7.5 Conclusions

Although the birth of bioelectronics dates back to the 18th century, it is considered a re­

latively young discipline because the most significant applications and advances are recent.

Consequently, its evolution still poses with many challenges; for instance, generating im­

plantable devices and human-machine interfaces, bringing current technologies to a smaller

scale, obtaining new biomaterials, designing novel devices focused on diagnostics and

restoration of physiological functions, and developing laboratory instrumentation to aug­

ment the theoretical framework of bioelectronics. The advancement of this discipline

FIGURE 7.2

Co-occurrence analysis – full counting (bioelectronics and bioelectronic).

Source: Authors’ elaboration based on Lens [ 49] and VOSviewer [ 51].

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