John A. Rogers

John Ashley Rogers ( born August 24, 1967 in Rolla ( Missouri)) is an American physicist and chemist who deals with nanotechnology.

Rogers grew up in Houston and studied physics and chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor's degrees in both subjects 1989. 1992 he received Master's degrees in physics and chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 1995. Subsequently he was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University and founded the same time the company Active Impulse Systems. From 1997 he was at Bell Laboratories in the Department of Solid State Physics ( Condensed Matter Physics ), which he headed from 2000 to 2002. He is Lee J. Flory Professor of Engineering in the Department of Materials Science, University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign where he is Head of 3D Micro -and Nanosystems Group and Director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.

He is known for the development of non-conventional, flexible in form films realized electronic components, based on organic semiconductor materials (with the development mikrolitographischer techniques to realize it complex circuits) and (to achieve higher signal processing speeds ) nanotubes, silicon or carbon. The technology has applications in photovoltaics, adaptive optics, biomedical, electronic textiles

Furthermore, he was known by a sensor, which improved the sense of touch. He is also working on new threads that improve wound healing by temperature rise. In future, these threads should be able to also release drugs.

He is the owner or co-owner of more than 70 patents. In 2009 he was MacArthur Fellow. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the American Physical Society and the National Academy of Engineering.

In 2008 he was MacArthur Fellow.