A Wearable, Dual Closed‐loop Insulin Delivery System for Precision Diabetes Management
Effective blood glucose management is an increasing demand worldwide. Traditional solutions separate glucose detection and insulin delivery, which is less efficient compared to emerging closed-loop wearable systems controlled by continuous glucose monitors (CGMs). However, CGM-controlled systems raise new safety risks, as false CGMs readings can cause insulin overdose, which results in hypoglycemia and fatal consequences. This work proposes a concept of a dual closed-loop insulin delivery system (DuoLoop) to mitigate the risk issue of CGM-controlled systems. The first closed-loop is automated insulin delivery controlled by CGM. The second closed-loop is the controlled release of glucose-responsive insulin (GRI), whose release rate depends on actual glucose levels. A customized algorithm is trained and embedded into the wearable CGMs for edge computing. The DuoLoop system shows improved safety in preliminary in vivo test (longer normoglycemia durations, 98.82% vs 92.10%), encouraging its deployment toward precision diabetes care.
Authors
- Xuecheng He (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3702-8915)
- Xinyu Tian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1247-6076)
- D. Liu
- Fei Ran Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2455-4986)
- Jing Bai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5412-7793)
- Shiming Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4961-819X)
- Wensheng Lin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7330-3793)
- Ivo Pang
- Wei Huang
- Jinqiang Wang
- Jixiang Zhu
- Binbin Cui
- Shixian Lin
Institutions
- Education University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University (CN)
- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (Czechia) (CZ)
- Zhejiang University (CN)
- University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Guangzhou Medical University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Advanced Materials
- Published
- 2026-01-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202514945
- Primary Topic
- Diabetes Management and Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Innovation and Technology Commission
- Zhejiang University
- Innovation and Technology Fund
- Science, Technology and Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality