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.

The article “Stretchable conductors by kirigami patterning of aramid-silver nanocomposites with zero conductance gradient” appeared in Applied Physics Letters.

Joint research in the Green, Larson and Solomon groups published in Physical Review Letters in an article entitled “Rheological State Diagrams for Rough Colloids in Shear Flow”.

Sunitha Nagrath’s group is developing a device that incorporates nano-materials to allow for the isolation and analysis of circulating tumor cells from whole blood. In association with Dr. Scott McLean, the hope is that the research will predict the recurrence of melanoma after tumor removal.

The article entitled “Biosimilarity under stress: A forced degradation study of Remicade® and Remsima™” appeared in MAb.

Their research findings appeared in Molecular Pharmaceutics in an article entitled “Multiscale Computational Modeling of the Nanostructure of Solid Dispersions of Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose Acetate Succinate (HPMCAS) and Phenytion”.

The article “Adjuvant-Loaded Spiky Gold Nanoparticles for Activation of Innate Immune Cells” appears in Cellular and Molecular Engineering.

The article entitled “Quantitative models of feline lumbosacral dorsal root ganglia neuronal cell density” appears in the Journal of Neuroscience Research.

A research article from Sunitha Nagrath’s lab, in collaboration with the Keller, Wicha and Simeone groups, entitled “High-Throughput Microfluidic Labyrinth for Label-free Isolation of Circulating Tumor Cells” was published in Cell Systems.