Event
Bioengineering Seminar Series: Melik Demirel
Friday, November 7, 2008
11:00 a.m.
Room 2108, Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Bldg.
Professor Peter Kofinas
(301) 405-7335
kofinas@umd.edu
Controlled Nanostructured Polymers for Biomedical Applications
Presented by Melik Demirel
Pearce Assistant Professor of Engineering
Penn State University
The ability to control the physicochemical properties of surfaces is important for many areas, such as biomedical or optical coatings, sensors, and catalyst supports. We have been developing nanostructured polymer thin films based on oblique angle polymerization (OAP) for these applications. [1-2] OAP is a bottom-up approach capable of fabricating high aspect ratio films exhibiting controlled morphologies without the need for complex lithographic processes. Properties of the resulting films, such as wettability, porosity, roughness, reactivity, or crystallinity are readily tuned via choice of deposition conditions and polymer functional groups. In this presentation, we will describe our process for creating nanostructured polymer surfaces and present recent results on biosensor and biomedical applications.
