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Ex-vivo bone tissue viability
Biomechanics of growth in plants
Hierarchical structure of plant stem
Students attend BMES meeting
Poster session at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Bioinspired design of MXene-based composites.

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Focus Area

  • Biobased/Bioinspired Material

  • Nanomechanics of Materials 

  • Biomedical Devices for Healthcare & Precision Agriculture

Tools and Techniques: 

  • Nano-indentation, Tensile/Compression

  • SEM, Spectroscopic analysis (Raman and FTIR), 

  • Solid mechanics (FEM)

  • 3D manufacturing (electrospinning and 3D printing)

Updated March 2023

  • Congratulations to Alexi Switz for...

  • Congratulations to Swastika Bera for completing her MS thesis presentation on March 7 "DEVELOPMENT OF CORN KERNEL-BASED BIOCOMPOSITE FILMS FOR FOOD PACKAGING APPLICATIONS"

  • Prasad Lab is ACTIVE at its new location. See some of our YouTube Videos and lab pics on the Media page. Our member profile is COMING SOON!

  •  The lab is moving to a new location at Florida International University starting Fall 2022! 

  • Congratulation Dr.  Mukesh and Dr. Prasad on  new publications

  • Prasad lab in collaboration with Education Director Dr. Bree Oatman from South Dakota Discovery center has been awarded Wokini Challenge Grant FY'23 for "Engineering Design Inspired by Nature: Culturally Integrated Materials Science Education" (July 2022 to June 2024).

  • New 2-year Grant from North Central Regional Sun Grant Center "Translating Cellulose-based Biomass to Engineered Biocomposite" starting July 2022.

  • MS Student Trupti Mali successfully defended her MS Thesis " Nanomechanical Characterisation and Comparison of Additively Manufactured GRCop-42 alloy". CONGRATULATIONS!! (May 2022)

  • MS Student Temitope Borode successfully defended his MS Thesis "Design of Polyaniline  Based Sensor for Real Time Plant Growth Monitoring". CONGRATULATIONS!! (May 2022)

  • Welcoming BioX 3D Printer in our lab through grant support from ME Department, Dept of Pharmacy, and SDSU's Division of Research and Economic Development (February 2022).

  • Dr. Prasad wins DOD DURIP Defense University Research Equipment Grant! (Fiscal Year 2022). 

  • Prasad Lab participated in the Midwest Applied Materials Conference organized by Jerome J Lohr College of Engineering, Nov 2021

  • Dr. Prasad wins the prestigious NSF CAREER Award! (Aug 2021).

For earlier news see here 

Lab Facility

Sample PREP and storage

  • Biosafety Cabinet​

  • Freezer (-20 °C )

  • Precision Cutter

  • Grinder Polisher

  • Bone Core Driller

  • Ultrasonicator

  • Water Bath

Material Manufacturing

  • 3D Printer

  • Electrospinner (in- house)

  • 3D Bioprinter (in-house)

Material Characterization

  • Raman Spectroscopy

  • Rheometer

  • METLAB facility

  • BioFuel Lab (FTIR, DSC)

Computational Analysis

  • ABAQUS

  • COMSOL

  • Origin Plot

  • MATLAB

Location

Contact Us

College of Engineering and Computing, EC 3140, 

Florida International University

Miami, FL 33174

Email: anprasad@fiu.edu

Prasad Lab at Biomedical Engineering @FIU

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