Research

To successfully bridge the gap between biological and conventional engineering to yield exciting prospects, researchers in Dinu’s Lab focuses on:

• Designing enzyme-based composites with extraordinarily high activity and stability to be used for energy-efficient systems generation and in biomedical and decontamination platforms.

• Evaluating the mechanisms responsible for nanomaterial-cellular uptake and transport as well as nanomaterials-induced cellular/systems toxicity.

• Hierarchical integration of cellular building blocks into functional assemblies to form next generation “smart” materials.

• Viable biomimetic systems to be used in the design of integrated devices.

• Application of cellular motors for molecular nanomanufacturing.