Bhavana Venkataramanachar
Department / Institute
RESEARCH PROFILE
Bhavana Venkataramanachar is a doctoral candidate in the microsystems group headed by Jaap den Toonder. She works on the Artificial cilia project. The focus of the project is to fabricate cilia structures using magnetic polymers and femto-second lasering techniques. These fabricated cilia structures are expected to generate flow, mix fluids, perform mechano-transduction and thus find its applications in ‘lab-on-a-chip’ devices. The artificial cilia also help understand various types of biological cilia behaviors. The project aims at bringing together various streams of engineering onto a single chip.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Bhavana Venkataramanachar is from the southern part of India. She has always been interested in multidisciplinary topics and chose to do her Bachelors in Mechatronics Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University. In her academic project she worked on Human Area Networks to transfer information. She then pursed an MSc. in Microsystems Engineering from the University of Freiburg in Germany. Her master thesis was on External Quantum Efficiencies of different types of Perovskite solar cells at Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg.
Recent Publications
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Bhavana Venkataramanachar,Jianing Li,Tanveer Ul Islam,Ye Wang,Jaap M.J. den Toonder
Nanomagnetic Elastomers for Realizing Highly Responsive Micro- and Nanosystems
Nano Letters (2023) -
Tanveer ul Islam,Ye Wang,Ishu Aggarwal,Zhiwei Cui,Hossein Eslami Amirabadi,Hemanshul Garg,Roel Kooi,Bhavana Venkataramanachar,Tongsheng Wang,Shuaizhong Zhang
Microscopic artificial cilia - a review
Lab on a Chip (2022) -
Bhavana B. Venkataramanachar,Tanveer Ul Islam,Jaap M.J. den Toonder
Bioinspired organ-on-a-chip compatible flow sensors based on magnetic artificial cilia
(2022)
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