Multifunctional Polymer Fibers for Wearable Biosensors and Neural Medical Treatments

As scientists learn more about disease pathologies and treat various medical conditions, the need to develop new tools grows rapidly. Multifunctional polymer fibers allow scientists to have a plethora of tools by fine tuning parameters to create affordable, unique, and adaptable devices for analyte sensing and disease treatment. The range of applications mutltifunctional fibers have in biomedical applications can be seen with sensing in wearable electronics or in neural probes due to their ability to easily integrate microfluidic systems, electrical, and optical means of sensing and stimulating. This thesis will demonstrate several ways fiber devices can be used in biomedicine and show the future direction of fiber based devices.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Electrical Engineering

Department dc:contributor.department

Electrical Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2025

Author dc:creator

• Parrott, Jeffery Alexander

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Jia, Xiaoting

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Johnson, Blake
• Zhou, Wei

• Biomedical Devices
• Thermal Drawing
• Electrochemistry
• Biosensing Fibers
• Actuating Fibers

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:42410

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/123879