Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Prof. creating e-tattoos and e-skins to bridge humans and robots. TR 35. Fellow of ASME & AIMBE. Views are my own.
Today is the 60th birthday of my Ph.D. advisor,
@zhigangsuo
. Happy Birthday🎂 Thank you for showing us how to navigate the complexities of research with tenacity and integrity. Your wisdom only shines brighter with time. To all, please join our celebration symposium at
#SES2023
.
Congratulations to Professor Nanshu Lu for being elected a fellow member of the
@ASMEdotorg
! Lu was selected for “inventing wearable e-tattoos for biometric sensing and soft e-skins for soft robots to gain human-like sensations.” Learn more 👉
Congratulations to my family, advisors, students, collaborators and colleagues on making a Full Professor 😉 Also very happy for my brilliant colleagues, Luis and Fabrizio.
Congratulations to Nanshu Lu and Luis Sentis for being promoted to full Professor and to Fabrizio Bisetti for being promoted to Associate Professor with tenure (effective Sept. 1)! We're proud to call you ASE/EM faculty
@CockrellSchool
@UTAustin
! 🎊🤘
Congratulations to Professors Thomas Hughes and Nanshu Lu who are among 31
@UTAustin
researchers named to
@Clarivate
's 2022 Highly Cited Researchers list. The list recognizes individuals across the globe who have demonstrated exceptional influence in their fields of research.🤘
Elected to the board of SES
@SocEngScience
. Thank you all for your trust and support! I will always keep them in mind. Please always feel free to tell me or message me your feedback and ideas regarding how we could improve your SES experience.
Congratulations to my colleague
@nanshulu
on her induction as a Fellow of AIMBE for her groundbreaking work on digital tattoos and wearable biosensors.
Very proud to share that my PhD student graduated in 2020, Dr. Zhaohe Dai
@ZhaoheD
, just started his own group in Engineering Mechanics
@PKU1898
. Zhaohe is a deep thinker, a dedicated scholar, and an amazing mentor. Find more about Zhaohe here:
Just came across this down-to-the-earth interview with Zhenan, truly inspiring! I also share the same wish that I had been more confident and more daring when starting my own group.
Here are the four PhDs and one honorable MS graduated from Lu group this year (from left to right): Dr. Xiangxing Yang (ECE), Dr. Siyi Liu (EM), Ms. Eunbin Kim, Dr. Hongwoo Jang (MSE), Dr. Kyoungho Ha (ME). We will miss you!
Laminates with alternating stiff and compliant layers are widely used in flexible electronics. Does Euler–Bernoulli beam theory still hold for strain and flexural rigidity calculation? Please check out our editor invited article on
@MECMAT_journal
:
Prof.
@KejieZhao
and I are initiating a Future Faculty Symposium at
#SES2023
aiming at mentoring future faculty and facilitating recruiting. Travel awards thanks to
@NSF
MoMS. URMs are highly encouraged to apply. Application open 6/15 - 7/15: . Please RT!
The inaugural future faculty symposium will be part of the SES conference. Pls encourage your PhDs/postdocs to participate to build connections with peers, mentors, and hiring institutions. 40 travel awards will be provided. Pls RT!
Can we have a wearable device to detect heart valve activities like the stethoscope? We have built a wireless chest e-tattoo that can synchronously and simultaneously measure electrocardiogram (ECG) and seismocardiogram (SCG). Check out our AEM paper:
Curious about parent-satellite bubbles formed by exfoliated graphene? Should they be modeled by FvK plate theory or membrane theory? Is the interface Griffith type or cohesive zone type? When does continuum mechanics break down? Check out our JMPS paper:
Hard to wrap your Ferrero Rocher chocolate ball buckle-free? We discovered a scaling law to predict the conformability and ways to improve it. Check out our recent
@ScienceAdvances
article "Conformability of flexible sheets on spherical surfaces":
I’ll give a 15-minute talk titled “E-Tattoos and E-Skins Bridging Humans and Robots” at
@TEDxUTAustin
on Saturday, 2/25. The full event is 9am-3pm comprising a wide range of talks and performances. Come join us.
