Pushing bacterial cellulose into a transformative product for wearable sensor applications! Our biosynthesised nanocellulose is used here for the first time as a substrate enabling the screen printing of electrochemical sensors for real-time, non-invasive alcohol monitoring in sweat. The bacterial cellulose sweat alcohol sensor has a highly linear response to alcohol concentration in human sweat, with a minimum detection concentration of 5mM and excellent reproducibility. In addition to sustainability, it shows excellent biocompatibility and self-adhesion. The sensor’s bidirectional functionality also opens new avenues for innovative sweat-sensing system designs.

Eco-Friendly Conformal and Self-Adhesive Electrochemical Sensors for Sweat Monitoring is a new paper by NN researchers Xiaohe Wang, Muling Zeng, Mabel Torrens, Martí Gich, and Anna Roig. It has been published in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. This research was done in close collaboration with Pengfei Niu (Tianjin University) and César Fernández Sánchez (IMB-CNM and CIBER-BBN).

Anna Roig and Juan Pellico have published an editorial article in Frontiers in Chemistry. The editorial is titled Magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical imaging and therapy applications. The editorial has been written with Juan Gallo, from the Advanced Magnetic Theranostic Nanostructures Lab (INL) and Graeme J. Stasiuk, from the Department of Imaging Chemistry and Biology (King’s College London).

Thomas Meslier and Anna Roig published a review of clinical studies on Bacterial Cellulose. The open-access article is available in the journal Advanced Healthcare Materials. The review was done in close collaboration with the Ophthalmologic Clinic Barraquer researchers Dr. Gemma Julio Morán and Dr. Justin Christopher D’Antin. This publication aims to become a valuable resource for future research, briefing the results of past clinical studies.

N&N Group members Anna Solé and Anna Roig published a new article in Polymeric Nanocarriers. The paper is entitled Efficient Nebulization and Pulmonary Biodistribution of Polymeric Nanocarriers in an Acute Lung Injury Preclinical Model.

The publication is available at the journal Small Science and is open access. It has been published in close collaboration with Institut d’Investigació i Innovació Parc Taulí (I3PT-CERCA), Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques de Barcelona (IIBB-CSIC) and Aerogen. Click here to access the paper.