We continue to collaborate with Dr. Houxun Miao of General Optics who is pushing the frontier of x-ray optics fabrication. Dr. Miao has obtained SBIR grants for x-ray optics production based on ideas our lab developed several years ago. He then moved further to develop new fabrication protocols with the aim to produce more efficient and larger optical elements. During the past year our lab provided x-ray diffraction tests of the intermediate products of new fabrication protocols he is developing. In a separate micro fabrication project, Dr. Miao has made micro scaffolds as cellular environments for Dr. Bob Adelstein's study on the regulation of mesenchymal cell contact guidance.

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Mirzaeimoghri, Mona; Morales Martinez, Alejandro; Panna, Alireza et al. (2018) Nano-printed miniature compound refractive lens for desktop hard x-ray microscopy. PLoS One 13:e0203319
Miao, Houxun; Chen, Lei; Mirzaeimoghri, Mona et al. (2016) Cryogenic Etching of High Aspect Ratio 400 nm Pitch Silicon Gratings. J Microelectromech Syst 25:963-967
Znati, Sami A; Chedid, Nicholas; Miao, Houxun et al. (2015) Electrodeposition of Gold to Conformally Fill High Aspect Ratio Nanometric Silicon Grating Trenches: A Comparison of Pulsed and Direct Current Protocols. J Surf Eng Mater Adv Technol 5:207-213
Miao, Houxun; Gomella, Andrew A; Chedid, Nicholas et al. (2014) Fabrication of 200 nm period hard X-ray phase gratings. Nano Lett 14:3453-8
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