“…In addition to developments in "passive" sutures, there has been an upsurge of interest in "smart" sutures. Principally, these exploit the use of shape-memory materials to enable self-tightening and self-knotting for deep wound closures, especially in key-hole surgery [1][2][3][4], but there has also been a growing interest in electronic sutures, with monitoring and actuation capabilities for wound management [1,5,6]; i.e. truly smart sutures.…”