Research Highlights

Researchers have developed a polymer-based electrolyte that makes for batteries that keep working – and don’t catch fire – when heated to over 140 degrees F.

Check out this Nature Outlook article highlighting our group's work on designing skins that incorporate flexible electronics and replicate the body’s ability to sense touch.

Researchers rationally designed a topological supramolecular network for PEDOT:PSS to achieve both high stretchability and conductivity well suited for bioelectronics.

Researchers used rational design to build a highly conductive, stretchable and photo-patternable material for use in bioelectronics.

Researchers have created a new approach to simultaneously achieve mechanical robustness, facile patternability and high electrical performance for polymer electronic materials.

Researchers leveraged their expertise in flexible electronics to design a wearable strain sensor that allows real-time monitoring of tumor progression.

Researchers invented an implantable sensor for wireless, battery-free monitoring of arterial blood pressure across a wide range of artery sizes and types.

Stanford researchers have developed a technique that reprograms cells to use synthetic materials to build artificial structures able to carry out functions inside the body.

All-elastomer, scalable fabrication process to create strain-insensitive, intrinsically stretchable transistor arrays

Researchers use metal-ligand based mechanophores to improve the mechanical and electrical performance of polymer semiconductors

Stanford researchers have designed a new electrolyte for lithium metal batteries that could increase the driving range of electric cars.

Stanford researchers have developed a method to genetically reprogram cells to build artificial structures.

The experimental device promises to provide a safe and comfortable power source for technologies that must bend and flex with our bodies.

Doctors and researchers are equipped with objective tests to detect and measure many serious illnesses. But when it comes to mental illness, no such tests exist.

Researchers customize new dynamic polymers for stretchable batteries, highlighting a supramolecular design to resolve the trade-off between ion transport and mechanical properties.

Researchers invented a new coating that could finally make lightweight lithium metal batteries safe and long lasting, which could usher in the next generation of electric vehicles.

Stanford engineers have developed experimental stickers that pick up physiological signals emanating from the skin, then wirelessly beam these health readings to a receiver.