Research Recognition

Cover feature for the August issue of Advanced Functional Materials -- Engineering Route for Stretchable, 3D Microarchitectures of Wide Bandgap Semiconductors for Biomedical Applications (2023)

Cover feature for the August issue of Advanced Functional Materials-- Multifunctional Materials Strategies for Enhanced Safety of Wireless, Skin-Interfaced Bioelectronic Devices (2023)

Prof. Rogers is selected to receive the William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement from the Sigma Xi (2023)

Prof. Rogers is selected to receive the 2024 IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award from the IEEE (announced in 2023)

Cover feature for the January issue of Science Robotics-- Remote Control of Muscle-driven Miniature Robots with Battery-free Wireless Optoelectronics (2023)

Cover feature for the February issue of EcoMat -- Soft, Environmentally Degradable Microfluidic Devices for Measurement of Sweat Rate and Total Sweat Loss and for Colorimetric Analysis of Sweat Biomarkers (2023)

Prof. Rogers is selected to receive the James Prize for Science and Technology Integration from the US National Academy of Sciences (2022)

Prof. Rogers is selected to receive a Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, from the University of Missouri at Columbia (2022)

Prof. Rogers is selected to receive the Washington Award from the Western Society of Engineers and the Washington Award Commission (2022)

Cover feature for the October issue of Science Advances -- Complex 3D Microfluidic Architectures Formed by Mechanically Guided Compressive Buckling (2021)

Cover feature for the October issue of Advanced Functional Materials -- Skin-Integrated Vibrohaptic Interfaces for Virtual and Augmented Reality (2021)

Cover feature for the October issue of Nature Biotechnology -- Fully Implantable and Bioresorbable Cardiac Pacemakers Without Leads or Batteries (2021)

Cover feature for the September issue of Nature -- Three-Dimensional Electronic Microfliers Inspired by Wind-Dispersed Seeds (2021)

Prof. Rogers is selected as a Laureate of the Order of Lincoln, the highest honor bestowed on an individual by the state of Illinois (2021)

Prof. Rogers is selected to receive the 2021 Monie Ferst Award of Sigma Xi, for recognition as a 'science and engineering teacher who has inspired his students to significant research achievements' (2021)

Prof. Rogers is selected to receive Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, from the University of Houston (2021)

Cover feature for the May issue of Science Advances -- Differential Sensing for Motion-Canceling Cardiopulmonary Monitoring (2021)

Prof. Rogers is selected as a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021)

Cover feature for the March issue of Science Translational Medicine -- Screening Tools for Cystic Fibrosis (2021)

Cover feature for the March issue of Science Advances -- 3D Neural Interfaces to Cortical Organoids (2021)

Cover feature for the January issue of Advanced Materials -- Mechanical Metamaterials (2021)

Cover feature for the December issue of Lab on a Chip -- Sweat Microfluidics (2020)

Cover feature for the November issue of Advanced Functional Materials -- Stretchable Bioelectronics (2020)

Cover feature for the October issue of Nature Biomedical Engineering -- Multifunctional Catheters (2020)

Cover feature for the July issue of Advanced Materials -- Graphene Hinges in 3D Mesostructures (2020)

Prof. Rogers is selected as the recipient of the 2020 Nano Research Award, from the journal Nano Research (2020)

Cover feature for the April issue of Advanced Materials -- Inverse Design Methods (2020)

Cover feature for the March issue of Nature Medicine -- Wireless Biosensors in the Neonatal ICU (2020)

Cover feature for the February issue of Nature Biomedical Engineering -- Wireless Mechano-acoustic Sensing of Vital Signs (2020)

Cover feature for the February issue of the MRS Bulletin -- Transient Electronic Devices (2020)

Prof. Rogers is selected as the recipient of the ASME Nancy DeLoye Fitzroy and Roland V. Fitzroy Medal (2020)

Prof. Rogers is elected to the National Academy of Medicine (2019)

Prof. Rogers is named as the recipient of the AAAFM-Nakamura Award from the American Association for Advances in Functional Materials (2018)

Cover feature for the June issue of Lab on a Chip -- Passive Sweat Collection and Colorimetric Analysis of Biomarkers Relevant to Kidney Disorders Using a Soft Microfluidic System (2019)

Cover feature for the March issue of Nature Biotechnology -- Focus on Wearable Sensors (2019)

Cover feature article for the March issue of Nature Biomedical Engineering -- Large-Area MRI-Compatible Epidermal Electronic Interfaces for Prosthetic Control and Cognitive Monitoring (2019)

Cover feature article for the January issue of Nature Electronics -- Three-dimensional Piezoelectric Polymer Microsystems for Vibrational Energy Harvesting, Robotic Interfaces and Biomedical Implants (2019)

Cover feature article for the December issue of Nature Electronics -- Fully Implantable Optoelectronic Systems for Battery-Free, Multimodal Operation in Neuroscience Research (2018)

Prof. Rogers is named as the recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Materials Engineering from the Franklin Institute (2018)

Web highlight article for the December issue of Science Translational Medicine -- Wireless, Battery-free, Flexible, Miniaturized Dosimeters Monitor Exposure to Solar Radiation and to Light for Phototherapy (2018)

Web highlight article for the November issue of Science Translational Medicine -- Epidermal Electronics for Noninvasive, Wireless, Quantitative Assessment of Ventricular Shunt Function in Patients with Hydrocephalus (2018)

Prof. Rogers named as an Honorary Professor at Xi'an Jiatong University (2018)

Prof. Rogers is named as the recipient of the 2018 MRS Medal from the Materials Research Society (2018)

Web highlight article for the September issue of Science Advances -- Mechanically Active Materials in Three-Dimensional Mesostructures (2018)

Prof. Rogers is named as a Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics) in both Materials and Physics for the fifth consecutive year, (2018)

Cover feature article for the August issue of Advanced Functional Materials -- Epidermal Electronic Systems for Measuring the Thermal Properties of Human Skin at Depths of up to Several Millimeters (2018)

Cover feature article for the August issue of Advanced Materials -- Flexible Transient Optical Waveguides and Surface-Wave Biosensors Constructed from Monocrystalline Silicon (2018)

Prof. Rogers is selected as the recipient of the Samuel R. Natelson Award from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, (2018)

Cover feature article for the July issue of Lab on a Chip -- A Fluorometric Skin-Interfaced Microfluidic Device and Smartphone Imaging Module for In Situ Quantitative Analysis of Sweat Chemistry (2018)

Cover feature article for the July issue of Extreme Mechanics Letters -- Advanced Approaches for Quantitative Characterization of Thermal Transport Properties in Soft Materials Using Thin, Conformable Resistive Sensors (2018)

Cover feature article for the May issue of Advanced Materials -- Biodegradable Electronic Systems in 3D, Heterogeneously Integrated Formats (2018)

Cover feature article for the March issue of Small -- Fabrication and Deformation of 3D Multilayered Kirigami Microstructures (2018)

Cover feature article for the March issue of Nature Biomedical Engineering -- Needle-shaped Ultrathin Piezoelectric Microsystem for Guided Tissue Targeting via Mechanical Sensing (2018)

Cover feature article for the March issue of Nature Materials -- Morphable 3D Mesostructures and Microelectronic Devices by Multistable Buckling Mechanics (2018)

Cover feature article for the January issue of Small -- Miniaturized, Battery-Free Optofluidic Systems with Potential for Wireless Pharmacology and Optogenetics (2018)

Cover feature article for the January issue of Lab on a Chip -- Wearable Sensors: Modalities, Challenges, and Prospects (2018)

Our paper on wireless optogenetics, published in Neuron, is selected as one of the best papers for 2016-2017

Cover feature article for the September issue of Advanced Biosystems -- Deterministic Integration of Biological and Soft Materials onto 3D Microscale Cellular Frameworks (2017)

Back Cover feature article for the August issue of Lab on a Chip -- Soft, Skin-Mounted Microfluidic Systems for Measuring Secretory Fluidic Pressures Generated at the Surface of the Skin by Eccrine Sweat Glands (2017)

Prof. Rogers is selected as the recipient of the Nadai Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, (2017)

Cover feature article for the April issue of Nature Reviews Materials -- Printing, Folding and Assembly Methods for Forming 3D Mesostructures in Advanced Materials (2017)

