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Dynamically Responsive Smart Materials, Biomimetic Interfaces
Lab designs intelligent materials with tunable dynamic responses by manipulating the interplay between weak colloidal-range forces, and the often cooperative dynamics of polymer chains. Work aims to develop a fundamental understanding of dynamic behaviors, and develop new materials, including materials for implantation in the body, drug delivery, tunable adhesives, paints and inks, water clean-up, bacterial scavengers, bio-sensors, and protein separations. |
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Potential Application |
Developing chemistry and protocols to synthesize surfaces with distinct chemical patterns on length scales from 3-50 nm, and the subsequent study of how these materials interact with proteins |
Biomedical implants, pharmaceutical separation media, sensors |
Developing chemistry and protocols to synthesize surfaces with distinct chemical patterns on length scales from 3-50 nm, and the subsequent study of how these materials interact with colloidal –scale objects |
Pharmaceutical separation media, sorting of biological cells, sensors |
Development of nanometer thin bilayer polymeric membranes with selective adhesive function |
Drug delivery, scavengers of harmful micron-scale objects (both cellular, viral, and non-biological) |
Development of nanometer thin bilayer polymeric membranes with controlled surface phase behavior and stability |
Drug delivery |
Fundamental studies in dynamics of mobility in layers of adsorbed polymers and proteins (typically at liquid-solid interfaces) |
Surfaces for microfluidic applications, biomedical implants, lab-on-a-chip |
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