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Ke Du

Research Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Kate Gleason College of Engineering
kxdeme@rit.edu

Ke Du

Research Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Kate Gleason College of Engineering

Education

Postdoc Fellow., University of California-Berkeley (2015-2018); Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology (2009-2015)

kxdeme@rit.edu
Areas of Expertise
In vitro diagnostics
In vivo bioimaging
scalable nanomanufacturing
functional nanomaterials
machine learning for biomedical engineering

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Journal Paper
Hass, Kenneth, et al. "Integrated Micropillar Polydimethylsiloxane Accurate CRISPR Detection System for Viral DNA Sensing." ACS Omega 5. (2020): 27433-27441. Web.
Qin, Peiwu, et al. "Rapid and Fully Microfluidic Ebola Virus Detection with CRISPRCas13a." ACS Sensors. (2019): 1048-1054. Print.
Chen, Xinye, et al. "Experimental and Theoretical Study on the Microparticle Trapping and Release in a Deformable Nano-Sieve Channel." Nanotechnology 31. 5 (2020): 05LT01. Print.
Du, Ke, et al. "Manipulation of the Superhydrophobicity of Plasma-Etched Polymer Nanostructures." Micromachines. (2018): 304. Web.
Du, Ke, et al. "Self-formation of polymer nanostructures in plasma etching: mechanisms and applications." Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. (2017): 14006. Print.
Du, Ke, et al. "Microfluidic System for Detection of Viral RNA in Blood Using a Barcode Fluorescence Reporter and a Photocleavable Capture Probe." Analytical Chemistry. (2017): 12433-12440. Print.
Chen, Xinye, et al. "Rapid Escherichia coli (E. coli) Trapping and Retrieval from Bodily Fluids via a Three-Dimensional (3D) Beads Stacked Nano-Device." ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. (2020): In press. Print.
Du, Ke, et al. "Superhydrophobic waveguide: Liquid-core air-cladding waveguide platform for optofluidics." Applied Physics Letters. (2018): 143701. Print.
Du, Ke, et al. "Selective hierarchical patterning of silicon nanostructures via soft nanostencil lithography." Nanotechnology. (2017): 465303. Print.
Jiang, Youhua, et al. "Nanotexturing of Conjugated Polymers via One-Step Maskless Oxygen Plasma Etching for Enhanced Tunable Wettability." Langmuir. (2017): 6885-6894. Print.
Chauvin, Adrien, et al. "Large-Scale Fabrication of Porous Gold Nanowires via Laser Interference Lithography and Dealloying of Gold–Silver Nano-Alloys." Micromachines. (2017): 168. Web.
Du, Ke, et al. "Multiplexed efficient on-chip sample preparation and sensitiveamplification-free detection of Ebola virus." Biosensors and Bioelectronics. (2017): 489-496. Print.
Mel, Abdel-Aziz El, et al. "Galvanic Replacement Reaction: A Route to Highly Ordered Bimetallic Nanotubes." The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. (2016): 17652-17659. Print.
Mel, Abdel-Aziz El, et al. "Controlling the Formation of Nanocavities in Kirkendall Nanoobjects through Sequential Thermal Ex Situ Oxidation and In Situ Reduction Reactions." Small. (2016): 2885-2892. Print.
Chauvin, Adrien, et al. "Planar Arrays of Nanoporous Gold Nanowires: When Electrochemical Dealloying Meets Nanopatterning." ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. (2016): 6611-6620. Print.
Thiry, Damien, et al. "The Kirkendall Effect in Binary Alloys: Trapping Gold in Copper Oxide Nanoshells." Chemistry of Materials. (2015): 6374-6384. Print.
Ding, Junjun, et al. "Transfer patterning of large-area graphene nanomesh via holographic lithography and plasma etching." Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B. (2014): 06FF01-1. Print.
Du, Ke, et al. "Fabrication of polymer nanowires via maskless O2 plasma etching." Nanotechnology. (2014): 165301. Print.
Mel, Abdel-Aziz El, et al. "Electron Beam Nanosculpting of Kirkendall Oxide Nanochannels." ACS Nano. (2014): 1854-1861. Print.
Du, Ke, et al. "Fabrication of hierarchical nanostructures using free-standing trilayer membrane." Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B. (2013): 06FF04-1. Print.
Lu, Yiming, et al. "Large-Amplitude, Reversible, pH-Triggered Wetting Transitions Enabled by Layer-by-Layer Films." ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. (2013): 12617-12623. Print.
Mel, Abdel-Aziz El, et al. "Highly Ordered Hollow Oxide Nanostructures: The Kirkendall Effect at the Nanoscale." Small. (2013): 2838-2843. Print.
Liu, Yuyang, et al. "From nanocone to nanodisc: Structural transformation of gold nanoarrays via simple mechanical stresses." Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B. (2012): 06FF10-1. Print.
Du, Ke, et al. "Dual applications of free-standing holographic nanopatterns for lift-off and stencil lithography." Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B. (2012): 06FF04-1. Print.
Du, Ke, et al. "Wafer-Scale Pattern Transfer of Metal Nanostructures on Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Substrates via Holographic Nanopatterns." ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. (2012): 5505-5514. Print.
Wathuthanthri, Ishan, et al. "Simple Holographic Patterning for High-Aspect-Ratio Three-Dimensional Nanostructures with Large Coverage Area." Advanced Functional Materials. (2012): 608-618. Print.
Du, Ke, et al. "Large-area pattern transfer of metallic nanostructures on glass substrates via interference lithography." Nanotechnology. (2011): 285306. Print.
Invited Paper
He, Qian, et al. "Perspective of Molecular Diagnosis in Healthcare: From Barcode to Pattern Recognition." Diagnostics. (2019). Web.
Du, Ke, et al. "Sub-10 nm patterning with DNA nanostructures: a short perspective." Nanotechnology. (2017). Print.
Du, Ke, Ishan Wathuthanthri, and Chang-Hwan Choi. "The Rise of scalable micro/nanopatterning." Micromachines. (2017). Web.
Du, Ke, et al. "Stencil Lithography for Scalable Micro- and Nanomanufacturing." Micromachines. (2017). Web.

In the News

  • August 30, 2021

    researchers looking at a laptop on a table with beakers and vials.

    Engineering faculty member receives NIH grant to develop biotechnology to better detect sepsis

    As one of the leading causes of death in hospitals, sepsis becomes more complicated with the rise in bacteria most resistant to some of today’s antibiotics. If physicians can detect onset earlier, treatments could begin sooner. Ke Du, a mechanical engineering faculty-researcher, will be developing a microfluidic device to improve detection of drug resistant bacteria in blood.

  • December 8, 2020

    Diagram of magnetic beads inside of a tube

    Ke Du awarded 15K from Biological Mimetics Inc.

    Ke Du, assistant professor in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, awarded 15K to develop a CRISPR assay for the rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2. The detection scheme based on a recent paper from Du’s lab appeared in the journal of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces titled Magnetic Bead-Quantum Dot (MB-Qdot) Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat Assay for Simple Viral DNA Detection. 

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