Publications by Xiao Sheng Zhang

Nanopore Generation in Biodegradable Silk/Magnetic Nanoparticle Membranes by an External Magnetic Field for Implantable Drug Delivery

Giovanni Boero, Jürgen Brugger, Xiao Sheng Zhang, Ya Wang

Implantable devices for localized and controlled drug release are important, e.g., for therapies of cancer and chronic pain. However, most of the existing active implants are limited by the usage of nonbiodegradable materials; thus, surgery is needed to ex ...

2022

Recent progress in silk fibroin-based flexible electronics

Jürgen Brugger, Xiao Sheng Zhang, Ya Wang, Peng Huang

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the emergence of 5G, traditional silicon-based electronics no longer fully meet market demands such as nonplanar application scenarios due to mechanical mismatch. This provides unprecedented op ...

2021

Thermal and pH Sensitive Composite Membrane for On-Demand Drug Delivery by Applying an Alternating Magnetic Field

Giovanni Boero, Jürgen Brugger, Xiao Sheng Zhang, Ya Wang

Implantable drug delivery systems that can realize a scheduled drug release according to the needs of patients would be highly beneficial for the treatment of chronic diseases and cancer. Here, micrometer‐sized hydrogel particles with both thermal and pH s ...

2020

Reversible Drug Delivery: Thermal and pH Sensitive Composite Membrane for On‐Demand Drug Delivery by Applying an Alternating Magnetic Field (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 17/2020)

Giovanni Boero, Jürgen Brugger, Xiao Sheng Zhang, Ya Wang

In article number 2000733 by Juergen Brugger and co‐workers, a novel composite membrane of silk fibroin, microgels and magnetic nanoparticles whose permeability can be adjusted by temperature for controlled drug release is studied. The temperature induced ...

2020

Printed silk-fibroin-based triboelectric nanogenerators for multi-functional wearable sensing

Jürgen Brugger, Xin Liu, Xiao Sheng Zhang

The rapid development of wearable sensing technology exhibits unprecedented opportunities for artificial intelligence by establishing an interactive interface between the physical and the virtual worlds. Energy preservation and multi-functional integration ...

Elsevier2019

All-fiber hybrid piezoelectric-enhanced triboelectric nanogenerator for wearable gesture monitoring

Jürgen Brugger, Xiaohang Zhang, Xiao Sheng Zhang, Ya Wang, Yinben Guo

With the increasing potential of smart clothing, the demand for generating energy directly in the tissue fibers has prompted for increased research in the field of energy harvesters based on wearable nanogenerators. Current challenges remain in the combina ...

Elsevier2018

Fabrication and Characterization of Biodegradable, Thermal-Responsive Silk Composite Membrane

Jürgen Brugger, Xiao Sheng Zhang, Ya Wang

In this work, we present a study on a thermalresponsive biodegradable membrane composed of silk fibroin and iron oxide nanoparticles as potential candidate material for implantable smart drug delivery microsystems. Ethanol annealing increased the content o ...

2018

All-in-one self-powered flexible microsystems based on triboelectric nanogenerators

Jürgen Brugger, Xiao Sheng Zhang, Mengdi Han

Elsevier2018

Frame structure for thin-film piezoelectric-on-silicon resonator to greatly enhance quality factor and suppress spurious modes

Ye Zhang, Xiao Sheng Zhang, Tao Zhang, Chenxiang Zhang, Xiaopeng Li

2018

A transparent silk-fibroin-based triboelectric microgenerator for airflow energy harvesting

Jürgen Brugger, Xiao Sheng Zhang, Ya Wang, Yinben Guo

We present a new transparent high-performance triboelectric microgenerator (TEMG) based on an emerging material, silk fibroin. Silk fibroin has a strong ability to lose electrons and occupies a top-level positive position in the triboelectric series. It th ...

IEEE Xplore2017

Penciling a triboelectric nanogenerator on paper for autonomous power MEMS applications

Jürgen Brugger, Xiao Sheng Zhang

Triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) has proven to be a robust power source to efficiently convert ambient mechanical energy into electricity. It experienced substantial growth in the past years owing to its appealing features that make it superior than othe ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Penciling A Triboelectric Power Source On Paper

Jürgen Brugger, Xiao Sheng Zhang

We present a novel triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) based on a paper-Teflon configuration fabricated by an easy and cost-efficient process. Carbon electrodes were hand-drawn by means of a graphite pencil on commercial paper cards, and the conductivity wa ...

Ieee2016

Effects of the Discharge Parameters on the Efficiency and Stability of Ambient Metastable-Induced Desorption Ionization

Mario Andres Chavarria Varon, Xiao Sheng Zhang

Ionization efficiency is an important factor for ion sources in mass spectrometry and ion mobility spectrometry. Using helium as the discharge gas, acetone as the sample, and high-field asymmetric ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS) as the ion detection meth ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015