INSPIRE Seminar Series – Dr Liu Yuxin
Hosted by: A/Prof Ali Asgar Bhagat, iHealthtech Deputy Director (Translation)
Next-Generation Neural Interface and Epidermal Biochemical Sensing
Bioelectronics engineered to share the softness, elasticity, and chemical acuity of living tissue enable truly continuous, real time health monitoring. In this talk, I will present two such human centric designs—one for the skin and one for the brain—demonstrating how bioelectronics can unobtrusively and accurately harvest rich physiological signals from the body they seamlessly inhabit. First, I introduce a stretchable ion electronic bilayer hydrogel for solid state epidermal biomarker sensing. A clinical pilot study shows that the resulting solid state epidermal biomarker profiles mirror venous blood chemistry and respond in real time to exercise and dietary challenges. I then describe tissue mimicking neural interfaces that are flexible, soft, viscoelastic, growth adaptive, low impedance, and intelligent. Together, these advances illustrate how human centric bioelectronics can open universal routes to continuous biochemical sensing and precision neural interfacing.
Biography | Dr Liu Yuxin is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and a Principal Investigator at the Institute for Health Innovation & Technology (iHealthTech) and the N.1 Institute for Health at the National University of Singapore. He obtained his MS and PhD in Bioengineering from Stanford University. Dr Liu was awarded Wellcome Leap Performer, the NUS Presidential Young Professorship and was selected as one of the “Innovators Under 35” by MIT Technology Review. His research interests include tissue-mimicking brain-machine interfaces and wearable electronics.
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