Pranav Soman's Biography

Pranav Soman, Professor, Biomedical and Chemical Engineering; IPA Program Director, Advanced Manufacturing (AM), National Science Foundation (NSF), Syracuse University

Pranav Soman holds two positions, as a Professor at Syracuse University, and as an IPA Rotator Program Director of the Advanced Manufacturing (AM) program at the National Science Foundation (NSF). As an academician, Prof. Soman’s central research focus is to develop new processing and printing technologies to create reliable models to capture key aspects of in vivo physiology and pathophysiology. Toward this goal, his group has developed a technology toolbox to provide a manufacturing solution to advance research in bioprinting, microfluidics, organ-on-chip, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and single cell analysis. He is also the founder of 3D Microfluidics LLC (3DM), a startup funded by NSF SBIR grant to provide cost-effective microfluidics solutions to researchers in life sciences. As a recently appointed Program Director at NSF, Prof. Soman’s roles include the advocacy of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research and education in advanced manufacturing and mentoring junior research members in the field.

Addressing Key Challenges in Multi-Material and Multi-scale Digital Projection Stereolithography

Tuesday, 19 November 2024 at 16:30

Add to Calendar ▼2024-11-19 16:30:002024-11-19 17:30:00Europe/LondonAddressing Key Challenges in Multi-Material and Multi-scale Digital Projection StereolithographyLab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidics World Congress 2024 in Laguna Hills, CaliforniaLaguna Hills, CaliforniaSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

This presentation will include two research projects conducted at Syracuse University and few outreach slides related to opportunities at NSF for the Additive Manufacturing community. First project, entitled, Multi-material Gradient Printing Using Meniscus-enabled Projection Stereolithography (MAPS) addresses current challenges related to vat based multi-material printing associated with hardware modifications, control systems, cross-contamination, waste, and resin properties. MAPS is a vat-free method that relies on generating and maintaining a resin meniscus between a cross-linked structure and bottom window to print lateral, vertical, discrete, or gradient multi-material 3D structures with no waste and user-defined mixing between layers. We show that MAPS can print 3D structures with gradient properties in mechanical stiffness, opacity, surface energy, cell densities, and magnetic properties. Second project, entitled Multipath projection stereolithography (MPS) addresses the inherent tradeoffs between print resolution, design complexity, and built sizes. Inspired by microscopes that could switch objectives to achieve multi-scale imaging, we report a new optical printer coined as MPS specifically designed for printing microfluidic devices. MPS is designed to switch between high- and low-resolution optical paths to generate centimeter sized constructs (3cm x 6cm) with a feature resolution of ~10µm. Using a test-case of micromixers, we show user-defined CAD models can be directly input to an automated slicing software to define printing of low-resolution features with embedded micro-scale fins. A new computational model, validated using experimental results, was used to simulate various fin designs and experiments were conducted to verify simulated mixing efficiencies.

Add to Calendar ▼2024-11-18 00:00:002024-11-20 00:00:00Europe/LondonLab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidics World Congress 2024Lab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidics World Congress 2024 in Laguna Hills, CaliforniaLaguna Hills, CaliforniaSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

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