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Conformal Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting and Storage From Motions of the Heart, Lung and Diaphragm. Dagdeviren, C.*, Yang, B.D.*, Su, Y.*, Tran, P.l., Joe, P., Anderson, E., Xia, J., Doraiswamy, V., Dehdashti, B., Poston, R., Khalpey, Z., Ghaffari, R., Huang, Y., Slepian, M.J., Rogers, J.A., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111, 5, 1927-1932, 2014.

Thin Film Receiver Materials for Deterministic Assembly by Transfer Printing. Kim, T.I., Kim, M.J., Jung, Y.H., Jang, H., Dagdeviren, C., Pao, H.A., Cho, S.J., Carlson, A., Yu, K.J., Ameen, A., Chung, H.-j., Jin, S.H., Ma, Z., Rogers, J.A., Chemistry of Materials, 26, 11, 3502–3507, 2014. [Cover Image]

Conformable Amplified Lead Zirconate Titanate Sensors with Enhanced Piezoelectric Response for Cutaneous Pressure Monitoring. Dagdeviren, C.*, Su, Y.*, Joe, P., Yona, R., Liu, Y., Kim, Y.S., Damadoran, A.R., Huang, Y.A., Xia, J., Martin, L.W., Huang, Y., Rogers, J.A., Nature Communications, 5, 4496, 2014.

Cooperativity in The Enhanced Piezoelectric Response of Polymer Nanowires. Persano, L.*, Dagdeviren, C.*, Maruccio, C.*, Lorenzis, L.D., Pisignano, D., Advanced Materials, 26, 7574-7580, 2014. [Cover Image]

Measured Output Voltages of Piezoelectric Devices Depend on the Resistance of Voltmeter. Su, Y.†, Dagdeviren, C.†, Li, R., Advanced Functional Materials, 25, 33, 5320–5325, 2015.

Splitting of Neutral Mechanical Plane of Conformal, Multilayer Piezoelectric Mechanical Energy Harvester. Su, Y.† , Li, S., Li, R., Dagdeviren, C.† , Applied Physics Letter, 107, 04, 1905, 2015.

An Analytic Model for Skin Modulus Measurement via Conformal Piezoelectric Systems. Shi, Y., Dagdeviren, C., Gao, C.F., Rogers, J.A., Huang Y., Journal of Applied Mechanics (ASME Transactions), 24, 4, 1016-1028, 2015.

Conformal Piezoelectric Systems for Clinical and Experimental Characterization of Soft Tissue Biomechanics. Dagdeviren, C. Shi, Y., Joe, P., Ghaffari, R., Balooch, G., Usgaonkar, K., Gur, O., Tran, P.L., Crosby, J.G., Meyer, M., Su, Y., Webb, R.C., Tedesco, A.S., Slepian, M.J., Huang, Y., Rogers, J.A., Nature Materials, 14, 7, 728-736, 2015.

Active Polymeric Composite Membranes for Localized Actuation and Sensing in Microtransfer Printing. Ahmad, N.*, Dagdeviren, C.*, Rogers, J.A., Ferreira, P., IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 24, 4, 1016 - 1028, 2015.

Catheter-Based Systems with Integrated Stretchable Sensors and Conductors in Cardiac Electrophysiology Lee, S.P., Klinker, L., Ptaszek, L., Work, J., Liu, C., Quivara, F., Webb, C., Dagdeviren, C., Wright, J.A., Ruskin, J.N., Slepian, M. Huang, Mansour, M., Rogers, J.A., Ghaffari, R., Proceedings of the IEEE, 103, 5, 682-689, 2015.

Materials from staff finance training sessions

“A public social media platform would have the civic mission of providing us a diverse and global view of the world.”

The center’s goal is to treat a wide spectrum of disabilities through the development of advanced bionics.

Students grow food using tabletop greenhouses controlled by computers.

"We have to provide information in the way the human mind evolved to receive it."

Digital Trends on RFly: Drones that find missing objects using battery-free RFIDs.

The RFly system catalogues items instantly as the drones fly up and down aisles.

There’s no "silver-bullet technical solution" to the challenges in decentralizing the web.

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Joy Buolamwini founded the Algorithmic Justice League to make people aware of the bias embedded in our networks.

Transient, Biocompatible Electronics and Energy Harvesters Based on ZnO. Dagdeviren, C.*, Hwang, S.-W.*, Su, Y., Kim, S., Cheng, H., Gur, O., Haney, R., Huang, Y., Rogers, J.A., Small, 9, 20, 3398–3404, 2013.

