Research Highlights
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Bringing wearables from bench to bedside
Innovations from the Bao Group and the spin-out company PyrAmes Inc. lead to a device that can revolutionize neonatal intensive care.
September 09, 2024
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Electronic skin and the future of wearable technology
Prof. Zhenan Bao features as a guest on the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute's podcast, From Our Neurons to Yours.
July 08, 2024
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Smaller, more powerful stretchable electronics for wearables and implantables
Researchers developed soft integrated circuits that are powerful enough to drive a micro-LED screen and small enough to read thousands of sensors in a single square centimeter.
March 14, 2024
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Layers of self-healing electronic skin realign autonomously when cut
The advance presages a new era of robots and prosthetics wrapped in self-healing synthetic materials imbued with human-like sense of touch.
June 06, 2023
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Soft ‘e-skin’ generates nerve-like impulses that talk to the brain
A single, multilayer, soft, and stretchable material with integrated nerve-like electronics can sense pressure, temperature, strain, and more, just like real skin.
May 18, 2023
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Spray-on smart skin uses AI to rapidly understand hand tasks
Researchers developed a novel, electronically active smart skin can rapidly decipher typing and sign language.
April 14, 2023
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This new ‘smart’ bandage heals serious wounds 25% faster
Scientists have developed a “smart” bandage that can heal a serious wound 25% faster than the average bandage.
January 29, 2023
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Flameproofing Lithium-ion Batteries with Salt
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.
December 08, 2022
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Teaching robots to touch
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.
June 23, 2022
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Stretchable probe measures brain chemicals central to Parkinson’s, depression, and gut disease
Scientists at Stanford invented “NeuroString”—a soft implantable probe that can monitor fluctuations in brain chemicals, like a fitness tracker for the brain.
June 01, 2022
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Supramolecular Chemistry Enables Highly Conductive and Stretchable Bioelectronics
Researchers rationally designed a topological supramolecular network for PEDOT:PSS to achieve both high stretchability and conductivity well suited for bioelectronics.
May 22, 2022
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Bao Group Research Summary Poster for Stanford Energy Solution Week
Check out our posted that was presented at Stanford Energy Solutions Week – Frontiers in Energy Technology, May 2-6, 2022.
May 02, 2022
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Stretching the limits: novel material produces highly conductive, stretchable bioelectronics
Researchers used rational design to build a highly conductive, stretchable and photo-patternable material for use in bioelectronics.
May 02, 2022
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An all-polymer display for on-skin electronics
Researchers have developed an incredibly elastic material that can be used to make stretchable and bendable screens for smart devices.
April 18, 2022
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Molecular strategy enables high performance of elastic skin-inspired electronics
Researchers have created a new approach to simultaneously achieve mechanical robustness, facile patternability and high electrical performance for polymer electronic materials.
April 01, 2022
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A Wearable Strain Sensor Captures In Vivo Tumor Progression
Researchers leveraged their expertise in flexible electronics to design a wearable strain sensor that allows real-time monitoring of tumor progression.
November 27, 2021
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Implantable sensors to monitor arterial health
Researchers invented an implantable sensor for wireless, battery-free monitoring of arterial blood pressure across a wide range of artery sizes and types.
September 24, 2021
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New chemistry enables using existing technology to print stretchable, bendable circuits on artificial skin
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.
July 01, 2021
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Strain-insensitive stretchable electronics for wearables
All-elastomer, scalable fabrication process to create strain-insensitive, intrinsically stretchable transistor arrays
January 25, 2021
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Improving performance of polymer semiconductors with metal-ligand based mechanophores
Researchers use metal-ligand based mechanophores to improve the mechanical and electrical performance of polymer semiconductors
January 12, 2021