ElectroMagnetic Field Manipulation
     assembly with optical tweezers (Gupta)
     capillary electrophoresis (DeVoe)
     drug delivery (Shapiro)
     electrowetting (Shapiro)
     dielectrophoretic sorting (Smela)
     multiple frequency DEP (Smela)

Fluid Actuators
     micro-flow feedback control (Shapiro)
     microvalves (DeVoe)
     microvalve modeling (Shapiro, Smela)
     modeling fluids under fields (Shapiro)
     nastic/hydraulic elastomers (Smela)

 

How

Cantilevers
     integrated optical readout (Ghodssi)

Chromatography
     microchip HPLC separations (DeVoe)

CMOS-Based Sensors
     bioamplifier chip (Abshire, Smela)
     capacitance sensing (Abshire, Smela)
     fluorescense sensing (Abshire, Smela)
     lens-free imaging (Abshire, Smela)
     thin film optical filters (Abshire,Smela)

Electrochemical Approaches
     gel electrophoresis, 2D-PAGE (DeVoe)
     redox-capacitor (Ghodssi, Bentley, Payne)
     within chitosan (Ghodssi, Bentley, Payne)

Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry

     nanofilament silicon (DeVoe)

Optomechanical Approaches
     III-V compounds, absorbance (Ghodssi)

SERS
     optofluidic SERS (White)
     printed arrays on paper (White)

Single Molecule Detection
     pores (DeVoe)

 

 

 

 

 

 

MicroFabrication

BenchTop MEMS
     UV-curable polymers (Smela)

BioFabrication
     hydrogels (Payne)

Design
     compliant meanders (Smela
     design methodology (Gupta)

Lithography
     gray-scale lithography (Ghodssi)

MicroFluidics
     microfluidic interfacing (DeVoe)

Processing

BioPolymers
     chitosan (Ghodssi, Payne, Rubloff)

Cell-Based Materials
     cells cultured in tubular shapes (Nie)

Flexible Electronics
     transparent paper (Hu)
     conductive ink (Hu)
     patternable compliant electrodes (Smela)

MicroFluidics
     elastomer/carbon composites (Smela)

Paper
     paper-based sensing (White)
     nanocellulose (Hu)

Particles
     liposome formation (DeVoe)
     magnetic gel droplets (DeVoe)
     targeted drug delivery (DeVoe)
     inorganic nanoparticles (Hu)

Energy Storage, Conversion 
     micro-ball bearings (Ghodssi)
     large-scale electrochemical storage (Hu)
     high-performance cathodes (Hu)
     printed flexible energy devices (Hu)
     transparent electrodes for solar (Hu)
     microbial fuel cell devices (Hu)

Power MEMS
     electrochemical (Ghodssi, Rubloff)

Thermoregulation
      thermally-responsive fabric (Hu)