Cover feature article for an April issue of Advanced Energy Materials -- Porous Nanomaterials for Ultrabroadband Omnidirectional Anti-Reflection Surfaces with Applications in High Concentration Photovoltaics (2017)

Cover feature article for a March issue of Advanced Functional Materials -- Dry Transient Electronic Systems by Use of Materials that Sublime (2017)

Cover feature article for a March issue of Advanced Healthcare Materials -- Thin, Soft, Skin-Mounted Microfluidic Networks with Capillary Bursting Valves for Chrono-Sampling of Sweat (2017)

Cover feature article for a February issue of Advanced Materials -- In-Plane Deformation Mechanics for Highly Stretchable Electronics (2017)

Cover feature article for a February issue of Advanced Functional Materials -- Materials and Device Designs for an Epidermal UV Colorimetric Dosimeter with Near Field Communication Capabilities (2017)

Cover feature article for a February issue of Advanced Functional Materials -- Miniaturized Battery-Free Wireless Systems for Wearable Pulse Oximetry (2017)

Prof. Rogers is elected as Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), (2016)

Prof. Rogers is elected to the Editorial Board for Science Advances, (2016)

Prof. Rogers is selected as the recipient of the IEEE EMBS Trailblazer Award (2016)

Prof. Rogers is elected to the Editorial Board for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (2016)

Prof. Rogers is elected to the Texas Institute for Advanced Study, Texas A&M University (2016)

Cover feature article for the June issue of Advanced Materials -- An Epidermal Stimulation and Sensing Platform for Sensorimotor Prosthetic Control, Management of Lower Back Exertion, and Electrical Muscle Activation (2016)

Cover feature article for the April issue of Advanced Functional Materials -- Controlled Mechanical Buckling for Origami-Inspired Construction of 3D Microstructures in Advanced Materials (2016)

Cover feature article for the January issue of Advanced Healthcare Materials -- Ultrathin Injectable Sensors of Temperature, Thermal Conductivity, and Heat Capacity for Cardiac Ablation Monitoring (2016)

Cover feature article for the February issue of Advanced Healthcare Materials -- Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Epidermal Heat Flux Sensors for Measurements of Core Body Temperature (2016)

Front cover feature article for the November issue of Advanced Functional Materials -- Metal/Polymer Based Stretchable Antenna for Constant Frequency Far-Field Communication in Wearable Electronics (2015)

Front cover feature article for the September issue of Small -- Mechanisms, Capabilities, and Applications of High-Resolution Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing (2015)

Back cover feature article for the August issue of Lasers and Photonics Reviews -- Transfer Printing of Fully Formed Thin-Flm Microscale GaAs Lasers on Silicon with a Thermally Conductive Interface Material (2015)

Prof. Rogers receives a Faculty Entrepreneur Fellowship from the College of Engineering at Univ. of Illinois, July 2015

Prof. Rogers named as a member of the Texas A&M Institute for Advanced Study, and an Eminent Scholar and Visiting Professor in Mechanical Engineering, July 2015

Frontispiece feature article for the June issue of Advanced Functional Materials -- Soft Core/Shell Packages for Stretchable Electronics (2015)

Prof. Rogers elected to the National Academy of Sciences (2015)

Back cover feature article for the March issue of Advanced Functional Materials -- Biodegradable Thin Metal Foils and Spin-On Glass Materials for Transient Electronics (2015)

Frontispiece feature article for the March issue of Advanced Materials -- Materials and Fractal Designs for 3D Multifunctional Integumentary Membranes with Capabilities in Cardiac Electrotherapy (2015)

Prof. Rogers recieves the ETH Zurich Chemical Engineering Medal from the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich (2015)

Frontispiece feature article for the February issue of Small -- Epidermal Electronics with Advanced Capabilities in Near-Field Communication (2015)

Editors at the American Chemical Society select our paper on high resolution electrohydrodynamic printing of quantum dot materials, published in Nano Letters, as an ACS Editors' Choice Article, January 17th (2015)

Front cover feature article for the January 97th issue of Advanced Energy Materials -- evice Architectures for Enhanced Photon Recycling in Thin-Film Multijunction Solar Cells (2015)

