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Sheng Xu

Title(s)Adjunct Professor, Nanoengineering
SchoolVc-academic Affairs
Address9500 Gilman Drive #
La Jolla CA 92093
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    Three-dimensional field effect transistor arrays as a platform technology for intracellular electrophysiology recording.
    NIH R35GM138250Sep 1, 2020 - Jun 30, 2025
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Recording central blood flow velocity waveform by conformal ultrasonic devices
    NIH R21EB027303Jun 1, 2019 - Feb 28, 2022
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Diagnosing Small Joints by Soft Ultrasound Probes
    NIH R21EB025521Dec 15, 2017 - Nov 30, 2019
    Role: Principal Investigator

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    1. Expanding Access to Vascular Imaging: Preliminary Results from the Development of a Remote Surveillance Device. Ann Vasc Surg. 2026 Mar; 124:239-246. Perez S, Lin M, Zhou S, Walba L, Frederick D, Kistler E, Barleben A, Malas M, Xu S, Ross EG. PMID: 41352527.
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    2. Publisher Correction: Wearable blood pressure sensors for cardiovascular monitoring and machine learning algorithms for blood pressure estimation. Nat Rev Cardiol. 2025 Sep; 22(9):693. Min S, An J, Lee JH, Kim JH, Joe DJ, Eom SH, Yoo CD, Ahn HS, Hwang JY, Xu S, Rogers JA, Lee KJ. PMID: 40615731.
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    3. Integration of chemical and physical inputs for monitoring metabolites and cardiac signals in diabetes. Nat Biomed Eng. 2026 Jan; 10(1):94-109. Chang AY, Lin M, Yin L, Reynoso M, Ding S, Liu R, Dugas Y, Casanova A, Park G, Li Z, Luan H, Askarinam N, Zhang F, Xu S, Wang J. PMID: 40603746.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 3     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    4. Wearable blood pressure sensors for cardiovascular monitoring and machine learning algorithms for blood pressure estimation. Nat Rev Cardiol. 2025 Sep; 22(9):629-648. Min S, An J, Lee JH, Kim JH, Joe DJ, Eom SH, Yoo CD, Ahn HS, Hwang JY, Xu S, Rogers JA, Lee KJ. PMID: 39966649.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 10     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    5. Earable Multimodal Sensing and Stimulation: A Prospective Towards Unobtrusive Closed-Loop Biofeedback. IEEE Rev Biomed Eng. 2024 Nov 29; PP. Xu Y, Uppal A, Lee MS, Mahato K, Wuerstle BL, Lin M, Djassemi O, Chen T, Lin R, Paul A, Jain S, Chapotot F, Tasali E, Mercier P, Xu S, Wang J, Cauwenberghs G. PMID: 40030565.
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    6. Clinical validation of a wearable ultrasound sensor of blood pressure. Nat Biomed Eng. 2025 Jun; 9(6):865-881. Zhou S, Park G, Longardner K, Lin M, Qi B, Yang X, Gao X, Huang H, Chen X, Bian Y, Hu H, Wu RS, Yue W, Li M, Lu C, Wang R, Qin S, Tasali E, Karrison T, Thomas I, Smarr B, Kistler EB, Khiami BA, Litvan I, Xu S. PMID: 39567702.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 21     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    7. A stealthy neural recorder for the study of behaviour in primates. Nat Biomed Eng. 2025 Jun; 9(6):882-895. Oh S, Jekal J, Won J, Lim KS, Jeon CY, Park J, Yeo HG, Kim YG, Lee YH, Ha LJ, Jung HH, Yea J, Lee H, Ha J, Kim J, Lee D, Song S, Son J, Yu TS, Lee J, Lee S, Lee J, Kim BH, Choi JW, Rah JC, Song YM, Jeong JW, Choi HJ, Xu S, Lee Y, Jang KI. PMID: 39516303; PMCID: PMC12176640.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 7     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    8. A wearable echomyography system based on a single transducer. Nat Electron. 2024 Nov; 7(11):1035-1046. Gao X, Chen X, Lin M, Yue W, Hu H, Qin S, Zhang F, Lou Z, Yin L, Huang H, Zhou S, Bian Y, Yang X, Zhu Y, Mu J, Wang X, Park G, Lu C, Wang R, Wu RS, Wang J, Li J, Xu S. PMID: 40677283; PMCID: PMC12269893.
