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.
For further
information
please contact Prof. Richard Lunt, Department of Chemical
Engineering and
Materials Science at [log in to unmask]
Persons with disabilities have the right
to request and
receive reasonable accommodation. Please call the Department of
Chemical
Engineering and Materials Science at 355-5135 at least one day
prior to the
seminar; requests received after this date will be met when
possible.