Front cover feature article for the January 9th issue of Science -- Assembly of Micro/nanomaterials into Complex, Three-Dimensional Architectures by Compressive Buckling (2015)

Back cover feature article for the January issue of Advanced Materials -- Materials for Programmed, Functional Transformation in Transient Electronic Systems (2015)

Prof. Rogers named a Guest Professor of the National Center for NanoScience & Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2014)

Prof. Rogers named a Highly Cited Researcher for the period 2002-2012, by Thomson Reuters (2014)

Prof. Rogers recieves the Eringen Medal from the Society of Engineering Science (2014)

Featured image on the Nature Communications website for our paper -- Rugged and Breathable Forms of Stretchable Electronics with Adherent Composite Substrates for Transcutaneous Monitoring (2014)

Front cover feature article for the August issue of Small -- Large-Field-of-View Wide-Spectrum Artificial Reflecting Superposition Compound Eyes (2014)

Front cover feature article for the August issue of Chemistry of Materials -- Thin Film Receiver Materials for Deterministic Assembly by Transfer Printing (2014)

Frontispiece feature article for the July issue of Advanced Functional Materials -- Materials and Designs for Wireless Epidermal Sensors of Hydration and Strain (2014)

Front cover feature article for the June issue of Advanced Materials -- Materials, Designs, and Operational Characteristics for Fully Biodegradable Primary Batteries (2014)

Front cover feature article for the May issue of Advanced Healthcare Materials -- Capacitive Epidermal Electronics for Electrically Safe, Long-Term Electrophysiological Measurements (2014)

Prof. Rogers elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014)

Frontispiece feature article for the April issue of Advanced Optical Materials -- Silicon-Based Visible-Blind Ultraviolet Detection and Imaging Using Down-Shifting Luminophores (2014)

Front cover feature article for the April issue of Advanced Materials -- 25th Anniversary Article: Materials for High-Performance Biodegradable Semiconductor Devices (2014)

Prof. Rogers receives an Honorary Professorship from Fudan University (2014)

Frontispiece feature article for the March issue of Advanced Optical Materials -- Materials Selections and Growth Conditions for Large-Area, Multilayered, Visible Negative Index Metamaterials Formed by Nanotransfer Printing (2014)

In This Issue highlight article for the February issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA -- Conformal Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting and Storage From Motions of the Heart, Lung, and Diaphragm (2014)

Frontispiece feature article for the February issue of Advanced Functional Materials -- Dissolvable Metals for Transient Electronics (2014)

Inside front cover feature article for the January issue of Advanced Healthcare Materials -- Stretchable, Multiplexed pH Sensors With Demonstrations on Rabbit and Human Hearts Undergoing Ischemia (2014)

Editors at the Smithsonian select transient electronics as the "Coolest Science of 2013" -- Smithsonian.com (2013)

Editors at Nature select Rogers group research on digital 'fly's eye' cameras as one of the top ten stories of 2013 (2013)

Inside front cover feature article for the December issue of Advanced Materials -- Materials and Optimized Designs for Human-Machine Interfaces Via Epidermal Electronics (2013)

Prof. Rogers elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2013)

Wireless, cellular-scale injectable optoelectronics for the brain is cited as one of the Top 100 Scientific Developments of 2013 -- Discover magazine (2013)

Cover feature article for the November issue of Advanced Energy Materials -- Light Trapping in Ultrathin Monocrystalline Silicon Solar Cells (2013)

Cover feature article for the November issue of Nature Protocols -- Fabrication and Application of Flexible, Multimodal Light-Emitting Devices for Wireless Optogenetics (2013)

Prof. Rogers receives an Honoris Causa Doctorate from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) (2013)

Cover feature article for the August issue of Advanced Energy Materials -- Doubling the Power Output of Bifacial Thin-Film GaAs Solar Cells by Embedding Them in Luminescent Waveguides (2013)

Professor Rogers named a permanent member of the Center for Advanced Study at University of Illinois, the highest form of academic recongition that can be bestowed on a member of the faculty (2013)

Frontispiece feature article for the May issue of Advanced Materials -- Multifunctional Epidermal Electronics Printed Directly Onto the Skin (2013)

