The BNC Faculty Seminar Series is designed to provide faculty a platform to present an overview of their research and the opportunity for collaborative discussion with other BNC faculty and researchers across six colleges and 15 academic units.

Alex Chortos

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

April 1^st, 2021 | 12:00pm

Join Zoom: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/91754078808

Title: Printing soft materials for bio-inspired electronics 

Abstract: Traditional electronic devices are flat and rigid, while biological systems are soft and 3-dimensional. Integrating technology with biology will be enabled by the use of 3D printing to create soft biointerfaces with future applications in systems that replace the function of body parts (prosthetics) or augment biology (eg. haptics). The first part of this talk will introduce my postdoctoral work on 3D printed soft electrostatic actuators. Soft electrostatic actuators can achieve large strains, but have traditionally been limited to planar formats. 3D printing provides the ability to achieve scalable fabrication of versatile 3D designs, but challenges remain to realize their full potential. The second part of this talk will describe my PhD work on bio-inspired sensor networks. 3D printing has the potential to provide important enabling capabilities in integrating sensors with actuation.

Bio:  Alex Chortos started as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue in 2020. He earned his undergrad degree in Nanotechnology Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2011. He completed his PhD at Stanford working with Zhenan Bao in 2017 working on stretchable electronics. He subsequently took a postdoctoral position at Harvard working with Jennifer Lewis on 3D printed soft actuators. Alex has published 28 papers on the topic of soft electronics for wearable and prosthetic devices.

Previously recorded talks: https://engineering.purdue.edu/Intranet/Groups/BNC/FacultySeminars

Upcoming BNC Virtual Faculty Seminars and Recorded Talks, Spring 2021:

Date	Faculty	Title
1/28/20	Dmitry Zemlyanov, Senior Research Scientist - Surface Science Application, Birck Nanotechnology Center	Growth and characterization of 2D materials
2/4/21	Yi Xie, Assistant Professor, School of Nuclear Engineering	Degradation of Structural Materials and Fuels in Nuclear Systems
2/11/21	Letian Dou, Charles Davidson Chair Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering	Organic-Perovskite Hybrid Quantum Wells, Heterostructure, and Optoelectronics
2/18/21	Nikhilesh Chawla, Ransburg Professor, School of Materials Engineering	4D Materials Science – Probing Microstructural Evolution Through Time-Resolved Imaging
2/25/21	Sorin Adam Matei, Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Education, College of Liberal Arts, Professor of Communication, Brian Lamb School of Communication	Are scientists natural storytellers? Of course, they are!
3/4/21	David Cappelleri, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering	Microrobotics Research Highlights
3/11/21	Stylianos Chatzidakis, Assistant Professor, School of Nuclear Engineering	Versatile Monochromatic X-ray sources with Energy Tunability for Detection of Nuclear Materials
3/18/21	Reading Day
3/25/21	Tyler Tallman, Assistant Professor, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics	Research and applications at the intersection of multi-functional materials, non-invasive imaging, and inverse methods
4/1/21	Alex Chortos, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering	Printing soft materials for bio-inspired electronics
4/8/21	Ajay Malshe, R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering
4/15/21	Suranjan Panigrahi, Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology
4/22/21	Alejandro Strachan, Professor of Materials Engineering
4/29/21	Dead Week
5/6/21	Finals Week

Thanks!

Jaime Turner
Lead Administrative Assistant to the Director | Birck Nanotechnology Center

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