Research Interests

Our vision in integrating biology and medicine with micro and nanotechnology can be categorized into two broad areas, namely how micro/nano-fabrication can help solve problems in life sciences (such as diagnostics, therapeutics, and tissue engineering), and how we can learn more from life science to solve important problems in micro/nano-science and engineering (such as bio-inspired self-assembly, etc.).

Selected Publications

B. M. Venkatesan and R. Bashir, "Nanopore Sensors for Nucleic Acid Analysis". Nature Nanotechnology, 2011, 10.1038/nnano.2011.129. - (download PDF)

A. D. Radadia, C. J. Stavis, R. Carr, H. Zeng, W. King, J. A. Carlisle, A. Aksimentiev, R. J. Hamers, R. Bashir, “Ultrananocrystalline diamond thin films as stable antibody tethering surfaces for bacterial capture”, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2011, 21, 1040-1050. Cover Article - (download PDF)

N. N. Watkins, S. Sridhar, X. Cheng, M. Toner, W. Rodriguez, and R. Bashir, “A microfabricated electrical differential counter for the selective enumeration of CD4+ T lymphocytes”, Lab Chip, 2011, 11, 1437-1447. Cover Article. Also selected as Hot Article on RSC Website. - (download PDF)

K. Park, L. J. Millet, J. Huan, N. Kim, G. Popescu, N. Aluru, K. J. Hsia, R. Bashir, "Measurement of adherent cell mass and growth", Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010. doi/10.1073/pnas.1011365107 - (download PDF)

D. Akin, J. Sturgis, K. Burkholder, D. Sherman, S. Muhammad, A. Bhunia, J. Paul Robinson, R. Bashir, "Bacterial Mediated Delivery of Nanoparticles in Cells", Nature Nanotechnology, 149, 441-449, 2007. - (download PDF)

S. Iqbal, D. Akin, R. Bashir, "Solid State Nanopores with DNA Selectivity", Nature Nanotechnology, 2, 243 - 248, 01 Apr 2007. - (download PDF)

A. Gupta, P. Nair, D. Akin, S. Broyles, M. Ladisch, A. Alam, R. Bashir, "Anamolous Resonance in a Nanomechanical Biosensor", Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, USA. August 28, 2006, 103: 13362-13367. - (download PDF)

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