About The University Of Cincinnati Nanoworld And Smart Materials And Devices Laboratory

The UC Nanoworld and Smart Materials and Devices Laboratory is an interdepartmental resesearch lab which includes faculty from Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Chemistry, Aerospace Engineering and the Medical School. The lab develops innovative smart materials, sensors and devices by intersecting the various disclipines of science and engineering. The main concentration of research is in the field of Nanotechnology, Biomimetics, Composites and Smart Structures. The Nanoworld Laboratory is an exciting interdisciplinary experimental-theoricial learning environment for undergraduate through PhD level students.

The Nanoworld and Smart Materials and Devices Laboratory is housed in the main campus of University of Cincinnati. This lab is directed by Dr. Mark Schulz and Dr.Vesselin Shanov. The aim of the laboratory is to integrate different aspects of engineering and make a final product that could be put into practical usage. The projects currently in progress at this laboratory includes a blend of aeronautical, mechanical, civil, electrical, material science and chemical engineering. Students at this laboratory have an option of choosing courses from various fields of engineering to satisfy the completion of the projects that are in progress. The UC Nanoworld Lab group is comprised of three different laboratories. These are

As the name indicates, "Nanotube Synthesis Laboratory" aids in the synthesis of nanotubes. This lab houses some of the state of art furnaces required to manufacture nanotubes. The resulting nanotubes obtained from this laboratory are processed in the "NanoWorld" where the obtained raw nanotubes are processed to acheive the final usable form as sensors and actuators. NanoWorld also houses various instrumentation for electrochemical analysis, mixers for making composites and testing devices for sensor/actuator analysis.These sensors are put into practical applications at "Smart Materials and Devices Laboratory" in detecting damages, detecting cancer cells etc. The Smart Structures Bio-Nanotechnology Laboratory consists of state of the art equipments like furnaces, high speed high sampling rate digitial data acquisition instruments, MTS machine, Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and high resolution microscopes. The SSBN lab is also part of University of Cincinnati's Institute of Nanoscale Science and Technology (INST) and North Carolina A& T state universitity's "Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures (CAMSS) ".

The Nanoworld and Smart Materials and Devices Laboratories are part of the UC Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology (INST) directed by Dr. Thomas Mantei

INST Website:http://www.eng.uc.edu/ucnanoinstitute/