Rubbery Bioelectronic Patch for The Heart

Electronics that can seamlessly integrate with human body could have significant impact in medical diagnostic, therapeutics. However, seamless integration is a grand challenge because of the distinct nature between electronics and human body. Conventional electronics are rigid and planar, made out of rigid materials. Human body are soft, deformable and curvilinear, comprised of biological materials, organs and tissues. This talk will introduce our solution to address the challenge through the recent development of a new class of electronics, namely rubbery electronics. Rubbery electronics is constructed all based on elastic rubber electronic materials of semiconductors, conductors and dielectrics, which possesses tissue-like softness and mechanical stretchability to allow seamless integration with soft deformable tissues and organs. Rubbery electronic materials (semiconductors, conductors, dielectrics) and device innovations set the foundation. This presentation will describe the development the recent advances of rubbery electronics and rubbery bioelectronics. As a platform technology, rubbery electronics could address many challenges in biomedical research and clinical studies.