Bioinspired skin towards next-generation rehabilitation medicine

Zhenghui Wang; Chen Xiao; Mridul Roy; Zhiyao Yuan; Lingyu Zhao; Yanting Liu; Xuejun Guo; Ping Lu

doi:10.3389/fbioe.2023.1196174

Bioinspired skin towards next-generation rehabilitation medicine

Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 2023 May 9:11:1196174. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2023.1196174. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Zhenghui Wang¹, Chen Xiao¹, Mridul Roy², Zhiyao Yuan³, Lingyu Zhao¹, Yanting Liu², Xuejun Guo¹, Ping Lu²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Rehabilitation, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Weihui, China.
² Department of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University, Weihui, China.
³ SanQuan College of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China.

Abstract

The rapid progress of interdisciplinary researches from materials science, biotechnologies, biomedical engineering, and medicine, have resulted in the emerging of bioinspired skins for various fantasticating applications. Bioinspired skin is highly promising in the application of rehabilitation medicine owing to their advantages, including personalization, excellent biocompatibility, multi-functionality, easy maintainability and wearability, and mass production. Therefore, this review presents the recent progress of bioinspired skin towards next-generation rehabilitation medicine. The classification is first briefly introduced. Then, various applications of bioinspired skins in the field of rehabilitation medicine at home and abroad are discussed in detail. Last, we provide the challenges we are facing now, and propose the next research directions.

Keywords: bioinspired skin; electronic skin; prostheses and implant; rehabilitation medicine; tissue-engineered artificial.

Publication types

Review

Grants and funding

This work was financially supported by the Joint Fund Project of Xinxiang Medical University (No. LHGJ20200505 and LHGJ20220609), Henan Province Postdoctoral Research Grant (202102095), and the 2023 Henan Province’s foreign professor introducing project (HNGD2023025).