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Zhenan Bao

Researcher Next ID · RN-030840

Researcher · Engineering

Stanford University

Stanford, United States

Not currently recruitingFunding unknown
Works count
1,108
Citation count
186,156
H-index
224
i10-index
754

Research interests

Engineering
Materials Science
Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
Conducting polymers and applications
Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies

Publications

  • Technology Roadmap for Flexible Sensors

    ACS Nano · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.2c12606

  • Molecular design for electrolyte solvents enabling energy-dense and long-cycling lithium metal batteries

    Nature Energy · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-020-0634-5

  • Pathways for practical high-energy long-cycling lithium metal batteries

    Nature Energy · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-019-0338-x

  • Electronic Skin: Recent Progress and Future Prospects for Skin‐Attachable Devices for Health Monitoring, Robotics, and Prosthetics

    Advanced Materials · 2019 · 10.1002/adma.201904765

  • A bioinspired flexible organic artificial afferent nerve

    Science · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aao0098

  • Skin electronics from scalable fabrication of an intrinsically stretchable transistor array

    Nature · 2018 · 10.1038/nature25494

  • Tough and Water‐Insensitive Self‐Healing Elastomer for Robust Electronic Skin

    Advanced Materials · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201706846

  • A highly stretchable, transparent, and conductive polymer

    Science Advances · 2017 · 10.1126/sciadv.1602076

  • Highly stretchable polymer semiconductor films through the nanoconfinement effect

    Science · 2017 · 10.1126/science.aah4496

  • The rise of plastic bioelectronics

    Nature · 2016 · 10.1038/nature21004

  • Intrinsically stretchable and healable semiconducting polymer for organic transistors

    Nature · 2016 · 10.1038/nature20102

  • A highly stretchable autonomous self-healing elastomer

    Nature Chemistry · 2016 · 10.1038/nchem.2492

  • Pursuing prosthetic electronic skin

    Nature Materials · 2016 · 10.1038/nmat4671

  • An ultra-sensitive resistive pressure sensor based on hollow-sphere microstructure induced elasticity in conducting polymer film

    Nature Communications · 2014 · 10.1038/ncomms4002

  • Ultra-high mobility transparent organic thin film transistors grown by an off-centre spin-coating method

    Nature Communications · 2014 · 10.1038/ncomms4005

  • Flexible polymer transistors with high pressure sensitivity for application in electronic skin and health monitoring

    Nature Communications · 2013 · 10.1038/ncomms2832

  • 25th Anniversary Article: The Evolution of Electronic Skin (E‐Skin): A Brief History, Design Considerations, and Recent Progress

    Advanced Materials · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201302240

  • Integrated Materials Design of Organic Semiconductors for Field-Effect Transistors

    Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2013 · 10.1021/ja400881n

  • Self-healing chemistry enables the stable operation of silicon microparticle anodes for high-energy lithium-ion batteries

    Nature Chemistry · 2013 · 10.1038/nchem.1802

  • Stable Li-ion battery anodes by in-situ polymerization of conducting hydrogel to conformally coat silicon nanoparticles

    Nature Communications · 2013 · 10.1038/ncomms2941

  • An electrically and mechanically self-healing composite with pressure- and flexion-sensitive properties for electronic skin applications

    Nature Nanotechnology · 2012 · 10.1038/nnano.2012.192

  • Enhancing the Supercapacitor Performance of Graphene/MnO 2 Nanostructured Electrodes by Conductive Wrapping

    Nano Letters · 2011 · 10.1021/nl2026635

  • Skin-like pressure and strain sensors based on transparent elastic films of carbon nanotubes

    Nature Nanotechnology · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2011.184

  • Solution-Processed Graphene/MnO2 Nanostructured Textiles for High-Performance Electrochemical Capacitors

    Nano Letters · 2011 · 10.1021/nl2013828

  • Highly sensitive flexible pressure sensors with microstructured rubber dielectric layers

    Nature Materials · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2834

  • Evaluation of Solution-Processed Reduced Graphene Oxide Films as Transparent Conductors

    ACS Nano · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1021/nn700375n

  • Patterning organic single-crystal transistor arrays

    Nature · 2006 · 10.1038/nature05427

  • Paper-like electronic displays: Large-area rubber-stamped plastic sheets of electronics and microencapsulated electrophoretic inks

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2001 · 10.1073/pnas.091588098

  • Large-scale complementary integrated circuits based on organic transistors

    Nature · 2000 · 10.1038/35000530

  • Soluble and processable regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) for thin film field-effect transistor applications with high mobility

    Applied Physics Letters · 1996 · 10.1063/1.117834

Current projects

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