Huanyu Cheng

Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics

Huanyu Cheng

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Most Recent Publications

Materials and Designs for Extremely Efficient Encapsulation of Soft, Biodegradable Electronics

Gwan Jin Ko, Heeseok Kang, Won Bae Han, Ankan Dutta, Jeong Woong Shin, Tae Min Jang, Sungkeun Han, Jun Hyeon Lim, Chan Hwi Eom, So Jeong Choi, Yelynn Ryu, Woon Hong Yeo, Huanyu Cheng, Suk Won Hwang, 2024, Advanced Functional Materials

Monolayer, open-mesh, pristine PEDOT:PSS-based conformal brain implants for fully MRI-compatible neural interfaces

Jung Hoon Hong, Ju Young Lee, Ankan Dutta, Sol Lip Yoon, Young Uk Cho, Kyubeen Kim, Kyowon Kang, Hyun Woo Kim, Dae Hee Kim, Jaejin Park, Myeongki Cho, Kiho Kim, Jong Bin An, Hye Lan Lee, Dosik Hwang, Hyun Jae Kim, Yoon Ha, Hye Yeong Lee, Huanyu Cheng, Ki Jun Yu, 2024, Biosensors and Bioelectronics

Direct Laser Processing and Functionalizing PI/PDMS Composites for an On-Demand, Programmable, Recyclable Device Platform

Jia Zhu, Yang Xiao, Xianzhe Zhang, Yao Tong, Jiaying Li, Ke Meng, Yingying Zhang, Jiuqiang Li, Chenghao Xing, Senhao Zhang, Benkun Bao, Hongbo Yang, Min Gao, Taisong Pan, Shangbin Liu, Farnaz Lorestani, Huanyu Cheng, Yuan Lin, 2024, Advanced Materials

Standalone Stretchable Biophysical Sensing System Based on Laser Direct Write of Patterned Porous Graphene/Co<sub>3</sub>O<sub>4</sub> Nanocomposites

Xiaohong Ding, Jin Xu, Jie Xu, Jinyun Zhao, Ruilai Liu, Longhui Zheng, Jun Wang, Yang Zhang, Zixiang Weng, Chen Zhang, Lixin Wu, Huanyu Cheng, Cheng Zhang, 2024, ACS Sensors on p. 3730-3740

Conformal, stretchable, breathable, wireless epidermal surface electromyography sensor system for hand gesture recognition and rehabilitation of stroke hand function

Kerong Yang, Senhao Zhang, Ying Yang, Xiaoman Liu, Jiuqiang Li, Benkun Bao, Chang Liu, Hongbo Yang, Kai Guo, Huanyu Cheng, 2024, International Journal of Materials in Engineering Applications

Highly Sensitive Wearable Sensor Based on (001)-Orientated TiO<sub>2</sub> for Real-Time Electrochemical Detection of Dopamine, Tyrosine, and Paracetamol

Tianyao Zhang, Jia Zhu, Maowen Xie, Ke Meng, Guang Yao, Taisong Pan, Min Gao, Huanyu Cheng, Yuan Lin, 2024, Small

Ultraconformal Skin-Interfaced Sensing Platform for Motion Artifact-Free Monitoring

Yuyan Gao, Bowen Li, Ling Zhang, Xianzhe Zhang, Xin Xin, Senpei Xie, Ryan Allen Lee, Kang Li, Weiwei Zhao, Huanyu Cheng, 2024, ACS applied materials & interfaces on p. 27952-27960

Intelligence Sparse Sensor Network for Automatic Early Evaluation of General Movements in Infants

Benkun Bao, Senhao Zhang, Honghua Li, Weidong Cui, Kai Guo, Yingying Zhang, Kerong Yang, Shuai Liu, Yao Tong, Jia Zhu, Yuan Lin, Huanlan Xu, Hongbo Yang, Xiankai Cheng, Huanyu Cheng, 2024, Advanced Science

Design and Optimization of Flexible and Stretchable Ultrasonic Transducer Array for Arterial Blood Pressure Monitoring

Chang Liu, He Sun, Jiahao Ren, Huanyu Cheng, Mengying Xie, Yang Liu, 2024, IEEE Sensors Journal on p. 15055-15064

