Mengdi Han Research Group

Our Mission

Our group aims to develop and build bioelectronics with 3D architectures. The resulting 3D bioelectronics can form conformal interfaces with soft, curvilinear biological tissues, and enable new modalities in diagnosis and therapy. We exploit these 3D bioelectronic devices and systems as tools to understand fundamental biological questions and improve human health.

Open Positions

We are looking for talented and motivated postdoctoral fellows, Ph.D. students, and undergrads to join us. Click HERE for details.

Recent Highlights

2022/5: More than 100 news outlets highlight our work published in Science Robotics.
2021/10: Dr. Han is in the list of the 2021 MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific

Submillimeter Walking Robot

Science Robotics 2022

Submillimeter-scale robots developed from shape memory alloys can be actuated by a laser to permit terrestrial locomotion.

'Instrumented' Balloon Catheter

Nature Biomedical Engineering 2020

Endocardial balloon catheters fitted with soft multilayer electronic arrays for multiplexed high-density spatiotemporal sensing and actuation.

Soft 3D Sensors for Prosthesis

Science Translational Medicine 2020

Wireless, soft sensors based on three-dimensional structures for continuous monitoring of pressure at the skin-prosthesis interface.

Magnetic Robotic Structures

Advanced Materials 2021

Three-dimensional soft structures can exhibit a variety of tethered locomotion under the precise control of external magnetic fields.

3D Piezoelectric Microsystems

Nature Electronics 2019

Piezoelectric microsystems configured in 3D format for applications in energy harvesting, robotic prosthetic interfaces and biomedical implants.

Transfer Printing of 3D Structures

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2017

3D mesostructures in fully or partially freestanding forms as scaffolds for growth, recording, and stimulation of neural networks.