Vol.33 - Xingyu Jiang（蒋兴宇）

Liquid Metal-based Microfluidics for Stretchable Bioelectronics

液态金属-弹性聚合物微流控与柔性生物电子

Xingyu Jiang（蒋兴宇）

ABSRACT

Our interest in making stretchable bioelectronics stems from our work in microfluidic chips that allow many biomedical functions, such as diagnosis, screening/synthesis of therapeutics, as well as tissue engineering. Integrating liquid metal and elastic polymer-based microfluidic chips into stretchable electronic circuits, we find that these stretchable circuits can dramatically expand the capability of micro-/nano-scale structures in a variety of biomedical applications, such as biomedical sensing, tissue engineering, drug discovery and biological computing. For example, a fully stretchable blood oxygen sensor and a fully stretchable sweat detection device can be prepared by using liquid metal elastic polymer microfluidic devices. These new materials can also be used to prepare healable electronic blood vessels and vascular stents that allow gene therapy on targeted live tissues.

BIOGRAPHY

Xingyu Jiang is a Chair Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China. He obtained his BS at the University of Chicago (1999) and PhD at Harvard University (Chemistry, 2004). In 2005, he joined the National Center for NanoScience and Technology/the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He moved to the Southern University of Science and Technology in 2018. His research interests include microfluidics and nanomedicine. He was awarded the “Hundred Talents Plan” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation of China’s Distinguished Young Scholars Award, the Scopus Young Researcher Gold Award, the Human Frontier Science Program Young Investigator Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) and American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers.