Kutay Sağdıç

Over the past five years, I’ve led and contributed to interdisciplinary efforts to prevent, diagnose, and treat disease, uniting bioelectronics, biomaterials, microfluidics, and diagnostics across engineering disciplines. Most recently, I focused on soft materials, hydrogels and composites, for bioelectronics, using clean-room fabrication, bioprinting, and two-photon lithography to build conductive hydrogels for flexible neural interfaces in vitro and in vivo. Earlier, I worked on artificial biosystems, microfluidics, smart materials (nanoparticles, polymers), and SPR-based biosensors. My current project is about ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal, combining ferroelectricity with fluidity, and thanks to its high dielectric permittivity, it exhibits long-range orientational order with spontaneous polarization. We propose ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals as energy-efficient alternatives to metal oxides and organic ferroelectrics, offering fast and tunable memory function, and low-voltage operation, ideal replacements for conventional metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology. We apply 4D extrusion printing, clean room fabrication, and thin film technology to bring this material from the lab bench to a commercial product in the future.