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Volume 4, Issue 4 (Suppl)
J Laser Opt Photonics, an open access journal
ISSN: 2469-410X
Optics 2017
November 15-17, 2017
November 15-17, 2017 | Las Vegas, USA
8
th
International Conference and Exhibition on
Lasers, Optics & Photonics
Bridging nano and macro: Multimaterial multifunctional fibers
Xiaoting Jia
Virginia Tech, USA
R
ecent developments in nanomaterial synthesis and characterization have led to unprecedented material properties and device
performance. On the other hand, many important applications see urgent needs for advanced material and device capabilities
and require large scale production of devices in order to make a real and significant impact. A big gap exists between the advanced
nanotechnology and the macro scale applications. Here, I present a unique material platform that aim to bridge the nano and macro
worlds: Multimaterial multifunctional fibers. I will introduce the scalable fabrication of multimaterial fibers via thermal drawing
and the application of these flexible fiber devices in neural engineering, tissue engineering, drug delivery and optical sensing. In
particular, I will focus on the multimodality fibers for simultaneous optical, electrical and chemical interrogation of neural circuits
in
vivo
and the applications of these fibers in a single-step optogenetic study. This technology will allow for more detailed manipulation
and analysis of the neural network in deep brain regions of behaving animals than what current technologies achieved.
Biography
Xiaoting Jia is an Assistant Professor in the ECE Department at Virginia Tech. Before joining Virginia Tech, she was a Post-doc Associate in the Research Laboratory of
Electronics (RLE) at MIT. She has received her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT (2011), MS in Materials Science and Engineering from SUNY-Stony
Brook (2006) and BS in Materials Science from Fudan University in China (2004). She has authored and coauthored 26 papers published in premier journals including
Science, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Communications
, etc. Her papers have been cited for over 6000 times in total. Her work on nanomaterials
was covered by several media outlets (Nanotechweb, Foresight, etc.). She was a recipient of Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Gold Medal (2010) and
the Translational Fellow at the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics (2013).
xjia@vt.eduXiaoting Jia, J Laser Opt Photonics 2017, 4:4 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2469-410X-C1-017