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Book Chapters

  • D. Fan and C. L. Chien, “A Survey of Nanotweezers”, book chapter of Magnetic Nanoparticles in Biosensing and Medicine, Cambridge University Press (2019). (invited)
  • K. Kim and D. Fan, “Mechanism for Assembling Arrays of Rotary Nano- Electromechanical Devices”, Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology, Springer Reference, doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6178-0_100910-1 (2015) (link). (invited)
  • Jianhe Guo and D. Fan*, “Electromagnetic Wave Enabled Micro/nano-Robotic Devices and Their Applications” Book Chapter, Light Robotics- Technology and Application in Nanobiophotonics, Elsevier Publishing, 129 (2017) (link).
  • Z. X. Liang, J. H. Guo, and D. Fan, “Manipulation, Assembling, and Actuation of Nanomotors by the Electric Tweezers”, Robotic Systems and Autonomous Platforms, Elsevier Publishing (2018) (link).(invited)
  • Hyungmok Joh and D. Fan, “Electric-Field Driven Micro/Nanomachines for Biological Applications”, Field-Driven Micro and Nano Robots for Biology and Medicine, Springer Nature Publishing (2021) (invited).

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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Electric-Field-Guided Catalytic Nanomotors for Cargo Delivery

Arrays of Rotary Nanomotors Assembled from Nanobuilding Blocks

Ultrahigh Rotation Speed: 18000 rpm Long Durability: 1 Million cycles for 80 hours

Position and Assemble MᴏS₂ Nanoribbons for Opto-electronics at the Click of UV-Light Button

Motorized Sensors Aim to Improve and Speed Up Early-Stage Disease Diagnosis

Nanosensor to speed up detection of trace amounts of biomarkers for early-disease diagnosis

Scalable Production of Molybdenum Disulfide

Material that can decontaminate water and be the basis of the advance, ultra-fast, light-based computers

Music Sensing

Dr. Fan's Music Sensing
Dr. Fan and team created a sensor that can help students improve in music education.

Texas Engineers Build World’s Smallest, Fastest Nanomotor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=s1NkvH98yEE

First-Ever Method for Controlling Nanomotors Developed by UT Engineers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=54gHpWWWMl4

A Rosy Solution To Clean Water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOiZE8vNIAA

The first low-pressure solar steamer

Advanced Materials, 31, 1900720 (2019) doi:10.1002/adma.201900720

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