Energy storage
Faculty and Staff
Professor
Design, synthesis, and self-assembly of inorganic and organic-inorganic hybrid nanomaterials for catalysis and nanocatalysis, biological, medical, biosensing solar cell applications.
Devices/Projects:
Nanoparticles, nanoporous materials. And mesoporous materials for cancer treatment, catalysis, solar cells, and drug delivery
Associate Professor
Metabolic and Tissue Engineering
Devices/Projects:
Self-assembling nanoparticle systems to deliver chemokines/growth factors to chronic skin wounds; hydrogel-based bandages containing mesenchymal stromal cells to improve healing of chronic wounds; high throughput-compatible platform consisting of fatty liver cells to screen for drugs that decrease fat content and more generally improve metabolic performance of the cells
Associate Professor
Non-invasive, optically based quantitative cell analysis for cell biology and biotechnology
Devices/Projects:
Continuous Intraocular Pressure Monitoring for Early Glaucoma Detection
Professor
The synthesis and characterization of lanthanide molecules and clusters with extraordinary NIR emission properties.
Devices/Projects:
Lanthanide molecules and clusters for optical fiber technologies
Professor
Virtual reality, robotics
Devices/Projects:
Telerehabilitation for children with hemiplegia, virtual arm and ankle rehabilitation for neurological injury/disorders
Professor
Studying the physical and chemical behaviors of ionic liquids and molten salts
Devices/Projects:
Ionic liquids
Research Professor
Processing and characterization of electronic materials
Devices/Projects:
Substrates for Monolithical Optical Circuits and Electronic Circuits, Single Crystal Silicon on Polycrystalline Silicon Integrated Circuits, Silicon Wafer with Diamond Layer
Professor
Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Complex Fluids, and Polymers, Thermodynamic and Physico-chemical Properties of Pharmaceutical Materials, Nanopolymeric Systems for Drug Delivery, Interfacial Phenomena Nanoparticles and Colloidal Systems, Molecular Modeling and Simulation
Devices/Projects:
Nanopolymeric Systems for Drug Delivery
Assistant Professor
Cellulosic Biofuels, Biomass Processing, Glycoengineering, Protein Engineering, Glycan Biopolymers
Devices/Projects:
Glycans and glycoconjugates, Biofuels
Associate Professor
Hybrid Battery Systems; Energetic Composites and Devices Energy
Devices/Projects:
Storage Devices
Professor
Prosthetic limb restoration; motor control and polymers for tissue engineering; Designing of controllers; robotic devices; signal processing and instrumentation; Entrepreneurial and regulatory experience with medical devices
Devices/Projects:
CHARM (continuous hemodynamic autoregulation monitor) for TBI patients in ICU setting: Dynawheel: an interactive hand-held rehabilitation/exercise device ; mimic human hand (BME hand)
Associate Professor
Machine vision, pattern recognition
Devices/Projects:
Quantitative characterization of skin
Distinguished Professor
Biological and chemical methods for renewable solar-based fuel production, catalysis, photosynthesis, metals in biological systems and tools for investigating these systems
Devices/Projects:
Catalysis modeling software, novel catalysts
Professor
To understand structures, mechanisms, and regulation of bacterial transcription complexes and to identify, characterize, and develop small-molecule inhibitors of bacterial transcription for application as antituberculosis agents and broad-spectrum antibacterial agents.
Devices/Projects:
Small-molecule inhibitors of bacterial transcription
Assistant Professor
Synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles and their controlled aggregation; nanoparticles for the preparation of materials with tailored properties; nanoparticles in nanobiotechnology
Devices/Projects:
Gold Nanostar substrates for SERS sensing in the femtomolar regime
Associate Professor
Musculoskeletal tissue engineering, biomechanics, biomaterials
Devices/Projects:
Bone scaffold, contectile nanofibers, braided ligament replacement, custom-built braiding machine
Distinguished Professor
Surface functionalization, nanotechnology
Professor
The mechanics of fluidized beds, multiphase flows and reactors, flow and segregation of granular materials, nonlinear dynamics of transport processes in fluid-particle systems, and pharmaceutical engineering
Devices/Projects:
Catalyst manufacturing
Professor
Develops and studies organometallic catalysts for small molecule transformations, such as alkane dehydrogenation, alkane metathesis, and hydrocarbylation.
Devices/Projects:
Catalyst design and synthesis
Professor
Laser-matter interactions, thermal management, energy transport
Devices/Projects:
Thermal analysis of laser-tissue interactions
Assistant Professor
Three dimensional (3D) medical image analysis, computer vision, image-guided therapy and surgery, and multi-modality and multi-parametric imaging with an emphasis on ultrasound
Devices/Projects:
Portable non-radiation based scoliosis assessment using tracked real-time ultrasound; Flexible sparse array ultrasound transducer; image guided surgery and therapy systems that incorporate innovative computer and machine interface technologies into surgical procedures
Professor
Solution behavior of ionic polymers, development and study of novel polymers, polymer blends, and composites via ionic interactions.
Devices/Projects:
Novel polymers including ionic polymers
Associate Professor
Investigating atomic and molecular beam scattering from surfaces prepared under ultrahigh vacuum conditions.
