Nanshu Lu

Last updated
Nanshu Lu
Born
Alma mater Harvard University, Tsinghua University
AwardsNSF Career Award, MIT 35 Under 35
Scientific career
Institutions University of Texas at Austin
Doctoral advisor Zhigang Suo and Joost Vlassak

Nanshu Lu is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin where she leads the Lu Research Group in the department of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics. [2] She also holds a courtesy appointment in the department of biomedical engineering. [3] Lu is recognized for her work on the integration of electronics into stretchable materials compatible with human tissue, for which she was named one of the Top 35 innovators under the age of 35 by the MIT Technology Review in 2012. [2]

Contents

Education

Nanshu Lu attended Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, graduating with a bachelor's degree in engineering mechanics in 2005. Lu earned her master's degree in applied physics in 2006 [4] and her doctoral degree in 2009, both from Harvard University, at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). For her doctorate, she studied solid mechanics with Zhigang Suo and Joost Vlassak. She did postdoctoral work at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign where she was a Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow from 2009 to 2011, working with John A. Rogers. [4] [5]

Career

Lu joined the Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics (ASE/EM) department at the University of Texas at Austin in 2011. There she leads the Lu Research Group in studying stretchable materials with bio-integrated electronics. [6] [5]

Research

Lu has been recognized for her work on the “Flexoelectricity of Nanomaterials on Deformable Substrates.” By enhancing electromechanical coupling at a nanoscale level using flexoelectricity, mechanical action can be transformed into electrical impulses. [6]

One project which she co-lead developed a ballooncatheter, capable of monitoring heartbeats, pressure, and temperature, while inflating inside the body. The device can increase the safety of heart surgery. [5]

In another project, electronics were integrated into stretchable materials to create flexible silicone devices that attach to and mimic the texture and elasticity of skin. These have been referred to as "electronic skin" or "electronic tattoos". Instead of hard and brittle silicon chips, Lu created a flexible polymer substrate containing a mesh of nanoscale metallic ribbons. The resulting device, only 30 micrometers thick, can be printed onto a silicone patch that sticks to the skin without irritation. Sensors in the thin "electronic skin" monitor vital signs such as pulse, temperature, and vocalization. The devices have potential application in both medical monitoring and treatment. [2] [5] [7]

Awards

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Zhenan Bao</span> Chemical engineer

Zhenan Bao is a chemical engineer. She serves as K. K. Lee Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University, with courtesy appointments in Chemistry and Material Science and Engineering. She served as the Department Chair of Chemical Engineering from 2018 to 2022. Bao is known for her work on organic field-effect transistors and organic semiconductors, for applications including flexible electronics and electronic skin.

Electronic skin refers to flexible, stretchable and self-healing electronics that are able to mimic functionalities of human or animal skin. The broad class of materials often contain sensing abilities that are intended to reproduce the capabilities of human skin to respond to environmental factors such as changes in heat and pressure.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yueh-Lin Loo</span> Award-Winning Malaysian-American Chemical Engineer

Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo is a Malaysian-born chemical engineer and the Theodora D. '78 and William H. Walton III '74 Professor in Engineering at Princeton University, where she is also the Director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. She is known for inventing nanotransfer printing. Loo was elected a Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2020.

Tee Chee Keong Benjamin is a Singaporean scientist. He helped to co-develop the electronic skin technology when he was a PhD student in Stanford University. In 2015, he was chosen as one of TR35 list for his work on e-skin. The only Singaporean on the 2015 TR35 list, e-skins could potentially make prosthetic limbs as sensitive as human ones and enable intuitive human machine interactions. In 2019, he co-developed an underwater self-healing transparent material that could be useful in marine environments.

Yendluri Shanthi Pavan is an Indian electrical engineer and a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He is known for his studies on mixed signal VLSI circuits and is an elected fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He is also a fellow of IEEE. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Engineering Sciences in 2012.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Muhammad M. Hussain</span>

Muhammad Mustafa Hussain is an electronics engineer specializing in CMOS technology-enabled low-cost flexible, stretchable and reconfigurable electronic systems. He is a professor in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. He is the principal investigator (PI) at Integrated Nanotechnology Laboratory, and Integrated Disruptive Electronic Applications (IDEA) Laboratory. He is also the director of the Virtual Fab: vFabLab™.

Madhu Bhaskaran is an engineer and Professor at RMIT University. She co-leads the Functional Materials and Microsystems Research Group at RMIT University She won the APEC Aspire prize in 2018 for her development of "electronic skin".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yongjie Jessica Zhang</span> American mechanical engineer

Yongjie Jessica Zhang is an American mechanical engineer. She is the George Tallman Ladd and Florence Barrett Ladd Professor of mechanical engineering and, by courtesy, of biomedical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Engineering with Computers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Deji Akinwande</span> Nigerian-American professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Deji Akinwande is a Nigerian-American professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with courtesy affiliation with Materials Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2016 from Barack Obama. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the African Academy of Sciences, the Materials Research Society (MRS), and the IEEE.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jared Cole</span> Theoretical physicist

