Welcome to the Rolandi Group!
Research in the Rolandi lab is focused on understanding the charge transport properties in biological, organic, and inorganic nanomaterials to enable the design of nanodevices with practical applications. Our work relies on novel schemes that afford a precise control of the position, size, and shape of the building blocks and their assembly into systems with well defined properties. Fabrication strategies include chemical and biological self assembly, semiconductor nano/micromanufacturing techniques, and AFM lithography.We are currently exploring novel platforms for computing, chemical and biological sensing, and green energy production.
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9.16.10 Prof. Rolandi is one of the invited speakers for the "2010 AVS Pacific Northwest Chapter" in Richland./p>
9.14.10 Chao's paper "A facile bottom-up" route to self-assembled biogenic chitin nanofibers" is now published online by Soft Matter!
9.06.10 Yingxin joins the group. Welcome! Yingxin will work on the nanobioprotonic project with Dr. Zhong.
8.31.10 Chao's paper "A facile bottom-up route to self-assembled biogenic chitin nanofibers" is accepted for publication in Soft Matter!
8.17.10 Prof. Rolandi's invited talk by Stephanie at EITC- 2010 (Stanford) was a great success!
8.17.10 Jessica is off to a great start at NIST. She will be missed in the lab.
8.16.10 Check out Prof. Rolandi's and Prof. Cheng's (UW-VCD) upcoming lecture "Visual Communication in Science: Insights From Nanotechnology" as part of the UW Biomedical Research Lecture Series.
8.16.10 The new espresso machine is here!! Stop by Roberts 204 for a shot, a macchiato, or a latte and learn about what's brewing in our labs!
8.16.10 Our collaborative project "Contextual Research-Empirical: Improving Visual Communication in Nanotechnology" with Sarah Kriz (Human Centered Design and Egnineering- PI) and Karen Cheng (Visual Communciation Design-co PI) is funded by NSF-DRL.
8.4.10 Prof. Rolandi's latest ACS Nanopick Review is now online.
7.18.10 Jessica's paper on "Scanning Probe Direct Write of Germanium Nanostructures" is accepted for publication in Advanced Materials!
7.2.10Our collaborative project with Prof. Scott Dunham (EE) on "Understanding Atomic Force Microscope Nanomaterial Synthesis: Simulations and Experiments" is funded by NSF!
6.5.10 Prof. Rolandi is presented with the "Faculty of the year" award by the MSE Junior class. It has been great having you as students, have a great summer, and best of luck in your senior year!
6.2.10 We have received seed funding from INTEL to "Explore on chip localized InP synthesis for integrated photonics".
3.2.10 Prof. Rolandi's upcoming UW Bioengineering Seminar titled "On the protonic conductivity of polysaccharide nanofibers" will be on Thurs March 4th at 12 30 in the Foege Bioengineering building N130A.
3.2.10 Prof. Rolandi wins a 3M Nontenured Faculty Award to support his research on novel routes to graphene synthesis. This highly competitive award recognizes outstanding new faculty for the quality and the pertinence of research to 3M's long term goals.
10.15.09 Prof. Rolandi's latest nanopick review is now online
10.5.09 Welcome! Alex and Robert will work on their MSE senior project on protonic nanofibers and afm device integration respectively. Zhihua comes from Sichuan university and will work on protonic nanofibers during her stay at UW. Welcome!!
10.5.09 Adnan (Ado) Kapetanovic joins the group. He will work on nanostructure device integration. Welcome!
10.5.09 Stephanie Passes her qual! Congrats Stephanie!
6.7.09 Prof. Rolandi joins the ACS Nanotation team as Nano Picks reviewer. Click here for his profile and latest review.
6.7.09 We have an opening for a postdoctoral researcher interested in exploring novel routes to nanomaterial synthesis and device fabrication while working on a project focused on the investigation of charge transport in hybrid biological/organic/inorganic nanodevices....
6.7.09 Dr. Chao Zhong joins the group. Welcome! Chao graduated with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the Chu's group at Cornell University. He brings his unique biomaterial expertize to the patterning and protonic projects in the group.
6.7.09 Stephanie Vasko is awarded an NSF-IGERT fellowship for 2009-2010. Congrats Stephanie!
6.7.09 Prof. Rolandi is voted MSE faculty of the year award by the Junior class. It has been great having you as my first students, I am sure you will all be very successful in your future endeavors. Thanks and Good Luck!