News & Events

The article entitled “3D Jet Writing: Functional Microtissues Based on Tessellated Scaffold Architectures” appears in Advanced Materials.

The research article was published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine and entitled “Tibial Nerve Stimulation to Drive Genital Sexual Arousal in an Anesthetized Female Rat”.

Lauren Zimmerman, a graduate student in Tim Bruns’ lab, wins the NIH F31 Fellowship from the NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Nick Kotov’s work on biomimetic composites is recognized by the Mobile World Scholar Challenge

Patricia Schnepp, PhD and Vishwanath Sankarasubramanian, PhD receive Postdoctoral Translational Scholars Program (PTSP) Awards from MICHR.

The article entitled “Chiromagnetic Nanoparticles and Gels” appeared in the January 19 issue of Science.

We are pleased to announce our selection for the Diabetes and Its Complications Challenge seed fund competition.

Carlos Aguilar, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and his research group recently joined BI.  The Nano-Omic-Bio-Engineering Lab (NOBEL) is working on developing new approaches and tools to understand and investigate skeletal muscles.

Research in the Kotov group demonstrated the self-assembly of inorganic nanoparticles into nanoshells, which can potentially be used for gene delivery applications. More details here.

Lonnie Shea’s research group developed scaffold technologies to grow lung organoids.

Nick Kotov develops artificial cartilage materials from Kevlar-based nanofibers.

The Bioplasmonics Group, directed by Prof. Somin Lee, works at the interface between life science, physical science and engineering, drawing from a combination of bottom-up and top-down nanofabrication approaches, to design and develop smart biophotonic technologies and uncover biological complexities in the development of tissues and in cancer. Specifically, they have recently developed novel tools, including an mechano-optical plasmonic nanoantenna, to measure the temperature of proteins in cells. Prof. Lee received a Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) to support this research.

Research in the Polymers Interfaces Surfaces (PSI) Group directed by Prof. Anish Tuteja focuses on developing polymers for energy and environmental applications. To date, the group has developed polymer systems for:

Drag reduction
Ice repelling
Drug delivery
Superhydrophobic and superoleophobic surfaces

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The Glotzer group published an article entitled “Virial Coefficients and Equations of State for Hard Polyhedron Fluids” in Langmuir.

Research on controlled levitation of surface-modified colloids by electric fields was recently published in Langmuir and selected as the issue’s cover art. The work was performed in Ron Larson and Michael Solomon’s groups. Lead author, Carlos A. Silvera Batista, was a UM Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Solomon lab and recently joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Vanderbilt University as an Assistant Professor.