Project Overview
| Enterprise |
Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Outstanding Research Leaders Strive to Generate the Seeds of Breakthrough New Technologies The Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) research funding program |
|---|---|
| Concentration | Bio-Harmonized Electronics |
| Period | Aug. 2011 - Mar. 2017 |
| Study summation | Takao SomeyaProfessor of the University of Tokyo Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, School of Engineering |
| Project Team |
[Bio-Printing Group] Group Leader: Associate Professor Tsuyoshi Sekitani Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, the University of Tokyo [Bio-Harmonized Imaging Group] Group Leader: Associate Professor Masaki Sekino Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, the University of Tokyo [Bio-Harmonized Electronic Materials Group] Group Leader: Professor Takanori Fukushima Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| Laboratory Locations |
Hongo Campus, the University of Tokyo Suzukakedai Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| Project Outline |
The Someya Bio-Harmonized Electronics Project aims to develop new devices that merge bio and electronics together, to leverage the unique features of soft and bio-harmonized nanomaterials. In simple words, we are developing intercellular bio probes by printing more biocompatible organic ink (bio-ink). These soft and thin bio-probes with advanced adhesion to living cells will gradually managed to measure minute electric signal with a ultralow noise. Furthermore, we will develop a patterning technology (bio-printing) that manufactures “soft” bio-probes. Millions of bio-probes embedded in vivo will receive electric and chemical signals and visualize real-time bio-activities (bio-harmonized imaging). With this project, our goal is to develop new implantable bio-devices that visualize intercellular network. |