Recent progress in multifunctional, reconfigurable, integrated liquid metal-based stretchable sensors and standalone systems

Jia Zhu, Jiaying Li, Yao Tong, Taiqi Hu, Ziqi Chen, Yang Xiao, Senhao Zhang, Hongbo Yang, Min Gao, Taisong Pan, Huanyu Cheng, Yuan Lin, 2024, Progress in Materials Science

Most-Cited Papers

Fractal design concepts for stretchable electronics

Jonathan A. Fan, Woon Hong Yeo, Yewang Su, Yoshiaki Hattori, Woosik Lee, Sung Young Jung, Yihui Zhang, Zhuangjian Liu, Huanyu Cheng, Leo Falgout, Mike Bajema, Todd Coleman, Dan Gregoire, Ryan J. Larsen, Yonggang Huang, John A. Rogers, 2014, Nature Communications

Bioresorbable silicon electronic sensors for the brain

Seung Kyun Kang, Rory K.J. Murphy, Suk Won Hwang, Seung Min Lee, Daniel V. Harburg, Neil A. Krueger, Jiho Shin, Paul Gamble, Huanyu Cheng, Sooyoun Yu, Zhuangjian Liu, Jordan G. McCall, Manu Stephen, Hanze Ying, Jeonghyun Kim, Gayoung Park, R. Chad Webb, Chi Hwan Lee, Sangjin Chung, Dae Seung Wie, Amit D. Gujar, Bharat Vemulapalli, Albert H. Kim, Kyung Mi Lee, Jianjun Cheng, Younggang Huang, Sang Hoon Lee, Paul V. Braun, Wilson Z. Ray, John A. Rogers, 2016, Nature on p. 71-76

Assembly of micro/nanomaterials into complex, three-dimensional architectures by compressive buckling

Sheng Xu, Zheng Yan, Kyung In Jang, Wen Huang, Haoran Fu, Jeonghyun Kim, Zijun Wei, Matthew Flavin, Joselle McCracken, Renhan Wang, Adina Badea, Yuhao Liu, Dongqing Xiao, Guoyan Zhou, Jungwoo Lee, Ha Uk Chung, Huanyu Cheng, Wen Ren, Anthony Banks, Xiuling Li, Ungyu Paik, Ralph G. Nuzzo, Yonggang Huang, Yihui Zhang, John A. Rogers, 2015, Science on p. 154-159

Large-area graphene-nanomesh/ carbon-nanotube hybrid membranes for ionic and molecular nanofiltration

Yanbing Yang, Xiangdong Yang, Ling Liang, Yuyan Gao, Huanyu Cheng, Xinming Li, Mingchu Zou, Anyuan Cao, Renzhi Ma, Quan Yuan, Xiangfeng Duan, 2019, Science on p. 1057-1062

3D multifunctional integumentary membranes for spatiotemporal cardiac measurements and stimulation across the entire epicardium

Lizhi Xu, Sarah R. Gutbrod, Andrew P. Bonifas, Yewang Su, Matthew S. Sulkin, Nanshu Lu, Hyun Joong Chung, Kyung In Jang, Zhuangjian Liu, Ming Ying, Chi Lu, R. Chad Webb, Jong Seon Kim, Jacob I. Laughner, Huanyu Cheng, Yuhao Liu, Abid Ameen, Jae Woong Jeong, Gwang Tae Kim, Yonggang Huang, Igor R. Efimov, John A. Rogers, 2014, Nature Communications

Soft network composite materials with deterministic and bio-inspired designs

Kyung In Jang, Ha Uk Chung, Sheng Xu, Chi Hwan Lee, Haiwen Luan, Jaewoong Jeong, Huanyu Cheng, Gwang Tae Kim, Sang Youn Han, Jung Woo Lee, Jeonghyun Kim, Moongee Cho, Fuxing Miao, Yiyuan Yang, Han Na Jung, Matthew Flavin, Howard Liu, Gil Woo Kong, Ki Jun Yu, Sang Il Rhee, Jeahoon Chung, Byunggik Kim, Jean Won Kwak, Myoung Hee Yun, Jin Young Kim, Young Min Song, Ungyu Paik, Yihui Zhang, Yonggang Huang, John A. Rogers, 2015, Nature Communications

