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Fiorenzo Omenetto's Biography



Fiorenzo Omenetto, Frank C. Doble Professor of Engineering, Associate Dean for Research, School of Engineering, Tufts University

Fiorenzo G. Omenetto is the Frank C. Doble Professor of Engineering, and a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Tufts University. He also holds appointments in the Department of Physics and the Department of Electrical Engineering. His research interests are in the convergence of technology, biologically inspired materials and the natural sciences with an emphasis on new transformative approaches for sustainable materials for high-technology applications. He also serves as Associate Dean for Research for the School of Engineering. He has proposed and pioneered the use of silk as a material platform for advanced technology with uses in photonics, optoelectronics and nanotechnology applications, is co-inventor on several disclosures on the subject, and is actively investigating applications that rely on this technology base both for technical and design applications. He has co-founded three startups and has active roles in their governance. Prof. Omenetto was formerly a J. Robert Oppenheimer Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratories, a Guggenheim Fellow, and is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and of the American Physical Society. His research has been featured extensively in the press with coverage in the most important media outlets worldwide.

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Biomaterial Printing Frontiers

Thursday, 16 March 2017 at 12:00

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Biomaterials offer opportunities for devices that operate seamlessly at the interface of the biological and technological worlds.  Stringent requirements on material form and function are imposed when operating at the nanoscale or when interfacing such materials with microelectronic circuitry. Silk fibroin is a very attractive biopolymer for use as a polymorphic matrix for multiple material formats that are casted, printed, extruded, or molded. This opens opportunities for multi-functional, sustainable devices that leverage both the properties of the material and the  biological features that they can encompass.


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