Intelligent soft electronics for healthcare monitoring and VR
【Abstract】
Soft bio-integrated electronics have attracted great attentions due to the advantages of soft, lightweight, ultrathin architecture, and stretchable/bendable, thus has the potential to apply in various areas, especially in the field of biomedical engineering. By engineering the classes of materials processing and devices integration, the mechanical properties of the flexible electronics can well match the soft biological tissues to enable measuring bio signals and monitoring human body health.
In this report, we will present materials, device structures, power delivery strategies and communication schemes as the basis for novel soft bio-integrated electronics. For instance, we will discuss a wireless, battery-free platform of electronic systems and haptic interfaces capable of softly laminating onto the skin to communicate information via spatio-temporally programmable patterns of localized mechanical vibrations. The resulting technology, which we refer as epidermal VR, creates many opportunities where the skin provides an electronically programmable communication and sensory input channel to the body, as demonstrated through example applications in social media/personal engagement, prosthetic control/feedback and gaming/entertainment. Other demonstrations will include skin-interfaces human machine interface for robotic VR, skin like patches as sensors for healthcare monitoring and energy harvesting, etc.
Xinge Yu is currently an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong (CityU), Member of the Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences, Associate Director of Hong Kong Centre for Cerebro-cardiovascular Health Engineering, and Associate Director of the CAS-CityU Joint Lab on Robotics. Dr Yu is the recipient of RGC Research Fellow, Innovators under 35 China (MIT Technology Review), NSFC Excellent Young Scientist Grant (Hong Kong & Macao), New Innovator of IEEE NanoMed, MINE Young Scientist Award, Gold Medal in the Inventions Geneva, CityU Outstanding Research Award, Stanfords top 2% most highly cited scientists etc. Xinge Yu’s research group is focusing on skin-integrated electronics and systems for VR and biomedical applications. Dr. Yu is the Associate Editor and Editor Boards over 10 journals, such as Microsystem & NanoEngineering, Bio-Design and Manufacturing, IEEE Open Journal of Nanotechnology, etc. He has published 160 papers in Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Communications, Science Advances etc., and 40 patents filed/granted.