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Jennifer A. Lewis

Jennifer A. Lewis

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2018 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For development of materials and processes for 3-dimensional direct fabrication of multifunctional structures.
  • 2015 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2012 - MRS Medal, Materials Research Society For pioneering contributions in the design of viscoelastic inks composed of colloidal, polymeric, and organometallic building blocks and their directed assembly into planar and 3D functional architectures
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Jennifer A. Lewis is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with a focus on Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Molecular Biology among other subfields. Their work encompasses topics related to 3D printing in biomedical research, advanced materials and mechanics, and additive manufacturing and 3D printing technologies.

The scientist has made contributions in several key areas, including:

  • 3D Printing in Biomedical Research
  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
  • Renal and related cancers
  • Polymer composites and self-healing
  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Sebastien G. M. Uzel
  • Katharina T. Kroll
  • Ryuji Morizane
  • Ken Hiratsuka
  • Lisa M. Satlin

Jennifer A. Lewis publishes often in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Advanced Materials
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Nature
  • Advanced Functional Materials

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Innervated, Self-Sensing Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators with Closed Loop Control," 2021, Advanced Materials
  • "Towards enduring autonomous robots via embodied energy," 2022, Nature
  • "Rotational multimaterial printing of filaments with subvoxel control," 2023, Nature
  • "Orthogonally induced differentiation of stem cells for the programmatic patterning of vascularized organoids and bioprinted tissues," 2022, Nature Biomedical Engineering
  • "Programming Cellular Alignment in Engineered Cardiac Tissue via Bioprinting Anisotropic Organ Building Blocks," 2022, Advanced Materials

Over the course of their career, Jennifer A. Lewis has received several awards, including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2018)
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2017) for development of materials and processes for 3-dimensional direct fabrication of multifunctional structures
  • Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2015)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012)
  • MRS Medal, Materials Research Society (2012) for pioneering contributions in the design of viscoelastic inks and their assembly into planar and 3D functional architectures

Best Publications

  • Biomimetic 4D printing

    A. Sydney Gladman;A. Sydney Gladman;Elisabetta A. Matsumoto;Elisabetta A. Matsumoto;Ralph G. Nuzzo;L. Mahadevan;L. Mahadevan

  • 3D Bioprinting of Vascularized, Heterogeneous Cell‐Laden Tissue Constructs

    David B. Kolesky;Ryan L. Truby;A. Sydney Gladman;Travis A. Busbee

  • Self-healing materials with microvascular networks

    Kathleen S. Toohey;Nancy R. Sottos;Jennifer A. Lewis;Jeffrey S. Moore

  • Direct ink writing of 3D functional materials

    Jennifer A. Lewis

  • 3D-Printing of Lightweight Cellular Composites

    Brett G. Compton;Jennifer A. Lewis

  • Embedded 3D Printing of Strain Sensors within Highly Stretchable Elastomers

    Joseph Thomas Muth;Daniel Vogt;Ryan Landon Truby;Yiğit Mengüç

  • Colloidal Processing of Ceramics

    Jennifer A. Lewis

  • Printing soft matter in three dimensions

    Ryan Landon Truby;Jennifer Lewis;Jennifer Lewis

  • Three-dimensional bioprinting of thick vascularized tissues.

    David B. Kolesky;Kimberly A. Homan;Mark A. Skylar-Scott;Jennifer A. Lewis

  • 3D Printing of Interdigitated Li‐Ion Microbattery Architectures

    Ke Sun;Teng Sing Wei;Bok Yeop Ahn;Jung Yoon Seo

  • Omnidirectional Printing of Flexible, Stretchable, and Spanning Silver Microelectrodes

    Bok Yeop Ahn;Eric B. Duoss;Michael J. Motala;Xiaoying Guo

  • Multistable Architected Materials for Trapping Elastic Strain Energy

    Sicong Shan;Sung H. Kang;Sung H. Kang;Jordan R. Raney;Jordan R. Raney;Pai Wang

  • Voxelated soft matter via multimaterial multinozzle 3D printing.

    Mark A. Skylar-Scott;Mark A. Skylar-Scott;Jochen Mueller;Jochen Mueller;Claas W. Visser;Claas W. Visser;Jennifer A. Lewis;Jennifer A. Lewis

  • Direct Ink Writing of Three‐Dimensional Ceramic Structures

    Jennifer A. Lewis;James E. Smay;John Stuecker;Joseph Cesarano

  • Chaotic mixing in three-dimensional microvascular networks fabricated by direct-write assembly

    Daniel Therriault;Scott R. White;Jennifer A. Lewis

  • Omnidirectional printing of 3D microvascular networks.

    Willie Wu;Adam DeConinck;Jennifer A. Lewis

  • Biomanufacturing of organ-specific tissues with high cellular density and embedded vascular channels

    Mark A. Skylar-Scott;Mark A. Skylar-Scott;Sebastien G. M. Uzel;Sebastien G. M. Uzel;Lucy L. Nam;Lucy L. Nam;John H. Ahrens;John H. Ahrens

  • Colloidal inks for directed assembly of 3-D periodic structures

    James E. Smay;Joseph Cesarano;Jennifer A. Lewis

  • Instrumented cardiac microphysiological devices via multimaterial three-dimensional printing

    Johan U. Lind;Johan U. Lind;Travis A. Busbee;Travis A. Busbee;Alexander D. Valentine;Alexander D. Valentine;Francesco S. Pasqualini;Francesco S. Pasqualini

  • Pen‐on‐Paper Flexible Electronics

    Analisa Russo;Bok Yeop Ahn;Jacob J. Adams;Eric B. Duoss

  • Ultrathin silicon solar microcells for semitransparent, mechanically flexible and microconcentrator module designs

    Jongseung Yoon;Alfred J. Baca;Sang Il Park;Paulius Elvikis

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric B. Duoss
Eric B. Duoss Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Paul V. Braun
Paul V. Braun University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Scott R. White
Scott R. White University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert F. Shepherd
Robert F. Shepherd Cornell University
Ralph G. Nuzzo
Ralph G. Nuzzo University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nancy R. Sottos
Nancy R. Sottos University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lorraine F. Francis
Lorraine F. Francis University of Minnesota
David C. Dunand
David C. Dunand Northwestern University
Robert J. Wood
Robert J. Wood Harvard University
Jeffrey S. Moore
Jeffrey S. Moore University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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