ADVANCED MATERIALS RESEARCH LABORATORY
PEOPLE
Principle Investigator
Dr. Prabhu Arumugam is an Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator of Mechanical Engineering program at Louisiana Tech University. His research focuses on integrating advanced materials and materials processing techniques into multifunctional microelectrochemical sensors, electrodes and devices for neurochemical and biological sensing, wastewater remediation and pathogen detection and single cell probing. After receiving his PhD degree from University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, he performed postdoctoral training in University Affiliated Research Center at NASA Ames Research Center, California, developing carbon nanotube-based biosensors. He was a Senior Research Scientist at Advanced Diamond Technologies, a spin-off from Argonne National Laboratory, where he commercialized ultrananocrystalline diamond-enabled electrochemical microarray sensors and mixed oxidant and ozone generators. He initiated and managed several collaborative research projects by securing research funding from various national agencies and industry. He serves as a science advisor to startups and founded a startup to provide electrochemical technology solutions to industry. He has published 29 peer-reviewed articles and 2 book chapters, received five patents and presented the research findings in numerous national and international conferences.
GRADUATE & UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
CHAO TAN
Ph.D. candidate, Major: Micro- and Nanoscale Systems, Engineering
Chao Tan received his bachelor’s degree in science & Engineering of composite material from Donghua University. He received master’s degree in Molecule Science & nanotechnology from Louisiana Tech University in 2016 and he is currently a PhD student. His research interests include study the electrochemical properties of carbon nanomaterials-based electrodes in dopamine sensing, understand and optimize implantable microsensor microarrays for ex-vivo and in-vivo detection of glutamate and other neurochemicals.
HAOCHENG YIN
Ph.D. candidate, Major: Micro- and Nanoscale Systems, Engineering
Haocheng Yin received his M.S. Electrical Engineering from Louisiana Tech University. He developed new microfabrication processes using anodic aluminum oxide for DNA hairpin biosensor. He designed a new wet etching process to fabricate ultra-small (<10 microns) anodic aluminum oxide patterns. He designs and micro-fabricate ring-shaped gold nanoelectrode (nanode) on single silicon pillar structure (diameter, 4 μm; height, 15 μm). He uses SEM, AFM, Cyclic voltammetry, EIS and other characterization techniques. He is currently working on microfabricating two concentric nanodes on a single silicon pillar structure.
IMRAN HOSSAIN
Ph.D. candidate, Major: Micro- and Nanoscale Systems, Engineering
Imran received his B.Eng in Electrical Engineering in 2013 from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and his MSc. In Engineering (major: Electrical Engineering) from Louisiana Tech in 2019. He is now working towards his PhD degree. His current research is to develop microsensor arrays to measure neurochemicals like GABA and Glutamate in-vitro as well as ex-vivo to understand brain diseases e.g. epilepsy.
CHENGGONG GONG
M.S. candidate, Major: Molecular Science and Nanotechnology
Chenngong's research involves the development of metal microwire based multiplexed sensor array for chemical neuroscience applications.
ALUMNI
ANYI CHANG
Ph.D. Completed in 2018, Major: Micro- and Nanoscale Systems, Engineering.
GAURAB DUTTA
Ph.D. Completed in 2018, Major: Micro- and Nanoscale Systems, Engineering.
CHAO TAN
M.S. Completed in 2016, Major: Molecular Science & Nanotechnology.
NATALIE MUELLER
B.S. Completed in 2019, Major: Biomedical Engineering.
AUSTIN ROBINSON
B.S. Completed in 2018, Major: Chemical Engineering