Bioresorbable silicon electronics for transient spatiotemporal mapping of electrical activity from the cerebral cortex

Ki Jun Yu, Duygu Kuzum, Suk Won Hwang, Bong Hoon Kim, Halvor Juul, Nam Heon Kim, Sang Min Won, Ken Chiang, Michael Trumpis, Andrew G. Richardson, Huanyu Cheng, Hui Fang, Marissa Thompson, Hank Bink, Delia Talos, Kyung Jin Seo, Hee Nam Lee, Seung Kyun Kang, Jae Hwan Kim, Jung Yup Lee, Younggang Huang, Frances E. Jensen, Marc A. Dichter, Timothy H. Lucas, Jonathan Viventi, Brian Litt, John A. Rogers, 2016, Nature Materials on p. 782-791

Dissolvable metals for transient electronics

Lan Yin, Huanyu Cheng, Shimin Mao, Richard Haasch, Yuhao Liu, Xu Xie, Suk Won Hwang, Harshvardhan Jain, Seung Kyun Kang, Yewang Su, Rui Li, Yonggang Huang, John A. Rogers, 2014, Advanced Functional Materials on p. 645-658

High-performance biodegradable/transient electronics on biodegradable polymers

Suk Won Hwang, Jun Kyul Song, Xian Huang, Huanyu Cheng, Seung Kyun Kang, Bong Hoon Kim, Jae Hwan Kim, Sooyoun Yu, Yonggang Huang, John A. Rogers, 2014, Advanced Materials on p. 3905-3911

Large-Area Ultrathin Graphene Films by Single-Step Marangoni Self-Assembly for Highly Sensitive Strain Sensing Application

Xinming Li, Tingting Yang, Yao Yang, Jia Zhu, Li Li, Fakhr E. Alam, Xiao Li, Kunlin Wang, Huanyu Cheng, Cheng Te Lin, Ying Fang, Hongwei Zhu, 2016, Advanced Functional Materials on p. 1322-1329

News Articles Featuring Huanyu Cheng

Dec 13, 2024

Old wisdom meets new tech: Traditional Chinese medicine inspires pulse sensors

A team led by Penn State researchers used principles of pulse monitoring in traditional Chinese medicine to design a pressure-sensing platform to identify the optimal pulse signal, which they combined with a machine learning model to also predict blood pressure.

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Apr 10, 2024

Q&A: New technology may help identify neuromotor disease symptoms in infants

A team of researchers led by Huanyu “Larry” Cheng tested the use of wearable sensors paired with a “tiny” machine learning algorithm to automatically monitor and evaluate general movements in infants.

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Mar 06, 2024

Q&A: Sensors that monitor neurological conditions in real time

A team of researchers led by Huanyu “Larry” Cheng created a highly-sensitive and cost-effective sensor to better monitor the concentration in sweat or urine of dopamine and tyrosine, a neurotransmitter and an amino acid that are present in the brain.

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Jan 30, 2024

$4M grant funds project to make robotic prostheses more like biological limbs

Prosthetic hands that incorporate robotics can perform dexterous self-care tasks, but they are often hard to operate, requiring a user’s constant attention with a limited number of hand functions. With a five-year, $4 million U.S. National Science Foundation grant, Penn State researchers aim to make robotic protheses more useful for people living with amputations.

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Dec 18, 2023

Health data, faster: Wearable stretchy sensor can process, predict health data

Engineering researchers created a machine learning platform that can more efficiently analyze and predict data points collected by wearables.

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Oct 30, 2023

A new wearable sensor can monitor sweat in real time

A team of researchers at Penn State has developed a new wearable patch that can monitor your health by analyzing your sweat

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Sep 27, 2023

New wearable sensor makes continuous analysis of sweat possible, researchers say

A Penn State research team has created a novel wearable patch that may provide the ability fir continuous monitoring of sweat.

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Aug 28, 2023

Penn State receives $3M grant to address insect biodiversity crisis

Penn State researchers have received a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to spearhead a new initiative to create novel monitoring systems for insect populations.

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May 16, 2023

Low-cost, waterproof sensors may create new health-monitoring possibilities

Penn State-led team of researchers has literally put pencil to paper to create an accessible, affordable, waterproof and wearable sensor to monitor multiple vital signals.

