Recent advances in mechanics and materials provide routes to integrated circuits that can offer the electrical properties of conventional, rigid wafer-based technologies but with the ability to be stretched, compressed, twisted, bent and deformed into arbitrary shapes.  Inorganic electronic materials in micro/nanostructured forms, intimately integrated with elastomeric substrates offer particularly attractive characteristics in such systems, with realistic pathways to sophisticated embodiments.  Mechanics plays a key role in this development by identifying the underlying mechanism and providing analytical solutions to guide design and fabrication.  I will present our research on stretchable silicon [1] and its applications to stretchable and foldable circuits [2], electronic-eye camera [3,4], semi-transparent and flexible LED [5], epidermal electronics [6], dissolvable electronics [7,8], injectable, cellular-scale optoelectronics [9], and soft, microfluidic assemblies of sensors, circuits and radios [10].  Review of stretchable electronics has been published [11].
 
1. Khang et al., Science 311, p 208, 2006.
2. Kim et al., Science 320, p 507, 2008 (inner cover article).
3. Ko et al., Nature 454, p 748, 2008 (cover article).
4. Song et al., Nature 497, p 95, 2013 (cover article).
5. Park et al., Science 325, p 977, 2009.
6. Kim et al., Science 333, p 838, 2011.
7. Hwang et al., Science 337, p 1640, 2012 (cover article).
8. Kang et al., Nature 530, p 71, 2016.
9. Kim et al., Science 340, p 211, 2013.
10. Xu et al., Science 344, p 70, 2014.
11. Rogers et al., Science 327, p 1603, 2010.
 

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黄永刚教授1984年获北京大学学士，1990年获哈佛大学博士。他已在《科学》发表9篇文章，《自然》3篇，《细胞》1篇，及其子刊（如《科学-转换医学》《自然-材料》《自然-纳米技术》）31篇。 他是美国工程院院士和欧洲科学与艺术院院士，是全世界固体力学领域文章引用率最高的华人学者;美国固体力学领域75岁以下科学院院士或工程院院士文章引用率最高的学者;二十年来(1998-2017)全世界固体力学领域文章引用率最高的学者。