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17816169069 Jinglin Jian
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17758013020 Chen Chen
17816169069 Jinglin Jian
Prof. Kewang Nan is an assistant professor in the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Zhejiang University, and an adjunct professor at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine. He is the recipient of the National Natural Science Foundation of China’s Outstanding Youth Fund in 2022 (Overseas). His main research direction is the development of bio-integrated flexible electronic devices for intelligent diagnosis, organ stimulation and drug delivery. In 2018, he graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering, with Profs. John A Rogers and Paul V. Braun. From 2019 to 2022, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard University, and then a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with Profs. Giovanni Traverso and Robert S Langer. Prof. Nan has published more than 40 journal articles with a total of more than 3,100 citations; including 11 first/co-first author papers, including Device (2023), Nature Biomedical Engineering (2022), Nature Reviews Materials (2022), and Nature Materials (2018). He has had multiple US/PCT patents, two book chapters, and won academic awards such as the National Scholarship for Outstanding Self-financed International Students (2018) and the Hamer Graduate Fellow (2014). He has served as an independent reviewer for international journals such as Science Advances, Nano Research, Advanced Functional Materials, Extreme Mechanics Letters, and Journal of Materials Research.
Flexible electronics for the theranostics of gastrointestinal dysmotility
Kewang Nan
* College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (knan@zju.edu.cn)
Abstract
Recent years have witnessed a significant level of interests in the tissue-like electronics. They refer to sensor and actuator networks that are soft, deformable, and 3D for detection of high-fidelity, large-area physiological signals, or for delivery of therapeutics in previously inaccessible biological space. In this talk, I will discuss various flexible electronic technologies using industrial-grade electronic materials, and then talk about their applications in the diagnosis [1] and therapeutics of gastrointestinal dysmotility using less expensive and more scalable manufacturing approaches. The results suggest that concepts inspired by soft and wireless skin-interfacing electronic devices can be applied to ingestible electronics with potential clinical applications for evaluating and treating gastrointestinal conditions.
References
[1] Nan, Kewang, et al. "Low-cost gastrointestinal manometry via silicone–liquid-metal pressure transducers resembling a quipu." Nature Biomedical Engineering 6.10 (2022): 1092-1104.