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Sihong Wang

Sihong Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2014, and his Bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University in 2009. From 2015 to 2018, he was a postdoctoral fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. He has published over 70 papers in numerous high-impact journals, including Science, Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Electronics, Matter, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Advanced Materials, Energy & Environmental Science, etc. His research group currently focuses on soft polymeric bioelectronic materials and devices as the new generation of technology for biomedical studies and practices. As of Nov. 2023, his research has been cited more than 23,500 times and he has an H-index of 61. He was recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics from 2020 to 2022, and was awarded the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, NSF CAREER Award, Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award, MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 (TR35 Global List), Advanced Materials Rising Star Award, ACS PMSE Early-Stage Investigator Award, iCANX Young Scientist Award, MRS Graduate Student Award, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, Top 10 Breakthroughs of 2012 by Physics World, etc.


Stretchable and Bioadhesive Polymer Bioelectronics

Sihong Wang*

* Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA (sihongwang@uchicago)

Abstract

The vast amount of biological mysteries and biomedical challenges faced by humans provide a prominent drive for seamlessly merging electronics with biological living systems (e.g. human bodies) to achieve long-term stable functions. Towards this trend, one of the key requirements for electronics is to possess biomimetic form factors in various aspects for achieving long-term biocompatibility. To enable such paradigm-shifting requirements, polymer-based electronics are uniquely promising for combining advanced electronic functionalities with biomimetic properties. In this talk, I will introduce our new molecular-design, chemical-synthesis, and physical-processing concepts for polymer semiconductors, which enabled the incorporation of stretchable and bioadhesive properties with advanced electronic and photonic functionalities. Furthermore, enabled by these new materials, we have also created new device designs and fabrication processes for building unprecedented functional devices, including stretchable and bioadhesive biosensors, stretchable neuromorphic devices,  and stretchable OLEDs, which all simultaneously achieve high performance and new biomimetic properties.