Nanshu Lu, PhD

Email: nanshulu@mail.utexas.edu
Phone: (512) 471-4208
Office: EER 7.614B (map)

Recent Publications:

Sang M. Won, Hoon-Sik Kim, Nanshu Lu, Dae-Gon Kim, Cesar Del Solar, Terrisa Duenas, John A. Rogers, “Piezoresistive Strain sensors and multiplexed arrays using assemblies of single-crystalline silicon nanoribbons on plastic substrates.” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 58, 4074-4078 (2011).

Dae-Hyeong Kim, Nanshu Lu, Rui Ma* (*equal contribution), Yun-Soung Kim, Rak-Hwan Kim, Shuodao Wang, Jian Wu, Sang Min Won, Hu Tao, Ahmad Islam, Ki Jun Yu, Tae-il Kim, Raeed Chowdhury, Ming Ying, Lizhi Xu, Ming Li, Hyun-Joong Chung, Hohyun Keum, Martin McCormick, Ping Liu, Yong-Wei Zhang, Fiorenzo G. Omenetto, Younggang Huang, Todd Coleman, John A. Rogers, “Epidermal electronics.” Science 333, 838-843 (2011).

Media Highlights: Science Online – “Epidermal Electronics”; Science Perspectives (Commentary) – “An Electronic Second Skin”; CNN News – “Tattoos good for your heart?”; BBC News – “Electronic Tattoo”; Nature News – “Electronic Skin”; Popular Science – “Epidermal Electronics”; Technology Review – “Stick-On Electronic Tattoos”; ZDNet – “A Better Wearable Brain-Computer Interface”; TIME Healthland – “Can a Tiny Electronic Tattoo Measure Your Vital Signs?”; UCSD Jacobs School News – “Wearable Electronics”; UIUC News – “Smart Skin”; Financial Times – “Smart Skin”; Electronics Weekly – “Electronics Stretch Like Skin”; io9 Science Blog – “Electronic Circuits”; Gizmag – “Skin Mounted Electronics”.

Dae-Hyeong Kim, Nanshu Lu, Roozbeh Ghaffari* (*equal contribution), Yun-Soung Kim, Stephen P. Lee, Lizhi Xu, Jian Wu, Rak-Hwan Kim, Jizhou Song, Zhuangjian Liu, Jonathan Viventi, Bassel de Graff, Brian Elolampi, Moussa Mansour, Marvin J. Slepian, Sukwon Hwang, Joshua D. Moss, Sang Min Won, Younggang Huang, Brian Litt, John A. Rogers, “Materials for Multifunctional balloon catheters with capabilities in cardiac electrophysiological mapping and ablation therapy.” Nature Materials 10, 316-323 (2011).

Media Highlights: Nature – “Stretchy Electronics Promise Speedier Heart Surgery”; Nature Materials – “A Good Stretch”; Science News – “Stretchy Electronics Aid Heart Surgery”; Technology Review – “A Stretchy Sensing Tool for Surgery”; Science Daily – “Stretchable Balloon Electronics Get to the Heart of Cardiac Medicine”; Science Centric – “Cardiac Catheter That Can Do it All”; Today’s Medical Developments – “Cardiac Catheter That Can Do it All”; Medical News Today – “New Stretchable Electronics Device Promises To Make Cardiac Ablation Therapy Simpler”; R&D Magazine – “Stretchable Balloon Electronics Get to the Heart of Cardiac Medicine”; Scientific American – “Stretchy Electronics Promises Speedier Heart Surgery”; Nature Asia – “Embedding Sensors on Balloon Catheters”; Smart Planet – “Sensor-bedazzled Balloon Catheter”; The Times of India – “Surgical Tool Peers Into Heart Non-invasively”; Daily News & Analysis – “All-in-one Cardiac Catheter to Make Heart Surgeries Simpler, Better.”

Nanshu Lu, Zhigang Suo, Joost Vlassak, “The effect of film thickness on the failure strain of polymer-supported metal films.” Acta Materialia 58, 1679-1687 (2010).

Adam C. Siegel, Scott T. Phillips, Michael Dickey, Nanshu Lu, Zhigang Suo, George M. Whitesides, “Foldable printed circuit boards on paper substrates.” Advanced Functional Materials 20(1), 28-35 (2010).

Jeong-Yun Sun, Nanshu Lu, Juil Yoon, Kyu Hwan Oh, Zhigang Suo, Joost Vlassak, “Inorganic islands on a highly stretchable polyimide substrate.” Journal of Materials Research 24, 3338-3342 (2009).

Nanshu Lu, Xi Wang, Zhigang Suo, Joost Vlassak, “Failure by simultaneous grain growth, strain localization, and interface debonding in metal films on polymer substrates.” Journal of Materials Research 24(2), 379-385 (2009).

Nanshu Lu, Xi Wang, Zhigang Suo, Joost Vlassak, “Metal films on polymer substrates stretched beyond 50%.“ Applied Physics Letters 91, 221909 (2007).

Nanshu Lu, Juil Yoon, Zhigang Suo, “Delamination of stiff islands patterned on stretchable substrates.” International Journal of Materials Research 98(8), 717-722 (2007).

Juil Yoon, Zhen Zhang, Nanshu Lu, Zhigang Suo, “The effect of coating in increasing the critical size of islands on a compliant substrate.” Applied Physics Letters 90, 211912 (2007).

Presentations:

Nanshu Lu, Zhigang Suo and Joost Vlassak, “The effect of film thickness on the failure strain of polymer-supported metal films.” Materials Research Society Fall meeting, Boston, MA, December 2009

Nanshu Lu, Zhigang Suo and Joost Vlassak, “The effect of film thickness on the failure strain of polymer-supported metal films.” Materials Research Society Fall meeting, Boston, MA, December 2009

Nanshu Lu, Xi Wang, Zhigang Suo and Joost Vlassak, “Concurrent Grain Growth, Strain Localization, and Interface Debonding in Metal Films on Polymer Substrates under Uniaxial Tension.” Materials Research Society Fall meeting, Boston, MA, December 2008

Nanshu Lu, Xi Wang, Zhigang Suo and Joost Vlassak, “Experimental investigation of stretchable metal films on polymer substrates.” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Boston, MA, October 2008

Nanshu Lu, Xi Wang, Zhigang Suo and Joost Vlassak, “Highly Stretchable Cu films on Kapton Substrates.” 8th International Conference on Fundamentals of Fracture, Hong Kong, January 2008

Nanshu Lu, Juil Yoon, Zhen Zhang and Zhigang Suo, “k-field analysis of bimaterial orthogonal corner in electronic devices.” Materials Research Society Fall meeting, Boston, MA, November 2007

Nanshu Lu, Juil Yoon and Zhigang Suo, “Debonding analysis of periodic thin-film islands patterned on flexible substrates.” Materials Research Society Fall meeting, Boston, MA, November 2007