Prof. Rogers is selected to receive the Robert Henry Thurston Award from the American Society for Mechanical Engineers (2013)

Article highlighted on part of the cover of the May issue of Nature -- Digital Cameras With Designs Inspired by the Arthropod Eye (2013)

Cover feature article for the March issue of Advanced Materials -- Imprintable, Bendable, and Shape-Conformable Polymer Electrolytes for Versatile-Shaped Lithium-Ion Batteries (2013)

Frontispiece feature article for the March issue of Advanced Materials -- Electronically Programmable, Reversible Shape Change in Two- and Three-Dimensional Hydrogel Structures (2013)

Prof. Rogers is selected to receive the Mid-Career Researcher Award from the Materials Research Society (2013)

Prof. Rogers is selected to receive a Swanlund Chair, the highest endowed position at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign (2012)

Prof. Rogers is selected to receive a Director's Tranformative Research Award from the National Institutes of Health (2012)

Paper titled "Mechanics of Hemispherical Electronics" selected by the Editors at Applied Physics Letters as one of the most notable papers in recent years, for highlight in the 50th anniversary edition of the journal (2012)

Cover feature article for the September issue of Science -- A Physically Transient Form of Silicon Electronics (2012)

Inside cover feature article for the September issue of Small -- Materials and Designs for Wirelessly Powered Implantable Light-Emitting Systems (2012)

Cover feature article for the August issue of Nanotechnology -- Silicon Nanomembranes for Fingertip Electronics (2012)

Cover feature article for the July issue of Small -- Stretchable Semiconductor Technologies with High Areal Coverages and Strain-Limiting Behavior: Demonstration in High-Efficiency Dual-Junction GaInP/GaAs Photovoltaics (2012)

Cover feature article for the June issue of Small -- High-Efficiency, Microscale GaN Light-Emitting Diodes and Their Thermal Properties on Unusual Substrates (2012)

Semprius' World Record Photovoltaic Modules Selected for the TR10 Award, as One of the Most Promising Emerging Technologies of 2011, by MITs Technology Review Magazine (2012)

Prof. Rogers is selected as the Wulff Lecturer, MIT (2012)

Cover feature article for the April issue of IEEE Photonics -- Microscale Inorganic Light-Emitting Diodes on Flexible and Stretchable Substrates (2012)

Cover feature article for the March issue of Advanced Functional Materials -- Gecko-Inspired Controllable Adhesive Structures Applied to Micromanipulation (2012)

Cover feature article for the March issue of MRS Bulletin -- Materials for Stretchable Electronics (2012)

Cover feature article for the March issue of Small -- Imbricate Scales as a Design Construct for Microsystem Technologies (2012)

Cover feature article for the February issue of Advanced Materials -- Silk-Based Conformal, Adhesive, Edible Food Sensors (2012)

Prof. Rogers is selected to Nature's 10, a collection of ten scientists who mattered in 2011

Prof. Rogers is selected as the Judd Lecturer, University of Utah (2011)

Prof. Rogers is selected as the Nyquist Lecturer, Yale University (2011)

Prof. Rogers is selected as the ASU Distinguished Scholar and Lecturer, Arizona State University (2011)

Cover feature article for the September issue of Nature Materials -- Epitaxial Growth of Three-Dimensionally Architectured Optoelectronic Devices (2011)

Frontispiece feature article for the November issue of Advanced Materials -- Interfacial Thermal Conductance of Transfer-Printed Metal Films (2011)

Prof. Rogers is selected as the Eastman Lecturer, University of Akron Polymer Science Program (2011)

Cover feature article for the August issue of Laser Focus World -- Large-area Flexible 3D Optical Negative Index Metamaterial Formed by Nanotransfer Printing (2011)

Cover feature article for the August 11 issue of Advanced Functional Materials -- Fabrication of Releasable Single-Crystal Silicon-Metal Oxide Field-Effect Devices and Their Deterministic Assembly on Foreign Substrates (2011)

Cover feature article for the July issue of Nature Nanotechnology -- Large-area Flexible 3D Optical Negative Index Metamaterial Formed by Nanotransfer Printing (2011)

