Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminar: Dae-Hyeong Kim
https://caltech.zoom.us/j/87960522171
Recent advances in soft electronics have attracted great attention due to its potential applications to personalized bio-integrated devices. The mechanical mismatch between conventional electronic devices and soft human tissues/organs oftentimes causes various challenges, such as the low signal to noise ratio of the biosensors, inflammations and/or excessive immune responses near the implanted sites, and unsatisfactory electrical/chemical feedback therapies. Ultra-flexible and stretchable electronic devices have a low system modulus, and thereby have a high potential to solve these issues. Nanomaterials and their composites with the soft elastomeric backbone matrix are particularly beneficial in realizing these ultra-flexible and stretchable bioelectronics. In this talk, our unique strategies in the synthesis of nanmaterials, material processing techniques for stretchable nanocomposites, and their unconventional biomedical device applications are presented. Furthermore, the integration of wireless technologies with such soft bioelectronic devices enables the long-term operation of the bio-integrated devices and customized point-of-care treatment under mobile environment. http://flextronics.snu.ac.kr/
Dae-Hyeong Kim obtained B.S. and M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Seoul National University, Korea, in 2000 and 2002, respectively. He received Ph. D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 2009. From 2009 to 2011, he was a post-doctoral research associate at University of Illinois. He joined Seoul National University in 2011 and is currently a professor in School of Chemical and Biological Engineering of Seoul National University. He also has been serving as an associate director of Center for Nanoparticle Research of Institute for Basic Science (IBS) from 2017. He has been focusing on the research of nanomaterials and deformable devices and their application to bio-integrated and bio-inspired electronics. He has been recognized with several awards including George Smith Award (2009), Green Photonics Award (2011), TR 35 award (2011), Hong Jin-ki Creative Award (2015), SCEJ Award (2016), and Korea Young Scientist Award (2017). He was also selected as one of the highly cited researchers by Clarivate Analytics in 2018, 2019, and 2020.
Host: Professor Wei Gao