Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Fall 2022 Seminar Series

Friday, December 2nd, 2022, 12PM -1PM
Engineering IV, 38-138

Smart Textiles for Personalized Health Care

Jun Chen
Assistant Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of California, Los Angeles

ABSTRACT:
There is nothing more personal than healthcare. Health care should move from its current
reactive and disease centric system to a personalized, predictive, preventative, and participatory model with
a focus on disease prevention and health promotion. As the world marches into the era of the Internet of
Things IoT and 5 G wireless, technology renovation enables the industry to offer a more individually tailored
approach to healthcare with better health outcomes, higher quality, and lower cost. However, empowering
the utility of IoT-enabled technologies for personalized health care is still significantly challenged by the
shortage of cost effective on body biomedical devices to continuously provide real time, patient generated
health data. Textiles have been concomitant and played a vital role in the long history of human civilization
Incorporating sensing and therapeutic capabilities into everyday textiles could be a powerful approach to the
development of personalized healthcare. Merging biomedical devices and textiles becomes increasingly
important owing to the growing trend of IoT since it could serve as on body healthcare platforms with
incomparable wearing comfort In this talk, I will introduce our current research on smart textiles for
biomonitoring, therapeutics, power supply, and textiles body area network for personalized health care.

BIO
Dr Jun Chen is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of
California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on nanotechnology and bioelectronics for energy, sensing, and
therapeutic applications in the form of smart textiles, wearables, and body area networks. He has published
two books and 250 journal articles, with 150 of them being corresponding authors in Chemical Reviews 2
Chemical Society Reviews 2 Nature Materials Nature Electronics 3 Nature Communications 3 Science
Advances Joule 3 Matter 10 Advanced Materials 10 and many others. His works were selected as
Research Highlights by Nature and Science seven times and covered by world mainstream media over 1 200
times in total, including NPR, ABC, NBC, Reuters, CNN, The Wall Street Journal and Scientific American. He
also filed 14 US patents, including one licensed. With a current h-index of 90 and 50 ESI Highly Cited Papers,
Dr. Chen was identified to be one of the world’s most influential researchers in the field of Materials Science.

Host: Tyler Clites, MAE, clites@ucla.edu Pizza will be served
Pizza will be served