{"id":1505,"date":"2016-07-13T10:49:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T01:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2016-07-13T10:49:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T01:49:42","slug":"the-summer-triangle-made-of-nanosheet-bridging-led-on-human-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/news-en\/2016\/07\/13\/1505\/","title":{"rendered":"The Summer Triangle made of nanosheet bridging LED on human skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A review article on the medical free-standing polymeric ultrathin films (nanosheets), being developed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/wias\/eng\/researchers\/list\/profile\/prof_t_fujie.html\">Assistant Professor Toshinori Fujie<\/a> at the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/wias\/eng\/\"> Waseda Institute of Advanced Studies<\/a> in collaboration with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takeoka.biomed.sci.waseda.ac.jp\/en\/\">Professor Shinji Takeoka<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ase.sci.waseda.ac.jp\/english\/\">School of Advanced Science and Engineering<\/a>, was published in the July 2016 edition of Polymer Journal by Nature Publishing Group.<\/p>\n<p>Nanosheets, expected to be used in surgical treatment as woundressing materials, have been developed independently at Waseda University since 2007. Ultra-thin as 10s to 100s of nanometers, the nanosheets are will act as antibacterial and therapeutic nano-adhesive plasters for organs. This review article discusses characteristics of nanosheet technology, mechanical properties, and its latest biomedical and health-care applications (for example, tissue engineering and bioelectronic devices).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43183\" src=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PDLLA-nanosheet1-610x403.jpg\" alt=\"PDLLA-nanosheet1-610x403\" width=\"610\" height=\"403\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the cover of this edition&#8217;s journal is a photo of an ultra-conformable conductive nanosheet bridging LED on human skin developed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biomed.sci.waseda.ac.jp\/english\/\">Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience<\/a> in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Technology, a partner institution under the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/en\/\"> Top Global University Project<\/a>. This design was inspired by the Summer Triangle, connecting constellations with vertices at Altair, Deneb, and Vega, to illustrate the material&#8217;s flexibility and anticipation for future development in bioelectronics, advancing medical technology. The photo was taken and edited by graduate students Kento Yamagishi, Marin Okamoto, and Daichi Someya in Professor Takeoka&#8217;s laboratory.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43123\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43123\" src=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/07\/journal_cover_large.gif\" alt=\" ultra-conformable conductive nanosheet bridging LED on human skin (with permission from Nature Publishing Group)\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/>ultra-conformable conductive nanosheet bridging LED on human skin (with permission from Nature Publishing Group)<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Development of free-standing polymer nanosheets for advanced medical and healthcare applications T. Fujie, Polymer Journal (Focus Review), Polymer Journal, 48(7), 773-780 (2016). DOI:10.1038\/pj.2016.38<br \/>\n\u8ad6\u6587\uff1a<a class=\"addicn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/pj\/journal\/v48\/n7\/abs\/pj201638a.html\">http:\/\/www.nature.com\/pj\/journal\/v48\/n7\/abs\/pj201638a.html<\/a><br \/>\n\u8868\u7d19\uff1a<a class=\"addicn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/pj\/journal\/v48\/n7\/covers\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.nature.com\/pj\/journal\/v48\/n7\/covers\/index.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en-news\/38700\">Research team produces nanosheets that prevent intestinal adhesion during surgery<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review article on the medical free-standing polymeric ultrathin films (nanosheets), being developed by Assis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-research-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}