Sheng-Po Fang will defend his proposal entitled "Functionalized Electrospun Nanofibers and Their Biomedical Applications" at 3:00 PM on Tuesday, April 5th, in Larsen 234. Refreshments will be provided.
Xiao Wen will defend his proposal entitled "On the Exploration of Electro-Infiltrated Magnetic Nanocomposites" at 3:00 PM on Monday, April 4th, in Larsen 234. Refreshments will be provided.
Can Duan will defend her dissertation entitled "Planar and Integrated MEMS Micromirrors Based Endoscopic OCT Imaging" at 1:00 pm on Monday, March 28th in NEB 589. Refreshments will be provided.
Arian Rahimi will defend his dissertation entitled as “Low Loss Passive Component Technologies for High Performance Radio Frequency Circuits Using Micro/Nano Machining” on Friday March 25th, 2016 at 1:00pm. Refreshments will be provided.
Patrick Lomenzo will defend his dissertation titled "Ferroelectric and Antiferroelectric Properties of HfO2-Based Thin Films" at 1:00 pm on Friday, February 26 in NRF 115. Food and refreshments will be provided.
Camilo Velez will defend his proposal entitled "A Selective Magnetization Process For Batch-patterning Magnetic Materials" at 3:00 PM on Friday, December 11th, in NRF 115.
Rob Carroll will defend his proposal entitled "A microfabricated magneto-mechanical oscillator array testbed device for the study of wave propagation behaviors in nonlinearly coupled periodic structures" at 3:00 PM on Monday, December 7th, in Larsen 234.
Jinling Zhang and Kangfu Chen will present on topics related to their research. Food will be provided for $4 to those that sign up on the IMG wiki.
Jinling Zhang
Isolation and enumeration of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in peripheral blood of cancer patients are potentially useful for detection, characterization, and monitoring of the disease and its subsequent treatment. We have developed microfluidic devices that are capable of efficiently isolating cancer cells from whole blood. The cell capture efficiency is about 90%. The method provides a convenient and cost-efficient alternative for CTCs isolation in clinic samples.
Simulation of the interactions between cancer cells and microfluidic devices
Kangfu Chen
Our interest is to explore the interaction between cancer cell and aptamer functionalized micropost based microfluidic device. We shows the distribution of captured cancer cells around different shaped microposts experimentally. As a comparison of the experiments, a theoretical model was set up. COMSOL was used to show the laminar flow in the microchannel of the device. Based on the flow data, we describe the motion of cancer cells in the micropost patterned microchannel. The interaction between cancer cells and micropost surface was simulated based on adhesive dynamics. Finally, we compare the simulation results with the experimental results.
Saitej Ravi and Camilo Velez will present on topics related to their research, "Designing hybrid microstructures for wicking applications" and "Magnetic Assemblies and Cross-Linking of Nanoparticles for Releasable Magnetic Microstructures." Food will be provided for $3 to those that sign up on the IMG wiki.