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Apr 18, 2023

Improved, self-healing medical sensor responds to temperature, adapts to skin

For wearable electronics to live up to their promise for health care monitoring, they need to do at least two things: transform from rigid to soft to accommodate changing structural needs, and heal their own normal wear-and-tear.

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Apr 12, 2023

Standalone sensor system uses human movement to monitor health and environment

For mere dollars, a Penn State-led international collaboration has fabricated a self-powered, standalone sensor system capable of monitoring gas molecules in the environment or in human breath.

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Mar 22, 2023

New soil sensor may improve efficiency of crop fertilization

Measuring temperature and nitrogen levels in soil is important for agriculture systems but detecting them apart from one another is difficult to do.

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Feb 22, 2023

Superhydrophobic biosensor could measure sweat vapors on the body

Sweat contains biomarkers that help doctors make health diagnoses. Wearable sensors can be used to monitor a person’s perspiration rate and provide information about the skin, nervous system activity and underlying health conditions.

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Feb 08, 2023

Scientists Have Created A Smart Diaper That Sends Mobile Alerts To Parents When Their Baby Needs to Changing

The advancements in technology have started to hit the absolute daily life matter “smart diaper” has been developed with enough technology to send a mobile alert to the parent’s phone that their baby needs a change.

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Feb 08, 2023

No need for checking: Smart diapers will let you know when babies need changing

A team of researchers from Penn State University has developed a groundbreaking new solution for parents: smart diapers.

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Feb 06, 2023

Researchers Developed A "Smart Diaper" That Sends Notifications To Parents’ Phones

The future is here! Parents might not even have to look at their kids’ diapers to see if they need a changing now that a “smart diaper” has been developed with enough technology to send a mobile alert to a caregiver’s phone that their baby needs a change.

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Feb 06, 2023

2022 Penn State Cancer Research Day: An event for trainees, by trainees

On Oct. 15, the Penn State Cancer Institute’s (PSCI) Cancer Research Day enjoyed its greatest attendance in the event’s five-year history, with 117 attendees including faculty, staff and primarily trainees consisting of undergraduate, graduate and medical students and postdoctoral scholars.

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Feb 03, 2023

No more crying babies! Scientists develop a smart NAPPY that sends an alert to your smartphone when it needs changing

Whether it's through sense of touch or the fear-inducing sniff test, every new parent will have their own way of working out whether a nappy needs changing.

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Feb 02, 2023

New sensor enables 'smart diapers,' range of other health monitors

Waaahhh! While babies have a natural mechanism for alerting their parents that they need a diaper change, a new sensor developed by researchers at Penn State could help workers in daycares, hospitals and other settings provide more immediate care to their charges.

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Jan 30, 2023

Journal selects researcher as emerging investigator, publishes review paper

The journal Nanoscale selected Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, James L. Henderson, Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State, as one of its 2023 Emerging Investigators.

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Jan 20, 2023

Pop-up electrode device could help with 3D mapping of the brain

Understanding the neural interface within the brain is critical to understanding aging, learning, disease progression and more.

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Jan 19, 2023

In-place manufacturing method improves gas sensor capabilities, production time

When used as wearable medical devices, stretchy, flexible gas sensors can identify health conditions or issues by detecting oxygen or carbon dioxide levels in the breath or sweat.

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Dec 09, 2022

Combination of two materials creates high-performance, stretchy nanogenerator

The popularity of wearable electronics has induced demand for their parts, including power sources such as triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs).

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Aug 01, 2022

New options for health, environmental monitoring with water-resistant gas sensor

Accurate, continuous monitoring of nitrogen dioxide and other gases in humid environments is now possible, thanks to a new water-resistant gas sensor developed by Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, the James L. Henderson Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, and his team.

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Jun 29, 2022

Laser writing may enable ‘electronic nose’ for multi-gas sensor

Environmental sensors are a step closer to simultaneously sniffing out multiple gases that could indicate disease or pollution, thanks to a Penn State collaboration. Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics in the College of Engineering, and Lauren Zarzar, assistant professor of chemistry in Eberly College of Science, and their teams combined laser writing and responsive sensor technologies to fabricate the first highly customizable microscale gas sensing devices.

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