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ReviewAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2020

Bioresorbable Materials on the Rise: From Electronic Components and Physical Sensors to In Vivo Monitoring Systems.

Antonino A La Mattina, Stefano Mariani, Giuseppe Barillaro

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In one paragraph

Review in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
32citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 114 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Ecosystem-Centered Robot Design: Toward Ecoresorbable Sustainability Robots (ESRs).Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  4. A Review on Biodegradable Materials of Sustainable Soft Robotics and Electronics.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  9. Bioresorbable Materials for Wound Management.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  12. Design and Development of Transient Sensing Devices for Healthcare Applications.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
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  18. Application of Biomass Materials in Zinc-Ion Batteries.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  20. Ultra-Thin Flexible Encapsulating Materials for Soft Bio-Integrated Electronics.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Antonino A La MattinaDipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione Università di Pisa Via G. Caruso 16 56122 Pisa Italy.
Stefano MarianiDipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione Università di Pisa Via G. Caruso 16 56122 Pisa Italy.
Giuseppe BarillaroDipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione Università di Pisa Via G. Caruso 16 56122 Pisa Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6197-4851
University of Pisa · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over the last decade, scientists have dreamed about the development of a bioresorbable technology that exploits a new class of electrical, optical, and sensing components able to operate in physiological conditions for a prescribed time and then disappear, being made of materials that fully dissolve in vivo with biologically benign byproducts upon external stimulation. The final goal is to engineer these components into transient implantable systems that directly interact with organs, tissues, and biofluids in real-time, retrieve clinical parameters, and provide therapeutic actions tailored to the disease and patient clinical evolution, and then biodegrade without the need for device-retrieving surgery that may cause tissue lesion or infection. Here, the major results achieved in bioresorbable technology are critically reviewed, with a bottom-up approach that starts from a rational analysis of dissolution chemistry and kinetics, and biocompatibility of bioresorbable materials, then moves to in vivo performance and stability of electrical and optical bioresorbable components, and eventually focuses on the integration of such components into bioresorbable systems for clinically relevant applications. Finally, the technology readiness levels (TRLs) achieved for the different bioresorbable devices and systems are assessed, hence the open challenges are analyzed and future directions for advancing the technology are envisaged.

Indexed as

biodegradable sensorsbioresorbable materialsimplanted devicesmaterial dissolutiontransient electronics

Identifiers

PMID32099766
PMCPMC7029671
OpenAlexW3001760871

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Registered trials

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