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Nanoscale Energy Transport

Investisgating how thermal and electrical transport is affected by nanoscale dimensions in materials (e.g. nanowires, nanoparticles, nanocomposites, ... More

  FIELDS
 

• Fundamental Nanoscience
• Nanotechnology Educ.
• Characterization
• Energy
• Nanomaterials

Alexis Abramson

Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Phone: (216) 368-4191
Fax: (216) 368-3007
Email: alexis.abramson@case.edu

Biomaterials with Defined Nanoscale Properties to Control Cell Behavior

Developing novel biomaterial systems that can present structural and biologically active signals to cells on the ... More

  FIELDS
 

• Characterization
• Medicine
• Micro/Nano-fabrication
• Nanomaterials 
   

Eben Alsberg

Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering

Phone: (216) 368-6425
Fax: (216) 368-4969
Email: eben.alsberg@case.edu

Polymer Nanolayers and Microlayers by Forced-Assembly

Layer-multiplying coextrusion uses forced assembly to create thousands of alternating layers of two polymers. The thickness ... More

  FIELDS
 

• Characterization
• Photonics
• Micro/Nanofabrication
• Nanomaterials

Eric Baer

Leonard Case Professor
Macromolecular Science and Engineering

Phone: (216) 368-4203
Fax: (216) 368-6329
Email: exb6@case.edu

Intraoperative Molecular Engineering

Inventigating real time administration and activation of GBM specific NIRf probes to identify invasive cancer cells during brain surgery... More

  FIELDS
 

 

James Basilion

Associate Professor
Radiology
Biomedical Engineering

Phone: (216) 983-3263
Fax: (216) 844-4987
Email: james.basilion@case.edu

Nanoscale Orthopedic Biomaterials

Fabricating nanophase collagen/mineral materials intended to mimic bone structure at the submicron scale. These materials are designed to interact ... More

  FIELDS
 

. Fundamental Nanoscience
• Medicine
• Characterization
• Nanomaterials
• Micro/Nano-fabrication

Clemens Burda

Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry

Phone: (216) 368-5918
Email:
clemens.burda@case.edu

DNA nanoparticles for gene therapy

Developing DNA nanoparticles for gene therapy. Primary target is the lung in cystic fibrosis with delivery of the CF gene, but secondary targets include ... More

  FIELDS
 

• Medicine

Pamela B. Davis

Research Professor
Pediatrics, Medicine,
Physiology & Biophysics, and
Molecular Biology & Microbiology

Phone: (216) 368-4370
Fax: (216) 368-4223
Email: pamela.davis@case.edu

Cell Fission in Bacteria

Identify and study the proteins that make up and regulate the cell division apparatus in bacteria... More

  FIELDS
 


Piet de Boer

Associate Professor

Phone: (216) 368-1697
Fax: (216) 368-3055
Email: pad5@case.edu

Nanostructured oxide thin films and mesoporous materials

Synthesis of oxide films (SnO2, TiO2, ZrO2, CeO2,In2O3) and mesoporous powders (V2O5-TiO2) from aqueous media ... More

  FIELDS
 

• Nanomaterials
• Medicine
• Catalysis
• Environment
• Energy

Mark DeGuire

Associate Professor
Materials Science and Engineering

Phone: (216) 368-4203
Fax: (216) 368-6329
Email: exb6@case.edu

DNA nanoparticles for gene therapy

Investigation of new MR methods and technologies to permit MR image guided assessment and treatment of cardio- and cerebrovascular disease ... More

  FIELDS
 

• Micro/Nano-fabrication
• Medicine
• Sensors
• Electronics & Communications

Jeffrey Duerk

Professor of Radiology Research
Biomedical Engineering

Phone: (216) 844-7794
Fax: (216) 844-8062
Email: duerk@uhrad.com

Nanoscale Orthopedic Biomaterials

Fabricating nanophase collagen/mineral materials intended to mimic bone structure at the submicron scale. These materials are designed to ... More

