Research

Research in the Macromolecular Engineering Laboratory integrates concepts and techniques from chemical and mechanical engineering, synthetic chemistry, materials science, and biology. Our main research aims are to design and assemble responsive soft (bio)materials and engineer medical devices. In the design of soft materials, we sculpt structural and chemical details at the molecular scale to enable predictive and tunable control over emergent macroscale properties. Our user-​programmable and responsive materials are employed to understand fundamental processes in biology and materials science as well as translated to solve clinical problems in the fields of drug delivery, regenerative medicine, and biomedical diagnostics, and drug delivery. In the device engineering, we integrate software and hardware design to develop diagnostic systems and perfusion devices with automated control.