Tao Zhou
Assistant Professor
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W319 Millennium Science Complex
University Park, PA - tzz5199@psu.edu
Research Summary
The intersection of neuroengineering, electronics, materials science, and bioengineering, with the goal to improve human health
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Most Recent Publications
Stick-and-play bioadhesive hairlike electrodes for chronic EEG recording on human
Salahuddin Ahmed, Marzia Momin, Jiashu Ren, Hyunjin Lee, Basma AlMahmood, Li-Pang Huang, Archana Pandiyan, Loganathan Veeramuthu, Chi-Ching Kuo, Tao Zhou, 2025, npj Biomedical Innovations on p. 9
Synergistic effects of size-confined mxene nanosheets in self-powered sustainable smart textiles for environmental remediation
Archana Pandiyan, Renganathan Vengudusamy, Loganathan Veeramuthu, Amirthavarshini Muthuraman, Yu Chen Wang, Hyunjin Lee, Tao Zhou, C. R. Kao, Chi Ching Kuo, 2025, Nano Energy
3D-printed flexible neural probes for recordings at single-neuron level
Marzia Momin, Luyi Feng, Salahuddin Ahmed, Jiashu Ren, Arafat Hossain, Sulin Zhang, Tao Zhou, 2024, Device
Bio-inspired sustainable electrospun quantum nanostructures for high quality factor enabled face masks and self-powered intelligent theranostics
Loganathan Veeramuthu, Ren Jie Weng, Wei Hung Chiang, Archana Pandiyan, Fu Jie Liu, Fang Cheng Liang, G. Ranjith Kumar, Hua Yi Hsu, Yu Ci Chen, Wen Yinn Lin, Yao Chun Tang, Wan Rong Lin, Ren Jei Chung, Tao Zhou, Chi Ching Kuo, 2024, Chemical Engineering Journal
Self-Assembly Enabled Printable Asymmetric Self-Insulated Stretchable Conductor for Human Interface
Salahuddin Ahmed, Marzia Momin, Jiashu Ren, Hyunjin Lee, Tao Zhou, 2024, Advanced Materials
Upcycling chlorinated waste plastics
Shumao Xu, Zhen Han, Kaidi Yuan, Peng Qin, Wei Zhao, Tianquan Lin, Tao Zhou, Fuqiang Huang, 2023, Nature Reviews Methods Primers
A comprehensive review on perovskite and its functional composites in smart textiles: Progress, challenges, opportunities, and future directions
Archana Pandiyan, Loganathan Veeramuthu, Zhen Li Yan, Yan Cheng Lin, Cheng Hang Tsai, Sung Te Chang, Wei Hung Chiang, Shumao Xu, Tao Zhou, Chi Ching Kuo, 2023, Progress in Materials Science
Unleashing the potential of 3D printing soft materials
Shumao Xu, Salahuddin Ahmed, Marzia Momin, Arafat Hossain, Tao Zhou, 2023, Device on p. 100067
3D printable high-performance conducting polymer hydrogel for all-hydrogel bioelectronic interfaces
Tao Zhou, Hyunwoo Yuk, Yuk Hyunwoo, Faqi Hu, Jingjing Wu, Fajuan Tian, Heejung Roh, Zequn Shen, Guoying Gu, Jingkun Xu, Baoyang Lu, Xuanhe Zhao, 2023, Nature Materials on p. 895-902
Omnidirectional printing of stretchable electronics
Tao Zhou, Hyunwoo Yuk, 2023, Nature Electronics on p. 270-271
Most-Cited Papers
Syringe-injectable electronics
Jia Liu, Tian Ming Fu, Zengguang Cheng, Guosong Hong, Tao Zhou, Lihua Jin, Madhavi Duvvuri, Zhe Jiang, Peter Kruskal, Chong Xie, Zhigang Suo, Ying Fang, Charles M. Lieber, 2015, Nature Nanotechnology on p. 629-635
Technology Roadmap for Flexible Sensors
Yifei Luo, Mohammad Reza Abidian, Jong Hyun Ahn, Deji Akinwande, Anne M. Andrews, Markus Antonietti, Zhenan Bao, Magnus Berggren, Christopher A. Berkey, Christopher John Bettinger, Jun Chen, Peng Chen, Wenlong Cheng, Xu Cheng, Seon Jin Choi, Alex Chortos, Canan Dagdeviren, Reinhold H. Dauskardt, Chong An Di, Michael D. Dickey, Xiangfeng Duan, Antonio Facchetti, Zhiyong Fan, Yin Fang, Jianyou Feng, Xue Feng, Huajian Gao, Wei Gao, Xiwen Gong, Chuan Fei Guo, Xiaojun Guo, Martin C. Hartel, Zihan He, John S. Ho, Youfan Hu, Qiyao Huang, Yu Huang, Fengwei Huo, Muhammad M. Hussain, Ali Javey, Unyong Jeong, Chen Jiang, Xingyu Jiang, Jiheong Kang, Daniil Karnaushenko, Ali Khademhosseini, Dae Hyeong Kim, Il Doo Kim, Dmitry Kireev, Lingxuan Kong, Chengkuo Lee, Nae Eung Lee, Pooi See Lee, Tae Woo Lee, Fengyu Li, Jinxing Li, Cuiyuan Liang, Chwee Teck Lim, Yuanjing Lin, Darren J. Lipomi, Jia Liu, Kai Liu, Nan Liu, Ren Liu, Yuxin Liu, Yuxuan Liu, Zhiyuan Liu, Zhuangjian Liu, Xian Jun Loh, Nanshu Lu, Zhisheng Lv, Shlomo Magdassi, George G. Malliaras, Naoji