Abolhasani, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, specializes in
microscale technologies that address the world's energy challenges.
Our project will utilize two novel
microscale technologies originating from our laboratory, namely highly precise molecular micropatterning and miniaturized axon nano - compressors to address this problem.
Not exact matches
The microfluidic
technology, developed in the lab of professor Mark Hayes in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Arizona State University, uses
microscale electric field gradients, acting on extremely small samples, to tell the difference between the two strains (antibiotic - resistant and antibiotic - susceptible) of Staphylococcus epidermidis.
The researchers — from Seoul National University, Act Company and Minuta
Technology — used an array of
microscale prisms placed on a screen to create a filter that guides the light in one direction or another.
Creating organ models on a
microscale has been greatly facilitated by microfluidics, a
technology developed in the 1990s that uses micropumps, valves and finely etched channels to manipulate the movement of fluids through a chip.
«Expanding this methodology to non-biological crystalline materials will result in
microscale architectures with enhanced photonic, electronic, and catalytic properties,» said Tanya Shirman, a postdoctoral fellow at SEAS and
Technology Development Fellow at Wyss Institute and co-author of the research.