Our lab has Ph.D. and Postdoc openings in flexible electronics, biosensors, and microfluidic devices. To apply, please email your CV to yi.5.zhang@uconn.edu.
05/2022 Our work on amplification-free CRISPR biosensors has been accepted for publication in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.! Congratulations to Huijie, Guangfu, Zhengyan, and the team! Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2022, e202203826
04/2022 Our work on implantable neurochemical sensors has been accepted for publication in Nano Letters! Congratulations to Guangfu and the team! acs.nanolett.2c00289
02/2022 Welcome Michael joining the group as a Research Scientist!
02/2022 Congratulations to He Sun on passing her Ph.D. general exam!
02/2022 Our work on neurotechnology has been published in Science Advances! PDF
12/2021 Welcome new PhD student, Gavin, joining the group! Gavin will be supported by GAANN fellowship in Spring 2022.
12/2021 Congratulations to Ian on passing his master thesis defense!
09/2021 Welcome new PhD students, Xincheng, Vagif, Yingqi, Caihong and Yuxuan, joining the group!
08/2021 Our maskless aligner arrived!
07/2021 Congratulations to Zhengyan on passing his qualifying exam!
07/2021 Congratulations to Shuhong on passing his master thesis defense!
06/2021 PhD student He Sun’s paper is accepted for publication by ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces!ACS AMI
05/2021 PhD student Huijie’s paper is accepted for publication by ACS Sensors!PDF
05/2021 AJA sputtering and LPKF U4 laser system arrived!
12/2020 Professor Zhang was invited to give a seminar in Polymer Program at UConn.
10/2020 New grant from NIH on the development of neural probes. We greatly thank NIH for the research support!
09/2020 Our proposal on the development of multimodal neural probes is funded by NIH (R01). We greatly thank NIH for the research support!
09/2020 Our collaborative proposal with Dr. Gao at Rice University and Dr. Lin at Mizzou is funded by NSF (CBET). We greatly thank NSF for the research support!
08/2020 New grant from NSF ECCS on the development of wearable hybrid sensing systems. We greatly thank NSF for the research support!
01/2020 Our paper “Excitatory VTA to DH projections provide a valence signal to memory circuits” with Dr. Jelena group was accepted for publication in Nat Communications.
10/2019 Our “In vivo wireless pharmacology and optogenetics” work is published by PNAS.
09/2019 Dr. Zhang traveled to Princeton, N.J., and delivered a presentation at Siemens Healthcare AI Center. Many Thanks Dean Loboa and Siemens’ Dorin Comaniciu, Sasa Grbic, Puneet Sharma, Eli Gibson, Ali Kamen, Tiziano Passerini and Daphne Yu.
09/2019 Our “In vivo wireless pharmacology and optogenetics” work is accepted by PNAS.
08/2019 Dr. Zhang is invited to serve as a reviewer for a Department of Defense proposal review panel.
07/2019 Our lab hosted Mizzou Engineering High School Summer Camp.
07/2019 Our soft nerve cuff paper is published by Science Advances.
07/2019 Prof. Zhang received 2019 BMES Career Development Award. Thanks Biomedical Engineering Society for the support.
06/2019 Our collaborative work on soft-hard interface has been accepted for publication in PNAS!
06/2019 Prof. Zhang attended the 93rd ACS Colloid & Surface Science Symposium at Georgia Institute of Technology. Very excited to meet friends, colleagues and advisor.
05/2019 Our review paper of “biosnesors for kidney and hypertension management” is published by Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension. Congratulations!
04/2019 Our collaborative work is featured as back cover in the recent issue of Lab on a Chip.
04/2019 Our collaborative proposal is funded by NIH. Thanks NIH for the support.
04/2019 Prof. Zhang received Faculty Incentive Fund for traveling from the College of Engineering at Mizzou. Thanks Mizzou for the support.
04/2019 Prof. Zhang attended the 2019 NSF ENG Career Proposal Writing Workshop.
03/2019 Our optofluidic work is accepted by Science Advances. Congratulations!
03/2019 Our paper of sweat sensing for kidney disorder monitoring is published by Lab on a Chip. Congratulations!
03/2019 Prof. Zhang attended the NSF workshop on sensor systems integrated with AI and data harnessing for personalized medicine. Rewarding trip!
02/2019 Our lab received grant from the Mizzou Research Council. Congratulations!
01/2019 He Sun, Guangfu, and Huijie joined the group. Welcome!
11/2018 Prof. Zhang gave two talks “Injectable, Brain-Interfaced Optofluidic Device for Programmable Fluid Delivery and Optogenetics” and “Lab-on-Skin: Epidermal Microfluidic Device for the Capture, Storage, and Colorimetric Sensing of Sweat” at AIChE 2018 at Pittsburgh, PA.
10/2018 Zhengyan joined the group. Welcome!
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