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    9. Concepts and applications of digital twins in healthcare and medicine. Patterns (N Y). 2024 Aug 09; 5(8):101028. Zhang K, Zhou HY, Baptista-Hon DT, Gao Y, Liu X, Oermann E, Xu S, Jin S, Zhang J, Sun Z, Yin Y, Razmi RM, Loupy A, Beck S, Qu J, Wu J, International Consortium of Digital Twins in Medicine. PMID: 39233690; PMCID: PMC11368703.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 24  
    10. Wearable sensing of solid analytes. Nat Mater. 2024 Aug; 23(8):1019-1020. Qin S, Xu S. PMID: 39090397.
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    11. Transcranial volumetric imaging using a conformal ultrasound patch. Nature. 2024 May; 629(8013):810-818. Zhou S, Gao X, Park G, Yang X, Qi B, Lin M, Huang H, Bian Y, Hu H, Chen X, Wu RS, Liu B, Yue W, Lu C, Wang R, Bheemreddy P, Qin S, Lam A, Wear KA, Andre M, Kistler EB, Newell DW, Xu S. PMID: 38778234; PMCID: PMC11875229.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 34     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    12. In-ear integrated sensor array for the continuous monitoring of brain activity and of lactate in sweat. Nat Biomed Eng. 2023 Oct; 7(10):1307-1320. Xu Y, De la Paz E, Paul A, Mahato K, Sempionatto JR, Tostado N, Lee M, Hota G, Lin M, Uppal A, Chen W, Dua S, Yin L, Wuerstle BL, Deiss S, Mercier P, Xu S, Wang J, Cauwenberghs G. PMID: 37770754; PMCID: PMC10589098.
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    13. A fully integrated wearable ultrasound system to monitor deep tissues in moving subjects. Nat Biotechnol. 2024 Mar; 42(3):448-457. Lin M, Zhang Z, Gao X, Bian Y, Wu RS, Park G, Lou Z, Zhang Z, Xu X, Chen X, Kang A, Yang X, Yue W, Yin L, Wang C, Qi B, Zhou S, Hu H, Huang H, Li M, Gu Y, Mu J, Yang A, Yaghi A, Chen Y, Lei Y, Lu C, Wang R, Wang J, Xiang S, Kistler EB, Vasconcelos N, Xu S. PMID: 37217752.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 73     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    14. Stretchable ultrasonic arrays for the three-dimensional mapping of the modulus of deep tissue. Nat Biomed Eng. 2023 Oct; 7(10):1321-1334. Hu H, Ma Y, Gao X, Song D, Li M, Huang H, Qian X, Wu R, Shi K, Ding H, Lin M, Chen X, Zhao W, Qi B, Zhou S, Chen R, Gu Y, Chen Y, Lei Y, Wang C, Wang C, Tong Y, Cui H, Abdal A, Zhu Y, Tian X, Chen Z, Lu C, Yang X, Mu J, Lou Z, Eghtedari M, Zhou Q, Oberai A, Xu S. PMID: 37127710.
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    15. A wearable cardiac ultrasound imager. Nature. 2023 01; 613(7945):667-675. Hu H, Huang H, Li M, Gao X, Yin L, Qi R, Wu RS, Chen X, Ma Y, Shi K, Li C, Maus TM, Huang B, Lu C, Lin M, Zhou S, Lou Z, Gu Y, Chen Y, Lei Y, Wang X, Wang R, Yue W, Yang X, Bian Y, Mu J, Park G, Xiang S, Cai S, Corey PW, Wang J, Xu S. PMID: 36697864; PMCID: PMC9876798.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 137     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    16. A photoacoustic patch for three-dimensional imaging of hemoglobin and core temperature. Nat Commun. 2022 12 15; 13(1):7757. Gao X, Chen X, Hu H, Wang X, Yue W, Mu J, Lou Z, Zhang R, Shi K, Chen X, Lin M, Qi B, Zhou S, Lu C, Gu Y, Yang X, Ding H, Zhu Y, Huang H, Ma Y, Li M, Mishra A, Wang J, Xu S. PMID: 36522334; PMCID: PMC9755152.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 35     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    17. Perovskite superlattices with efficient carrier dynamics. Nature. 2022 08; 608(7922):317-323. Lei Y, Li Y, Lu C, Yan Q, Wu Y, Babbe F, Gong H, Zhang S, Zhou J, Wang R, Zhang R, Chen Y, Tsai H, Gu Y, Hu H, Lo YH, Nie W, Lee T, Luo J, Yang K, Jang KI, Xu S. PMID: 35948711.
