Our 
goals are to:
- look at and work through a commercialization strategy for CO2 bonding for use in biomedical device fabrication;
- develop biologically permissive techniques for assembling and packaging Cell-based Devices;
- model Polymer-CO2 interfaces using Density Functional Theory to gain useful information about structure and thermodynamic properties of the binary system;
- provide semi-quantitative predictions regarding depression in Glass transition temperature (Tg) in the presence of CO2 and other thermodynamic properties like free volume and surface tension at the interface in order to explain nano molding and bonding at a molecular level; and
- immobilize biologically active molecules in polymeric nano-channels via an environmentally benign process for use as a biosensor.
Items (a), (b), (d), and (e) support the Biosensors/-chips Testbed and (b) the Cell-based Devices and Constructs Testbed.
Related Research Briefs (.pdf) :
- Novel Dense CO2 Technique for β-galactosidase Immobilization in Polystyrene Microchannels
- Polymer Thin Film Modeling with Silica Substrate in Presence of Carbon Dioxide
- Density Functional Approach for Modeling Polymer-CO2 Interfaces
- Free-Volume, Surface and Interfacial Analysis in Polymers, Thin Films and Nanocomposites Using Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy