Category: Research

Prof. Allan Reiss, Prof. Manish Saggar, Prof. Hadi Hosseini et al discuss many applications of fNIRS in psychiatry, protype wearable fNIRS devices, and future integration of EEG, eye tracking, heart rate and artificial intelligence to enable effective personalized monitoring, diagnosis, and treatment for patients with psychiatric disorders.

Prof. Zhenan Bao et al report an electronic skin that incorporates organic semiconductor transistors and has no rigid components, thus mimicking aspects of real skin in mechanical properties, sensing temperature and pressure and can encode these stimuli into electrical pulses.

Prof. Mark Cutkosky, Prof. Doff McElhinney et al present a modular approach that includes a soft, elastomeric microelectromechanical system (MEMS) optimized for application-specific performance and demonstrate an implantable cardiac sensor for measuring global longitudinal strain.

Prof. Joseph DeSimone et al demonstrate a micro-CLIP 3D printing capability to manufacture finely detailed and gradient 3D structures, such as terraced microneedle arrays and micro-lattice structures, while maintaining high print speeds.

Prof. Michael Snyder et al describe a strategy for the frequent collection and analysis of thousands of metabolites, lipids, cytokines and proteins in 10 μl of blood alongside physiological information from wearable sensors and demonstrate its advantages for discovering individualized inflammatory and metabolic responses to complex dietary changes and for deep individualized profiling.

Prof. Zhenan Bao et al present a novel, electrically active, spray-on smart skin that uses AI to rapidly decipher typing, sign language, and the shape of a familiar object from the movements of a human hand even with limited training.

Prof. Zhenan Bao, Prof. Geoffrey Gurtner et al have developed a prototype wireless smart bandage that speeds tissue repair, promotes faster closure of wounds, increases new blood flow to injured tissue, and enhances the recovery of skin.

Prof. Reinhold Dauskardt et al develop predictive models of injuries to skin due to projectiles, using simulation of projectile size, shape, orientation, friction coefficient, and impact angle.

Prof. Renee Zhao et al report a design strategy for snap-folding hexagonal rings that can be folded to 1.5% and 0.4% of initial area and volume, respectively, for future applications as stints, novel medical devices, and soft robotics.

Prof. Zhenan Bao, Prof. Parag Mallick, Prof. William Hiesinger et al develop and demonstrate a proof-of-concept wireless device that that adheres to the skin to measure changes in tumor size below.