Bozhi Tian

Departmental website:
https://chemistry.uchicago.edu/faculty/bozhi-tian
Lab website:
http://tianlab.uchicago.edu/

Bozhi Tian is a leader in the emerging field of bioelectronics—merging semiconductor technology and living tissue.

He has created “intelligent” artificially grown tissue, such as synthetic blood vessels that can monitor the pH of liquid flowing through, as well as tiny wires to modulate brain signals and “scales” and “bones” that could be integrated into implants, among others.

His many honors include the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, the National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award, and the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Development CAREER Award.

Bozhi Tian

  • Title: Professor of Chemistry
  • Education: BS, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; AM, PhD, both from Harvard University
  • Joined UChicago faculty: 2012
  • btian@uchicago.edu

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A breakthrough by UChicago scientists enables greener microfabrication Chuanwang Yang

A breakthrough by UChicago scientists enables greener microfabrication

UChicago scientists invent “living bioelectronics” that can sense and heal skin Scientist looking at the camera and holding up a small circular device slightly larger than a quarter

UChicago scientists invent “living bioelectronics” that can sense and heal skin

UChicago scientists invent ultra-thin, minimally-invasive pacemaker controlled by light A photograph of a scientist wearing blue gloves in a laboratory and holding tweezers in one hand and a small memrane on a transparent sheet in the other

UChicago scientists invent ultra-thin, minimally-invasive pacemaker controlled by light

Transistor can adhere to internal organs like tape Ph.D. student Nan Li, first author of the new paper, holds up a sample of the adhesive transistor.

Transistor can adhere to internal organs like tape

Eleven books to read over summer 2023 Undergraduates read books on a summer day on Lake Michigan

Eleven books to read over summer 2023

Chemist draws on research to create art Bioelectronics on the rise

Chemist draws on research to create art

UChicago researchers take inspiration from soil to create new material with promise for medical, biofuel technology Grainy image with a triangular 3-D white shape studded with red blobs

UChicago researchers take inspiration from soil to create new material with promise for medical, biofuel technology

Sponge-like solar cells could be basis for better pacemakers A microscope image of a silicon membrane after the etching process

Sponge-like solar cells could be basis for better pacemakers

UChicago scientists design ‘nanotraps’ to catch and clear coronavirus from tissue Electron microscope image of a 3D sphere with tiny particles on its surface

UChicago scientists design ‘nanotraps’ to catch and clear coronavirus from tissue

New self-assembly method creates bioelectronics out of microscopic structures Heart pacing nature nano

New self-assembly method creates bioelectronics out of microscopic structures