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ReviewAdvanced healthcare materials2021

Wireless Power Delivery Techniques for Miniature Implantable Bioelectronics.

Amanda Singer, Jacob T Robinson

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Review in Advanced healthcare materials, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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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

39 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Implantable bioelectronic outlet.Science advances · 2026
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  9. Electrokinetic propulsion for electronically integrated microscopic robots.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Amanda SingerDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, 6100 Main St, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
Jacob T RobinsonDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, 6100 Main St, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3509-3054

Funding

Development of a Wireless Endovascular Nerve Stimulator for Treatment of Refractory Neuropathic PainU18EB029353 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON · PI KAN, PETER TZE MAN, ROBINSON, JACOB T. · 2019 to 2019
$2.3M
NIBIB NIH HHS U18 EB029353
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Progress in implanted bioelectronic technology offers the opportunity to develop more effective tools for personalized electronic medicine. While there are numerous clinical and pre-clinical applications for these devices, power delivery to these systems can be challenging. Wireless battery-free devices offer advantages such as a smaller and lighter device footprint and reduced failures and infections by eliminating lead wires. However, with the development of wireless technologies, there are fundamental tradeoffs between five essential factors: power, miniaturization, depth, alignment tolerance, and transmitter distance, while still allowing devices to work within safety limits. These tradeoffs mean that multiple forms of wireless power transfer are necessary for different devices to best meet the needs for a given biological target. Here six different types of wireless power transfer technologies used in bioelectronic implants-inductive coupling, radio frequency, mid-field, ultrasound, magnetoelectrics, and light-are reviewed in context of the five tradeoffs listed above. This core group of wireless power modalities is then used to suggest possible future bioelectronic technologies and their biological applications.

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Prostheses and ImplantsWireless TechnologyElectric Power SuppliesElectronicsMiniaturizationbioelectronicsimplanted devicesreviewwireless power transfer

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PMID34114368
PMCPMC8754427

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