Cover feature article for the June 21 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA -- Unusual Strategies for Using Indium Gallium Nitride Grown on Silicon (111) for Solid-State Lighting (2011)

Feature image article for the June issue of Nature Communications -- Flexible Concentrator Photovoltaics Based on Microscale Silicon Solar Cells Embedded In Luminescent Waveguides (2011)

Prof. Rogers is selected as the 2011 recipient of the Lemelson-MIT Prize for innovation (2011)

Inside cover feature article for the July 12 issue of Advanced Materials -- Stretchable Inorganic-Semiconductor Electronic Systems (2011)

Canan Dagdeviren receives the Maria Pia Gratton International Award for excellence in graduate student research (2011)

Cover feature article for the February 18th issue of Small -- Arrays of Silicon Micro/Nanostructures Formed in Suspended Confi gurations for Deterministic Assembly Using Flat and Roller-Type Stamps (2011)

Cover feature article for the February 22nd issue of Advanced Materials -- Stretchable GaAs Photovoltaics with Designs That Enable High Areal Coverage (2011)

Prof. Rogers is elected to the National Academy of Engineering (2011)

Prof. Rogers is selected as the Rohsenow Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2011)

Cover feature article for the January issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA -- Dynamically Tunable Hemispherical Electronic Eye Camera System with Adjustable Zoom Capability (2011)

Prof. Rogers is selected as the Nakamura Lecturer at University of California at Santa Barbara (2010)

Cover feature article for the June issue of Nature Materials -- Dissolvable Films of Silk Fibroin for Ultrathin, Conformal Bio-Integrated Electronics (2010)

Frontispiece feature article for the April issue of Advanced Materials -- "Improved Density in Aligned Arrays of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Sequential Chemical Vapor Deposition on Quartz" (2010)

Selected for one of the “Top 10 Emerging Technologies” by MIT’s Technology Review magazine, for bioresorbable electronics (2010)

Prof. Rogers is selected to the list of 125 Extraordinary Exes, to celebrate the 125th Anniversary of the Texas Exes, the alumni association of the University of Texas at Austin.

Prof. Rogers is selected as a Dean's Distinguished Lecturer at Columbia University (2010)

Cover feature article for the March issue of Science Translational Medicine -- A Conformal, Bio-Interfaced Class of Silicon Electronics for Mapping Cardiac Electrophysiology (2010)

Cover highlight for the University of Illinois Materials Research Laboratory for the March issue of Advanced Materials (2010)

Frontispiece feature article for the March issue of Advanced Materials -- "Functional Nanostructured Plasmonic Materials" (2010)

Cover feature article for the March issue of Advanced Materials -- "Functional Nanostructured Plasmonic Materials" (2010)

Cover feature article for the February issue of Energy and Environmental Science -- "Compact Monocrystalline Silicon Solar Modules With High Voltage Outputs and Mechanically Flexible Designs" (2010)

Dae Hyeong Kim receives the MRS Gold Medal Student Award for his work on stretchable electronics (2009)

Cover feature article for the December issue of Small -- "Curvilinear Electronics Formed Using Silicon Membrane Circuits and Elastomeric Transfer Elements" (2009)

Prof. Rogers is elected to Fellow of the IEEE (2009)

Cover feature article for the November issue of Applied Physics Letters -- "Self-assembled Nanodielectrics and Silicon Nanomembranes for Low Voltage, Flexible Transistors, and Logic Gates on Plastic Substrates" (2009)

Cover feature article for the 20th Anniversary issue of Nanotechnology -- "Nanopost Plasmonic Crystals" (2009)

Cover feature article for the September issue of Advanced Materials -- "Ultrathin Silicon Circuits With Strain-Isolation Layers and Mesh Layouts for High-Performance Electronics on Fabric, Vinyl, Leather, and Paper" (2009)

Prof. Rogers is selected to receive a MacArthur Fellowship for work in unusual format electronics, optoelectronics and photovoltaics, from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (2009)

Selected to receive the George Smith Award for the best paper published in IEEE Electron Devices Letters in 2008: “Complementary Logic Gates and Ring Oscillators on Plastic Substrates by Use of Printed Ribbons of Single-Crystalline Silicon”

Research on electronic eye featured on the cover of the first issue of the journal Micro and Nanosystems (2009)

