Symposium BM4-Materials and Manufacturing of Biointerface Devices and Stretchable Electronics

Electronic devices are rapidly evolving from strictly rigid planar structures into new areas with unprecedented flexibility and interfacing with soft or biological materials. For example, stretchable electronics is a rapidly growing area opening up new possibilities for cost-effective conformable applications, such as biomedical healthcare devices for continuous monitoring of vital biological signals. Non-planar electrode arrays and sensors are promising new routes to neural, biotechnological, and prosthetic interfaces. The proposed session will combine technology line-ups of nanotechnology, additive manufacturing, nano-neural interfaces, novel printing, mechanics of compliant electronics, and rapid prototyping applications. We propose a session composed of device and system-level approaches for the design and fabrication of bio-electronic and stretchable systems using functional nano- and micro-materials. The proposed session will bring together worldwide experts to present the current state-of-the-art on emerging materials and materials processing technologies for stretchable electronics, as well as integration of stretchable components into devices.

These new materials systems have the potential to improve functionality while reducing the costs at the system level. Recent advances in the field of stretchable electronics have reached a stage of sophistication in material properties, device understanding, and reproducibility that have demonstrated both potential value and the capacity to support more challenging applications. This symposium will highlight efforts in the field including a variety of stretchable devices and interfaces for sensing applications, analysis of stretching mechanics, as well as additive manufacturing. The scope of this symposium includes devices, applications and mechanics of materials where (opto) electronically active nano materials are used for monitoring or detecting external stimuli to advance the field of stretchable electronics and related areas such as the Internet-of-Things networks.

In addition to surface-based electronics, the symposium will also cover direct cell-to- electronic interfaces, including materials for brain-machine interfaces, nanotechnologies for single cell recording and manipulation, and compliant electrocorticography arrays. Applications in medicine, biosensors, and prosthetics are envisioned. New materials and form-factors are playing a critical role in development of these new biological devices, and engagement from the materials community is rapidly expanding. The symposium will include recent advances over the past year, as well as forward looking research into emerging areas, such as dermal mimetics and single cell interfaces.

• Next-generation bio-sensing and analysis
• Cellular drug delivery
• Nanomaterials for bioelectronics
• Artificial skin
• Biomedical health monitoring with strethable sensors
• Additive Manufacturing of stretchable devices
• Predictive modeling of stretchable devices
• Novel Applications of stretchable conductors
• Massively Parallel Neural recording and stimulation platforms
• Understanding the mechanics and interface between epidermal electronics and moving objects including human skin

• BM4_Materials and Manufacturing of Biointerface Devices and Stretchable Electronics _0 (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
• BM4_Materials and Manufacturing of Biointerface Devices and Stretchable Electronics _1 (Stanford University, USA)
• BM4_Materials and Manufacturing of Biointerface Devices and Stretchable Electronics _2 (Linkoping, Sweden)
• BM4_Materials and Manufacturing of Biointerface Devices and Stretchable Electronics _3 (University of South Wales, Australia)
• BM4_Materials and Manufacturing of Biointerface Devices and Stretchable Electronics _4 (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
• BM4_Materials and Manufacturing of Biointerface Devices and Stretchable Electronics _5 (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
• BM4_Materials and Manufacturing of Biointerface Devices and Stretchable Electronics _6 (Seoul National University, Republic of Korea)
• BM4_Materials and Manufacturing of Biointerface Devices and Stretchable Electronics _7 (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
• BM4_Materials and Manufacturing of Biointerface Devices and Stretchable Electronics _8 (KAIST, Republic of Korea)
• BM4_Materials and Manufacturing of Biointerface Devices and Stretchable Electronics _9 (University of California, San Diego, USA)
• BM4_Materials and Manufacturing of Biointerface Devices and Stretchable Electronics _10 (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
• BM4_Materials and Manufacturing of Biointerface Devices and Stretchable Electronics _11 (Rice University, USA)
• BM4_Materials and Manufacturing of Biointerface Devices and Stretchable Electronics _12 (University of Osaka, Japan)
• BM4_Materials and Manufacturing of Biointerface Devices and Stretchable Electronics _13 (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
• BM4_Materials and Manufacturing of Biointerface Devices and Stretchable Electronics _14 (Gent University, Belgium)
• BM4_Materials and Manufacturing of Biointerface Devices and Stretchable Electronics _15 (Harvard University, USA)