Research Highlights
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Flower-shaped carbon particles tell biomarkers apart without antibodies
Spray-coated carbon flower sensors on stretchable substrates detect six biomarkers at sub-nanomolar levels and distinguish them in multi-analyte mixtures for wearable monitoring.
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Soft bioelectronic fiber can track hundreds of biological events simultaneously
A multichannel biosensor, as thin as a human hair, can detect and stimulate signals in the body.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
