July 2019: Chuck successfully defended his M.S. thesis on July 3, 2019. His thesis is entitled: DEVELOPMENT OF 3D PRINTED AND 3D METAL-BASED MICRO/NANOFABRICATED, AND NANO-FUNCTIONALIZED, MICROELECTRODE ARRAY (MEA) BIOSENSORS FOR FLEXIBLE, CONFORMABLE, AND IN VITRO APPLICATIONS. Congrats Chuck! He starts his Ph.D. at UCF in Fall 2019.       •       June 2019: Chuck and Dr. Rajaraman attend the Transducers-Eurosensors 2019 Meeting (https://transducers-eurosensors2019.org) and present 2 posters from the group.       •       June 2019: The Rajaraman Group welcomes new students to the group: Paola Morales Carvajal, NSF REU student joins us for summer 2019 from Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico and Parker Arnett, junior in Mechanical Engineering joins the group as a volunteer. Welcome Paola and Parker!       •       May 2019: New paper from the group is published in IEEE JMEMS. Please see the link for details and downloading options: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8709727       •       May 2019: Rajaraman Group students have won several awards and fellowships: Charles Didier was awarded the ORCGS Doctoral Fellowship for Ph.D. studies starting Fall 2019. This university fellowship was created by the Office of Research and College of Graduate Studies to be awarded to outstanding incoming doctoral students who have demonstrated excellent academic achievement, preparation, and potential for successful graduate study at UCF. Congrats Chuck!; Cacie Hart won a Doctoral Research Support Award from the College of Graduate Studies. Congrats Cacie!; Julia Orrico won a Office of Undergraduate Research Student Research Grant. Congrats Julia!       •       April 2019: Laboni’s project entitled “A Minimally-Invasive 3D-Printed Microneedle Array Applicator System (µNAAS) for Delivery of Therapeutics to Citrus Leaf Tissue” won First Place in the 64th State Science and Engineering Fair of Florida in the area of Plant Sciences. Laboni’s project was also selected as a Finalist (top 5 in all of Central Florida) for the Dr. Nelson Ying Award. Laboni will present for this award a compete for the top prize at the end of April 2019. Congratulations Laboni on such amazing accomplishments.       •       March 2019: New paper from the group is published in RSC Advances. Please see the link for details and downloading options: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/ra/c8ra09116a#!divAbstract       •       Both of our submitted abstracts were accepted (44% acceptance rate) for poster presentation at the IEEE Transducers-Eurosensors 2019. For more details, please visit: https://transducers-eurosensors2019.org       •       February 2019: Laboni Santra, a 10th grade student from Oviedo High School and a volunteer in the lab won multiple awards for the second year running at the Seminole County Science, Math and Engineering Fair held on February 2, 2019. Laboni won - 1st place Plant Sciences Category, Nominee for State Science and Engineering Fair of Florida, Best of Show, 1st Alternate for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair - An amazing accomplishment for two straight years. Congratulations Laboni!       •       February 2019: Adam Rozman, a freshman in Mechanical Engineering joined the lab as a volunteer. Welcome Adam!       •       January 2019: Happy New Year! The NanoBioSensors and Systems Group welcomes a new graduate student (co-advised with Prof. Tetard, NSTC and Department of Physics) - Miguel Tirado, a masters student in Nanotechnology. Welcome Miguel!       •       November 2018: Cacie, Chuck and Dr. Rajaraman attend the MicroTAS 2018 Meeting and present 2 posters from the group. Both Cacie and Chuck won travel awards to attend the meeting, from NSTC (UCF), Student Government Association (UCF), College of Graduate Studies (UCF) and from the organizing committee of MicroTAS, the Chemical & Biological Microsystems Society (CBMS). Congrats Cacie and Chuck!       •       November 2018: Dr. Rajaraman was invited to give a talk at the Third Annual Materials Innovation in Sustainable Agriculture (MISA) Symposium. For more details, please visit: http://nanoscience.ucf.edu/misa/symposium.php       •       October 2018: Dr. Rajaraman, Avra, Crystal and Laboni will attend NanoFlorida 2018 to present 3 posters and one invited talk. For more details, please visit: http://411.fit.edu/nanoflorida/       •       October 2018: Dr. Rajaraman gave the ECE Seminar at Georgia Tech on Oct 3, 2018.       •       September 2018: Darina Khater joins the group as an undergraduate volunteer. Welcome Darina!       •       August 2018: Dr. Rajaraman was featured and interviewed on the Nanovation Podcast. For more details and to listen to the Podcast, please visit: http://www.fillerlab.com/nanovation/archive/40       •       July 2018: Two of our abstracts were accepted for poster presentation at the MicroTAS 2018 Meeting.       •       July 2018: Two of our abstracts to the MEA 2018 Meeting were accepted and Sarah & Sandra attend the meeting to present the work.       •       June 2018: Nilab, Avra and Dr. Rajaraman attend the Hilton Head MEMS 2018 Meeting and present 2 posters from the group. Nilab won two travel awards to attend the meeting, one from NSTC (UCF) and another from the Transducers Research Foundation. Congrats Nilab!       •       May 2018: Ms. Crystal Nattoo from the University of Miami joins the group as a NSF Research Experience Undergraduate (REU) scholar. Welcome Crystal!

