Design of Opto-Thermally Responsive Nanocomposites

Over the last few years, there have been efforts to create in vitro devices with controlled and predictable microenvironment conditions. One major alternative that has been explored is the design of microfluidic devices with mechanical actuators, which serve to achieve spatiotemporal control of flow and chemical gradients. Hence, the necessity to synthesize and design materials that can respond to localized stimuli so they can be incorporated into microfluidic systems. Light responsive materials are a great option for this application since their response can be easily triggered at highly localized sites (using lasers) without requiring physical contact. The contribution of this work is to synthesize, and characterize the heat conduction of opto thermally responsive polymer metal nanocomposite

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Ruben Morones Ramirez was born in Mexico City in 1980. He majored in Chemical Engineering at Univ. Autonoma de Nuevo Leon. He then joined The University of Texas at Austin and graduated from his Master in Science in 2005 and his PhD in 2008. He is now a Research Fellow of the Howard Hughes Medical Inst. at the BME Dep. at Boston Univ.