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    18. Three-dimensional transistor arrays for intra- and inter-cellular recording. Nat Nanotechnol. 2022 03; 17(3):292-300. Gu Y, Wang C, Kim N, Zhang J, Wang TM, Stowe J, Nasiri R, Li J, Zhang D, Yang A, Hsu LH, Dai X, Mu J, Liu Z, Lin M, Li W, Wang C, Gong H, Chen Y, Lei Y, Hu H, Li Y, Zhang L, Huang Z, Zhang X, Ahadian S, Banik P, Zhang L, Jiang X, Burke PJ, Khademhosseini A, McCulloch AD, Xu S. PMID: 34949774; PMCID: PMC8994210.
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    19. Continuous monitoring of deep-tissue haemodynamics with stretchable ultrasonic phased arrays. Nat Biomed Eng. 2021 07; 5(7):749-758. Wang C, Qi B, Lin M, Zhang Z, Makihata M, Liu B, Zhou S, Huang YH, Hu H, Gu Y, Chen Y, Lei Y, Lee T, Chien S, Jang KI, Kistler EB, Xu S. PMID: 34272524.
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    20. Nanomaterial Biointerfacing via Mitochondrial Membrane Coating for Targeted Detoxification and Molecular Detection. Nano Lett. 2021 03 24; 21(6):2603-2609. Gong H, Zhang Q, Komarla A, Wang S, Duan Y, Zhou Z, Chen F, Fang RH, Xu S, Gao W, Zhang L. PMID: 33687220.
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    21. A self-sustainable wearable multi-modular E-textile bioenergy microgrid system. Nat Commun. 2021 03 09; 12(1):1542. Yin L, Kim KN, Lv J, Tehrani F, Lin M, Lin Z, Moon JM, Ma J, Yu J, Xu S, Wang J. PMID: 33750816; PMCID: PMC7943583.
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    22. An epidermal patch for the simultaneous monitoring of haemodynamic and metabolic biomarkers. Nat Biomed Eng. 2021 07; 5(7):737-748. Sempionatto JR, Lin M, Yin L, De la Paz E, Pei K, Sonsa-Ard T, de Loyola Silva AN, Khorshed AA, Zhang F, Tostado N, Xu S, Wang J. PMID: 33589782.
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    23. Deciphering facial movements. Nat Biomed Eng. 2020 10; 4(10):935-936. Gao X, Chen X, Xu S. PMID: 33093666.
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    24. A fabrication process for flexible single-crystal perovskite devices. Nature. 2020 07; 583(7818):790-795. Lei Y, Chen Y, Zhang R, Li Y, Yan Q, Lee S, Yu Y, Tsai H, Choi W, Wang K, Luo Y, Gu Y, Zheng X, Wang C, Wang C, Hu H, Li Y, Qi B, Lin M, Zhang Z, Dayeh SA, Pharr M, Fenning DP, Lo YH, Luo J, Yang K, Yoo J, Nie W, Xu S. PMID: 32728239.
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    25. Frequency- and Power-Dependent Photoresponse of a Perovskite Photodetector Down to the Single-Photon Level. Nano Lett. 2020 Mar 11; 20(3):2144-2151. Xu Z, Yu Y, Arya S, Niaz IA, Chen Y, Lei Y, Miah MAR, Zhou J, Zhang AC, Yan L, Xu S, Nomura K, Lo YH. PMID: 32026675.
