Research
Please visit the above links to have a more detailed look at our research projects. Below is a list of Centers that we are leading or affiliated with.
NSF MBM at UIUC - Miniature Brain Machinery
NSF STC EBICS at MIT/GT/UIUC - Emergent Behavior of Integrated Cellular Systems
NSF IGERT at UIUC - Cellular and Molecular Mechanics and Bionanotechnology
(download brochure)NIH Training Grant at UIUC - Midwestern Cancer Nanotechnology Training Center
(download brochure)NSF CiiT (I/UCRC) at UIUC - Center for Innovative Instrumentation Technology
NSF NSEC at OSU - Center for Affordable Nanoengineering for Polymeric Micro and Nanodevices
Research:
Past Research:
Integrated Lab on Chip for Detection of Cells and Microorganisms
- Diamond MEMS biosensors for real-time sensing of water-based biological pathogens
Adarsh Radadia, Natasha Privorotskaya, Elise Corbin, Rashid Bashir, Bill King - Integrated Microfluidic Devices for Detection of Microorganisms
Y.S. Liu, R. Lintal, P. Robinson, A. Bhunia, M. Ladisch, R. Bashir - Lab on a Chip for Global Health (Collaboration With Harvard University)
N. Watkins, G. Damhorst, S. Venkatesan, X. Cheng, W. Rodriguez, M. Toner, R. Bashir - Electronic Detection of Spore Germination In Micro-fluidic Biochips
Yi-Shao Liu, Tom Walter, Arthur Aronson, Rashid Bashir - Micro-fluidic Bio-chips for the Detection of Microorganisms
Haibo Li, Yi-Shao Liu, Kidong Park
Top-Down Fabricated Biomolecular Sensors
- Silicon Field Effect Device Array For Label Free Detection Of DNA And Proteins
B. Reddy, B. Dorvel, P. Nair, F. Butler, A. Alam, R. Blosser, S. Clare, D. Bergstrm, R. Bashir - DNA Nano-Channel Sensors For Single Molecule Detection and Characterization
M. Venkatesan, S. Yemeni, J. Polans, R. Bashir - Nanosensors for DNA Detection
Oguz Elibol, Hung Chang, Samir Iqbal, Dallas Morisette - Nano-Medicine: Use of Phi-29 Packaging RNA NanoMotor for Active Devices
M. Venkatesan, S. Yemeni, C. Mao, D. Thompson, P. Guo, Rashid Bashir - CNT Based Devices and Sensors
Matt Maschmann
Integration of Living Cells and Microstructures
- MEMS Microstructures for Cellular Characterization
K. Park, J. Bermudez, D. Irimia, J. Lee, M. Toner, R. Bashir - Cantilever Based Lab on a Chip for Detection of Biological Entities
J. Jang, A. Gupta, D. Akin, S. Broyles, M. Ladisch, R. Bashir - Micro and Nano-Mechanical Cantilever Sensors for Biochemical Detection
Amit Gupta, Angelica Davila, Demir Akin
Synthetic Biology and Building with Cells
- Micro- and Nano-Mediated Cardiac Tissue Engineering
V. Chan, P. Zorlutuna, P. Bajaj, H.J. Kong, T. Saif, B. Cunningham, L. Schook, R. Bashir
Miscellaneous
- Nano-Therapeutics: Bacterial Mediated Delivery of Nanoparticles into Cells
Demir Akin, Jennifer Sturgis, Kristin Burholder, Arun Bhunia, J. P. Robinson, S. Muhammad, R. Bashir - BASIC - Bio-Inspired Assembly of Semiconductor IC
Sangwoo Lee, Rashid Bashir - Micro-Scale Surgical Tools
Aeraj-ul-Haque - Siteman Center for Nanotechnology Excellence Project (NIH, Project 5)
A.K.M Newaz, W.J. Chang, I. Ahmad, I. Adesida, S. Solin, R. Bashir - Neurons in chip for Neuro-sensors
- Micro-patterning of PEG-based Polymer Films
- Mesoscopic Pulse Tube for Integrated Micro-Refrigeration Systems
- UTSOI (Ultra Thin SOI) - Silicon-On-Insulator-On-Vacuum for Active Devices and Compliant Substrates
- Growth and Characterization of SiGe Nano-scale Self-Assembled Device Islands
- Lateral Bipolar Transistor Compatible with Deep Sub-Micron CMOS
- Advanced Device Isolation for ULSI
- Fabrication of Silicon Micromachined Microphones