2016 MRS Spring Meeting
Symposium SM6-Transient and Biologically-Inspired Electronics
Transient electronics represents a new class of technology whose key characteristic is that active elements physically/chemically disappear, at controlled rates and/or programmed times, via a number of possible mechanisms including hydrolysis, dissolution, de-polymerization, metabolic action, or disintegration. The mode and rate of this transience are sensitive to the properties of the environment, such as chemical or biological events, temperature, pressure, or light. Such transient behavior is completely different from the existing, traditional electronic systems that are designed to be functionally long-lasting, reliable, and invariant. Given the unique degradable, function-variable, and stimuli-responsive characteristics of transient electronics, such emerging technology offers compelling opportunities in the development of 1) resorbable medical implants (to avoid device retention and retrieval); 2) environmentally benign and disposable electronics (to minimize environmental footprints); 3) self-destructing safety/security systems; etc.
A broad range of materials proposed for transient/biodegradable electronics span from organic polymers (synthesized or naturally derived), to inorganic semiconductors (silicon, germanium, etc), interlayer dielectrics, metals and alloys, and hybrid materials. Demonstrated electronic devices/systems include CMOS, various sensors, radio frequency energy harvester, battery, and many others, targeting applications involving diagnostic/therapeutic monitoring, drug delivery, wireless signal/power transmission, electronic skin, etc. Various approaches integrating a variety of dissolvable biomaterials includes transfer printing, MEMS fabrication and semiconductor foundry compatible processing for advanced transient electronic system.
This symposium will cover a comprehensive range of biomaterials and degradable electronic systems. It will focus on the fundamental materials science, materials degradation kinetics, novel device systems, and fabrication techniques to integrate multifunctional biomaterials. Interdisciplinary topics related to physics, chemistry, materials science, and electrical engineering will shed important insights and inspire possible new areas for transient electronics.
Topics will include:
- Environmentally sustainable electronics
- Synthesis and evaluation of biodegradable polymers
- Bio-interfaced electronic systems
- Bioinspired and biomimetic materials, and nano biomaterials
- Inorganic based biocompatible/biodegradable materials and devices
- Natural, nature-inspired materials for organic electronic system
- Dissolvable metals and alloys, dielectrics, and semiconducting materials
Invited Speakers:
- SM6_Transient and Biologically-Inspired Electronics_0 (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
- SM6_Transient and Biologically-Inspired Electronics_1 (Stanford University, USA)
- SM6_Transient and Biologically-Inspired Electronics_2 (Linköping University, Sweden)
- SM6_Transient and Biologically-Inspired Electronics_3 (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
- SM6_Transient and Biologically-Inspired Electronics_4 (Linz Hospital in Austria, USA)
- SM6_Transient and Biologically-Inspired Electronics_5 (University of Southern California, USA)
- SM6_Transient and Biologically-Inspired Electronics_6 (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)
- SM6_Transient and Biologically-Inspired Electronics_7 (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
- SM6_Transient and Biologically-Inspired Electronics_8 (Politecnico di Milano, USA)
- SM6_Transient and Biologically-Inspired Electronics_9 (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France)
- SM6_Transient and Biologically-Inspired Electronics_10 (Iowa State University, USA)
- SM6_Transient and Biologically-Inspired Electronics_11 (University of Wolongong, Australia)
- SM6_Transient and Biologically-Inspired Electronics_12 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
- SM6_Transient and Biologically-Inspired Electronics_13 (University of California, San Diego, USA)
- SM6_Transient and Biologically-Inspired Electronics_14 (Polytechnique Montreal, Canada)
- SM6_Transient and Biologically-Inspired Electronics_15 (University of Osaka, Japan)
- SM6_Transient and Biologically-Inspired Electronics_16 (University of Chicago, USA)