ABSTRACT

The seamless and adaptive interactions between functional devices and their environment (e.g., the human body) are critical for advancing emerging technologies like wearable devices, consumer electronics, and human-machine interfaces. The state-of-the-art technologies, however, require a complex integration of heterogeneous components to interface the environmental mechanical stimulus, which is ubiquitous and abundant in the applications mentioned above. Moreover, all existing technologies require a power source, which complicates the system design and limits operation schemes.  

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Wenzhuo Wu is the Ravi and Eleanor Talwar Rising Star Assistant Professor in School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University. He received his BS in Electronic Information Science and Technology in 2005 from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei and his ME in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2008. Dr Wu received his Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology in Materials Science and Engineering in 2013. Dr. Wu’s research interests include design, manufacturing, and integration of nanomaterials for applications in energy, electronics, optoelectronics, and wearable devices. He was a recipient of the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award in 2016, the IOP Semiconductor Science and Technology Best Early Career Research in 2017, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Barbara M. Fossum Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award in 2019, Journal of Materials Chemistry A Emerging Investigator in 2019, and the Army Research Office Young Investigator Award in 2020.