High Performance, Flexible Piezoelectric Devices Based on Aligned Arrays of Nanofibers of Poly(vinylidenefluoride-co-trifluoroethylene). Persano, L.*, Dagdeviren, C.*, Su, Y., Zhang, Y., Girardo, S., Pisignano, D., Huang, Y., Rogers, J.A., Nature Communications, 4, 1633, 2013.

Stretchable Batteries with Self-Similar Serpentine Interconnects and Integrated Wireless Recharging Systems. Xu, S., Zhang, Y., Cho, J., Lee, J., Huang, X., Jia, L., Fan, J.A., Su, Y., Su, J., Zhang, H., Cheng, H., Lu, B., Yu, C., Chuang, C., Kim, T.I., Song, T., Shigeta, K., Kang, S., Dagdeviren, C., Petrov, I., Braun, P.V., Huang, Y., Paik, U., Rogers, J.A. Nature Communications, 4, 1543, 2013.

Civic Media research scientist Rahul Bhargava a discusses tools for learning data literacy.

Stretchable Ferroelectric Nanoribbons with Wavy Configurations on Elastomeric Substrates. Feng, X., Yang, B.D., Liu, Y., Wang, Y., Dagdeviren, C., Liu, Z., Carlson, A., Li, J., Huang, Y., Rogers, J.A.,. ACS Nano, 5, 4, 3326–3332, 2011.

Dielectric Behavior Characterization of a Fibrous- ZnO/PVDF Nanocomposite. Dagdeviren, C., Papila, M.,. Polymer Composites, 31, 6, 1003-1010, 2010.

Improving industrial safety using wearables and the Internet of Things.

Kevin Esvelt argues that the tremendous power of CRISPR can only be contained if scientists are open about their research.

Millions flow to steer AI in the right direction.

Hugh Herr tells the BBC that we're entering a new era of human-machine interoperability

Far too many movies portray taking the law into your own hands a solution for change.

Processing Conditions and Aging Effect on the Morphology of PZT Electrospun Nanofibers, and Dielectric Properties of the Resulting 3-3 PZT/Polymer Composite. Alkoy, E.M., Dagdeviren, C., Papila, M.,. Journal of American Ceramic Society, 92, 11, 2566-2570, 2009.

Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 Nanofibers Produced by Electrospinning Process. Alkoy, E.M., Dagdeviren, C., Papila, M., . Materials Research Society Proceedings, 1129 V07-08, 2009.

Technique could lead to cameras that can handle light of any intensity, audio that doesn’t skip or pop.

Artificial intelligence is outperforming the human sort in a growing range of fields—but how do we make sure it behaves morally?

New “expansion pathology” technique lets optical microscopes go where only electrons could go before.

Recent Progress in Flexible and Stretchable Piezoelectric Devices for Mechanical Energy Harvesting, Sensing and Actuation. Dagdeviren, C., Joe, P., Tuzman, O.L., Park, K., Lee, K.J., Huang, Y., Rogers, J.A., . Extreme Mechanics Letter, 9, 1, 269-281, 2016.

Machine learning is helping urbanists confirm–or disprove–long-standing theories about cities.

Shear Piezoelectricity in Poly(vinylidenefluoride-co-trifluoroethylene): Full Piezotensor Coefficients by Molecular Modeling, Biaxial Transverse Response, and Use in Suspended Flexible Nanostructures. Persano, L., Catellani, A., Dagdeviren, C., Ma, Y., Advanced Materials, 28, 35, 7633-7639, 2016.

Robots only want your love...and occasionally some anonymized metadata.

How humans will connect with the Internet of Things

BLockchains have the potential to help communities achieve common goals in an automated fashion.

The capabilities of “gene drive” are thrilling—and also terrifying.

New amputation process gives more natural sensation and movement to people who use prostheses.

What will it do to kids to have digital butlers they can boss around?

Streetchange uses computer vision and Google Street View to understand urban transformations over time.

Scratch workshop in Japan introduces kids to the idea that they can be creators, not just consumers.

How can humans and AI devices learn to get along?

It’s easy to get into a slump at work. But a tool from MIT Media Lab offers a simple way to spark inspiration through random–and often no...

The Jordan Times says Caleb Harper's "vision is to provide farmers with knowledge of food, rather than simply the product."