Materials Science & Engineering (MS&E) alum Hyungmok Joh, MS&E graduate student Bin Lian, and TMI faculty member Donglei Emma Fan unveiled a breakthrough in microbubbles, which had been a technological challenge up to now.
In collaboration with Prof. Peer Fischer and Prof. Zhichao Ma (Max Planck Institute) and Prof. Si-Yang Zheng’s group (Carnegie Mellon University), the team developed a new opto-electrochemical technique that uses low-intensity light and electrolysis to allow for a precise assembly of complex patterns at room temperature. This technique is ideal for sensitive biomedial applications like drug-screening and biosensing, as well as single-cell analysis by enabling real-time monitoring and high-throughput particle manipulation.
You can read more in their article, "Massively parallel microbubble nano-assembly," in Nature Communications.
