BUnano faculty have been busy all throughout the summer, publishing papers, presenting their innovative work, and patenting their inventions. Here are this summer’s highlights: Chuanhua Duan: Rewritable nano print of ionic liquids utilizing focused ion beam induced film wetting under review in Nature Portfolio Jerome Mertz: High-speed multiplane confocal microscopy for voltage imaging in densely labeled […]
BU research publication The Brink featured Drs. Mark Grinstaff, BUnano Director, and Wilson Wong in a recent article highlighting faculty research funded by the BU Ignition Awards. The Ignition Awards help fund innovative faculty research across all of BU’s campuses that have clear commercial potential. Drs. Grinstaff and Wong are utilizing this award to supercharge […]
From The Brink: BUnano Center Director Mark Grinstaff was recently awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Centenary Prize in “recognition of brilliance in research and innovation.” Read the full article here.
An international team of scientists led by BUnano Center Director Dr. Mark Grinstaff, Dr. Orian Shirihai (UCLA), and BUnano Crossdisciplinary Fellowship Alumna Dr. Jialiu Zeng (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) reports on a new type of nanotechnology as a potential first-in-kind therapeutic for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), which affects 20 to 30% of the world’s […]
Several BUnano Faculty received Kilachand Awards in 2021 for pushing limits of science: read below about innovations by Drs. Xin Zhang, Stephan Anderson, Aaron Beeler & Mo Khalil. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/five-studies-pushing-the-limits-of-science/
12/21/2021 BUnano Faculty Prof. Jerome Mertz is BU’s 2020 Innovator of the Year. Jerome Mertz, a Boston University College of Engineering professor of biomedical engineering and of electrical and computer engineering and a BU College of Arts & Sciences professor of physics, holds six issued patents for technologies that have greatly advanced microscopic imaging quality […]
8/8/2020 BUnano faculty Dr Xi Ling receives a NSF CAREER AWARD. Read the story here.
4/24/2020 BUnano faculty Joyce Wong, Selim Unlu, Catherine Klapperich, Alice White and Mark Grinstaff were featured in the BU Brink story on their innovative research addressing the challenge of the global pandemic – true interdisciplinary collaboration! applications are due May 31.
12/6/2019 BUnano Center co-sponsored Symposium “FF02—2D Nanomaterials-Based Nanofluidics” organized by Dr. Chuanhua Duan at the 2019 Fall MRS meeting in Boston, with Keynote Speaker 2010 Physics Nobel Laureate Prof. Andre Geim.
9/12/2019 BUnano Faculty member Ahmad (Mo) Khalil was named Dorf-Ebner Distinguished Faculty Fellow. Dr. Khalil is Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Associate Director of the Biological Design Center and Co-Director of SB2 NIH/NIGMS T32 Training Program.