Affiliation:
1. CAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety & CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China Beijing 100190 P. R. China
2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 P. R. China
3. GBA National Institute for Nanotechnology Innovation Guangzhou 510700 Guangdong P. R. China
Abstract
Wearable healthcare systems have captured the interest of researchers because they enable smarter and more personalized healthcare. However, these systems are limited by a separation between biosensors and therapeutic units that results in interrupted treatment and compromised patient recovery. It is therefore imperative to develop wearable closed‐loop medical devices that fully integrate physiological/pathological monitoring, signal feedback detection, diagnostics, and on‐demand therapeutic administration. Such systems require safe, sustainable, and continuously operating power sources, and bioenergy has gained attention in this regard because it can be sourced continuously from the human body without requiring substantial rigid energy storage space. The effective utilization of bioenergy would enable the realization of a self‐driven closed‐loop medical system with treatment‐monitoring feedback.
Funder
National Key Research and Development Program of China
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Special Project for Research and Development in Key areas of Guangdong Province
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Environmental Science