Welcome
to my personal webspace. I am a physicist. Currently, I work as a
research staff member at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
My research interests are centered around the controlled synthesis of nanostructured materials and their integration into devices with nanoscale functional elements. While I have been involved in the development of a wide range of applications that include microfabricated electron field emission sources, scanning probe tips, electrochemical probes, cell mimetic structures, nanofluidic arrays, gene delivery arrays, etc, my personal favorites among them are the ones that are directed toward creation of interface to life systems at the nanoscale. In order to probe or modify functions of individual live cells the dimensions of the probing elements must be much smaller than a cell and possibly on same scale as cellular machinery. Vertically aligned carbon nanofibers (VACNF) satisfy these dimensionality and biocompatibility requirements and thus hold a great promise for breakthroughs in this emerging field of nanobiotechnology.
An array of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofibers