Title: "Functional materials and devices for soft electronics"

Abstract: Electronic devices that can bend, stretch or both are becoming increasingly popular given their demand in domains such as healthcare and human-computer interactions. A critical requirement for the success of such devices is their reliability. The initial part of my talk will be on reliability studies on soft electronic devices. A physics-informed approach to analyzing the reliability and structure-property correlation of these devices led to some interesting observations. These observations eventually lead to potentially useful applications in the said domains. In the later part of the talk, I will talk about some of my recent work on soft brain-computer interface, modeling electrical transport in biological tissues, and finally a brief overview of liquid metal-based soft electronic devices.