Apr 25, 2024
10:15am - 10:45am
Room 330, Level 3, Summit
Flavia Vitale1
University of Pennsylvania1
Wearable bioelectronics are widely adopted in clinical, research, and consumer electronics for health and fitness tracking. MXenes, and Ti<sub>3</sub>C<sub>2</sub>T<sub>x</sub> in particular, have emerged as ideal materials for soft, conformal, and multimodal wearable interfaces for sensing and modulating different body functions. In this talk, I will discuss our most recent works on designing, fabricating, and translating wearable MXene bioelectronics for use in humans. First, I will review how <i>ad hoc</i> manufacturing schemes allow leveraging the remarkable electronic, electrochemical, and magnetic properties of Ti<sub>3</sub>C<sub>2</sub>T<sub>x</sub> MXene at the molecular scale, while enabling full customization of the device functionality, geometry, and area coverage. Then, I will present examples of application of MXene wearables for non-invasive brain monitoring in outpatient clinical settings and neuromuscular diagnosis and rehabilitation in Achilles tendinopathy patients.