Science at the Edge
Engineering Seminar
January
23rd, 2015
11:30
a.m., Room1400 Biomedical and
Refreshments
served at 11:15 a.m.
John Rogers
Department
of Materials Science and Engineering
University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stretchy Electronics
That Can Dissolve In Your Body
Abstract
Biology is
soft, curvilinear and transient; silicon technology is rigid,
planar and everlasting. Electronic systems that eliminate
this profound mismatch in properties create opportunities for
devices that intimately integrate with biology, with
application possibilities that range from tools for basic
research to instruments for clinical medicine. Recent work
establishes a set of materials, mechanics concepts and
fabrication approaches for such a technology. This talk
describes the key ideas, with examples in cellular-scale,
‘injectable’ light emitting diodes, ‘epidermal’ skin-mounted
sensors and bioresorbable electronic implants.
Bio
Professor
John A. Rogers obtained BA and BS degrees in chemistry and in
physics from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1989. From
MIT, he received SM degrees in physics and in chemistry in
1992 and the PhD degree in physical chemistry in 1995. From
1995 to 1997, Rogers was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard
University Society of Fellows. He joined Bell Laboratories as
a Member of Technical Staff in the Condensed Matter Physics
Research Department in 1997, and served as Director of this
department from the end of 2000 to 2002. He is currently
Swanlund Chair Professor at University of Illinois at
Urbana/Champaign, with a primary appointment in the Department
of Materials Science and Engineering. He is also Director of
the Seitz Materials Research Laboratory.
Rogers’
research includes fundamental and applied aspects of materials
and patterning techniques for unusual electronic and photonic
devices, with an emphasis on bio-integrated and bio-inspired
systems. He has published more than 450 papers and is
inventor on over 80 patents, more than 50 of which are
licensed or in active use. Rogers is a Fellow of the IEEE,
APS, MRS and AAAS, and he is a member of the National Academy
of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His research has been recognized with many awards, including a
MacArthur Fellowship in 2009, the Lemelson-MIT Prize in 2011,
and in 2013, the MRS Mid-Career Researcher Award, the
Smithsonian Award for American Ingenuity in the Physical
Sciences and an Honoris Causa Doctorate from the École
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
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Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at
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