The
Waterloo
Institute
for
Nanotechnology
(WIN)
is
pleased
to
present
a
Seminar
Series
talk
by Professor
Tianzhun
Wu,
an associate
professor
and
the
founding
director
of
the
Research
Center
of
Micro/nano
Systems
and
Bionic
Medicine
with
Shenzhen
Insititutes
of
Advanced
Technology,
Chinese
Academy
of
Sciences.
New
technologies
for
high-performance
retina
prosthesis
based
on
micro/nano
engineering
Abstract
Retinal
implants
have
been
intensively
developed
for
several
decades
to
restore
the
blind
eyesight
by
stimulating
the
retinal
neural
cells
using
biocompatible
miniaturized
systems.
In
this
talk,
major
progress
of
our
high-resolution
implanted
epi-retinal
device
will
be
shown.
We
will
focus
on
flexible
micro
electrode
array
(fMEA)
with
100+
and
1000+
channels,
and
its
novel
surface
engineering
using
responsive
biomaterials
and
various
platinum
nanostructures.
Our
experimental
results
have
shown
that
well-defined
micro/nano
structure
has
greatly
enhance
the
electrode
performances.
Biography
Tianzhun
Wu
received
his
bachelor
and
master
degree
of
engineering
in
2002
and
2004
respectively
from
Tsinghua
University,
China，and
pursued
his
doctoral
degree
from
2006
to
2009
in
the
University
of
Tokyo,
Japan.
He
worked
as
the
postdoctor
fellow
in
the
University
of
Tokyo
and
Osaka
University,
then
the
assistant
professor
in
Sun
Yat-sen
University.
Since
2013
he
became
the
associate
professor
and
the
founding
director
of
the
Research
Center
of
Micro/nano
Systems
and
Bionic
Medicine
with
Shenzhen
Institutes
of
Advanced
Technology,
Chinese
Academy
of
Sciences
(SIAT-CAS),
and
was
promoted
as
the
full
professor
in
2016.
He
has
research
experiences
of
more
than
17
years
on
multi-disciplinary
micro/nano
materials,
fabrication
and
devices,
and
his
research
interests
including
BioMEMS,
MicroTAS
and
neural
engineering.
He
has
published
more
than
40
SCI
papers
on
famous
international
journals
such
as
Adv.
Mater.,
J.Mater.
Chem.,
Lab
Chip
and
so
on.
He
has
more
than
30
granted
patents
of
invention
and
more
than
40
patents
of
invention
pending.
The
accumulated
amount
of
his
research
grants
exceeded
100
million
RMB,
and
worked
as
the
executive
director
of
the
Guangdong
Innovation
Team
and
Shenzhen
Peacock
Team
on
the
next-generation
artificial
retina.
He
was
awarded
the
honor
of
excellent
youth
of
Guangdong
Natural
Science
Foundation
and
Shenzhen
Peacock
Personnel
(Calibri
B
Level),
and
served
as
the
IEEE
MEMS
TPC
member(2018-),
youth
club
chairman
of
Branch
of
Digital
Medicine,
China
International
Exchange
and
Promotion
Association
for
Medical
and
Healthcare
(CPAM)
,
and
youth
councilman
of
the
Chinese
Society
of
Micro/Nano
Technology.
He
was
the
executive
director
and
core
members
of
the
Guangdong
Team
and
Shenzhen
Peacock
Team
on
the
next-generation
artificial
retina.