  FIELDS
 

• Fundamental Nanoscience
• Medicine
• Characterization
• Nanomaterials
• Micro/Nano-fabrication

Steven J. Eppell

Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering

Phone: (216) 368-4067
Fax: (216) 368-4969
Email: sje@case.edu

Structure, Defects, & Composition of Nanoparticles

Experimental determination of nanoparticle structures down to the atomistic length scale, characterization of structural ... More

  FIELDS
 

• Fundamental Nanoscience
• Catalysis
• Characterization
• Energy
• Computation & Simulation

Frank Ernst

Professor
Materials Science and Engineering

Phone: (216) 368-0611
Fax:
Email: frank.ernst@case.edu

Development of Injectable, Ultra-sound Modulated Drug Depot

Solvent-based local drug chemotherapy system is injected into tissue and creates a storage depot for drug-loaded, tumor-targeted nanoparticles...More

  FIELDS
 

. Nanomaterials
• Electronics and Communication

Agata Exner

Assistant Professor
Radiology
Biomedical Engineering

Phone: (216) 844-3544
Fax: (216) 844-5922
Email: agata.exner@case.edu

Manipulation of Nanoparticle using Acoustics

Investigates the use of resonant ultrasonic fields to position nanoparticles within liquids. This approach enables advanced materials fabrications, such as the formation ... More

  FIELDS
 

. Fundamental Nanoscience
. Computation and Simulation
. Characterization
. Nanomaterials
. Micro/Nano-fabrication

Donald Feke

Professor
Chemical Engineering
Macromolecular Science and Engineering

Phone: (216) 368-2750
Fax: (216) 368-3016
Email: donald.feke@case.edu

Targeted Nanoparticles for Molecular Imaging of Cancer

Developing novel semiconductor nanocrystal probes as a platform technology for molecular ... More

  FIELDS
 

. Nanomaterials
• Medicine
• Photonics

Maryann Fitzmaurice

Associate Professor
Department of Pathology

Phone: (216) 844-5228
Fax: (216) 844-1810
Email: maryann.fitzmaurice@case.edu

Paraequilibrium Carburization of Stainless Steels

Low temperature paraequilibrium carburization is being used to surface harden a variety of stainless steels. Hardened cases, 25-20 µm deep ... More

  FIELDS
 

• Characterization
• Environment
• Energy
• Structural Applications
• Aerospace

Arthur Heuer

University Professor
Materials Science and Engineering

Phone: (216) 368-3868
Fax: (216) 368-8932
Email: heuer@case.edu

Polymer Nanodroplets

Dispersions of polymer nanodroplets created by interfacially-driven nanolayer breakup are used to study homogeneous nucleation and ... More

FIELDS

• Fundamental Nanoscience
• Micro/Nanofabrication
• Characterization
• Nanomaterials

Anne Hiltner

Herbert Henry Dow Professor of
Science and Engineering
Macromolecular Science and Engineering

Phone: (216) 368-4186
Fax: (216) 368-6329
Email: ahiltner@case.edu

Rheology of metallosupramolecular polymers

Investigating the sol-gel behavior of polymeric structures derived via self-assembly of ditopic ligands using ... More

  FIELDS
 

. Nanomaterials
. Photonics
. Sensors

Alexander M. Jamieson

Professor
Macromolecular Science & Engineering

Phone: (216) 368-6654
Fax: (216) 368-4202
Email: amj@case.edu

RNA Protein Assemblies

Understand the principles that underlie the design and function of complexes that contain RNA and proteins. Specific focus: function of RNA helicases ... More

FIELDS

• Fundamental Nanoscience
• Medicine
• Characterization
• Photonics
• Nanomaterials

Eckhard Jankowsky

Assistant Professor
Biochemistry Center for RNA Molecular Biology
Department of Physics

