2022.03.10 Announcement of the 5th Waseda IARBD seminar “Tissue-adhesive thin-film electronics for bio-integrated wearable and implantable systems” The fifth seminar of the Waseda IARBD seminar series was a lecture given by Dr. Kento Yamagishi, postdoctoral fellow in Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics at Northwestern University. The lecture title was “Tissue-adhesive thin-film electronics for bio-integrated wearable and implantable systems”. We look forward to your participation. Date : 23 March, 2022 Time : 14:30-15:30 (Japan Standard Time) Venue : Webinar, Zoom (You will know the link after your registration.) Lecturer : Dr. Kento Yamagishi Postdoctoral fellow, Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics, Northwestern University, USA Title : “Tissue-adhesive thin-film electronics for bio-integrated wearable and implantable systems” Registration Fee : Free Language : English Registration : Please register in the following link: https://forms.gle/9U9TAhuQWCyi5UFj7 Closing Date : 21 March, 2022 Contact : IARBD-Office: IARBD-office@list.waseda.jp Yamagishi Kento, postdoctoral fellow, Northwestern University Biography Kento Yamagishi, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow in Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics at Northwestern University. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering from Waseda University in 2018, where he held a Fellowship of Japan Society for Promotion of Science. He spent a postdoctoral period in Research Organization for Nano & Life Innovation at Waseda University (2018) and Digital Manufacturing and Design (DManD) Center at Singapore University of Technology and Design (2018-2021) and moved to Northwestern University in 2021. His research interests are dedicated to polymeric/elastomeric materials, biomaterials, flexible/stretchable electronics, and digital manufacturing for wearable/implantable biomedical applications. His honors include Young Scientist Presentation Award from Japan Society of Applied Physics (2015) and Abe Research Award for Young Scientists from Japanese Society for Medical Engineering (2018), and the 2nd prize for the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFBME) Young Investigator Award (2019). Abstract Recently, a variety of wearable and implantable medical electronic devices have been developed for advanced therapeutics, healthcare, and neuroengineering. For the long-term use of those devices interfaced with the living animal/human body, it is critically important to resolve the mechanical mismatch between rigid components and soft target tissues including skin and internal organs. To this end, the development of flexible and stretchable electronics is of great importance to enhance the mechanical conformability of devices. Despite the rapid growth of flexible and stretchable electronics technology, there have been limitations in the substrate thickness and tissue-adhesive property. Hence, most of the existing tissue-interfaced devices require the use of adhesive reagent, medical glue, and/or surgical suture to secure the substrate onto the target tissues, which may interfere with the original motility of the tissue, and in a worse case, cause serious inflammation of the tissue. In this talk, the speaker would like to share his recent studies on the development of tissue-adhesive thin-film electronics towards skin-interfaced wearable and tissue-interfaced implantable biomedical applications. Such devices were designed and fabricated based on polymeric ultrathin films, surface chemistry, and additive manufacturing (3D printing) technology to achieve stable and conformal fixation as well as reliable operation of devices on fragile tissues or actively moving organs. Organized by the Institute for Advanced Research of Biosystem Dynamics (IARBD)
