Flexible, sticky, and biodegradable wireless device for drug delivery to brain tumors

There is a need to further improve the efficacy of biodegradable wafers used in surgically treated brain tumors. Here, the authors report a flexible, biodegradable wireless device capable of adhesion to surgical site for optimal drug delivery upon mild-thermic actuation and report therapeutic effica...

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Main Authors: Jongha Lee, Hye Rim Cho, Gi Doo Cha, Hyunseon Seo, Seunghyun Lee, Chul-Kee Park, Jin Wook Kim, Shutao Qiao, Liu Wang, Dayoung Kang, Taegyu Kang, Tomotsugu Ichikawa, Jonghoon Kim, Hakyong Lee, Woongchan Lee, Sanghoek Kim, Soon-Tae Lee, Nanshu Lu, Taeghwan Hyeon, Seung Hong Choi, Dae-Hyeong Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13198-y