Catch
@CockrellSchool
ASE/EM Prof.
@nanshulu
at
@TEDxUTAustin
2023: How & Why on Sat, Feb. 25 at the LBJ Auditorium where she will discuss her work on bio-integrated electronics, including recent developments on e-tattoos. Discounted tickets for students!
Thanks
@ProfZhaoMIT
for the photos. It’s been more than 13 years after I graduated from Harvard but it felt like we never left each other. So nice to see everyone and listen to
@zhigangsuo
again.
Suo group alumni got together with Prof. Suo
@zhigangsuo
after almost 3 years. A special guest
@metin_sitti
joined our photo. Thanks
@nanshulu
for organizing this.
Very honored and owe so much gratitude to my advisors
@zhigangsuo
, Joost Vlassak, John Rogers, referees, colleagues, collaborators, and people who actually did the hard work - my dear students
@ZhaoheD
@dsanchezwong
,
@rao_yifan
,
@L_S_Vasconcelos
and many others not on Twitter!
Congratulations to Nanshu Lu, of University of Texas at Austin, and Shawn Chester, of New Jersey Institute of Technology, for winning the 2022 Thomas Hughes Award.
@nanshulu
Society of Engineering Science (SES) members have received emails to vote for new Board Members till 12/21/22. If elected, I would improve the DEI of SES through e.g., organizing minority networking events and mentoring sessions for future faculty. Your support means a lot to me!
Our recent Adv. Mater. paper proposes a new type of soft pressure sensor - the hybrid response pressure sensor (HRPS) which can utilize both piezoresistivity and piezocapacitivity of a porous nanocomposite. Love to hear your thoughts.
Struggling with a resilient electrical connection between a sub-micron-thin e-tattoo to an mm-thick rigid circuit board? Heterogeneous serpentine ribbons (HSPR) can offer a remedy. Please check out our freshly published
@NatureComms
paper: .
@CockrellSchool
Who could finish reading this thread without tears?
@zhigangsuo
Thank you for sharing with us the beautiful soul of Denian and the immortal love between the two of you.
My wife, Denian, died at home, on Sunday, 30 July 2023.
She was diagnosed with glioblastoma in March 2018.
The last five years have been fulfilling. She saw births of two more grandchildren. She attended wedding of our second son. She pointed to me pretty spots on our walks.
Thanks
@ASMEdotorg
for the recognition. It’s especially meaningful to me because the award is named after my dear colleague, Prof. Tom Hughes, who is full of wisdom and humor!
Prof.
@nanshulu
won the 2022 Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award from the
@ASMEdotorg
Applied Mechanics Division! The award recognizes special achievements of young researchers in applied
#mechanics
. Congrats, Dr. Lu!🤘🎊
Today Siyi Liu has successfully defended his PhD dissertation “Mechanics of Conformable Electronics Achieved through Water-Assisted Transfer”! Look at how satisfied the committee is.
Thanks,
@EmlWebinar
for hosting my webinar and interview today! It was so wonderful to see so many friends today. Thank you all for an amazing "Zoom party" about mechanics and soft electronics today:
Our paper "Effects of AC Frequency on the Capacitance Measurement of Hybrid Response Pressure Sensors" is published on
@softmatter
without any negative comment or revision: . It offers a deeper understanding for our 2021 AM work:
Can
#eskins
be intrinsically impervious to stretch? If hybrid piezoresistivity and piezocapacitivity are triggered under pressure but only capacitive reponse kicks in under stretch. See
@Matter_CP
: "Stretchable Hybrid Response Pressure Sensors" (SHRPS):
It took 60 years to look this good. Happy birthday
@zhigangsuo
! What a wonderful Suo Alumni Symposium. We look forward to SES Symposium Honoring Zhigang tomorrow.
Interested in the past, present, and future of e-tattoos? Please checkout our freshly published
@ACSChemRev
article "E-Tattoos: Toward Functional but Imperceptible Interfacing with Human Skin": . Such a privilege to work with many of you in this field!
