Prof. George MALLIARAS

Prince Philip Professor of Technology

University of Cambridge

gm603@cam.ac.uk
Bioelectronics

Biography

George Malliaras is the Prince Philip Professor of Technology at the University of Cambridge. He received a PhD from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands and did a postdoc at the IBM Almaden Research Center, USA. Before joining Cambridge, he was a faculty member at Cornell University in the USA, where he also served as the Director of the Cornell NanoScale Facility, and at the School of Mines in France. His research has been recognized with awards from the New York Academy of Sciences, the US National Science Foundation, and DuPont, and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Linköping in Sweden. He is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society and of the Royal Society of Chemistry and serves as Deputy Editor of Science Advances.

Conducting Polymer Devices for Wearables

Abstract
Wearable systems have been receiving a great deal of attention, as they promise to generate continuous baselines for health and performance markers, leading to a step change in the way we practice medicine and sport. Arguably, the field is limited by materials technology used at the biotic/abiotic interface to transduce information. This transduction needs to be multimodal (electrical, biochemical, mechanical, …) and bidirectional (record and actuate). I will review devices that utilize conducting polymers as materials with biology-friendly properties that include mechanical flexibility, ionic conduction, and ease of biofunctionalization. Examples of new sensors and actuators for bidirectional and multimodal wearables will be shown.

Keynote Speakers