Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Faculty, Staff, Student Scholarship
This collection holds the creative and scholarly works of the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 's faculty, staff, and students. It includes scholarly content such as journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, etc.
Submissions from 2023
Sickle Red Blood Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Activate Endothelial Cells and Enhance Sickle Red Cell Adhesion Mediated by von Willebrand Factor, Ran An, Yuncheng Man, Kevin Cheng, Tianyi Zhang, Fang Wang, Erdem Kucukal, William J. Wulftange, Utku Goreke, Allison Bode, Lalitha V. Nayak, Jane A. Little, and Umut A. Gurkan
Piece‐By‐Piece Shape‐Morphing: Engineering Compatible Auxetic and Non‐Auxetic Lattices to Improve Soft Robot Performance in Confined Spaces, Yusuf Dikici, Hao Jiang, Bo Li, Kathryn A. Daltorio, and Ozan Akkus
Submissions from 2022
Multispectral Imaging for Microchip Electrophoresis Enables Point-of-Care Newborn Hemoglobin Variant Screening, Ran An, Yuning Huang, Anne Rocheleau, Qiaochu Zhang, Yuncheng Man, Zoe Sekyonda, Amma Owusu-Ansah, and Umut A. Gurkan
Catch Bonds in Sickle Cell Disease: Shear-Enhanced Adhesion of Red Blood Cells to Laminin, Utku Goreke, Shamreen Iram, Gundeep Singh, Sergio Domínguez-Medina, Yuncheng Man, Allison Bode, Ran An, Jane A. Little, Christopher L. Wirth, Michael Hinczewski, and Umut A. Gurkan
Functional Maintenance of Differentiated Embryoid Bodies in Microfluidic Systems: A Platform for Personalized Medicine, Umut A. Gurkan
OcclusionChip: A Functional Microcapillary Occlusion Assay Complementary to Ektacytometry for Detection of Small-Fraction Red Blood Cells with Abnormal Deformability, Yuncheng Man, Ran An, Karamoja Monchamp, Zoe Sekyonda, Erdem Kucukal, Chiara Federici, William J. Wulftange, Utku Goreke, Allison Bode, and Umut A. Gurkan
PUM1 Mediates the Posttranscriptional Regulation of Human Fetal Hemoglobin, Yuncheng Man, Amma Owusu-Ansah, Omar Y. Mian, Umut A. Gurkan, Anton A. Komar, and Merlin Nithya Gnanapragasam
Antithrombin-III Mitigates Thrombin-Mediated Endothelial Cell Contraction and Sickle Red Blood Cell Adhesion in Microscale Flow, William J. Wulftange, Erdem Kucukal, Yuncheng Man, Ran An, Karamoja Monchamp, Charlotte D. Sevrain, Himanshu R. Dashora, Allison Bode, Jane A. Little, and Umut A. Gurkan
Submissions from 2021
Dynamic pH and Thermal Analysis of Paper-Based Microchip Electrophoresis, Muhammad Noman Hasan, Ran An, Asya Akkus, Chirag Kharangate, and Umut A. Gurkan
A Retrospective Case Study of Successful Translational Research: Gazelle Hb Variant Point-of-Care Diagnostic Device for Sickle Cell Disease, Kelli Qua, Shannon M. Swiatkowski, Umut A. Gurkan, and Clara M. Pelfrey
Submissions from 2020
Hydrogen Gas Sensing Using Aluminum Doped ZnO Metasurfaces, Sharmistha Chatterjee, Adam Fisher, Arwa Fraiwan, Umut A. Gurkan, and Giuseppe Strangi
Whole Blood Viscosity and Red Blood Cell Adhesion: Potential Biomarkers for Targeted and Curative Therapies in Sickle Cell Disease, Erdem Kucukal, Yuncheng Man, Ailis Hill, Shichen Liu, Allison Bode, Ran An, Jaikrishnan Kadambi, Jane A. Little, and Umut A. Gurkan
Red Blood Cell Adhesion to ICAM-1 is Mediated by Fibrinogen and is Associated with Right-to-Left Shunts in Sickle Cell Disease, Erdem Kucukal, Yuncheng Man, Erina Quinn, Neil Tewari, Ran An, Jane A. Little, and Umut A. Gurkan
Submissions from 2018
Biomimetic Post-Capillary Venule Expansions for Leukocyte Adhesion Studies, Bryan L. Benson, Lucy Li, Jay T. Myers, R. Dixon Dorand, Umut A. Gurkan, and Alex Y. Huang
Factor XII and Upar Upregulate Neutrophil Functions to Influence Wound Healing, Evi X. Stavrou, Chao Fang, Kara L. Bane, Erdem Kucukal, Agharnan Gandhi, Adina Brett-Morris, Michele M. Mumaw, Alona Merkulova, Cindy C. Reynolds, Omar Alhalabi, Lalitha Nayak, Wen-Mei Yu, Cheng-Kui Qu, Howard J. Meyerson, George R. Dubyak, Umut A. Gurkan, Marvin T. Nieman, Anirban Sen Gupta, and Alvin H. Schmaier
Submissions from 2017
Hyperbolic Metamaterials-Based Plasmonic Biosensor for Fluid Biopsy with Single Molecule Sensitivity, Kandammathe Valiyaveedu Sreekanth, Mohamed ElKabbash, Yunus Alapan, Efe Ilker Ilker, Michael Hinczewski, Umut A. Gurkan, and Giuseppe Strangi
Submissions from 2016
3-D Microwell Array System for Culturing Virus Infected Tumor Cells, Umut A. Gurkan
A Multiband Perfect Absorber Based on Hyperbolic Metamaterials, Kandammathe Valiyaveedu Sreekanth, Mohamed ElKabbash, Yunus Alapan, Alireza R. Rashed, Umut A. Gurkan, and Giuseppe Strangi
Submissions from 2015
Paper and Flexible Substrates as Materials for Biosensing Platforms to Detect Multiple Biotargets, Umut A. Gurkan
Microinverter Thermal Performance in the Real-World: Measurements and Modeling, Mohammad Akram Hossain, Yifan Xu, Timothy J. Peshek, Alexis R. Abramson, and Roger H. French
Submissions from 2014
Heterogeneous Red Blood Cell Adhesion and Deformability in Sickle Cell Disease, Yunus Alapan, Jane A. Little, and Umut A. Gurkan
Micro-a-fluidics ELISA for Rapid CD4 Cell Count at the Point-of-Care, Umut A. Gurkan
Submissions from 2012
Portable Microfluidic Chip for Detection of Escherichia Coli in Produce and Blood, Umut A. Gurkan
Submissions from 2011
Embryonic Stem Cell Bioprinting for Uniform and Controlled Size Embryoid Body Formation, Umut A. Gurkan
Enumeration of CD4+ T-Cells Using a Portable Microchip Count Platform in Tanzanian HIV-Infected Patients, Umut A. Gurkan
Living Bacterial Sacrificial Porogens to Engineer Decellularized Porous Scaffolds, Umut A. Gurkan
Statistical Modeling of Single Target Cell Encapsulation, Umut A. Gurkan
Transport of a Soft Cargo on a Nanoscale Ratchet, Umut A. Gurkan