Category Archive: Announcements

Apr 06

New graduate students join the Bettinger Group

We would like to welcome the following new graduate students to the Bettinger Group: Puqing Ding (Masters, BME), Durva Naik (PhD, MSE) and Gaurav Balakrishnan (PhD, MSE). Welcome to all!

Permanent link to this article: http://biomicrosystems.net/2020/04/new-mse-phd-students-join-the-bettinger-group/

Apr 06

CMU students design system for distributed production of disinfectants to help combat Covid-19

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CMU students Tala Habbab, Jake Zimmer, and Gaurav Balakrishnan participated in the Johns Hopkins Covid-19 Hackathon. In just one weekend, they designed a portable low-cost photovoltaic kit that can produce disinfectant in resource limited environments such as refugee camps.

Permanent link to this article: http://biomicrosystems.net/2020/04/cmu-students-design-system-for-distributed-production-of-disinfectants-to-help-combat-covid-19/

May 04

Bettinger chairs Kavli workshop on BMI

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Chris chaired a recent Kavli-MRS Bulletin Workshop on Brain-Machine Interfaces in Phoenix, AZ. This event brought together luminaries across many disciplines to better understand how materials can improve the performance and translation of brain-machine interfaces to clinically relevant applications.

Permanent link to this article: http://biomicrosystems.net/2019/05/bettinger-chairs-kavli-workshop-on-bmi/

Dec 21

Chenchen publishes work on hydrogels in J Mater Chem B

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BME PhD student Chenchen Mou has recently published an article in the Journal of Materials Chemistry B to provide guidance on the design of hydrogels crosslinked with redox active coordination bonds.

Permanent link to this article: http://biomicrosystems.net/2018/12/chenchen-publishes-work-on-hydrogels-in-j-mater-chem-b/

Oct 08

Bettinger featured in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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The work of the Bettinger Group on edible medical devices is highlighted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in a feature called “Patented in Pittsburgh”.

Permanent link to this article: http://biomicrosystems.net/2018/10/bettinger-featured-in-pittsburgh-post-gazette/

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