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Plasmonic Nanocages as Photothermal Transducers for Nanobubble Cancer Therapy

Karampelas I.H., Liu K., Furlani E.P., University at Buffalo (SUNY), US

The ability to generate and control thermal energy with nanoscale resolution is finding increasing use in a variety of applications spanning the fields of nanoparticle synthesis, nanofabrication, bio-imaging and medical therapy [1, 2]. One of [...]

Analysis of Permeance vs. Support Porosity for Thin Film Composite Membranes

Karampelas I.H., Zhu L., Jia W., Yavari M., Lin H., Furlani E.P., University at Buffalo (SUNY), US

Membranes are an important technology for industrial gas separation and seawater desalination and emerging applications such as CO2 capture. The key to the steady growth of membrane applications is high performance thin film composite (TFC) [...]

Magnetohydrodynamic Liquid Metal Jet Printing

Vader S., Vader Z., Vader S., Vader Z., Karampelas I.H., Furlani E.P., SUNY-Buffalo, US

We present a novel method for drop-on-demand (DOD) printing of molten metal droplets into 3D objects. This method involves the use of heating to pre-melt a solid metal structure (e.g. rod) to form a reservoir [...]

Plasmonic Nanocages as Photothermal Transducers for Laser Induced Heating and Bubble Generation

Karampelas I.H., Alali F., Furlani E.P., SUNY-Buffalo, US

A series of new computational models is introduced to demonstrate several photonic and thermo-fluidic details of the photothermal process associated with nanosecond-pulsed, laser-heated gold nanocages. Such models can be used to simulate energy conversion within [...]

Bottom-up Nanofabrication of Crystalline Structures of Magnetic Nanoparticles

Xue X., Furlani E.P., SUNY at Buffalo, US

A bottom-up approach to the nanofabrication of three-dimensional (3D) crystalline structures of magnetic core-shell nanoparticles is presented. The approach is based on self-assembly and involves the use of soft-magnetic template elements to guide the assembly [...]

Microfluidics for multiplexing of core needle biopsies

Mojica W.D., Oh K.W., Lee H., Xue X., Furlani E.P., University at Buffalo, US

Image guided biopsies for the procurement of diagnostic tissue has proven to be safe, cost effective and useful. However, the amount of tissue obtained is often diminutive and may be exhausted for conventional diagnostic purposes. [...]