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SUMMARY:IEM Distinguished Lecturers Seminar: Shrink Polymer Cancer Sensors
 : Manufacturing from Micro to Nano
DTSTART:20251117T131500
DTEND:20251117T140000
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Tianhong Cui\, Distinguished McKnight University Profes
 sor\, University of Minnesota\, USA\nAbstract\nPolymer shrinkage has emerg
 ed as a powerful lithographic technique for miniaturizing pre-patterned mi
 crostructures down to the nanoscale. By combining polymer embossing with t
 hermoplastic shrinkage\, this method not only reduces feature sizes but al
 so significantly enhances the aspect ratios of micro- and nanostructures. 
 The process begins with low-temperature embossing to efficiently form init
 ial patterns with minimal cycle time. High-temperature heating then activa
 tes the shrinkage\, transforming the patterned polymer into finer\, high-r
 esolution structures. This approach extends the capabilities of convention
 al polymer micromanufacturing\, offering a cost-effective and scalable sol
 ution for advanced microfabrication particularly in microelectromechanical
  systems (MEMS). This talk will focus on the application of shrink-induced
  nanolithography and wrinkles with high-aspect-ratio nanostructures used i
 n highly sensitive MEMS-based biosensors. Such biosensors hold strong pote
 ntial for medical diagnostics\, including early-stage cancer detection and
  therapeutic monitoring.\n\nBio\nDr. Tianhong Cui is currently a Distingui
 shed McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota. He is a
  Professor in Mechanical Engineering and an Affiliate Senior Member of the
  graduate faculty in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. He
  is a Global Chair Visiting Professor at the University of Bath\, a Visiti
 ng Fellow at the University of Cambridge\, and an Adjunct Professor at May
 o Clinic. He is a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineering (AS
 ME) and a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was a La
 ureate of Blaise Pascal Chair for Excellence through École Normale Supér
 ieure in France\, and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of Royal Academy of 
 Engineering in the UK. He is serving as an Executive Editor-in-Chief for t
 he first engineering journal of Nature\, Microsystems & Nanoengineering\, 
 and is an Editor-in-Chief for the first AAAS/Science Partner Journal\, Res
 earch. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of another Nature journal\, Lig
 ht: Science & Applications
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 s/j/69222849127
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