Andrei Stanishevsky
University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL·Materials Science
Nanofibers are fibers thousands of times thinner than a human hair. At that scale, materials can show unusual strength, superelasticity and high surface reactivity that bulk materials lack.
- Fields
Materials Science
Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
- Topics
nanofibers
nanofiber-based materials
nanomaterials
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Aug 2029
What they work on
- Develop nanofiber-based catalysts that are efficient, selective and stable for industrial processes, through experimental and computational projects at partner sites in Poland.
- Create multifunctional injectable microscaffolds from nanofiber materials, tiny supports for cell growth, that could enable minimally invasive tissue engineering therapies.
- Build stimuli-responsive 'smart' nanofiber textiles and membranes for fast, sensitive diagnostic and delivery devices.
- Combine experimental and computational methods to map process-structure-property-function relationships in nanofiber materials, including remote data-analysis projects run through an interactive virtual platform.
More about the research
These properties make nanofibers useful for filters, battery separators, wound dressings, drug delivery, tissue scaffolds, sensors and smart textiles. A key obstacle is producing nanofiber materials sustainably and predictably, with complex large-scale structures and the properties needed.
Why it matters
Better ways to make nanofiber materials with predictable structure could lead to more efficient and stable industrial catalysts, injectable scaffolds for minimally invasive tissue repair, and fast, sensitive wearable diagnostic and drug-delivery devices. The work may also advance filtration membranes and biosensors, helping move these materials from lab to industry.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Hang Liu
Washington State University, WA·Materials Science·Early-career
Determine how spinneret geometry shapes side-by-side fiber formation when an intrinsically conductive polymer is co-spun with a conventional spinnable polymer in a wet-spinning process.
Natalia Shustova
University of South Carolina-Columbia, SC·Chemistry
Develop synthetic routes that integrate two distinct classes of photochromic linkers, light-switchable molecular struts, within the same well-defined material platform.
Eric Fullerton
University of California-San Diego, CA·Materials Science
Fabricate new quantum materials and characterize their properties with advanced techniques to understand and control their behavior for non-volatile memory.
The school
University of Alabama at Birmingham: 45 labs on PI Pages, $866M a year on research, 166 research doctorates a year.
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