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Micro/Nanofluidics Lab Staff and Facilities
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| The interdisciplinary nature of our research is such that
our research team consists of lab members from a wide variety of
backgrounds, and our research is performed in many different laboratories.
This page gives an intro to our staff and facilities. |
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| Staff |
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We have a very interdisciplinary group. Professor Kirby is a member
of the Mechanical, Chemical, Biomedical, and
Aerospace Engineering fields at Cornell.
Our staff has included students from Mechanical Engineering,
Biomedical Engineering, Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering,
and Applied Physics. Students at the Ph.D., Master's, and
undergraduate level are all currently working
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| Other pages on this website contain
phone and email contact info for our lab members
as well as information on
current research openings. |
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| Facilities |
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Because of the complex and expensive equipment and infrastructure required for micro- and nanoscale
research, facilities are often a limiting factor. At Cornell, we have unparalleled resources both for fabrication and
for characterization. Many of these facilities are housed in Duffield Hall, a new, >$100M building that connects
Upson and Grumman Hall (the primary homes of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) and
Phillips Hall (Electrical and Computer
Engineering) and is the center of nanoscale research at Cornell.
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View of Duffield Hall from the sundial on the Engineering Quad.
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Cornell University) |
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Our laboratory in Grumman Hall has wet chemistry facilities for chemical synthesis and biochemical analysis.
We also employ approximately five microscopes in concert with a variety of
optical instrumentation for laser-fabrication and/or characterization of microsystems, as well
as specialized equipment for interfacial characterization.
In addition to the capabilities in our laboratory,
our research group draws heavily on user facilities such as the
Cornell Nanofabrication Facility (CNF). The CNF houses
state-of-the-art cleanroom, fabrication, and characterization facilities.
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Other centers, such as the Nanobiotechnology Center,
Cornell Center for Materials Research,
and
Center for Nanoscale Systems,
all have extensive user facilities that we utilize for our research. These include
cleanrooms, UV and e-beam lithography, plasma and wet etching, microscopy (e.g., SEM, TEM, STEM), and surface
characterization tools (e.g., XPS, AFM, STM).
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Walter andVishal work in the lab, summer 2009.
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Caroline
in the lab, summer 2007, developing novel
polymer synthesis techniques to advance our ability to engineer
chondrocyte tissue scaffolds.
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Sowmya
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Brian
in the lab, summer 2007, investigating
microdevices for studying
protein refolding and combinatorial drug synthesis.
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Vishal, Jason, Sowmya and
Brian at MicroTAS 2009, Jeju, Korea.
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Sowmya presents her work at MicroTAS 2009, Jeju, Korea.
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