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Wearable electronics: Stretching the limits
Our work on stretchable semiconducting materials are featured on Nature Nanotechnology and more.


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Semiconductors that stretch and heal
Our work on stretchable and healable semiconducting polymers was featured on Nature News and more.


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How to Give Fake Hands Real Feeling
Our work on electronic skin was featured on the MIT Technology Review.


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A Super Stretchy, Self-Healing Material Could Lead to Artificial Muscle
Our work on stretchable, self-healing materials was featured on Stanford News.


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New Stanford battery shuts down at high temperatures and restarts when it cools
Our work on smart batteries was featured prominently around the Internet.


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A Record-setting Way to Make Transparent Conductors: Spread Them Like Butter on Toast
Our work on transparent conductors was featured on the Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory News.


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Stanford engineers create artificial skin that can send pressure sensation to brain cell
Our work on pressure-sensitive E-skin was featured prominently through the Internet.


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E-Skin That Changes Color Like a Chameleon
Our work on pressure-sensitive, color-changing E-skin was featured on the Daily Beast.


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Stretchable Carbon Nanotube Transistors Are Put to the Test
Our work on robust carbon nanotube devices was featured on the MRS Bulletin.


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Microscopic Rake Doubles Efficiency of Low-cost Solar Cells
Our work on fluid-enhanced solution shearing for solar cells was featured by the Stanford National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC).


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Welcome to Bao Research Group

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esearch areas in the Bao Group include synthesis of functional organic and polymer materials, organic electronic device design and fabrication, and applications development for organic electronics. Our approach is multidisciplinary, involving concepts and expertise from chemistry, chemical engineering, biomedical engineering, materials science and engineering, physics, and electrical engineering. The devices of current interest are organic and carbon nanotube thin film transistors, organic photovoltaic cells, chemical/biological sensors and molecular switches. These devices are used as characterization tools for fundamental charge transport and photophysics studies. They are also of practical interest for nano-scale electronics, alternative energy sources, low cost and large area flexible plastic circuits, displays, and disposable sensors.

See Professor Bao in the Episode 5 of Women In Science - Laureate 2017 L'Oréal-UNESCO:

See Professor Bao in the Best-of 2017 / L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women In Science:

News Feature: Stanford Researchers Create Artificial Skin That Senses Touch - ABC

See our recent work on fast and reversible thermoresponsive polymer switching materials for safer batteries.

Radio Feature: Just Like Human Skin, This Plastic Sheet Can Sense And Heal - NPR's All Tech Considered

News Feature: Electronic Skin May Someday Restore Touch - ABC

See our recent review on The Evolution of Electronic Skin (E-Skin): A Brief History, Design Considerations, and Recent Progress.

Learn about how our wireless pressure sensor works:

Learn about our self-healing plastics:

 

 

Group Announcements

  • Jie Xu wins the Stanford Polymer Collective Best Poster Award

     

     

     


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  • Professor Zhenan Bao is elected to the National Academy of Inventors

     

     

     

     


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  • Professor Bao receives the Shannon Luminary Award and delivers the inaugural Shannon Luminary Lecture at Nokia Bell Labs

     

     


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  • Jeffrey Lopez is awarded First Prize in the Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research session at AIChE

     

     


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  • Professor Bao is appointed as the inaugural K. K. Lee Professor in the School of Engineering

     

     

     


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  • Professor Bao wins the 2017 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award in the Physical Sciences

     

     

     


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  • Yingli Rao wins the SPC Members' Choice Poster Award

     

     

     

     


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  • Professor Bao elected to the National Academy of Engineering

     

     

     

     


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  • Professor Bao featured as one of Nature's 10

     

     

     

     


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  • Professor Bao named 1 of the 13 Most Impressive Professors at Stanford University

     

     

     


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  • Clementine Boutry wins Best Student Paper at the IEEE SENSORS 2015 Conference

     

     


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  • Sean Andrews wins Best Poster at Oak Ridge National Lab

     


     


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