Recent advances in electronic materials and devices have created bioelectronics that enable new functions to sense, stimulate, control, and re-engineer the biosystems. However, living biological systems involve dynamic movement from the three-dimensional (3D) tissues and organs with genetically defined different types of cells all connected together, which are difficult to be interfaced by conventional electronic devices. Resolving these challenges would require new efforts in the development of materials and devices. This symposium will focus on the development of advanced polymeric electronic materials and devices to address the challenges. Examples include intrinsically stretchable and tissue-level soft bioelectronics for long-term stable, gliosis-free biointerface, chronically stably recording cellular-level activities. Self-healable, tough adhesive and shape-morphing devices for adapting to the dynamic evolving and changing environment of the biological system. Genetically encoded polymeric electronics for genetically targeted biointerface. Dual conductive polymeric electronic materials for low impedance bioelectric interface and neuromorphic devices. These methods span across a broad spectrum of materials science and device engineering, leading to polymeric electronic tools for bio-integration at multiple length scales with unprecedented opportunities and addressing many urgent demands spanning from artificial skins, wearable and implantable electronics, neuroscience, tissue engineering, and other areas.

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