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CONTROLLED COLLAPSE AND PATTERNING OF MONOLAYERS USING PATTERNED HYDROPHOBIC SURFACES
Patterns created from evaporating a 1 microliter droplet of diluted bourbon whiskey. Three different brands were used.
Assesing Cell Transfection in an Ultrasound-Integrated Fluidic SYSTEM
Cell therapies often require intracellular delivery of plasmids or other compounds in order to transform the cells for therapeutic effect…
SIMULATION OF GLANCING ANGLE DEPOSITION (GLAD)
Glancing Angle Deposition (GLAD) is a bottom-up nanomanufactuing technique.
Acoustic energy Effect on Microstructure and Mass Transport in Ultrasound-enabled Room-Temperature Solid Metal 3D Printing
Current melt-fusion-based additive manufacturing (AM) techniques face significant challenges in processing aluminum alloys...
Single-grain Perovskites for Neuromorphic Memory
Memristors are two-terminal circuit elements with electrical resistance that can be switched between low and high values when exposed to external electric field…
Silicon Micro-reactor for Analysis of Trace VOCs in Air
In this project an REU student will learn how to fabricate a microreactor and use it for analysis of trace volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in exhaled breath…
Textile-Integrated MEMS for Distortion-Tolerant Soft Contact Arrays
New distortion-tolerant electrical connection technologies are needed for the emerging field of wearable sensors made from materials that bend and stretch…
ASSESSING THREE DIMENSIONAL ELECTROKINETIC COLLOID SELF-ASSEMBLY
Colloidal self-assembly methods create ordered structures from an otherwise disordered system without external direction…
characterization of microrobots inside the scanning electron microscope
Over the last few years, the Next Generation Systems (NGS) research group at University of Louisville has been prototyping novel 3-dimensional microrobots designed for future manipulation tasks in dry environments…
Bioceramic-Based Biomaterial Products for 3D-Printed Orthopedics
Fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printing is currently possible with various thermoplastic polymers such as polylactic acid (PLA), polypropylene (PP), polycarbonate (PC), or acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) for different applications…
GAS microfluidics using mems micro-pumps
A novel multifunctional nano-porous thermoelectric material is being developed that works as a combined heater, cooler, and array of gas channels for effecting the thermally driven pumping mechanism…
Aerosol jet printing on 3d printed materials
Aerosol Jet printing is a maskless additive manufacturing solution that reduces the overall size of electronic systems by using nanomaterials to produce fine features and embedded components…
