magnetic-gradient readout and background rejection for biosensing systems. Preprint; not peer reviewed. The gradiometric formulation may be relevant when a small local magnetic signal must be distinguished from background fields, with biological use still requiring experimental demonstration.
Time-Resolved Mechanical Response analysis uses constant-load atomic force microscopy to quantify bidirectional displacement, work, power and mechanical balance in living cells. Endothelial-cell experiments probe responses to cytoskeletal, mechanosensitive and inflammatory perturbations. The model-independent workflow uses conventional AFM hardware and may help distinguish dynamic force adaptation from static elasticity measurements when designing mechanobiological sensing experiments. Preprint; not peer reviewed. The emphasis on time-dependent mechanical response may be useful for sensing studies where adaptation and dissipation matter as much as a single stiffness value.
A zwitterionic temperature-responsive gel enables an organic electrochemical transistor to encode thermal exposure through ionic-state programming. Heating regulates ion confinement and release, linking temperature history to retained device response. A robotic demonstration uses this state to control recontact and limit cumulative heating and drift in a colocated pressure sensor. The concept connects material memory with adaptive tactile interfaces. Preprint; not peer reviewed. The retained ionic state may offer a materials-based way to represent exposure history, which could complement wearable measurements that otherwise capture only an instantaneous condition.
A bioinspired supramolecular thermistor resolves subtle temperature changes. Its material design offers a reference for temperature channels and compensation in multimodal soft sensors. For multimodal sensing, the potential transfer is a temperature-sensitive channel that could be considered alongside mechanical measurements; performance under combined perturbations would need separate testing.
Lightweight microfabricated corrective optics extend the field of view for deep-brain two-photon imaging in freely behaving mice. The approach offers hardware-design lessons for readout during natural movement. The work may inform optical packaging for neural measurements that must preserve both access to deep structures and tolerance of natural movement.
Mechanoadaptive nanowire viscoplastic composites show strain-enhanced conductivity and can be reprocessed into bioelectronic interfaces. The work offers material-design ideas for electrodes and interconnects under repeated deformation. The combination of mechanical adaptation and recoverable processing may be relevant to soft interfaces that must maintain electrical continuity as their shape changes.
Ultrasound-driven microbubbles with electronic programmability offer a route to remote acoustic actuation and local responses. The concept may inform wireless systems for access to deep tissue. The acoustic drive and electronic programmability suggest a route to separating remote energy delivery from local control; adapting the concept to tissue monitoring would require further validation.
This preprint compares magnetic microrobot and cellbot locomotion in dishes, hydrogels and ex vivo cardiac tissue. Rotating-field frequency, fibre orientation and cell adhesion affect trajectories and speed. The work has not been peer reviewed. The comparison may help separate the effects of the surrounding matrix from those of the moving body itself when designing magnetic transport through soft biological environments.
A surrogate model trained on 3,000 zigzag silk-fibroin conductor geometries guides structural optimization. A ten-channel device retains spatial fingerprints during joint bending, with Spearman correlations of 0.75–0.84; the workflow may transfer to flexible-array design. The geometry-driven workflow may help preserve channel-specific motion information in a deformable array; transfer to another material system would require retraining or validation.
This Nature news report discusses population-level associations between circadian disruption and depression. It provides context for longitudinal physiological monitoring rather than a new sensing technology. For sensor development, the relevance lies in linking repeated physiological measurements to longer-term disease patterns; the reported association should not be read as proof of an individual causal pathway.
This author correction concerns printed magnetic–mechanical–electrical hybrid structures with combined actuation and sensing. It is retained as a correction, not as a report of new experimental results. Readers comparing device performance should consult the corrected original paper together with this notice; the correction itself does not establish an additional sensing or actuation result.
Single-neuron recordings in people with tetraplegia reveal different patterns of body-part representation in motor and posterior parietal cortex. The distinction offers adjacent context for the choice of neural recording sites and signals in brain–machine interfaces. The findings may help frame which cortical location to record from for a particular intended movement signal; this study concerns neural representation rather than a new implant fabrication process.
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