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Xing Xie - LEEFT with Nano for Water Disinfection

Water is a basic human need. Nevertheless, more than 10% of the world’s population lacks access to safe drinking water. An effective water disinfection method is still not readily accessible to…

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Amy E. Herr - Precision Medicine is Advanced by Precision Microsystems

While the biomedical importance of detecting cellular heterogeneity is widely accepted, we lack tools for detection of the vast majority of molecular heterogeneity, as expressed in proteins. In fact,…

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David Myers - Moving MEMS into Medicine: A Microsystems Journey From Ballistics to the Bedside

Microsystems have dramatically changed how we interact with the world, from tracking fitness-related activity to improving transportation safety, yet microsystems have failed to live up to their…

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Surendra J. Chavan - Current and future cell therapies for treatment of type 1 diabetes

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune destruction of insulin producing β-cells present in the endocrine part of the pancreas. Lifelong administration of exogenous insulin is a current mode of…

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Microfluidic Circuits and Biomedical Applications - Shuichi Takayama

This presentation will give an overview of efforts in our laboratory to develop microfluidic systems to control cell microenvironments and to perform high precision biochemical measurements.…

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MEMS-Based Hemodynamic Monitoring for Advanced Heart Failure Management - Michael Fonseca

Heart Failure (HF) is a chronic disease where heart function worsens over time resulting in symptoms of shortness of breath, fluid accumulation, and frequent hospitalizations. CardioMEMS™ is a…

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Protein-assisted and Polypeptide-assisted Assembly of Particles and Polymers - Paul Russo

Nature builds proteins for structure, function and reactivity, which attests to the versatility of placing different chemical groups on the same polymer backbone. Following this same design paradigm,…

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Performance Modeling, Design, and Benchmarking for Beyond-CMOS Devices and Circuits - Azad Naeemi

A diverse set of novel materials, physical phenomena, interconnects, logic and memory devices, and circuit/system concepts are being studied globally to sustain the exponential growth of the…

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The Iterative Process of Scientific Exploration: Effects of Electrical Current in Nanomagnetic Systems - Sergei Urazhdin

In the iterative process of scientific exploration, experimental observations are generalized into hypotheses, leading to predictions subsequently tested in experiments, and so on. In nanoscience and…

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Self-Assembled Networks of Biological Membranes - Eric Freeman

Biologically inspired materials attempt to replicate the elegant engineering solutions observed in the natural world. Observing that many of these solutions are multiscale hierarchical structures…

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III-Nitride Power Electronics - Shyh-Chiang Shen

The III-Nitride (III-N) materials have enabled several important technology breakthroughs in recent years, most notably as the building semiconductors for the solid-state lighting technology and…

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Learning From "Coffee Rings": Ordered Structures Crafted by Controlled Evaporative Self‐Assembly and Flow‐Enabled Self‐Assembly - Zhiqun Lin

Self-assembly of micro- and nano-scale materials to form well-ordered structures promises new opportunities for developing miniaturized electronic, optoelectronic, and magnetic devices. In this…

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Organic and Hybrid Materials for Photonics and Electronics - Joseph Perry

In this talk, I will present an overview of my group’s research on materials for photonics and electronics. Polymethine dyes are promising materials for nonlinear optical processes such as…

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Nanoplasmonics: The Physics behind the Applications - Mark I. Stockman

Nanoplasmonics deals with collective electron dynamics on the surfaces of metal nanostructures, which arises due to excitations called surface plasmons. The surface plasmons localize and…

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An Optical Rectenna - Baratunde Cola

An optical rectenna – that is, a device that directly converts free‐propagating electromagnetic waves at optical frequencies to d.c. electricity – was first proposed over 40 years…

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The Structure and Dynamics of Patterned Nanospheres - Rigoberto Hernandez

Colloidal dispersions have been useful for many applications, particularly because of the balance of microscopic heterogeneity and the wealth of tunable properties they exhibit at macroscopic length…

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