Bozhi Tian BW

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

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.

Tian Stories

Researchers turn herbal tea ingredient into soft gels for biomedical use Changxu Sun

Researchers turn herbal tea ingredient into soft gels for biomedical use

University of Chicago scientists find way to make malva nuts into hydrogels

An abstract illustration depicting bioelectronics

How bioelectronics could heal our bodies and minds, with Bozhi Tian

A breakthrough by UChicago scientists enables greener microfabrication Chuanwang Yang

A breakthrough by UChicago scientists enables greener microfabrication

New, more sustainable process uses water instead of harmful chemicals

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

Flexible, adaptable, storable patch combines bacteria and sensors to interface with body

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

Ultralight membrane can regulate heartbeats with the aid of an optic fiber

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

UChicago researchers’ design makes stable, suture-free medical monitoring in body possible

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

Eleven books to read over summer 2023

UChicago teaching award winners share their selections

Chemist draws on research to create art Bioelectronics on the rise

Chemist draws on research to create art

Prof. Bozhi Tian melds nature and technology in the lab and on the page

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

Invented by UChicago scientists, a new kind of solar cell could spur useful technology

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