IMB-CNM talks: Implantable and wearable technologies at the center for biomolecular nanotechnologies - Prof. Massimo De Vittorio

The combination of genetics, photonics, electronics and micromechanics is enabling completely new micro- and nano-technological approaches for compact and effective tools for diagnostics and therapeutics, which can be disposable, wearable, implantable or tattooable. These new approaches are opening the way to closed loop theranostics, i.e. devices integrating diagnostic capabilities and therapeutic response. In this context, the center for biomolecular nanotecnologies (CBN) is exploiting new technological approaches to produce innovative in-vivo implantable/wearable devices and in-vitro assays. Recent results on implantable probes and optrodes for optogenetics, on piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) for wearable sensing and for energy harvesting from the human body will be presented and discussed.