Biography: Prof. Zhigang Zhu received his Ph.D in Materials Physics and Chemistry in 2005, from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Then he moved to U.K. to work as Post-doc Research Fellow in University of Birmingham, Brunel University and University of Cambridge, respectively. Currently, he is a professor in University of Shanghai for Science and Technology and setup the Nano materials and flexible sensors group. His group focuses on the synthesis and modification of inorganic nanomaterials combined with MEMS processing technology to design novel micro and flexible sensor devices; Carry out innovative works in the areas of biomedicine, healthy, food and environment, and mainly focused on Flexible and Inplantable Medical Sensing Devices.

Prof. Zhu has published over 90 papers and 9 patents, with citation over 3200 times and H-index=29. He is member of IoP and ISE; he serves as Associate editor of Frontier in Materials, Nanofabrication, and Acta of SSPU, and editor member of Soft Nanoscience Letters. He received several awards including Royal Society International Research Fellowship (2005), Honorary Research Fellow in University of Birmingham (2006), Eastern Scholar Professorship at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning (2012), Shuguang Scholar of Shanghai (2014), Visiting professorship from Drexel (2016), and Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials (2021).

Microneedle Patches-Integrated Transdermal Bioelectronics for Minimally Invasive Disease Theranostics and Diagnosis

Wearable epidermal electronics with non- or minimally-invasive characteristics can collect, transduce, communicate, and interact with accessible physicochemical health indicators on the skin. However, due to the stratum corneum layer, rich information about body health is buried under the skin stratum corneum layer, e.g., in the skin interstitial fluid. Microneedle patches are typically designed with arrays of special microsized needles of length within 1000 μm. Such characteristics potentially enable the access and sample of biomolecules under skin or give therapeutical treatment painlessly and transdermally. Integrating microneedle patches with various electronics allows highly efficient transdermal bioelectronics, showing their great promise for biomedical and healthcare applications. In this talk, several microneedle patch-based devices will be designed with different functions, including but not limited to health monitoring, drug delivery, and therapeutical treatment.