In this talk, Prof. Lu will introduce her research on stretchable electronics based on inorganic electronic materials such as metals, silicon, carbon nanotubes (CNT), and graphene.
Topic: E-Tattoos and E-Skins Bridging Humans and Robots
We look forward to your participation!
In the IJSS special issue honoring my dear colleague and mentor, Dr. Stelios Kyriakides,
@ZhaoheD
and I modeled 2D crystal bubbles controlled by the interplay of nonlinear geometry, adhesion, sliding, and wrinkling because instability is Dr. K's favorite:
Out of nearly 8M researchers in the world, less than 1% have published multiple papers over the last decade that rank in the top 1% of citations for field and year. These are the
#HighlyCitedResearchers
. See the 2021 list:
#HighlyCited2021
Please retweet: UT-Austin Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics has a tenure-track position in the area of Experimental Nano/Micro-Mechanics beginning Fall 2022. The deadline to apply is 12/01/2021:
Please checkout our newly published review on
@Matter_CP
: Strategies for body-conformable electronics. Thanks
@CranfordMATTER
for the invitation and your patience!
Congratulations to Dr. Siyi Liu, Dr. Xiangxing Yang, Dr. Hongwoo Jang and Dr. Kyoungho Ha! So proud of you all and wish you all brilliant careers ahead.
I’m deeply honored to be elected a foreign member of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The Academy announced the election today, a day before Thanksgiving.
Thank you all—family, friends, coworkers.
30 foreign members elected this year⤵️
Very enjoyable speakers dinner in Austin. Thanks to
@nanshulu
for hosting us! Our session focused on flexible / soft devices and included many great talks.
Excited to share that I've been chosen as one of the two student speakers at Science of Adhesion
@GordonConf
! 🦆😊 Grateful for this incredible opportunity by the Gordon Research Seminar and eagerly looking forward to co-chairing the upcoming GRS 🙌
#science
#researchers
I tried so hard to gather everyone but failed so here are more photos in a non-equilibrium process. Here’s the puzzle: who are the stabilizers (except me) in this process (in all the photos?)
Our dear friend and colleague, Prof. Jianliang Xiao at CU Boulder, lost his house and all belongings to the Marshall fire on December 30, 2021. Please help the family rebuild their home by donating and RT: . Thank you in advance for your kind heart!
Thanks
@CockrellSchool
for reporting our work. Here’s an SI video demonstrating wireless EDA sensing using our 300-nm-thin graphene e-tattoo (EDA) laminated on the palm (small screen) vs gel electrodes (large screen) during daily activities such as running, sleeping and driving.
A research team led by
@nanshulu
developed a nearly invisible palm e-tattoo that monitors emotional stress, connects to a smart watch and allows for flexible hand movement/strain. Read more about the new work published in
@NatureComms
:
The Center for Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Materials (CMSSM) held their Graduate Student Fall reception this past Friday on the Aerospace Engineering Plaza. Looks like it was a great
#LonghornFriday
afternoon for a fun gathering!
@CockrellSchool
A brilliant
@MITMechE
seminar on bubbles and tents of 2D materials by
@nanshulu
@UTAustin
. Colleagues and students in the audience were inspired and intrigued. Keep the great work going, Nanshu!
@CarlosMPortela
too!
Academic employers who don’t want to miss out a future star are highly recommended to stop by our FUTURE FACULTY SYMPOSIUM poster session 2:30-6pm today in the Northstar Ballroom on the 2nd floor.
Future faculty symposium is today!
@SocEngScience
Join us the panel discussion and talk to the brilliant faculty candidates in the poster session!
@nanshulu
.
@nanshulu
’s Catalyst project is looking to transform the information we use to understand cardiovascular disease by utilizing wearable tech. Can your research or tech innovate the science of aging? Apply for a chance at $50k with the Catalyst Award:
Very appreciative for the chance to be side-by-side with
@NPeppas
. Thanks to all my students, collaborators, and fellow researchers who are citing us. We write ideas worth spreading and we hope everyone finishing reading our papers feels a bit wiser and more hopeful.