Welcome!

Thank you for your Interest in the Nanobiosensors & Systems Group at UCF.

Our group is dedicated to the advancement of the state of the art in biological micro/nanofabrication technologies. Our goal is to utilize our knowledge and expertise in micro/nanofabrication technologies and apply these techniques to develop devices for the advancement of human health and personalized medicine. We develop non-traditional (Polymer, Metal, Paper, Biomaterials etc.) micro/nanofabrication methods and platform technologies as well silicon and glass based traditional technologies. Research into packaging methodologies is complimentary to research into biological micro/nanofabrication and we work on novel packaging methodologies for the assembly of our biological devices.

We have developed and continue to strive to develop applications of biological micro/nanofabrication technologies in areas such as in vitro, wearable and implantable Microelectrode Arrays (MEAs), microneedles and other drug delivery devices, Lab & Organ on a Chip Devices, Microfluidics, flexible electronics devices and advanced materials. We also seek collaborators that will join us in advancing the applications of the devices and systems we create in the group and/or help us in defining new devices & systems that can be created.

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We are an interdisciplinary group and welcome students from a wide variety of backgrounds and fields. In particular, we look for students that have undergraduate degrees in Engineering disciplines such as Electrical, Biomedical, Mechanical, Material Science and Chemical as well as Science disciplines such as Chemistry and Physics. If you are passionate about developing new technologies to advance the state of human health and personalized medicine, please contact Dr. Rajaraman directly.

As a graduate student, you will be presented with the opportunity to develop novel micro/nanosensor platforms and work with other colleagues to expand your knowledge of the biotechnological and biomedical application space for such technologies. Additionally, you will be presented with opportunities to work on and characterize new tools for micro/nanofabrication and materials characterization. Based on your aptitude, you will work with biological materials and systems as well.

As an undergraduate student, you will learn valuable skills and knowledge in CAD, micro/nanofabrication development, instrumentation installation and characterization.

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Courses
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Bio Interfaces Enabled by Micro / NanoFabrication.
As offered in
Fall 2017, Spring 2017
Fall 2018, Spring 2018

Biointerfaces are defined as medical devices and biotechnology products that interface with biology outside the body, in a wearable setting and/or in an implantable setting. Introduces students to micro/nanofabrication technologies and biointerface examples including research and commercial products.

EGN 3365 ECS-MECH / AERO (3 CR)

Strucures and Properties of Materials
As offered in
Fall 2019

Atomic structure and bonding, crystal structure and imperfections, solidification, phase transformations, phase diagrams, heat treatment, mechanical & electrical properties, materials characterization techniques.

EMA 5610 (3 CR)
As offered in
Fall 2019

To understand the basic of laser design and general applications of the various types of lasers. To understand laser material interactions and studying various laser assisted processes such as welding, macro and micromachining, chemical deposition, surface treatment etc.