Below is a listing of C-CCNE’s Research Projects:
Top-down Nanoparticle Fabrication
The DeSimone Group has developed a method to mass produce nanoscale (a nanometer is one billionth of a meter) particles of specific size, shape, and function based on the techniques of imprint lithography traditionally used to etch the intricate patterns on microchips. This... Read More »
Carbon Nanotube X-Ray
The overall goal of this project is to develop new x-ray computed tomography and radiotherapy instrumentations for cancer imaging and radiation therapy for both preclinical and clinical applications. The core technology is the carbon nanotube based field emission x-ray... Read More »
Magnetic Nanoparticles
Malignant brain tumors are a particularly intractable form of cancer that has seen little survival improvement over the past few decades. The difficulty in early diagnosis of and the lack of efficient means of localizing effective therapeutic agents on the brain tumors are... Read More »
Nanofluidic Devices
In an ideal world, a physician would be able to diagnose any disease as easily as a patient’s body temperature is determined. In the case of cancer, such diagnostic tools are presently only a dream. Our team is reaching for that goal, however, borrowing techniques used... Read More »
Nanopatterned Surfaces
One of the major characteristics of cancer cells is their ability to invade locally and to metastasize to distant organs. Scientists have studied these processes but there is still much to learn. In our project we use a nanotechnology approach called nanopatterning to more... Read More »