Prof. Rogers is selected as the inaugural Chapman Lecturer at Rice University, Department of Physics (2009)

Qing Cao receives the MRS Silver Medal Student Award for his work on carbon nanotube thin film transistors and integrated circuits (2008)

Prof. Rogers is elected to Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2008)

Cover feature article for the December 5th issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences -- "Materials and noncoplanar mesh designs for integrated circuits with linear elastic responses to extreme mechanical deformations" (2008)

Prof. Rogers is selected as one of six 2009 National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellows (2008)

Cover feature article for the November issue of Nature Materials -- "Ultrathin Silicon Solar Microcells for Semitransparent, Mechanically Flexible and Microconcentrator Module Designs" (2008)

Cover feature article for the September 10th issue of Advanced Functional Materials -- "Defect Tolerance and Nanomechanics in Transistors that Use Semiconductor Nanomaterials and Ultrathin Dielectrics" (2008)

Cover feature article for the August 7th issue of Nature -- "A hemispherical electronic eye camera based on compressible silicon optoelectronics" (2008)

Prof. Rogers is elected as Senior Member of the IEEE (2008)

Prof. Rogers is selected as the first holder of the Lee J. Flory - Founder Chair in Engineering Innovation (2008)

Simon Dunham Selected as a Recipient of Graduate Fellowships from Both NSF and NDSEG (2008)

Qing Cao Selected as the Winner of the ISTC2008 Best Student Paper Award competition, (2008)

Article featured on the cover of the February issue of Chemical Reviews -- "Nanostructured Plasmonic Sensors" (2008)

Prof. Rogers is elected to the inaugural class of Fellows of the Materials Research Society (2008)

Prof. Rogers is elected to Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study at University of Illinois (2007)

Cover feature article for the November issue of Journal of Physical Chemistry -- "Three-Dimensional Nanofabrication with Elastomeric Phase Masks" (2007)

Cover feature article for the October issue of Nature Materials -- "High-Resolution Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing" (2007)

Prof. Rogers is selected as the Dorn Lecturer at Northwestern University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering (2007)

Our 2004 Science paper cited as a Research Front paper, by Thomson Essential Science Indicators, (2007)

Prof. Rogers receives the Baekeland Award from the American Chemical Society. The award is conferred biennially upon an American chemist under 40 years of age in recognition of accomplishments in pure or industrial chemistry (2007)

Article featured on the cover of the April issue of Chemical Reviews -- "Micro and Nanopatterning Techniques for Organic Electronic and Optoelectronic Systems" (2007)

Cover feature article for a May issue of Applied Physics Letters -- "Bendable Integrated Circuits on Plastic Substrates by Use of Printed Ribbons of Single-Crystalline Silicon" (2007)

Cover feature article for the April issue of Nature Nanotechnology -- "High-performance Electronics Using Dense, Perfectly Aligned Arrays of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes" (2007)

Prof. Rogers receives the Drucker Eminent Faculty Award, the highest honor that the College of Engineering bestows on a member of its faculty (~450 total) for achievement in research and teaching (2007)

Cover feature article for the February issue of Journal of Materials Chemistry -- "Structural Forms of Single Crystal Inorganic Semiconductor Ribbons for Stretchable Electronics" (2007)

The Essential Science Indicators database and Thomson-ISI selected our APL article, "Bendable single crystal silicon thin film transistors formed by printing on plastic substrates”, as an Emerging Front paper for February, 2007

Cover feature article for the December issue of Advanced Functional Materials – “Bilayer Organic/Inorganic Gate Dielectrics for High Performance, Low-Voltage Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Transistors, Complementary Logic Gates and p-n Diodes on Plastic Substrates” (2006)

Film on Stretchable Silicon Wins 3rd Place Prize at the MRS Scientific Film Competition" (2006)

Prof. Rogers named Fellow of the American Physical Society for "Contributions to the fields of flexible electronics, optical fiber devices, nanolithography and picosecond ultrasonics" (2006)

Inside Cover feature article for the November issue of Advanced Materials – "Buckled and Wavy Ribbons of GaAs for High-Performance Electronics on Elastomeric Substrates" (2006)

Prof. Rogers Selected as the 2006 Xerox Distinguished Lecturer, for work in the area of flexible electronics.

