A5103112929- Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Advanced Materials and Mechanics
- Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Micro and Nano Robotics
- Irrigation Practices and Water Management
- 3D Printing in Biomedical Research
- Environmental and Agricultural Sciences
- Remote Sensing and Land Use
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Fatigue and fracture mechanics
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
- Numerical methods in engineering
- Conducting polymers and applications
- Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
- Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
- Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation
- Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Plant responses to water stress
- Mechanical and Optical Resonators
- Potato Plant Research
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Forest, Soil, and Plant Ecology in China
China Meteorological Administration
2007-2024
Tsinghua University
2013-2024
Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
2021-2024
Northwestern University
2017-2023
National Institute of Meteorology
2011-2023
Jiaxing University
2023
Northwestern Polytechnical University
2022
Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics
2017
Gansu Agricultural University
2015
Zhejiang University
2010
Thermoelectric coils for energy harvesting are fabricated in miniature flexible devices.
3D multifunctional frameworks, as flexible a single strand of silk, modulate and measure neural activity brain spheroids.
Sensors that reproduce the complex characteristics of cutaneous receptors in skin have important potential context artificial systems for controlled interactions with physical environment. Multimodal responses high sensitivity and wide dynamic range are essential many such applications. This report introduces a simple, three-dimensional type microelectromechanical sensor incorporates monocrystalline silicon nanomembranes as piezoresistive elements configuration enables separate, simultaneous...
Early-stage organ transplant rejection can be difficult to detect. Percutaneous biopsies occur infrequently and are risky, measuring biomarker levels in blood lead false-negative -positive outcomes. We developed an implantable bioelectronic system capable of continuous, real-time, long-term monitoring the local temperature thermal conductivity a kidney for detecting inflammatory processes associated with graft rejection, as demonstrated rat models. The detects ultradian rhythms, disruption...
Monitoring homeostasis is an essential aspect of obtaining pathophysiological insights for treating patients. Accurate, timely assessments homeostatic dysregulation in deep tissues typically require expensive imaging techniques or invasive biopsies. We introduce a bioresorbable shape-adaptive materials structure that enables real-time monitoring deep-tissue using conventional ultrasound instruments. Collections small metal disks distributed within thin, pH-responsive hydrogels, deployed by...
Bioresorbable drug release platforms offer advanced treatment for hormone imbalances, malignant cancers, and diabetic conditions.
Abstract Recent progress in stretchable forms of inorganic electronic systems has established a route to new classes devices, with particularly unique capabilities functional biointerfaces, because their mechanical and geometrical compatibility human tissues organs. A reliable approach physically chemically protect the components interconnects is indispensable for practical applications. Although recent reports describe various options soft, solid encapsulation, development approaches that...
Complex, three-dimensional (3D) mesostructures that incorporate advanced, mechanically active materials are of broad, growing interest for their potential use in many emerging systems. The technology implications range from precision-sensing microelectromechanical systems, to tissue scaffolds exploit the principles mechanobiology, mechanical energy harvesters support broad bandwidth operation. work presented here introduces strategies guided assembly and heterogeneous integration as routes...
Significance The growing availability of 3D manufacturing methods has implications across diverse applications, from ship building to microelectronics processing. Systems with sizes in the micrometer and millimeter regime are particular interest, where few techniques offer necessary range capabilities throughput, materials compatibility, design versatility. Recently reported for mechanically guided assembly many appealing features, but limitations remain, such as those formation structures...
Microfluidic technologies have wide-ranging applications in chemical analysis systems, drug delivery platforms, and artificial vascular networks. This latter area is particularly relevant to 3D cell cultures, engineered tissues, organs, where volumetric capabilities fluid distribution are essential. Existing schemes for fabricating microfluidic structures constrained realizing desired layout designs, producing physiologically microvascular structures, and/or integrating active...
Abstract Low modulus materials that can shape-morph into different three-dimensional (3D) configurations in response to external stimuli have wide-ranging applications flexible/stretchable electronics, surgical instruments, soft machines and robotics. This paper reports a shape-programmable system exploits liquid metal microfluidic networks embedded an elastomer matrix, with electromagnetic forms of actuation, achieve unique set properties. Specifically, this structure is capable fast,...
Abstract Physically transient forms of electronics enable unique classes technologies, ranging from biomedical implants that disappear through processes bioresorption after serving a clinical need to internet-of-things devices harmlessly dissolve into the environment following relevant period use. Here, we develop sustainable manufacturing pathway, based on ultrafast pulsed laser ablation, can support high-volume, cost-effective manipulation diverse collection organic and inorganic...
Three-dimensional (3D) curvy electronics has wide-ranging application in biomedical health care, soft machine, and high-density curved imager. Limited by material properties, complex procedures, coverage ability of existing fabrication techniques, the development high-performance 3D remains challenging. Here, we propose an automated wrap-like transfer printing prototype for fabricating electronics. Assisted a gentle uniform pressure field, prefabricated planar circuits on petal-like stamp...
3D structures that incorporate high-performance electronic materials and allow for remote, on-demand shape reconfiguration are of interest applications range from ingestible medical devices microrobotics to tunable optoelectronics. Here, design approaches introduced assembly such systems via controlled mechanical buckling 2D precursors built on shape-memory polymer (SMP) substrates. The temporary fixing recovery SMPs, governed by thermomechanical loading, provide deterministic control over...
Smartphone-compatible, wireless, battery-free hydration sensors can monitor skin diseases in any environment.
Significance Tissue-on-chip systems offer important capabilities in engineering of living tissues for diverse biomedical applications disease model studies, drug screening, and regenerative medicine. Conventional approaches use two-dimensional layouts that cannot suppport interfaces to geometrically complex three-dimensional (3D) tissue constructs a deterministic fashion. Here, we present concepts allow intimate contact with stable mechanical coupling 3D high-precision measurements...
Significance Wireless electronics for monitoring of skin hydration in a quantitative fashion have broad relevance to our understanding dermatological health and structure both clinical home settings. Here, we present miniaturized, long-range automated system that adheres gently the yield recordings water content epidermis dermis. This supports capabilities characterizing barrier, assessing severity diseases, evaluating cosmetic medication efficacy, with high levels repeatability...
Significance The ability to miniaturize deployable and morphable structures could significantly broaden their applications in biomedical, healthcare, electronics devices, but remains be very challenging, due the difficulty achieve considerable actuation deformations at small scales (e.g., several millimeters). Here, we present schemes design strategies enable assembly of three-dimensional (3D) mesostructures that actively, rapidly, reversibly deform (by nearly an order amplitude size) switch...
Accurate measurements of skin hydration are great interest to dermatological science and clinical practice. This parameter serves as a relevant surrogate barrier function, key representative benchmark for overall health. The sensor (SHS) is soft, skin-interfaced wireless system that exploits thermal measurement method, an alternative conventional impedance-based hand-held probes. study presents multiple strategies maximizing the sensitivity reliability this previously reported SHS platform....