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John A. Rogers

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John A. Rogers
Born (1967-08-24) August 24, 1967 (age 57)
Rolla, Missouri, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Known forsoft lithography, microfabrication, microfluidics, nanotechnology, flexible electronics, bioelectronics.
AwardsMacArthur Fellow (2009)
Lemelson–MIT Prize (2011)
Eringen Medal (2014)
MRS Medal (2018)
Benjamin Franklin Medal (2019)
Guggenheim Fellow (2021)
Scientific career
FieldsMaterials Science, Bioengineering
Institutions
Doctoral advisorKeith A. Nelson
Other academic advisorsGeorge M. Whitesides (postdoctoral advisor)
Doctoral studentsCanan Dağdeviren Dae Hyeong Kim, Matt Meitl, Seokwoo Jeon, Simon Dunham

John A. Rogers (born August 24, 1967) is an American physical chemist and a materials scientist. He is currently the Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Neurological Surgery at Northwestern University.[1]

Professional career

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Rogers obtained BA and BS degrees in chemistry and in physics from the University of Texas, Austin in 1989, followed by SM degrees in physics and in chemistry from MIT in 1992 and a PhD degree in physical chemistry from MIT in 1995. He was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows from 1995 to 1997, during which time he worked in the laboratory of George M. Whitesides.

He joined the Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff in the Condensed Matter Physics Research Department in 1997 and served as Director of that department from the end of 2000 through the end of 2002. In 2003 he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign as Founder Professor of Engineering, with appointments in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Chemistry. In 2008 he was named the Flory-Founder Chair in Engineering Innovation, and assumed affiliate appointments with the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. From 2010-2012 he was Director of the NSF NSEC Center on Nanomanufacturing. In 2012, he was appointed to a Swanlund Chair, the highest chaired position at the university and he assumed the position of Director of the Seitz Materials Research Laboratory. He moved to Northwestern University in the Fall of 2016, as the first Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor, with appointments in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Neurological Surgery, and affiliate appointments in the Department of Chemistry, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Dermatology. He also became the first Director of the newly endowed Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics, later elevated to the Institute of Bioelectronics in 2019 through an additional contribution to the endowment by Kimberly Querrey and Louis Simpson, trustees at Northwestern University.

Current research

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Rogers' research seeks to exploit characteristics of 'soft' materials, such as polymers, liquid crystals, and biological tissues as well as hybrid combinations of them with unusual classes of micro/nanomaterials, in the form of ribbons, wires, membranes, tubes or related structural shapes.[2] The aim is to control and induce novel electronic and photonic responses in these materials; and also develop new 'soft lithographic' and biomimetic approaches for patterning them and guiding their growth. This work combines fundamental studies with forward-looking engineering efforts in a way that promotes positive feedback between the two. Current research focuses on soft materials for conformal electronics, nanophotonic structures, microfluidic devices,[3] and microelectromechanical systems,[4] all lately with an emphasis on bio-inspired and bio-integrated technologies.[5] Applications of this research have included dissolvable, wireless pacemakers,[6] optogenetic brain implants,[7] and environmental sensors.[8]

Awards and achievements

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Rogers' research deals with nano and molecular scale fabrication, materials, and patterning techniques for electronic and photonic devices, lately with a strong emphasis on bio-integrated and bio-inspired systems. He has published ~900 papers (~190,000 citations, per Google Scholar), and is an inventor on over 100 patents and patent applications, more than 50 of which are licensed or in current use. More than 115 former PhD students and postdoctoral fellows from his group are now in faculty positions at some of the most competitive institutions in the world - Stanford, MIT, Northwestern, Duke, Dartmouth, Univ. Illinois, Georgia Tech, Univ Southern Calif, Penn State, Texas A&M Univ, Purdue Univ, NCSU and many others in the US; TU Delft, ETH, Univ. Heidelberg and others in Europe; Tsinghua Univ, Peking Univ, USTC and many others in China; Seoul National Univ, KAIST, Yonsei Univ and many others in Korea. He is one of ~25 people in history to have been elected to all three US national academies—National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine.

Selected honors

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References

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  1. ^ "Rogers, John | Faculty | Northwestern Engineering". www.mccormick.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  2. ^ "The Body Electric". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  3. ^ Koh, Ahyeon; Kang, Daeshik; Xue, Yeguang; Lee, Seungmin; Pielak, Rafal M.; Kim, Jeonghyun; Hwang, Taehwan; Min, Seunghwan; Banks, Anthony (2016-11-23). "A soft, wearable microfluidic device for the capture, storage, and colorimetric sensing of sweat". Science Translational Medicine. 8 (366): 366ra165. doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf2593. ISSN 1946-6234. PMC 5429097. PMID 27881826.
  4. ^ Humood, Mohammad; Shi, Yan; Han, Mengdi; Lefebvre, Joseph; Yan, Zheng; Pharr, Matt; Zhang, Yihui; Huang, Yonggang; Rogers, John A. (March 2018). "3D Mesostructures: Fabrication and Deformation of 3D Multilayered Kirigami Microstructures (Small 11/2018)". Small. 14 (11): 1870045. doi:10.1002/smll.201870045. ISSN 1613-6810.
  5. ^ "Rogers Research Group - Northwestern University".
  6. ^ This dissolvable pacemaker could make heart surgery less invasive, retrieved 2021-12-26
  7. ^ Yang, Yiyuan; Wu, Mingzheng; Vázquez-Guardado, Abraham; Wegener, Amy J.; Grajales-Reyes, Jose G.; Deng, Yujun; Wang, Taoyi; Avila, Raudel; Moreno, Justin A.; Minkowicz, Samuel; Dumrongprechachan, Vasin (July 2021). "Wireless multilateral devices for optogenetic studies of individual and social behaviors". Nature Neuroscience. 24 (7): 1035–1045. doi:10.1038/s41593-021-00849-x. ISSN 1546-1726. PMC 8694284. PMID 33972800.
  8. ^ Kim, Bong Hoon; Li, Kan; Kim, Jin-Tae; Park, Yoonseok; Jang, Hokyung; Wang, Xueju; Xie, Zhaoqian; Won, Sang Min; Yoon, Hong-Joon; Lee, Geumbee; Jang, Woo Jin (September 2021). "Three-dimensional electronic microfliers inspired by wind-dispersed seeds". Nature. 597 (7877): 503–510. Bibcode:2021Natur.597..503K. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03847-y. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 34552257. S2CID 237608985.
  9. ^ The Lincoln Academy of Illinois (21 September 2021). "57th Laureate Convocation - Chicago History Museum".
  10. ^ "Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award winners".
  11. ^ "Applied physicist, materials scientist and entrepreneur Rogers awarded $500k Lemelson-MIT Prize". 14 June 2011.
  12. ^ "John A. Rogers - MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  13. ^ "Professor John A. Rogers". NAE Website. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  14. ^ "Honorary Degree - University of Houston". uh.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-07.

Further reading

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  • McFarlin, Jim (Summer 2013). "Wired". Illinois Alumni. 25 (4): 32–36. ISSN 1096-5866.
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