Symposium SM1-Bioelectronics—Materials, Processes and Applications

Bioelectronics – a field intended to advance healthcare and to provide tools to further understand physiology and pathology – describes the interface of biological systems with traditional (opto)electronics. The inherent mismatch of this interface poses many challenges that threaten the utility, lifetime, and success of materials and devices meant for diagnostic or therapeutic use. Biosystems (cells, tissues, organs) are inherently soft, often dynamic, and communicate via biomolecular recognition and ionic fluxes. Electronic systems are traditionally hard, static, and rely on electronic transport. Bioelectronics materials research works to bridge these mismatches and to improve the bi-directional communication for recording biological signals and stimulating biosystems.

The bioelectronics field encompases a broad range of materials and devices that address the needs described above. This symposium will therefore highlight efforts in the field including organic and low dimensional carbon-based bioelectronic materials and devices for biosensing, diagnostics, actuation, drug delivery, and active tissue engineering. Focus will also be placed on both active and passive materials and processes meant to impart flexible, conformal, stretchable, and/or transient/degradable functionality. This symposium intends to further emphasize the need for cross-disciplinary efforts in the development of next generation bio-integrated electronics by bringing together more fundamental research efforts with those of industrial participants, highlighting systems level challenges (power and signal transmission/communication), and rising clinical needs.

• Conducting hydrogels
• Flexible, stretchable active/passive materials
• Biostability/biocompatibility
• Mixed ion-electron conduction
• Novel biological signal transduction approaches
• Biologically transient electronics
• Combining multiple sensing or stimulation modalities
• Wireless communication integrated with bioelectronic systems
• Novel biocompatible and biodegradable electroactive small molecules and polymers
• Carbon nanotube, graphene, and inorganic active materials for bioelectronics
• Artificial skins and e-textiles for brain-machine interfacing and health monitoring
• Biosensing/stimulation devices, and closed loop sensing/stimulation
• Powering devices (unobtrusive battery or biological energy harvesting)

• SM1_Bioelectronics—Materials, Processes and Applications _0 (University of Houston, USA)
• SM1_Bioelectronics—Materials, Processes and Applications _1 (Stanford University, USA)
• SM1_Bioelectronics—Materials, Processes and Applications _2 (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• SM1_Bioelectronics—Materials, Processes and Applications _3 (MC10, Inc, USA)
• SM1_Bioelectronics—Materials, Processes and Applications _4 (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
• SM1_Bioelectronics—Materials, Processes and Applications _5 (Harvard University, USA)
• SM1_Bioelectronics—Materials, Processes and Applications _6 (Ecole des Mines de St. Etienne, France)
• SM1_Bioelectronics—Materials, Processes and Applications _7 (Imperial College, London, United Kingdom)
• SM1_Bioelectronics—Materials, Processes and Applications _8 (Stanford University, USA)
• SM1_Bioelectronics—Materials, Processes and Applications _9 (University of Queensland, Australia)
• SM1_Bioelectronics—Materials, Processes and Applications _10 (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
• SM1_Bioelectronics—Materials, Processes and Applications _11 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern University, USA)
• SM1_Bioelectronics—Materials, Processes and Applications _12 (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
• SM1_Bioelectronics—Materials, Processes and Applications _13 (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• SM1_Bioelectronics—Materials, Processes and Applications _14 (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• SM1_Bioelectronics—Materials, Processes and Applications _15 (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)