Very honored to be invited to attend an amazing event yesterday at Bell Labs, in honor of the Nobel prize in chemistry awarded to Louis Brus in 2023.  I was seated in the front row with five Nobelists (@Eric_Betzig, Wilson, Bawendi, Brus and Stormer) who did their key work at the…

Great to see everyone during the invited speaker symposium dinner at the Materials Research Society (MRS) meeting in Seattle! Thanks to Huiliang (Evan) Wang, Huiliang(Evan) Wang
(@UTAustin), Guosong Hong (@Stanford), Seongjun Park (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology) and Alina Rwei, Alina Rwei…

Delighted to host a dinner party at our house for the Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics front office team and for a collection of postdoctoral fellows who will soon be departing to bigger and better things – most notably, to faculty positions at some great institutions, including Vanderbilt, Dalhousie,…

Looking forward to a busy week. First up is the Materials Research Society (MRS) Meeting in Seattle, where I’ll deliver invited talks titled 'Transient Bioelectronic Implants' and 'Flexible Electronic Skins for Sensing and Haptic Actuation' on Tuesday and Thursday, respectively. On Friday is an…

Enjoyed a wonderful dinner at the Easter Seals gala last night, with many collaborators, including Rick Lieber, the Chief Scientific Officer from Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. The event serves as a fundraiser to support care for children with disabilities. We’re not only donors but we’re also…

Our new paper in Science Advances introduces a bioresorbable ‘tap-to-read’ wireless sensor technology as an implant for detecting early signs of gastric leak following a surgery. Optimized geometric layouts make this much different and better than conventional passive wireless…

Our most recent paper in Advanced Materials Advanced Sci News explores the use of silicon oxynitrides as bioresorbable barrier layers in ‘transient’ electronic devices. Thanks to Ziying Hu and Jie Zhao for leading this project, and to Profs. Yonggang Huang and Chris Wolverton for a…

Thanks to Dr. Michael McCreary - the single individual most responsible for the commercial success of E Ink technology - for visiting our group and sharing excellent advice on our various translational engineering activities. We also very much appreciate his presentation -…

We want to thank the NIH both for their funding of our work and for their interest in our development of bioelectronic systems for monitoring of bladder function, as they highlighted in the current issue of NIH Research Matters! nih.gov/news-events/ni…

Bioelectronics Lab course at Northwestern for Spring Quarter 2024!  In this module, students gain exposure to the cleanroom facility associated with our Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics, where they learn how to build advanced skin-like – often referred to as ‘epidermal’ – electronic devices.  Here,…

Thanks to Dr. Chad Webb, CTO of Rhaeos for an inspiring presentation on business development and regulatory strategies for new medical devices in our course on technical consulting through the Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.  The Rhaeos core product, based on Chad’s research as a PhD student…

Great time at dinner last night with one of my best former postdocs, Prof. Sheng Xu (left) of the University of California at San Diego Sheng Xu group, and two of my best collaborators, Prof. Igor Efimov (center) Igor Efimov and Prof. Guillermo Ameer (right), both of Northwestern.…

Have a look at our latest collaborative paper published in PNASNews  (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) with Prof. Guillermo Ameer and Dr. Arun Sharma. This report introduces soft, wireless sensors designed to track the activity of the bladder in a continuous…