Abstract
Skin is soft and curvilinear; integrated circuits are not. Electronic technologies that overcome this profound mismatch in properties create opportunities for advanced devices that can intimately laminate onto the skin, for diagnostic and therapeutic function with important, unique capabilities in biomedical research and clinical healthcare. Over the last decade, the development of new concepts in materials science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and advanced manufacturing has led to diverse, novel classes of thin, ‘skin-like’ electronic devices configured to address topics of broad interest in human physiology. This talk describes the key ideas, with specific examples in wireless, skin-like electronic ‘tattoos’ for continuous tracking of health status through electronic, optical and microfluidic means, including case studies in vital signs monitoring in neonatal intensive care and in capture, storage and biomarker analysis of sweat, including demonstrations in professional sports.
Biography
Professor John A. Rogers obtained BA and BS degrees in chemistry and in physics from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1989. From MIT, he received SM degrees in physics and in chemistry in 1992 and the PhD degree in physical chemistry in 1995. From 1995 to 1997, Rogers was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard University Society of Fellows. He joined Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff in the Condensed Matter Physics Research Department in 1997, and served as Director of this department from the end of 2000 to 2002. He then spent thirteen years on the faculty at University of Illinois, most recently as the Swanlund Chair Professor and Director of the Seitz Materials Research Laboratory. In 2016, he joined Northwestern University as the Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Medicine, with affiliate appointments in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Chemistry, where he is also Director of the Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics. He has published nearly 600 papers and is co-inventor on more than 100 patents. His research has been recognized by many awards including a MacArthur Fellowship (2009), the Lemelson-MIT Prize (2011), and the Smithsonian Award for American Ingenuity in the Physical Sciences (2013). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Inventors and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.