Wearable, Self‐powered, Drug‐Loaded Electronic Microneedles for Accelerated Tissue Repair of Inflammatory Skin Disorders

Abstract

AbstractElectrical stimulation (ES) is widely used in physiological and medical sciences, while its application to treat inflammatory skin diseases (ISDs) remains a challenge owing to their natural pathological cuticle barrier and lack of an effective combination with chemotherapy to achieve specific immunomodulation. Here, a wearable, battery‐free, multi‐component drug‐loaded electronic microneedle (mD‐eMN) system is developed by integrating remodeled metal microneedles loaded with multi‐component chemical drugs and flexible triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs). The system can rapidly release drugs into the site of ISDs and then realize an efficient penetration into cell body and specific immunomodulation under the synergism of pulsed electrons originating from the TENG. Also, the pulsed electrons can promote skin tissue homeostasis reconstruction to alleviate the inflammatory process of ISDs. Sufficient evidence shows that a significant skin inflammation regression of psoriasis (a typical ISDs model) is achieved using the mD‐eMN system compared to traditional ES or chemotherapy alone. This innovative wearable mD‐eMN system provides an effective flexible electronic and chemical drug joint technological platform for the treatment of ISDs, which is not only suitable for the treatment of psoriasis in this study but also maybe for other ISDs such as diabetic ulcers and skin tumors.