Congratulations to Professors Nanshu Lu and Nicholas Peppas for making
@Clarivate
's 2022 Highly Cited Researchers list! They're among 31
@UTAustin
global research scientists and social scientists who have demonstrated exceptional influence.
We have summarized the length scales, modulus, strain and adhesion ranges relevant to body-comfortable electronics. We have also offered forward looking ideas in the outlook.
Congratulations to Prof. John Rogers! John is a role model who is doing truly "pioneering work in developing technologies that promote the well-being of humanity".
Congratulations to Professor John Rogers! He received the 2022 Washington Award from the Western Society of Engineers and the Washington Award Commission for his pioneering work in developing technologies that promote the well-being of humanity.
@NU_QSIB
Looking forward to a fun panel discussion with Prof. Jackie Chen and Prof. Lucy Zhang at USNC/TAM Women’s Networking Event on Tuesday evening. Join us if you can.
I am giving two in-person talks at
#f21mrs
: 1)
#EQ07
.01.08 Poking and Bulging of 2D Crystals 4:30-5 on Tue, Nov. 30 at Hynes 204; 2) SB06.05.01 Wireless Graphene E-Tattoos for Long-Term EDA Monitoring 1:30-2 on Wed, Dec. 1 at Sheraton 2nd floor Constitution A. Welcome to stop by!
Thanks
@EmlWebinar
and Prof. John Rogers for hosting my webinar! Looking forward to having a vibrant panel discussion with many old and new friends. EML webinar panel discussions have been a hotbed of new ideas so please join if you can.
EML Webinar (Season 2) on 16 December 2021 features
@nanshulu
on soft electronics for digitizing human body and human-centered robotics
@zhigangsuo
@ToLiTeng
In honor of his contributions to materials science, Zhigang Suo (
@zhigangsuo
) of
@Harvard
@HSEAS
is being inducted to the National Academy of Sciences following his election in 2019.
Watch the
#NAS159
livestream:
Lu Group talks at
#SES22
. The first talk is by my first female mechanics student
@rao_yifan
, about how Griffith to cohesive zone interface transition explains the 2D crystal parent-satellite bubbles. She is particularly strong in theoretical mechanics and needs a postdoc position
13/. Greatly appreciate and highly recommend this perspective on BAUS by
@nanshulu
and Philip Tan. They proposed new potential applications of BAUS such as monitoring bladder filling and emptying.
Please see our new paper in collaboration with Zhenan Bao at Stanford. Although semiconducting and conducting films are typically brittle, we show that by properly designing the substrate and interfacial materials, we can stretch them beyond 100% strain
An
@ACSPublications
Editors' Choice selection - free to read for a limited time: "Water-to-Air Transfer of Nano/Microsized Particulates: Enrichment Effect in Bubble Bursting Jet Drops" by Ji, Singh, & Feng
@FengFluidsLab
Thanks
@PhysicsWorld
for reporting our work on hybrid response pressure sensor (HRPS) which is a soft capacitive pressure sensor with both piezoresistivity and piezocapacitivity. The two mechanisms work together to battle sensitivity loss with increased pressure.
Conventional soft capacitive pressure sensors only work at pressures below 3 kPa, meaning that tight-fitting clothing can be enough to hinder their performance.
@nanshulu
and colleagues
@UTAustin
built a hybrid sensor that works over a much wider range.
Can wearable electronics wick sweat strategically? Check out
@CityUHongKong
Prof. Xinge Yu’s latest Nature paper “A three-dimensional liquid diode for soft, integrated permeable electronics”:
Yifan Rao and
@nanshulu
describe a flexible device that can discharge sweat rapidly and strategically, ensuring comfort and signal stability for wearable electronics
Thanks
#USFOE
for featuring me as an alumna. Speaking at two
#USFOE
meetings has greatly broadened the impact of my research and helped me establish connections with brilliant researchers in other disciplines.
Congratulations to the PI, my colleague, Prof. Luis Sentis, in UT ASE/EM. I’m just a senior personnel on this grant but so happy to apply e-tattoos for human-aware robot in real living and working environment.
