Reporter:
Dr. Lixin Dong
Nanorobotic Systems Lab
Michigan State University

Titles:
Nanorobotic Manipulation for Nanoelectromechanical, Fluidic, and Photonic Systems

Time:
09:00-11:50 AM, June 10th, 2011

Venue:
205, 2nd Floor, Building R, Shenyang Institute of Automation, CAS

Abstract:
Progress in nanorobotics over the past two decades has dramatically extended our ability to explore the world at the scale down to individual atoms. Nanorobotics is the study of robotics at the nanometer scale, and includes robots that are nanoscale in size and large robots capable of manipulating objects that have dimensions in the nanoscale range with nanometer resolution. Nanorobotic manipulation is characterized by multiple degrees of freedom with both position and orientation controls, independently actuated multi-probes, and a real-time observation system. Nanorobotic manipulation has proven effective for structuring and characterization nano building blocks and is promising for assembling nanodevices in 3-D space. As an enabling nanomanufacturing technology, nanorobotic manipulation has been playing an important role in the manufacturing and characterization of nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), which will in turn serve as both the tools to be used for fabricating future nanorobots (nano-sized robots, which have yet to be realized) as well as the components from which these nanorobots may be developed. Nanofluidic and photonic systems are of growing interest due to their potential applications in electronics, sensing, actuation, and biomedical systems for circuit spot welding, fluidic sensing and actuation, single molecule detection, targeted drug delivery, etc. Nanorobotics enables these nanometer-scale systems through its ability to position and assemble pipes, controlled mass delivery, and tuning and characterization of these systems. Such systems may also play an important role in future manufacturing systems that feed atoms and connect them into molecules, supramolecules, and, ultimately, super-precision products.

Biography:
Lixin Dong is currently an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University (MSU). He is the founder and director of NanoRobotic Systems Laboratory (NRS Lab) at MSU. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Xi’an University of Technology (XUT) in 1989 and 1992, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Micro Systems Engineering from Nagoya University in 2003. He became a Research Associate, a Lecturer, and an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering in 1992,1995, and 1998 at XUT, Assistant Professor of Micro/Nano Systems and MechanoInformation Engineering in 2003 at Nagoya University, and Research Scientist in 2004 and Senior Research Scientist in 2005 at ETH Zurich, where he led the NanoRobotics Group in IRIS. His main research interests include nanorobotics, NEMS, and enabling nanomanufacturing technologies for fluidic, photonic, biomedical, and other nanosystems. He has authored/coauthored more than 170 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and international conference papers. Some of his publications have been featured by Science, Nature, Nature Materials Updates, Nature Nanotechnology, Scientific American, MIT Technology Review, BBC, and many other media. He is a senior member of IEEE and serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Nanotechnology and the IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering, a section editor of Springer Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology, and a guest editor of Advanced Robotics. He serves as a Chair of Technical Committee of Nano Energy, Environment, and Safety (NEES) of IEEE NTC and has chaired or co-chaired several international conferences and workshops. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2011, the 2008 PROSE Awards in 2009, the IEEE T-ASE Googol Best New Application Paper Award in 2007, and some 30 other awards.

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