Faculty Directory
Jonathan Rivnay

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Director of PhD Admissions of Biomedical Engineering

Contact

2170 Campus Drive, Silverman 4627, Evanston, IL 60208
303 E. Superior Street, SQBRC 11-520, Chicago, IL 60611


847-467-6622Email Jonathan Rivnay

Website

https://rivnay.northwestern.edu/

Departments

Biomedical Engineering

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Education

Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, College of Engineering, Stanford, CA

M. Sc. Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, College of Engineering, Stanford, CA

B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, College of Engineering, Ithaca, NY


Research Interests

The Rivnay group engineers organic and biohybrid bioelectronic materials, devices and systems for interfacing between the complex world of biology and traditional optoelectronics. Our interests involve understanding the unique active properties of organic (small molecule and polymeric) materials, including mixed ionic-electronic conduction and actuation and utilizing their strengths for sensing/stimulation in biomedical settings. Recent efforts include biohybrid devices that combine strengths of synthetic biology with those of bioelectronics, resulting in systems that extend what is possible in sensing and actuation/therapy. Our interests range from fundamentals of materials and interfaces to devices and systems, with applications targets in diagnostics, therapeutics, rehabilitation and regeneration of tissues.


Significant Recognition

  • Materials Research Society Postdoctoral Award, 2014
  • William E. and Diane M. Spicer Young Investigator Award, 2013
  • Melvin P. Klein Scientific Development Award, 2011
  • Materials Research Society Graduate Student Gold Award, 2011
  • Robert A. Huggins Award, 2010
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, 2009-2011
  • National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow, 2006-2009

Significant Professional Service

  • Research Scientist, Electronic Materials and Devices Laboratory, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA
  • Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Bioelectronics, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, Gardanne, France

Selected Publications

  • Wu, Ruiheng; Paulsen, Bryan D.; Ma, Qing; Rivnay, Jonathan, Mass and Charge Transport Kinetics in an Organic Mixed Ionic−Electronic Conductor, Chemistry of Materials (2022).
  • Rashid, Reem B.; Evans, Austin M.; Hall, Lyndon A.; Dasari, Raghunath R.; Roesner, Emily K.; Marder, Seth R.; D'Allesandro, Deanna M.; Dichtel, William R.; Rivnay, Jonathan, A Semiconducting Two-Dimensional Polymer as an Organic Electrochemical Transistor Active Layer, Advanced Materials (2022).
  • Schafer, Emily A.; Wu, Ruiheng; Meli, Dilara; Tropp, Joshua; Moser, Maximilian; McCulloch, Iain; Paulsen, Bryan D.; Rivnay, Jonathan, Sources and Mechanism of Degradation in p-Type Thiophene-Based Organic Electrochemical Transistors, ACS Applied Electronic Materials (2022).
  • Wu, Ruiheng; Matta, Micaela; Paulsen, Bryan D.; Rivnay, Jonathan, Operando Characterization of Organic Mixed Ionic/Electronic Conducting Materials, Chemical Reviews (2022).
  • Paulsen, Bryan D.; Giovannitti, Alexander; Wu, Ruiheng; Strzalka, Joseph; Zhang, Qingteng; Rivnay, Jonathan; Takacs, Christopher J., Electrochemistry of Thin Films with In Situ/Operando Grazing Incidence X-Ray Scattering, Small (2021).
  • Rashid, Reem B.; Ji, Xudong; Rivnay, Jonathan, Organic electrochemical transistors in bioelectronic circuits, Biosensors and Bioelectronics (2021).
  • Ji, Xudong; Paulsen, Bryan D.; Chik, Gary K.K.; Wu, Ruiheng; Yin, Yuyang; Chan, Paddy K.L.; Rivnay, Jonathan, Mimicking associative learning using an ion-trapping non-volatile synaptic organic electrochemical transistor, Nature communications (2021).
  • Paulsen, Bryan D.; Fabiano, Simone; Rivnay, Jonathan, Mixed Ionic-Electronic Transport in Polymers, Annual Review of Materials Research 51:73-99 (2021).
  • Petty, Anthony J.; Keate, Rebecca L.; Jiang, Bin; Ameer, Guillermo A.; Rivnay, Jonathan, Conducting Polymers for Tissue Regeneration in Vivo †, Chemistry of Materials 32(10):4095-4115 (2020).
  • Paulsen, Bryan D.; Tybrandt, Klas; Stavrinidou, Eleni; Rivnay, Jonathan, Organic mixed ionic–electronic conductors, Nature materials 19(1):13-26 (2019).
  • Cendra, Camila; Giovannitti, Alexander; Savva, Achilleas; Venkatraman, Vishak; McCulloch, Iain; Salleo, Alberto; Inal, Sahika; Rivnay, Jonathan, Role of the Anion on the Transport and Structure of Organic Mixed Conductors, Advanced Functional Materials 29(5) (2018).
  • Venkatraman, Vishak; Friedlein, Jacob T.; Giovannitti, Alexander; Maria, Iuliana P.; McCulloch, Iain; McLeod, Robert R.; Rivnay, Jonathan, Subthreshold Operation of Organic Electrochemical Transistors for Biosignal Amplification, Advanced Science 5(8) (2018).
  • Won, Sang Min; Song, Enming; Zhao, Jianing; Li, Jinghua; Rivnay, Jonathan; Rogers, John A., Recent Advances in Materials, Devices, and Systems for Neural Interfaces, Advanced Materials 30(30) (2018).
  • Inal, Sahika; Malliaras, George G.; Rivnay, Jonathan, Benchmarking organic mixed conductors for transistors, Nature communications 8(1) (2017).
  • Friedlein, Jacob T.; Rivnay, Jonathan; Dunlap, David H.; McCulloch, Iain; Shaheen, Sean E.; McLeod, Robert R.; Malliaras, George G., Influence of disorder on transfer characteristics of organic electrochemical transistors, Applied Physics Letters 111(2) (2017).
  • Giovannitti, Alexander; Sbircea, Dan Tiberiu; Inal, Sahika; Nielsen, Christian B.; Bandiello, Enrico; Hanifi, David A.; Sessolo, Michele; Malliaras, George G.; McCulloch, Iain; Rivnay, Jonathan, Controlling the mode of operation of organic transistors through side-chain engineering, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113(43):12017-12022 (2016).
  • Inal, Sahika; Rivnay, Jonathan; Hofmann, Anna I.; Uguz, Ilke; Mumtaz, Muhammad; Katsigiannopoulos, Dimitrios; Brochon, Cyril; Cloutet, Eric; Hadziioannou, Georges; Malliaras, George G., Organic electrochemical transistors based on PEDOT with different anionic polyelectrolyte dopants, Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics 54(2):147-151 (2016).
  • Inal, Sahika; Malliaras, George G.; Rivnay, Jonathan, Optical study of electrochromic moving fronts for the investigation of ion transport in conducting polymers, Journal of Materials Chemistry C 4(18):3942-3947 (2016).
  • Lee, Wonryung; Kim, Dongmin; Rivnay, Jonathan; Matsuhisa, Naoji; Lonjaret, Thomas; Yokota, Tomoyuki; Yawo, Hiromu; Sekino, Masaki; Malliaras, George G.; Someya, Takao, Integration of Organic Electrochemical and Field-Effect Transistors for Ultraflexible, High Temporal Resolution Electrophysiology Arrays, Advanced Materials 28(44):9722-9728 (2016).