Stretchable Single-Crystal Silicon selected as one of the top 25 innovations for 2006 -- the MICRO/NANO 25 -- by MICRO/NANO Newsletter and R&D Magazine, June 2006.

Selected as a Distinguished Lecturer at University of Texas at Austin, 2006/2007.

Selected as one of the top 15 Innovators in Nanotechnology, by Nanotech Briefs, NASA Technology Briefs, 2006.

Inside Cover feature article for the June issue of Advanced Materials – “Nanoscale Surface Morphology and Rectifying Behavior of a Bulk Single-Crystal Organic Semiconductor" (2006)

Selected for one of the “Top 10 Emerging Technologies” by MIT’s Technology Review magazine, for stretchable silicon (2006)

Cover feature article for the January issue of Nature Materials – “Transfer printing by kinetic control of adhesion to an elastomeric stamp” (2006)

Innovation Discover Award from Champaign County Economic Development Council, for work in the area of flexible silicon electronics.

Prof. Rogers Selected as one of the 2005 Scientific American 50 research leaders, for work in the area of plastic electronics.

Cover feature article for the October issue of Small – “Guided Growth of Large Scale, Horizontally Aligned Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Their Use in Thin Film Transistors” (2005)

Cover feature article for the August issue of Applied Physics Letters – “Bendable GaAs Metal-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors Formed With Printed GaAs Wire Arrays on Plastic Substrates” (2005)

Cover feature article for the July issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE – “Macroelectronics: Perspectives on Technology and Applications” (2005)

Cover feature article for the February issue of Materials Today– “Recent progress in soft lithography” (2005)

Cover feature article for the January issue of Advanced Functional Materials – “Photolithographic route to the fabrication of micro/nanowires of III-V semiconductors” (2005)

Selected as runner-up for the 2004 Nanotechnology Researcher of the Year Award, sponsored by Small Times Magazine.

Prof. Rogers Selected as one of fifteen nominees for the 2004 World Technology Award in Communications Technology, for research in flexible electronics and fiber optics.

Single crystal organic transistor work featured on the cover of Physics Status Solidi A, May 6, 2004

Cover feature article for the June 28th issue of Applied Physics Letters – “A printable form of single crystal silicon for high performance thin film transistors” (2004)

Selected for one of “10 Technologies that Will Change the World” by MIT’s Technology Review magazine, for microfluidic photonic systems (2004)

Science magazine’s Editor’s Choice, “Complex Layered Construction,” (2003)

Cover feature article for the December 15th issue of Applied Physics Letters – “Tunable optical fiber devices based on broadband long period gratings and pumped microfluidics” (2003)

Selected for one of “6 Technologies that Will Change the World” by Business 2.0 magazine, for printing plastic electronics (2003)

Cover feature article for the February 24th issue of Applied Physics Letters – “Low cost, low loss microlens arrays fabricated by soft lithography process” (2003)

Excellence in Research Award of the Year from Frost and Sullivan for microfluidic photonic systems (2003)

Circle of Excellence Award from Photonics Spectra Magazine for the RightwaveTM tunable dispersion compensator (2003)

OFC Attendee’s Choice Award from Lightwave Magazine for the RightwaveTM tunable dispersion compensator (2002)

American Chemical Society Award for Team Innovation: Printed Plastic Electronics and Electronic Paper (2002)

Cover feature article for Journal of Polymer Science A – “Printed Plastic Electronics and Paperlike Displays” (2002)

Excellence in Technical Innovation from Laser Focus World Magazine for tunable microfluidic optical fiber (2002)

R&D100 Innovation Award from R&D Magazine for the RightwaveTM tunable dispersion compensator (2002)

R&D Magazine’s Editor’s Choice for the “Best of the Best” new technology for 2001: Printed Plastic Display Circuits (2001)

R&D100 Innovation Award from R&D Magazine: Printed Plastic Display Circuits (2001)

Cover feature article for Proceedings of the National Academy of Science – “Paper-like Electronic Displays: Large Area, Rubber Stamped Plastic Sheets of Electronics and Electrophoretic Inks” (2001)