University of California, Berkeley
We grow, pattern, and build carbon nanotubes, medical diagnostics, nanoscale fabrication, energy storage, and neurally driven wearable devices.
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Led by Dr. Waqas Khalid, the lab works with carbon nanotubes and related nanomaterials.
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In the lab
Biosensing
A miniaturized impedance-spectroscopy platform that pairs functionalized carbon nanotubes with integrated microfluidics. Current test targets include tacrolimus and creatinine, toward monitoring for kidney failure.
Human devices
A wearable device driven by brainwave signals: body sensors, computer vision, and machine learning work together to assist motion, aimed at rehabilitation for stroke survivors.
Fabrication
Investigating carbon nanotubes as electron sources for lithography, with the aim of lowering the cost of nanoscale patterning.
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The techniques behind the lab’s biosensing work.
Carbon nanotubes are functionalized with secondary amine groups, verified by fluorescence spectroscopy.
Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy is used to test sensor response to tacrolimus and creatinine.
Microfluidic devices are designed in CAD and produced with photolithography and soft lithography.
Stress on carbon nanotubes is analyzed with COMSOL simulations.
People
Dr. Waqas Khalid
Principal Investigator
Dr. Khalid leads the lab’s undergraduate and graduate researchers working on biosensing, fabrication, energy storage, and the exoskeleton.
waqask@berkeley.edu
Ahmed Nagi
Aerospace Engineering
Marco Huang
Bioengineering
Zain Syed
ECE
Hammaad Hassan
Material Science and Engineering
Jamshaid Ali
Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Logan Fleming
EECS
Aidan Lacayo
Materials Science and Engineering
Mateen Mohammady
Eesha Sanjay
Iffat Thasina
DOIs are linked only where they have been verified.
High-aspect-ratio, free-form patterning of carbon nanotube forests using micro-electro-discharge machining
Diamond and Related Materials, 19 (11), 1405–1410 (2010). doi:10.1016/j.diamond.2010.08.007
BMP10-mediated ALK1 signaling is continuously required for vascular development and maintenance
Angiogenesis, 23, 203–220 (2020). doi:10.1007/s10456-019-09701-0
Parylene cantilevers integrated with polycrystalline silicon piezoresistors for surface stress sensing
Applied Physics Letters, 91 (8) (2007). doi:10.1063/1.2772189
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