2023 UIC Nanotechnology Core Facility User Workshop

2023 RRC Nanotechnology Core Facility User Workshop

UICs Nanotechnology will be hosting their annual User Workshop where users will be presenting some of their work conducted at NCF.

The program schedule is attached below.

Date: Tuesday September 12th 2023
Location: ERF 1047
Zoom Link: https://uic.zoom.us/j/5620387597

  • 9:00 am – 9:30 am Registration
  • 9:30 am – 10:15 am Introduction to NCF, Seyoung An and Igor Paprotny, NCF Directors
  • 10:15 am – 10:45 am Programming of Electrostatic Microrobots using in-situ Shadow- Masking, John Sabino (PI Paprotny)
  • 10:45 – 11:15 am Vacuum pressure sensors and single mobile ion switch fabricated at NCF, Dr. Heinz Busa (NCF PI)
  • 11:15 am – 11:45 am Mechanical environment influences cell behavior, Dr. Alexia Caillier (PI Oakes, Loyola University Chicago)
  • 11:45 am – 1:00 pm Lunch break (on own)
  • 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Contact Lens Multielectrode Arrays, Dr. John Hetling (NCF PI)
  • 1:30 pm – 2:00 pm Investigation of various size-dependent and surface sensitive phenomena in nanostructured materials fabricated or characterized in the UIC-NCF, Dr. Jeremiah Abiade (NCF PI)
  • 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Hybrid microfluidic real-time bioaerosol sensing, Nitin Jayakumar (PI Paprotny)
  • 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Poster Session preview + poster session (ERF 1047)
  • 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Concluding remarks, workshop adjourns
  • 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm Optional NCF lab tour