Molecular Engineering/Bio-Nanotechnology
Design, produce and characterize functional molecular tools and components.
We use biomolecules and nanomaterials as building blocks to design and fabricate functional molecular components, such as molecular controllers, optical sensors, and dynamics structures. These “designer molecules” are useful for many biomedical applications, but their development requires large functional datasets to guide engineering efforts. A major challenge in generating such a dataset is achieving high resolution and high throughput molecular characterization. To address this challenge, we combine microfluidics and next-generation sequencing to develop novel screening tools for molecular and nanomaterial characterization. This approach can facilitate the engineering of functional biomolecules and nanomaterials with improved precision and efficiency.
Our biomolecular/nanomaterial engineering research focuses on:
- Nanoparticle synthesis
- Rational molecular design using DNA Nanotechnology
- Computational protein design