Phone: (216) 368-3336
Fax: (216) 368-3419
Email: eckhard.jankowsky@case.edu

Nano-microscale Fluid Dynamics in Biological Systems

Biological tissues have the capacity to adapt to changing environmental conditions throughout life. Pericellular fluid ... More

FIELDS

• Micro/Nanofabrication
• Medicine
• NEMS/MEMS
• Photonics
• Computation and Simulation

Melissa Knothe Tate

Assistant Professor
Biochemistry Center for RNA Molecular Biology
Biomedical Engineering]
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Phone: (216) 368-5884
Fax: (216) 368-4979
Email: knothetate@case.edu

Cancer Nanomedicine

Investigating nanocarriers for cancer-targeted delivery of chemotheray agents; Controlled and localized release of co-delivered chemotherapy agents ... More

FIELDS

• Characterization
• Medicine
• Micro/Nano-fabrication
• Computation and Simulation
• Nanomaterials

Young Jik Kwon

Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering

Phone: (216) 368-0187
Fax: (216) 368-4969
Email: young.kwon@case.edu

Effects of Nanoscale Structure on Atomic Scale Structure and Properties

Molecular dynamics simulations are used to show that nanoscale structure can alter the nature of the atomic-level bonding ... More

FIELDS

• Fundamental Nanoscience
• Nanomaterials
• Computation and Simulation

Daniel J. Lacks

Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering

Phone: (216) 368-4238
Fax: (216) 368-3016
Email: daniel.lacks@case.edu

Spintronics

Spintronics is spin-dependent electronics. Electronic structure calculations are used to study atomic scale spin-dependent phenomena and materials ... More

FIELDS

• Fundamental Nanoscience
• Electronics and Communications
• Computation and Simulation
• Photonics
• Nanomaterials
• Energy

Walter R. L. Lambrecht

Professor
Department of Physics

Phone: (216) 368-6120
Fax: (216) 368-4671
Email: walter.lambrecht@case.edu

Nanoscale imaging of plasma membrane lipid rafts

This project creates a new interdisciplinary collaboration among scientists in immunology, physics in the field of biophotonics, chemistry ... More

FIELDS

• Structural Applications
• Medicine

Alan D. Levine

Professor
Medicine/GastroenterologyPathology and Pharmacology

Phone: (216) 368-0342
Fax: (216) 368-1674
Email: alan.levine@case.edu

(1) Fabrication of micro and nano devices, focusing
on chemical and biological sensors and energy storage systems (2) Development of nano-scale electrochemical instrumets including potentiostat and rotating ring-disl electrodes using electron beam lithographic techniques, ... More

FIELDS

• NEMS/MEMS • Environment
• Computation and Simulation
• Nanomaterials • Sensors
• Catalysis • Energy • Medicine

Chung-Chiun Liu

Wallace R. Persons Professor of Sensor Technology and Control
Director, Electronics Design Center

Phone: (216) 368-2935
Fax: (216) 368-8738
Email: CXL9@case.edu

Dispersion of nanometer-scale particle systems

Investigate the use of secondary species to control the cohesivity and dispersion behavior for particle assemblies with ... More

FIELDS

• Characterization
• Computation and Simulation
• Micro/Nano-fabrication
• Nanomaterials
• NEMS/MEMS

Ica Manas-Zloczower

Professor
Macromolecular Science and Engineering

Phone: (216) 368-3596
Fax: (216) 368-4202
Email: ixm@case.edu

Surface and Colloid Physical Chemistry: Intefacial Transport

Mass, momentum, and energy transport are fundamental to understanding the dynamics of diverse interfacial systems ... More

  FIELDS
 

• Fundamental Nanoscience
• Characterization
• Computation and Simulation
• Catalysis
• Nanotechnology Education

J. Adin Mann

Professor
Chemical Engineering
Macromolecular Science and Engineering

Phone: (216) 368-4122
Fax: (216) 368-3016
Email: j.mann@case.edu

Diamond Nanoelectrodes in Neuroscience

Developing diamond electrodes for biomedical and electrochemical applications. These include implantable electrodes for in vivo sensing and neural/muscle ... More

