Di Carlo named 2016 MRS Outstanding Young Investigator for microstructured materials
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detection, imaging, drug delivery, and cancer therapy via in vivo photothermal tumor destruction. His use of single-walled carbon nanotubes as fl uorophores to image mouse hind limb vasculatures in the second near-infrared region (NIR-II) is a feat unattainable by traditional NIR imaging or micro-CT. With the NIR-II’s capacity of video-rate imaging with dynamic contrast and ability to quantitate blood flow in both normal and ischemic vessels, Dai has demonstrated the potential of NIR-II imaging for a wide range of biological structures and real-time processes, such as blood flow, vessel clotting, and angiogenesis.
Di Carlo named 2016 MRS Outstanding Young Investigator for microstructured materials
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ino Di Carlo, professor of bioengineering at the University of California–Los Angeles, has been named a 2016 Materials Research Society (MRS) Outstanding Young Investigator. He was cited “for pioneering methods to manufacture, measure, and manipulate microstructured materials and applying these innovations to biomedical problems.” He will be presented with the award at the 2016 MRS Spring Meeting in Phoenix, Ariz. Di Carlo has pioneered the use of inertia in microfluidic systems for controlling cell and particle motion. He has shown that inertia is not only critical to low Reynolds number flows in microchannels, but it is also extremely useful and easily exploited in these systems to achieve control over manipulation of bioparticles and cells, including
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positioning randomly distributed cells into a single-file stream, spreading cells out in ordered trains, or separating cells by size or deformability. More recently, Di Carlo’s research has used microfluidics and microfabrication techniques, especially inertial microfl uidic techniques, to engineer novel materials to address various applications such as in wound healing, 3D advanced materials, tunable biomaterials, and shaped microfibers. Microfl uidically fabricated microgel building blocks are the basis of a new microporous annealed particle scaffold technology that accelerates wound healing without growth factors in a cost-effective manner. Di Carlo also led work to develop materials with strong embedded and patterned micromagnets for biomedical applications. Such micromagnetic
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Dai is the J.G. Jackson and C.J. Wood Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University. He earned his PhD degree in applied physics/physical chemistry from Harvard University in 1994. He is the Honorary Chair Professor of the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (2015), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and serves on the editorial boards of eight publications. Dai has written more than 250 papers, and he is ranked as one of the most cited chemists (in materials chemistry) by Thomson Reuters.
arrays were used to manipulate magnetic nanoparticles within cells and apply forces to cells over large arrays. He discovered that force
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