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BioInstrumentation
Modern experimental research requires the combination of many traditional disciplines including biology, optics, mechanics, mathematics, electronics and chemistry. The BioInstrumentation Laboratory is uniquely placed to bring together these areas of research with its broad array of students and post doctoral research scientists from diverse fields. In addition, the lab maintains extensive laboratory facilities to allow our researchers to move quickly from a device concept to a prototype and rapidly iterate their designs.
Research at the BioInstrumentation Laboratory includes a number of fields including conducting polymer chemistry, medical devices, wireless instrumentation, and actuator design.
Lab News
- Professor Ian Hunter gives plenary lecture at Imperial College, London,U.K., on "Bio Mimetic Systems Grown from Conducting Polymers," (November 11, 2009)
- MICA wireless data acquisition system deployed in 2.671, the undergraduate measurement and instrumentation course (November 06, 2009)
- Refined microwire cutting techniques, permitting a total of ~1km from a single deposition batch of electrically conductive polypyrrole (November 06, 2009)
- Obtained real-time reversible surface energy change (wettability) of conductive polypyrrole (November 06, 2009)
- Predicted skin mechanics using 1st- and 2nd-order Volterra kernels in a repeatable fashion (November 06, 2009)
- Emanuel Hernandez wins best poster award at the SACNAS conference in Dallas TX (October 19, 2009)
- Cathy Hogan and Lynette Jones presented posters at the Society for Neuroscience in Chicago IL (October 19, 2009)