  FIELDS
 

• Micro/Nanofabrication
• Medicine
• Nanomaterials
• Sensors

Heidi B. Martin

Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering

Phone: (216) 368-3810
Fax: (216) 368-3016
Email: hbm@case.edu

POSS-based Nanocomposites

Design, synthesis, and characterization of polymers incorporating the nanoscale inorganic-organic polyhedral oligosilsesquioxane (POSS) ... More

  FIELDS
 

• Fundamental Nanoscience
• Medicine
• Nanomaterials
• Structural Applications

Patrick T. Mather

Professor
Macromolecular Science and Engineering

Phone: (216) 368-5861
Fax: (216) 368-4202
Email: patrick.mather@case.edu

In Vivo and In Vitro Nanoscale Transport of Macromolecular Assemblies

Investigating transport of organelles and protein complexes to specific intracellular destinations. This transport occurs ... More

  FIELDS
 

• Fundamental Nanoscience
• Medicine
• Micro/Nanofabrication
• Nanomaterials
• Computation and Simulation

Virgil Muresan

Associate Professor
Physiology and Biophysics

Phone: (216) 368-4766
Fax: (216) 368-3952
Email: virgil.muresan@case.edu

Mechanism of Photosensitization

Investigating the mechanism of cellular responses to photosensitizers and light (photodynamic therapy, PDT), focusing on Pc 4, a phthalocyanine photosensitizer developed by our group ... More

FIELDS

• Characterization
• Medicine

Nancy Oleinick

Professor
Radiation Oncology
Biochemistry, Environmental Health Sciences, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Phone: (216) 368-1117
Fax: (216) 368-1142
Email: nancy.oleinick@case.edu

"New MRI methods to Assess Tumor Angiogenesis

Developing new nano-scale MRI probes and MR imaging methods to more accurately assess tumor vascular ... More

FIELDS

• Sensors
• Medicine
• Characterization

Marty Pagel

Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering Radiology
Macromolecular Science and Engineering

Phone: (216) 368-8519
Fax: (216) 368-5040
Email: mpagel@case.edu

Nanoscopic localization using light

Detection many fluorescent photons from a single isolated particle, or of a particle near an optically active colloid allows nanoscopic localization. I am doing theory to extend such localization experiments ... More

FIELDS

• Fundamental Nanoscience
• Computation and Simulation

Rolfe Petschek

Professor
Department of Physics

Phone: (216) 368-4035
Fax: (216)368-4671
Email: rolfe.petschek@case.edu

Inorganic and Main Group Conjugated Polymers

We are developing novel conjugated materials that incorporate multiply bonded low coordinate inorganic atoms ... More

FIELDS

• Fundamental Nanoscience
• Computation and Simulation
• Characterization
• Electronics and Communications
• Nanomaterials • Catalysis
• Photonics • Environment
• Energy • Sensors

John Protasiewicz

Professor
Department of Chemistry

Phone: (216) 368-5060
Fax: (216) 368-3006
Email: protasiewicz@case.edu

Nanocontrol of Liquid Crystals

An atomic force microscope is used to pattern substrates on micrometer and nanometer length scales to control liquid crystal orientation ... More

FIELDS

• Fundamental Nanoscience
• Nanomaterials • Catalysis
• Characterization
• Micro/Nanofabrication
• Photonics • Energy
• Structural Applications

Charles Rosenblatt

Professor
Department of Physics
Macromoleclar Science

Phone: (216) 368-4125
Fax: (216)368-4671
Email: charles.rosenblatt@case.edu

Surface Self-assembly of Nano-Scaffolds

Investigating how non-covalent interactions can be used to self-assemble controlled nano-structures on a surfacel ... More

