Bioelectronic Devices for Healthcare

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I. Wearable/portable bioelectronics for personalized healthcare

Skin-interfaced Wearable Biosensors for Personalized Medicine (Nature 2016, Nat Rev Chem 2022, PNAS 2017, Chem Soc Rev 2019)

Laser-engraved lab on the Skin for Non-invasive Monitoring of Circulating Nutrients and Metabolites (Nature Biotechnology 2020, 38, 217-224)

Wearable autonomous MIP biosensors for precision nutrition (Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2022, 6, 1225–1235).

Battery-free Biofuel-powered Electronic Skin for Wearable Sensing and Human-machine Interaction (Science Robotics 2020, 5, eaaz7946)

Wireless Battery-free Wearable Sweat Sensor Powered by Human Motion (via TENG)  (Science Advances 2020, 6, eaay9842)

Investigation of Stress Hormone Dynamics in Human Sweat using a Graphene-based mHealth System (Matter 2020, 2, 921-937)

SARS-CoV-2 RapidPlex for Rapid and Low-Cost COVID-19 Diagnosis and Monitoring (Matter, 2020, 3, 1981-1998)

Nature Biotechnology, 2020; Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2022; Science Robotics, 2020; Matter, 2020a; Science Advances 2020; Matter 2020b; Nature, 2016; PNAS, 2017.

Highlighted in Nature, Science, Science Translational Medicine, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Time, Daily Mail, The Times, BBC, LA Times, Newsweek, Forbes, Scientific American, IEEE Spectrum, MIT Technology Review, Fox News, Wired, The Engineer, Popular Science, New Scientist, San Francisco Chronicle, JAMA News, Xinhua, Physics World, Caltech News etc.

II. Flexible electronics for human-machine interaction

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All-printed Soft Human-machine Interface for Robotic Physicochemical Sensing (Science Robotics 2022, 7, eabn0495)

Science Robotics, 2020; Science Robotics 2022; Advanced Materials 2022.

Highlighted in Caltech News, Nature Electronics, Scientific American, Daily Beast, Yahoo News, The Independent, The Engineer, CNET, The Conservation etc.

III. Medical micro/nanorobotics

Fantastic Voyage

Synthetic micro/nanomachines

Micro/Nanorobots and Their Biomedical Applications: Toward the 'Fantastic Voyage' (Chem Soc Rev 2020, Nat Rev Bioengineering, 2023)

A Microrobotic System Guided by Photoacoustic Computed Tomography for Targeted Navigation in Intestines In Vivo (Science Robotics 2019)

Electrosynthesized polymer based catalytic microengines

Functional microengines for bacteria isolation

Catalytic Janus nanomotors

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Bioinspired flexible nanoswimmers

Bioinspired plant-based microswimmers

Science Robotics, 2019; ACS Nano, 2012, 2013, 2015; Nano Lett. 2012, J. Am. Chem. Soc, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014.
Highlighted in Nature, Chemical Engineering News, Discovery News, BBC News, Daily Mail, Fox News, Popular Science, Scientific American, New Scientist, American Scientist, The Scientist, Chemistry World, IEEE Spectrum, The Economist, Huffington Post etc.