Devices/Projects:
Novel and highly sensitive probe of sheet conductivity
Assistant Professor
Microfabrication, sensor development, point of care diagnostics
Devices/Projects:
Impedence-based detection of protiens, dielectrophoretic seperation on microfluidic platforms
Assistant Professor
nano-/micro-electromechanical systems
Devices/Projects:
ultralow-power electronics and sensors
Associate Professor
Developing novel photonic devices for communications, sensing, beam steering and other applications
Devices/Projects:
Photonic crystal and optical metamaterials
Distinguished Professor
Degradable polymers, biomaterials
Devices/Projects:
Tryosine-derived polycarbonates for medical applications
Professor-Dept. Chair
Biomechanics and Tissue Engineering
Devices/Projects:
Device for fatigue testing of lower leg during gait, Bi-axial testing Device, DNA-based hydrogels
Assistant Professor
Rapid prototyping, soft robotics, responsive materials
Devices/Projects:
3D additive manufacturing, biomimetic soft robotics, soft active materials
Professor
Develop and integrate nanotechnologies and chemical functional genomics
Devices/Projects:
Multifunctional nanoparticles for biomaterials, nanomedicine, chemical biology and stem/cancer cell biology
Professor
The development of solid-state inorganic and inorganic-organic hybrid materials that are both fundamentally important and relevant for practical applications
Devices/Projects:
Inorganic-organic hybrid semiconductor materials
Associate Professor
Microfluidics, electro-hydrodynamic flow
Devices/Projects:
Electroporation-mediated molecular delivery, electric-field-mediated membrane deformation
Distinguished Professor
Biosensor development, QCM-based measurements
Devices/Projects:
Biofunctionalization of ZnO nanostructures for monitoring cell adhesion and proliferation, DNA biosensing
Associate Professor
Materials characterization, nanomechanics, surface interaction
Devices/Projects:
Biomaterial tribology testing
Assistant Professor
Advanced manufacturing, soft robotics
Devices/Projects:
Flexible electronics, low-cost/disposable assays
Distinguished Professor
High dimensional biology, profiling of cell-material interactions, nanobiomaterials, and nanobiointerfaces
Assistant Professor
Functional brain imaging
Devices/Projects:
NIR imaging of brain activity, low power circuit design for biomedical applications
Assistant Professor
Nanophotonics, Optoelectronic Devices, Conjugated Polymer Materials, and Nanofabrication
Devices/Projects:
Nanoscale organic light emitting opto-electronic devices, light emitting polymer nanowires
Professor
Plant cell culture, chemical and biochemical fiber optic sensors, applications of biophotonics in bioprocess technology
Devices/Projects:
Optic sensors
Assistant Professor
Optical imaging systems for diagnosis and management of cancer
Devices/Projects:
Optical coherence tomography for non-destructive 2D or 3D imaging of sample cross-sections; Benchtop point-scanning confocal microscope; Fiber-optic microendoscopy with epi-fluorescence imaging; Wide-field macroscopic imaging
Professor
Development of nanomedicines designed for delivery of therapeutic oligonucleotides, optical imaging agents, or conventional drugs
Devices/Projects:
GRAPLONs (GRAft Polymer-Lipid Oligonucleotide Nanocomplexes; with Dr. David Devore) for delivery of therapeutic oligonucleotides (antisense and siRNA) as well as cationic peptides for wound healing; Cationic amphiphilic macromolecules (with Prof. Kathryn Uhrich) for delivery of therapeutic oligonucleotides (antisense and siRNA); rare earth-albumin nanocomposites we (with Prabhas Moghe, Rik Riman and Mark Pierce) are using for optical imaging
Assistant Professor
Stem cells and cancer precision therapy
Devices/Projects:
The research efforts in the Sabaawy laboratory at CINJ are focused on studying stem cell cellular self-renewal and cancer stem cells utilizing patient-derived cells to generate patient-derived organoids (PDOs), that when coupled with genome sequencing and humanized patient derived xenografts (PDXs) allow for testing drug sensitivity prior to initiation of therapy of cancer patients and generate better models for drug discovery. Our PDOs may be incorporated into medical devices and have strong implications in the fields of organ regeneration, regenerative medicine, personalized medicine, and precision cancer therapy.
Professor
Polymer electroprocessing, structure-property relationships in electroactive polymeric materials, ferroelectric, piezoelectric, pyroelectric, dielectric, and electrostrictive properties of polymers
Devices/Projects:
Scaffolds made from electroactive polymers
Associate Professor
Multiphase fluid mechanics and rheology, imaging (nuclear magnetic resonance imaging), micro and nanoencapsulation, biopolymer colloids, health, and environmental applications.
Devices/Projects:
Biopolymeric colloids for health and environmental applications
Professor
Central Nervous System injury, repair, and regeneration.
Devices/Projects:
Brain-Computer Interface devices, photocrosslinked/cold melting collagem
Assistant Professor
micro-/nano-manufacturing
Devices/Projects:
Rapid production of 3D micro/nano structures
Associate Professor
Fundamental studies on lipid bilayers
Devices/Projects:
Biomembranes and lipid-based nanopaticles for drug delivery systems, diagnostics, and therapeutics with special focus on cancer
Assistant Professor
Biomaterials, drug delivery, medical device fabrication
Devices/Projects:
Nano-/micro-particle drug formulations, brain drug delivery devices
Associate Professor
Surfactant morphology and dynamics, nanoparticles, particle shape monitoring and control in crystallization processes, bio-nano robotics, granular materials
Devices/Projects:
Granular Materials
Professor
Polymeric bioactives
Devices/Projects:
Bioactive polymers
Professor
Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine; Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapeutics; BioMEMS and BioNanotechnology, Medical Devices
Devices/Projects:
Veinous puncture Device, Liver mimicking device
Associate Professor
Microscale transport phenomena, Microfluidics, BioMEMS
Devices/Projects:
Microfluidic device for Blood Cell/Plasma Separation, Microdialysis/Microfiltration platforms, Microimmunoassay platforms, Microcatheters for drug delivery, Microelectroporation platforms, Ultracompliant Flexible Neural probes, Microculture chambers supporting neurocircuitry models, Topographically patterned microelectrode array