FIELDS

• Fundamental Nanoscience
• Medicine
• Nanomaterials
• Photonics
• Sensors

Stuart Rowan

Associate Professor
Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Department of Chemistry

Phone: (216) 368-4242
Fax: (216) 368-4202
Email: stuart.rowan@case.edu

Continuous flow microplasma reactor synthesis of nanoparticles

Development of a new synthesis methodology capabling of producing nanometer sized metal and ... More

FIELDS

• Fundamental Nanoscience
• Medicine
• Characterization
• Sensors
• Catalysis

Mohan Sankaran

Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering

Phone: (216) 368-4589
Fax: (216)368-3016
Email: mohan@case.edu

Nonlinear Optics

Investigating the nonlinear optical properties of organic materials, including polymeric one- and two-dimensional photonic crystals, photorefractive ... More

FIELDS

• Fundamental Nanoscience
• Medicine • Photonics
• Characterization • Energy
• Electronics and Communications
• Nanomaterials

Kenneth D. Singer

Professor
Department of Physics
Macromolecular Science

Phone: (216) 368-4017
Fax: (216) 368-4671
Email: kenneth.singer@case.edu

Nanoelectronics

Developing non-volatile memory devices based on physical generation and recombination of neutral metallic atoms and clusters in solid electrolytes ... More

FIELDS

• Fundamental Nanoscience
• Medicine• Characterization
• Electronics and Communications
• Micro/Nanofabrication • Environment
• Aerospace• NEMS/MEMS • Sensors
• Nanotechnology Education
• Nanomaterials

Massood Tabib-Azar

Professor Department of Physics
Electrical Eng. and Computer Science
Macromolecular Science and Eng

Phone: (216) 368-4589
Fax:
Email: m.tabib-azar@case.edu

Chronic Intracortical Recording of Neural Firing Patterns for Control of Neuroprosthetic Devices


We are implanting microelectrodes in the areas of cortex responsible for ... More

FIELDS

• NEMS/MEMS
• Medicine
• Sensors

Dawn M. Taylor

Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering
Dept of Neuroscience in the Lerner Research Institute at the Cleveland Clinic.

Phone: (216) 368-2476
Fax: (216) 778-4259
Email: dxt42@case.edu

Nanoscale Structure in Ionomers

We investigate the nanoscale structure of hydrated ionomer membranes with the goal of enabling the development of new and more useful materials for use in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells ... More

FIELDS

• Computation and Simulation
• Environment
• Nanomaterials
• Energy

Peter Taylor

Professor Department of Physics
Macromolecular Science and Engineering

Phone: (216) 368-4044
Fax: (216) 368-4671
Email: taylor@case.edu

Design of Catalytic Macromolecules

Using biological macromolecules as a starting point, we use various structural remodeling techniques to obtain molecules showing a desired activity ... More

FIELDS

• Characterization
• Medicine
• Micro/Nanofabrication
• Catalysis

Saba Valadkhan

Associate Professor
Center for RNA Molecular Biology Department of Biochemistry

Phone: (216) 368-1068
Fax: (216) 368-2010
Email: saba.valadkahn@case.edu

Functional Molecules in Nanostructured Hosts

Stimuli-responsive (macro)molecules are integrated in structures host materials (e.g. porous alumina, multilayer ... More

FIELDS

• Fundamental Nanoscience
• Electronics and Communications
• Characterization
• Photonics
• Nanomaterials
• Structural Applications
• Sensors

Christoph Weder

Associate Professor
Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Department of Chemistry

Phone: (216) 368-6374
Fax: (216) 368-4202
Email: christoph.weder@case.edu

Fundamental Micro/Nano-systems Materials Research

Development and characterization of emerging materials and requisite processing techniques for micro/nanosystems ... More

FIELDS

• Characterization
• Medicine
• NEMS/MEMS
• Sensors

Christian A. Zorman

Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Phone: (216) 368-6117
Fax: (216) 368-6039
Email: christian.zorman@case.edu