Can robots and humans co-exist in public? Luis Sentis is leading a study that will offer answers. The interdisciplinary team will create a robot delivery network on campus that focuses on safety while also adapting with humans who work and live around it:
Lu Lab has supervised more than 70 undergraduate research assistants and about half of them are in grad schools including our very own group. Welcome to apply by sending your CV to nanshulu
@utexas
.edu
Looking to get involved with undergraduate research? Completing a thesis project next year? Sign up for a meeting with one of our advisors through the link in our bio to discuss general how-to info and get assistance finding projects or contacting faculty.
Tenure 🎉🙏🚨🥳🤡!!!! This part of the journey has come to a happy ending. Tons of folks supported me, helped me, challenged me, inspired me, acknowledged me, and made this journey fun and fulfilling. Thank's everyone, I am forever indebted to you.
@rtbonnecaze
and
@clint_dawson
Huge Congratulations to Ph.D. student, Ms.
@blundo_elena
from Sapienza, University of Rome, on winning the
@NanoLetters
Region 3 (Europe and Australia) Seed Grant! The full announcement is out today: .
Please submit abstracts by 1/31/22 to MS 328-Mechanics of Flexible, Stretchable and Bio-Integrated Electronics at USNC/TAM 2022 (6/19/22, Austin). Thanks, Wei Cai @ Stanford,
@kevin_t_turner
,
@DickeyGroupNCSU
,
@ProfZhaoMIT
for being our invited speakers!
We are pleased to announce the upcoming iHealthtech virtual 𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐄 𝐓𝐄𝐂𝐇𝐍𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐘 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐏 2022 𝐨𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 6 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 is open for registration.
Register here:
Congratulations to
@ProfZhaoMIT
and the team on inventing this groundbreaking solution to effectively prevent foreign body reaction through bio-adhesives! Potentially benefiting millions of patients with implants.
In
@Nature
today, we reported that adhesive implant-tissue interfaces can prevent the formation of observable fibrous capsules on various organs, including the abdominal wall, colon, stomach, lung and heart, in diverse animal models, including rats, mice, humanized mice and pigs.
We speak to Dr. Nanshu Lu
@nanshulu
@UTAustin
about the flexible hybrid response pressure sensor that has finally overcome the sector's "bottleneck". Click here to learn about the breakthrough innovation featured in Adv. Mater.
@AdvSciNews
:
Very proud to share a short video introducing EMG prepared by my Undergraduate Research Assistant,
@MilanSivakumar
(B.S in Biomedical Engineering UT Austin '23) in collaboration with the ScienceVerse:
We're excited to announce our next Boston Seminar Series (BSS) will be on April 14! Join us for a virtual discussion with
@ProfZhaoMIT
as he shares his insights on the impacts of soft
#materials
#innovation
on global
#health
.
Register here:
I’ll give a 10min lightening talk at UT Sensors RIG Mixer 11am CT tomorrow. My colleagues from UT BME
@jwtunnell
and from SandiaLabs, Dr. Ronen Polsky, will also give their talks. Please stop by to see our biosensors research. Thanks,
@HutterTanya
, for organizing the event.
Thank
@thedailytexan
for a nice sketch of our noninvasive palm-worn graphene e-tattoo for ambulatory electrodermal activity (EDA) sensing. EDA is a strong indicator of one’s mental stress and is a core modality used in polygraph. Here’s the paper again:
Researchers from
@UTAustin
and
@TAMU
have studied the emerging technology of electronic tattoos and how they can be used to monitor health of the body and mental stress.
We used experiments and finite element modeling to prove that
#graphene
e-tattoo (GET) to Au/PI heterogeneous serpentine ribbons (HSPR) can be almost as stretchable as homogeneous GET serpentines. Palm is the best location for EDA because our palms get wet when excited or nervous
.
@nanshulu
et al. demonstrate heterogeneous serpentine ribbons enable a stretchable and robust interface between sub-micron thin
#graphene
e-tattoos and thick and rigid printed circuit boards, which allows ambulatory electrodermal activity monitoring on the palm
#GettingApplied