Worked directly with a post-doctoral fellow through the iterative process of designing, simulating, prototyping, fabricating, testing, and iterating upon multiple types of epidermal and implantable, flexible microfluidics and bioelectronics sensors. In a diverse team (postdoc, PHD students, undergraduates, and students) working directly with Dr. John Rogers. Collaborated with other research groups at Northwestern University as well as at other U.S. & international institutions. Partnered with Prusa Research based in Prague, Czech Republic and mHub Chicago to prototype end-use microfluidic devices using additive manufacturing. Elevated personal design skills realizing aforementioned devices. Learned about the real world applications of such bioelectronic devices. Tested the limits of additive manufacturing. 

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Foreign Body Response Monitor for the Active Monitoring of Implant-Induced Fibrosis (2020):

Prototyped, fabricated, and tested multiple variants of sensors to measure fibrosis in a wound healing model. Used impedance measurements to quantify fibrosis, which can then help to optimize sensor design and placement to limit the foreign body response to future implantable bioelectronics.

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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.abd8109

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Bioresorbable Batteries (2020):

Prototyped, fabricated, and tested multiple configurations of films and bioresorbable polymers that, when combined together, formed an implantable, bioresorbable battery with an output of 1.5V and a capacity of 4mAh/cm2).

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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade4687

 

Sensors for Measuring Dopamine Levels (2020):

Prototyped, fabricated, and tested multiple configurations of a sensor that measured dopamine levels in the brain, thus enabling complex modeling of dopamine level changes and its impacts.

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https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsnano.2c09475

 

3D Brain Organoid Sensing (2020):

Fabricated, tested, and iterated upon several variants of 3D buckled, highly flexible sensor arrays that easily wrap around soft, spherical- shaped organoids for the real-time monitoring of catecholamine concentrations.

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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abf9153

 

Colorimetric Stopwatches for Time Stamping within Microfluidics (2019):

Designed, prototyped, tested, and iterated upon multiple variants of microfluidic devices for the simultaneous colorimetric and chronometric analysis of sweat. Tested multiple variants of the battery and electronics free epidermal microfluidics patch.

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201902109

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