Soft Electronics Alliance (SEA)
Driving groundbreaking innovations for healthcare, sustainability, and global leadership.
The Soft Electronics Alliance (SEA) brings together academic leaders, industry pioneers, and government bodies to spearhead the development and commercialisation of next-generation soft bioelectronics.
Our collaborative efforts are focused on creating biocompatible devices that are wearable, implantable, and innovative, addressing critical health and sustainability challenges. Positioned as a global leader, SEA is committed to fostering a sustainable, sovereign bioelectronics sector for the future.
Our vision is to bring together the brightest minds across multiple disciplines to transform the future for bioelectronics technology and explore innovative solutions in global health and sustainability.
Key objectives
- Pioneering Bioelectronics: Addressing critical needs in healthcare and sustainability by creating cutting-edge technology.
- Accelerating Innovation: Fostering interdisciplinary collaborations in the physical sciences, engineering, medicine, AI, and clinical fields.
- Catalysing IP Creation: Leveraging funding opportunities and advanced research facilities including the Sydney Biomedical Accelerator and Sydney Nano.
- Standardising Pathways: Streamlining the translation from research to clinical application, regulatory approval, and commercialisation.
- Building Sovereign Manufacturing: Developing the technical skills, know-how, and infrastructure to support advanced bioelectronics manufacturing in Australia.
Research focus areas
- Flexible and stretchable biosensors and bioelectronics
- Wearable and implantable bioelectronics design and manufacturing
- Plasma-promoted bio-electronic interface bonding
- Innovative 3D/4D printing to integrate active nanomaterials, hydrogels, cells, tissues and organoids into powerful bioelectronic systems such as cyborg tissue
- AI-powered biosensors offering close-loop feedbacks
- Clinical studies of prototyping bioelectronic devices
Benefits
- Shared facilities and joint projects will reduce costs, maximize efficiency, and foster innovative research between engineering, science and medicine
- Development of specialized bioelectronics courses and training programs to build a robust talent pipeline
- Shorten the lifetime of translating lab technology into commercialisation by pooling resources, expertise, and infrastructure, as well as leveraging SBA and USYD
- Improve patient outcomes by creating cutting-edge bioelectronic devices to support personalised and precision medicine, chronic disease management, and preventive health, contributing to better quality of life and healthcare savings
- Realtime sensing and data collection for advanced environmental monitoring and targeted remediation
Capabilities
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