Name:

Dr. Yanzhe Wu

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Project Summary

Biosensing Textiles for Health Management – BIOTEX

This project aims at developing dedicated biochemical-sensing techniques to monitor body fluids via sensors distributed on a textile substrate. The textile itself becomes the sensor and can be integrated into suitable apparel. This goal represents a complete breakthrough, which allows for the first time the monitoring of body fluids via sensors distributed on a textile substrate and performing biochemical measurements.

Publications

Journal Paper

Ciarán Smyth, Yanzhe Wu, King-Tong Lau, Rodrick Shepherd, Geoffrey Spinks, Gordon Wallace, Dermot Diamond, Self-Maintained Colorimetric Acid/Base Sensor Using Polypyrrole Actuator, Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical, 2007, accepted.

Yanzhe Wu, Gursel Alici, John Madden, Geoffrey Spinks and Gordon Wallace, Soft Mechanical Sensors Through Reverse Actuation in Polypyrrole, Advanced Functional Materials, 2007, published online.

Shirley Coyle, Yanzhe Wu, King-Tong Lau, Danilo, De Rossi, Gordon Wallace, Dermot Diamond, Smart nanotextiles: a review of materials and applications, MRS Bulletin, 2007.

Yanzhe Wu, Gursel Alici, Geoffrey Spinks and Gordon Wallace, Fast trilayer polypyrrole bending actuators for high speed applications, Synthetic Metals, 2006(156) 1017-22.

Yanzhe Wu, Dezhi Zhou, Geoffrey Spinks, Peter Innis and Gordon Wallace, TITAN: A Conducting Polymer Based Microfluidic Pump, Smart Marterials and Structures, 2005 14(6), 1511-16.

Yanzhe Wu, Simon Moulton, Chee On Too, Gordon Wallace and Dezhi Zhou, Use of Inherently Conducting Polymers and Pulsed Amperometry in Flow Injection Analysis to Detect Oligonucleotides, Analyst, 2004(129) 585-588

Conference papers

Sonia Ramírez-García, María del Mar Baeza, Martina O’Toole, Yanzhe Wu, James Lalor, Gordon Wallace and Dermot Diamond, Fully Integrated Polymeric Microfluidic Platform for Environmental Analysis, 14^th the International Conference on Flow Injection Analysis (ICFIA), Berlin, Germany, September 2007.

Gursel Alici, Geoffrey Spinks, John Madden, Yanzhe Wu, Gordon Wallace, An Investigation into Behaviour of Electroactive Polymers as Mechanical Sensors, IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Zürich, September 2007.

Shirley Coyle, Yanzhe Wu, King-Tong Lau, Gordon Wallace and Dermot Diamond, Fabric-Based Fluid Handling Platform with Integrated Analytical Capability, 29th the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Lyon, France, 2007

Yanzhe Wu, Lorraine Nolan, Shirley Coyle, King Tong Lau, Gordon Wallace and Dermot Diamond, Polypyrrole Based Switchable Filter System, The 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Lyon, France, 2007.

Shirley Coyle, Yanzhe Wu, King-Tong Lau, Daniel Kim, Sarah Brady, Gordon Wallace and Dermot Diamond, Design of a wearable sensing platform for sweat analysis, pHealth, Chalkidiki Greece, 2007.

Shirley Coyle, Yanzhe Wu, King-Tong Lau, Sarah Brady, Gordon Wallace and Dermot Diamond, Bio-sensing textiles - Wearable Chemical Biosensors for Health Monitoring, The 4th IEEE Workshop on Body Sensor Networks, Boston, 2007

Yanzhe Wu, King-Tong Lau, Geoffrey Spinks, Dermot Diamond and Gordon Wallace, Inherently Conducting Polymers for Microfluidics, The International Conference on Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals, Dublin Ireland, July 2006

Gordon Wallace, Shirley Coyle and Yanzhe Wu, Integrating Sensing Capabilities with Textiles and Fabrics in tutorial for Smart Nanotextiles, MRS Spring Meeting, 2006

Sarah Brady, Shirley Coyle, Yanzhe Wu, Gordon Wallace and Dermot Diamond, Wireless-based monitoring of body movements using wearable sensors, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings: Smart Nanotextiles 2006(920) 85-90

Yanzhe Wu, Geoffrey Spinks and Gordon Wallace, Polypyrrole Mechanical Sensors, in Electromaterials Science Symposium, 2006

Yanzhe Wu, Gursel Alici, Geoffrey Spinks and Gordon Wallace, Fast polypyrrole bending actuator, Electromaterials Science Symposium, 2006

Geoffrey Spinks, Lianbin Zhao, Weihua Li, Yanzhe, Wu, Dezhi Zhou, and Gordon Wallace, Synthesis, Modeling and Characterization of Conducting Polymers, The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE): Smart Materials, Nano- and Micro-Smart Systems, 2004

Weihua Li, Geoffrey Spinks, Lianbin Zhao, Yanzhe Wu, Dezhe Zhou and Gordon Wallace, Charaterization of Conducting Polymer Based Bimorph Vibration Sensors, The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE): Smart Materials, Nano- and Micro-Smart Systems, 2004

Yanzhe Wu, Simon Moulton, Chee On Too, Gordon Wallace and Dezhi Zhou, Detection of Oligonucleotides: Polypyrrole - Oligonucleotide Modified Electrodes Using a Pulsed Potential Method, the International Conference on Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals (ICSM), 2004

Dezhi Zhou, Gordon Wallace, Geoffrey Spinks, Yanzhe Wu, Robert Cowan, and Carrie Newbold, High Performance Polypyrrole Based Electromechanical Actuators, The 26^th Australasian Polymer Symposium, 2003

Yanzhe Wu, Dezhi Zhou, Gordon Wallace, Geoffrey Spinks, Robert Cowan, and Carrie Newbold, Polypyrrole/PVDF Laminates as Mechanical Sensors, The 26^th Australasian Polymer Symposium, 2003

Further Information

Research interests:

Artificial muscles using inherently conducting polymers – exploiting the combined advantages of the convenience of electrical energy input, control and the wet and soft nature of inherently conducting polymers

Mechanical sensors using inherently conducting polymers – investigating their novel signal-generation mechanism and appropriate applications