Overview
- Provides the fundamental knowledge required to understand the basic science behind flexible and stretchable electronics
- Highlights key areas where flexible and stretchable electronics are being incorporated for specific non-invasive, minimally-invasive and implantable biomedical applications, such as implantable pacemakers with ultrathin/flexible energy harvesting circuits, tattoo-like pressure sensing skin, and multifunctional balloon catheters for endovascular therapies
- Shares many insights into the theoretical and experimental aspects of materials, device fabrication, and design with downstream clinical applications for flexible and stretchable electronics
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Microsystems and Nanosystems (MICRONANO)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Materials, Processes, Mechanics, and Devices of Soft/Stretchable Electronics
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Wearable Electronics Systems
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Bioinspired/Implantable Electronics
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About this book
Special focus is given to recent advances in extremely soft and stretchable bio-inspired electronics with real-world clinical studies that validate the technology. Foundational theoretical and experimental aspects are also covered in relation to the design and application of these biointegrated electronics systems. This is an ideal book for researchers, engineers, and industry professionals involved in developing healthcare devices, medical tools and related instruments relevant to various clinical practices.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Roozbeh Ghaffari is co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at MC10 Inc. In this role, Roozbeh has shaped the technology vision of the company, and is responsible for defining and developing emerging products from concept phase through clinical validation. These efforts have led to the development and launch of the BioStamp® and “tattoo-like" electronics as the foundation of MC10's wearable computing platforms. Roozbeh is a founding editor of the MIT Entrepreneurship Review and is a research staff member of the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics. Roozbeh’s contributions in soft bioelectronics, micro/nano-scale systems, and auditory neuroscience research have been recognized with the MIT Helen Carr Peake PhD Research Prize, the MIT100K Grand Prize, the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Grand Prize, and the MIT Technology Review Magazine’s Top 35 Innovators Under 35. Roozbeh has published over 40 academic papers and is inventor on over 40 patent applications and awards.
Professor Dae-Hyeong Kim is currently an associate professor in the School of Chemical and Biological Engineering of Seoul National University. His research aims to develop technologies for high performance flexible and stretchable electronic devices using high quality single crystal inorganic materials and novel biocompatible materials that enable a new generation of implantable biomedical systems with novel capabilities and increased performance. He has published more than 70 papers (including Science, Nature Materials, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, and PNAS), 30 international and domestic patents and 4 book chapters. He has been recognized with several awards including George Smith Award (2009) from theIEEE Electron Device Society, MRS Graduate Student Award (Gold Medal, 2009), Green Photonics Award from SPIE (2011), TR 35 award from MIT’s Technology Review magazine (2011), and Hong Jin-ki Creative Award (2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Stretchable Bioelectronics for Medical Devices and Systems
Editors: John A. Rogers, Roozbeh Ghaffari, Dae-Hyeong Kim
Series Title: Microsystems and Nanosystems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28694-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-28692-1Published: 11 April 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80407-1Published: 17 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-28694-5Published: 31 March 2016
Series ISSN: 2198-0063
Series E-ISSN: 2198-0071
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 314
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 91 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Circuits and Systems, Biomaterials, Mechatronics