 Acoustic Robotics for Life Sciences and Healthcare (ARSL)Open OpportunitiesThis project mainly focuses on the incorporation of artificial intelligence to control the vat-polymerization-based Bioprinter and manipulate particles. - Intelligent Robotics, Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics and Mechatronics
- Bachelor Thesis, Collaboration, Course Project, Master Thesis, Semester Project
| This project's primary focus is to explore Volumetric bioprinting with new biocompatible materials for advancing Tissue Engineering. - Biomechanical Engineering, Cell Development (incl. Cell Division and Apoptosis)
- Bachelor Thesis, Collaboration, Master Thesis, Semester Project
| This project mainly focuses on the designing and fabricating of a 5D bioprinter to create complex (bio)structures for their usage in tissue engineering. - Acoustics and Acoustical Devices; Waves, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics and Mechatronics, Systems Theory and Control
- Bachelor Thesis, Collaboration, Course Project, Internship, Master Thesis, Semester Project
| Already today, microbubbles are being used as ultrasound contrast agents. Their ability to precisely be manipulated to a target area gives rise to a lot of new possible applications. specially the ability to deliver drugs accurately and avoiding drug-tissue interactions with the surrounding healthy tissue would be groundbreaking for modern medicine. WE plan to implement a stable on-chip fabrication of liposomes and microbubbles and study the acoustic effect over the produced microbubbles.
We investigate the effect of flow rates on the size of the produced bubbles and examine their stability. - Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
- Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis, Semester Project
| We want to expand the use of acoustic microrobots for drug delivery applications in tumor environments. - Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
- Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis, Semester Project, Summer School
| Our animal-on-a-chip system can acoustically maneuver microparticles in the body of small organisms. We successfully showed this new micromanipulation. Our initial work was published this year in Sciences Advances: Jooss, Viktor Manuel, et al. "In vivo acoustic manipulation of microparticles in zebrafish embryos." Science advances 8.12 (2022): eabm2785. - Acoustics and Acoustical Devices; Waves, Biomechanical Engineering, Biomechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Medical Biotechnology, Neurobiology, Robotics and Mechatronics
- Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis, Semester Project, Summer School
| 3-dimensional manipulation is an exciting tool for life sciences. Trapped particles and object can levitate in 3-dimensional space in the present of an acoustic field. Since acoustic waves penetrate biological tissue this allows for non-contact manipulation inside the body. - Acoustics and Acoustical Devices; Waves, Biomaterials, Biomechanical Engineering, Fluidization and Fluid Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Medical Biotechnology, Robotics and Mechatronics
- Bachelor Thesis, Collaboration, Master Thesis, Semester Project, Summer School
| Wireless empowered micro/-nanorobotic systems enable novel and innovative medical therapeutics and diagnostics such as minimal-invasive surgery, targeted drug delivery, or enhanced imaging of diseased tissue. Immense research is conducted using various different external field-driven robot actuation methods, including magnetic, pneumatic, optical, and electric fields. Each technique brings its advantages and limitations that are matched for addressing one specific medical task. At the Acoustic Robotics and Systems Lab (ARSL), we focus on acoustically based robotic systems for life sciences and healthcare applications. Activation by ultrasound is attractive because ultrasound is safe to most biological systems, non-invasive, penetrates deep into the body of an animal model, and is widely spread in clinical institutions. - Biology, Engineering and Technology, Physics
- Bachelor Thesis, Collaboration, Course Project, Internship, Master Thesis, Semester Project, Summer School
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