Dr. Xu joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The University of Virginia in the fall of 2014. He received his PhD in Mechanics and Materials from Columbia University in 2012 under the supervision of Professor Xi Chen. He then came to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship working with Professor John A. Rogers on flexible and stretchable electronics and devices.
Via a seed grant from the Center for Engineering in Medicine, mechanical engineering and orthopedic researchers team up to work toward an innovative solution for treating lower back pain after surgery and for chronic back pain. They are developing drug delivery patches that would be worn on the...
Assistant Professor Baoxing Xu has teamed with electronics engineers at Purdue to create “electronic stickers,” where electronic circuits are “printed” onto peelable thin film...
Researchers develop mechanical structure that changes the rules for fabricating materials
What happens when engineers are partnered with medical professionals to tackle pressing health care challenges – with each collaborator bringing forth distinct professional insights? Society gets better medicines, treatments and technologies.