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Welcome Message from Professor Kotov


Welcome to the web site of Kotov group! 


Without any hesitation I can say that we are an excellent scientific team.  We strive for the most creative, forward looking, and unorthodox scientific and engineering discoveries.   Professor A. Einstein once said “Imagination is more important than knowledge”.   Although giving extra credit to imagination, we also strive for the most rigorous and diligent proof of hypotheses we make.    Imagination without strict logic, sweat, doubt, and long hours is wishful thinking....
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Nicholas A. Kotov

Principle Investigator
kotov(at)umich(dot)edu


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Featured Story: 3D Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering and Drug Discovery - Competitions, Awards, News Coverage...[Read Now!!!] [Our research in 3D Scaffolds]
 
2008-06-12 Jungwoo and Meghan capture First Place at the Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest.
Meghan Cuddihy and Jungwoo Lee, representting 3D Biomatrix, received the First Place cash award of $5,000 in the New Business Idea category of the Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest (GLEQ). They were presented with the prize on June 12, 2008 at the James B. Henry Center on the Michigan State University Campus. 3D Biomatrix, located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, offers a novel drug discovery platform that allows standardized ex-vivo replication of human tissues with high reproducibility that increases the efficiency of present drug discovery process.

 
2008-05-20 Fingerprinting nanoparticles to assess cytotoxicity
A new study conducted by a joint U.S. - Irish team has now made the first step toward the development of both a fast and fairly comprehensive method of screening of biological activity and cytotoxicity of nanoparticles....using high content analysis (HCA). HCA is a marriage between a computer and confocal microscopy, and thus, it offers substantial advantages in the form of automated screening and uniform processing of the results. One can quickly obtain 'fingerprints' of the toxic effects of nanocolloids in respect to numerous characteristics. The multiparametric nature of these fingerprints will allow cytotoxicity analyses to be conducted at much higher throughput and accuracy. [nanowerk] [WiredScrience]
 
2008-04 Dr. Kotov promoted to Full Professor!
Congratulations to Dr. Nicholas A. Kotov on his promotion to Full Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. This is a well-deserved achievement and important milestone in his career!
 
2008-04 Christine wins NSF Fellowship
Congratulations to Christine Andres for winning a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. The fellowship provides students with three years of funding for research-focused Master's and PhD degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics fields.
 
2007-10-04 New plastic is strong as steel, transparent
By mimicking a brick-and-mortar molecular structure found in seashells, University of Michigan researchers created a composite plastic that's as strong as steel but lighter and transparent. It's made of layers of clay nanosheets and a water-soluble polymer that shares chemistry with white glue...and could lead to lighter, stronger armor for soldiers or police and their vehicles. It could also be used in microelectromechanical devices, microfluidics, biomedical sensors and valves and unmanned aircraft. Kotov and other U-M faculty members are authors of a paper on this composite material, "Ultrastrong and Stiff Layered Polymer Nanocomposites," published in the Oct. 5 edition of Science. [UMich] [Emerging Technology Trends] [EurekAlert] [PHYSORG] [COSMOS] [primidi.com] [medGadget] [ISEGORIA] [scifi.com] [ScienceDaily] [EETimes] [Scientific American] [DailyTech] [nanowerk] [NewScientistTech] [tgdaily]
 
2007 Meghan and Jungwoo Selected as Finalists for Nanochallenge 2007
Meghan Cuddihy and Jungwoo Lee have been selected as finalists to present their business plan for 3D Biomatrix at the Nanochallenge 2007 in Padova, Italy on November 29-30. This competition is sponsored by Veneto Nanotech in Italy...[Nanochallege Finalist Teams] [Veneto Nanotech]
 
         

 

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