Jared Cole is an Australian theoretical physicist specialising in quantum physics and decoherence theory and its application to solid-state systems. He specialises in using mathematical and computational models to describe the design and operation of quantum computing and quantum electronic devices.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Canan Dağdeviren</span> Turkish scientist (born 1985)

Canan Dağdeviren is a Turkish academic, physicist, material scientist, and Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she currently holds the LG Career Development Professorship in Media Arts and Sciences. Dagdeviren is the first Turkish scientist in the history of the Harvard Society to become a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. As a faculty member, she directs her own Conformable Decoders research group at the MIT Media Lab. The group works at the intersection of materials science, engineering and biomedical engineering. They create mechanically adaptive electromechanical systems that can intimately integrate with the target object of interest for sensing, actuation, and energy harvesting, among other applications. Dagdeviren believes that vital information from nature and the human body is "coded" in various forms of physical patterns. Her research focuses on the creation of conformable decoders that can "decode" these patterns into beneficial signals and/or energy.

Jodie L. Lutkenhaus is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University who develops redox active polymers for energy storage and smart coatings. In 2019 Lutkenhaus and Karen L. Wooley demonstrated the world's first biodegradable peptide battery. Lutkenhaus is a World Economic Forum Young Scientist.

Tricia L. Carmichael is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Windsor. She develops new materials for stretchable electronics with a current focus on wearable electronic devices.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stéphanie P. Lacour</span> French neurotechnologist

Stéphanie P. Lacour is a French neurotechnologist and full professor holding the Foundation Bertarelli Chair in Neuroprosthetic Technology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Lacour is a pioneer in the field of stretchable electronics and directs a laboratory at EPFL which specializes in the development of Soft BioElectronic Interfaces to enable seamless integration of neuroprosthetic devices into human tissues. Lacour is also a co-founding member and director of the Center for Neuroprosthetics at the EPFL Satellite Campus in Geneva, Switzerland.

Hannah J. Joyce is an Australian scientist and engineer, and a professor at the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Her research specialises in the development of new nanomaterials for applications in optoelectronics and energy harvesting. She has received several awards for her work in nanowire engineering and terahertz photonics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ana Claudia Arias</span> American physicist

Ana Claudia Arias is a Brazilian American physicist who is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research considers printed electronic materials and their application in flexible electronics and wearable medical devices.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Srabanti Chowdhury</span> Indian American Electrical Engineer

Srabanti Chowdhury is an Indian American Electrical Engineer who is an associate professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. She is a senior fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy. At Stanford she works on ultra-wide and wide-bandgap semiconductors and device engineering for energy-efficient electronic devices. She serves as Director for Science Collaborations at the United States Department of Energy Energy Frontier Research Center ULTRA.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wei Gao (engineer)</span> American medical engineer

Wei Gao is a Chinese-American biomedical engineer who currently serves as an assistant professor of medical engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Gao has been a professor at Caltech since 2017 and is an associate editor of the journals Science Advances, npj Flexible Electronics (Nature), Journal on Flexible Electronics (IEEE), and Sensors & Diagnosis.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Xiaodan Gu</span> American scientist

Xiaodan Gu is the Nina Bell Suggs endowed professor of Polymer Science and Engineering at The University of Southern Mississippi. Since 2017, Gu has been a professor at Southern Miss where his research involves studying the physics and morphology of conjugated polymers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Duygu Kuzum</span> Electrical engineer and academic

Duygu Kuzum is a Turkish-American electrical engineer who is a professor at the University of California, San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering. She develops transparent neural sensors based on single-layer materials. She was awarded a National Institutes of Health New Innovator Award in 2020.

References

  1. Mazurenko, Fiona. "International Scholar Spotlight: Dr. Nanshu Lu". University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 Jonietz, Erika (2013). "35 Innovators Under 35 Nanshu Lu, 29 Soft, flexible electronics bond to skin and even organs for better health monitoring". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  3. "Nanshu Lu Associate Professor". A. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 "Nanshu Lu Develops Body-Tissue-Friendly Electronics". Asian American. Goldsea. September 7, 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "Nanshu Lu (Ph.D. '09), engineer of 'electronic tattoos,' named to TR35". Harvard News & Events. September 10, 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  6. 1 2 3 "Nanshu Lu Receives NSF CAREER Award for Flexible, Wearable Electronics Research". University of Texas at Austin. March 31, 2014.
  7. Moore, Charles (June 13, 2013). "UT Austin Assistant Professor Aims To Revolutionize Medical Monitoring With Electronic Tattoos". BioNews Texas. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  8. "Faculty Openings". University of Texas at Austin. May 12, 2015.
  9. White, T. J. (April 30, 2015). "Department of the Navy Announces 2015 Young Investigators". Office of Naval Research. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  10. "Nanshu Lu Wins AFOSR Young Investigator Award to Develop Automated, Expandable Systems". University of Texas at Austin. January 27, 2015.
  11. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (January 21, 2015). "AFOSR awards grants to 57 scientists and engineers through its Young Investigator Program". EurekaAlert. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  12. "Nanshu Lu Receives 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award". University of Texas at Austin. May 5, 2014.
  13. "NetExplo : Grand prix pour le tatouage électronique". L'Usine Nouvelle. February 21, 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2017.