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    26. Strain engineering and epitaxial stabilization of halide perovskites. Nature. 2020 01; 577(7789):209-215. Chen Y, Lei Y, Li Y, Yu Y, Cai J, Chiu MH, Rao R, Gu Y, Wang C, Choi W, Hu H, Wang C, Li Y, Song J, Zhang J, Qi B, Lin M, Zhang Z, Islam AE, Maruyama B, Dayeh S, Li LJ, Yang K, Lo YH, Xu S. PMID: 31915395.
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    27. Wearable thermoelectrics for personalized thermoregulation. Sci Adv. 2019 May; 5(5):eaaw0536. Hong S, Gu Y, Seo JK, Wang J, Liu P, Meng YS, Xu S, Chen R. PMID: 31114803; PMCID: PMC6524982.
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    28. Array atomic force microscopy for real-time multiparametric analysis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 03 26; 116(13):5872-5877. Yang Q, Ma Q, Herum KM, Wang C, Patel N, Lee J, Wang S, Yen TM, Wang J, Tang H, Lo YH, Head BP, Azam F, Xu S, Cauwenberghs G, McCulloch AD, John S, Liu Z, Lal R. PMID: 30850523; PMCID: PMC6442637.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 9     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    29. Biomembrane-Modified Field Effect Transistors for Sensitive and Quantitative Detection of Biological Toxins and Pathogens. ACS Nano. 2019 03 26; 13(3):3714-3722. Gong H, Chen F, Huang Z, Gu Y, Zhang Q, Chen Y, Zhang Y, Zhuang J, Cho YK, Fang RH, Gao W, Xu S, Zhang L. PMID: 30831025.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 15     Fields:    Translation:Cells
    30. Interaction Effects with Varying N in SU(N) Symmetric Fermion Lattice Systems. Phys Rev Lett. 2018 Oct 19; 121(16):167205. Xu S, Barreiro JT, Wang Y, Wu C. PMID: 30387656.
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    31. Monitoring of the central blood pressure waveform via a conformal ultrasonic device. Nat Biomed Eng. 2018 Sep; 2(9):687-695. Wang C, Li X, Hu H, Zhang L, Huang Z, Lin M, Zhang Z, Yin Z, Huang B, Gong H, Bhaskaran S, Gu Y, Makihata M, Guo Y, Lei Y, Chen Y, Wang C, Li Y, Zhang T, Chen Z, Pisano AP, Zhang L, Zhou Q, Xu S. PMID: 30906648; PMCID: PMC6428206.
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    32. Materials and Structures toward Soft Electronics. Adv Mater. 2018 Dec; 30(50):e1801368. Wang C, Wang C, Huang Z, Xu S. PMID: 30073715.
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    33. Highly Stable Battery Pack via Insulated, Reinforced, Buckling-Enabled Interconnect Array. Small. 2018 Oct; 14(43):e1800938. Yin L, Seo JK, Kurniawan J, Kumar R, Lv J, Xie L, Liu X, Xu S, Meng YS, Wang J. PMID: 29971916.
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    34. Controlled Homoepitaxial Growth of Hybrid Perovskites. Adv Mater. 2018 May; 30(20):e1705992. Lei Y, Chen Y, Gu Y, Wang C, Huang Z, Qian H, Nie J, Hollett G, Choi W, Yu Y, Kim N, Wang C, Zhang T, Hu H, Zhang Y, Li X, Li Y, Shi W, Liu Z, Sailor MJ, Dong L, Lo YH, Luo J, Xu S. PMID: 29611280.
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    35. Stretchable ultrasonic transducer arrays for three-dimensional imaging on complex surfaces. Sci Adv. 2018 03; 4(3):eaar3979. Hu H, Zhu X, Wang C, Zhang L, Li X, Lee S, Huang Z, Chen R, Chen Z, Wang C, Gu Y, Chen Y, Lei Y, Zhang T, Kim N, Guo Y, Teng Y, Zhou W, Li Y, Nomoto A, Sternini S, Zhou Q, Pharr M, di Scalea FL, Xu S. PMID: 29740603; PMCID: PMC5938227.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 77     Fields:    
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