Matsuhisa, Arokia Nathan, Simiao Niu, Jieming Pan, Changhyun Pang, Qibing Pei, Huisheng Peng, Dianpeng Qi, Huaying Ren, John A. Rogers, Aaron Rowe, Oliver G. Schmidt, Tsuyoshi Sekitani, Dae Gyo Seo, Guozhen Shen, Xing Sheng, Qiongfeng Shi, Takao Someya, Yanlin Song, Eleni Stavrinidou, Meng Su, Xuemei Sun, Kuniharu Takei, Xiao Ming Tao, Benjamin C.K. Tee, Aaron Voon Yew Thean, Tran Quang Trung, Changjin Wan, Huiliang Wang, Joseph Wang, Ming Wang, Sihong Wang, Ting Wang, Zhong Lin Wang, Paul S. Weiss, Hanqi Wen, Sheng Xu, Tailin Xu, Hongping Yan, Xuzhou Yan, Hui Yang, Le Yang, Shuaijian Yang, Lan Yin, Cunjiang Yu, Guihua Yu, Jing Yu, Shu Hong Yu, Xinge Yu, Evgeny Zamburg, Haixia Zhang, Xiangyu Zhang, Xiaosheng Zhang, Xueji Zhang, Yihui Zhang, Yu Zhang, Siyuan Zhao, Xuanhe Zhao, Yuanjin Zheng, Yu Qing Zheng, Zijian Zheng, Tao Zhou, Bowen Zhu, Ming Zhu, Rong Zhu, Yangzhi Zhu, Yong Zhu, Guijin Zou, Xiaodong Chen, 2023, ACS Nano on p. 5211-5295
Bioadhesive ultrasound for long-term continuous imaging of diverse organs
Chonghe Wang, Xiaoyu Chen, Liu Wang, Mitsutoshi Makihata, Hsiao Chuan Liu, Tao Zhou, Xuanhe Zhao, 2022, Science on p. 517-523
3D printable high-performance conducting polymer hydrogel for all-hydrogel bioelectronic interfaces
Tao Zhou, Hyunwoo Yuk, Yuk Hyunwoo, Faqi Hu, Jingjing Wu, Fajuan Tian, Heejung Roh, Zequn Shen, Guoying Gu, Jingkun Xu, Baoyang Lu, Xuanhe Zhao, 2023, Nature Materials on p. 895-902
Bioinspired neuron-like electronics
Xiao Yang, Tao Zhou, Theodore J. Zwang, Guosong Hong, Yunlong Zhao, Robert D. Viveros, Tian Ming Fu, Teng Gao, Charles M. Lieber, 2019, Nature Materials on p. 510-517
Stable long-term chronic brain mapping at the single-neuron level
Tian Ming Fu, Guosong Hong, Tao Zhou, Thomas G. Schuhmann, Robert D. Viveros, Charles M. Lieber, 2016, Nature Methods on p. 875-882
Syringe-injectable mesh electronics integrate seamlessly with minimal chronic immune response in the brain
Tao Zhou, Guosong Hong, Tian Ming Fu, Xiao Yang, Thomas G. Schuhmann, Robert D. Viveros, Charles M. Lieber, 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 5894-5899
A method for single-neuron chronic recording from the retina in awake mice
Guosong Hong, Tian Ming Fu, Mu Qiao, Robert D. Viveros, Xiao Yang, Tao Zhou, Jung Min Lee, Hong Gyu Park, Joshua R. Sanes, Charles M. Lieber, 2018, Science on p. 1447-1451
Highly scalable multichannel mesh electronics for stable chronic brain electrophysiology
Tian Ming Fu, Guosong Hong, Robert D. Viveros, Tao Zhou, Charles M. Lieber, 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. E10046-E10055
Mesh electronics: a new paradigm for tissue-like brain probes
Guosong Hong, Xiao Yang, Tao Zhou, Charles M. Lieber, 2018, Current Opinion in Neurobiology on p. 33-41
News Articles Featuring Tao Zhou
May 02, 2025
The future of brain activity monitoring may look like a strand of hair
A new hairlike electrode makes long-term, high-quality EEG monitoring less cumbersome and inconspicuous.
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Jan 23, 2025
NSF CAREER Award supports pursuit of ‘soft’ solutions for spinal cord injuries
Engineering science and mechanics researcher Tao Zhou to develop stretchy, injectable hydrogel electrodes to treat spinal cord injuries.
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Oct 11, 2024
Q&A: Can electricity treat high blood pressure?
Zhou, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics and of biomedical engineering, received a five-year, $1.83 million grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health to develop a soft and stretchable tissue-like electronic device for the treatment of resistant high blood pressure.
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Jun 26, 2024
Self-assembling, highly conductive sensors could improve wearable devices
To advance soft robotics, skin-integrated electronics and biomedical devices, researchers at Penn State have developed a 3D-printed material that is soft and stretchable — traits needed for matching the properties of tissues and organs — and that self-assembles.
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