Longyi Chen, PhD, Research Associate Professor. He earned his PhD from University of Western Ontario with a research focus in functional nanomaterial and nanostructured glucose biosensor. He did his postdoctoral research in National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Maryland, College Park with a research focus in organ-on-a-chip and pharmaceutical analysis. In January 2022, he joined the Ethnomedicine Innovation Research Group in Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Micro-Nano System for Advanced Biomedical Application.
Representative Publications:
(1) L. Chen, Y. Yang, H. Ueno, and M. B. Esch. Body-in-a-Cube: a microphysiological system for multi-tissue co-culture with near-physiological amounts of blood surrogate. Microphysiological Systems, 2020, 4.
(2) L. Chen, M. Dotzert, C. W. J. Melling, and J. Zhang. Tunable Photoluminescence of Carbon Dots used for Homogeneous Glucose Sensing Assay. Biochemical Engineering Journal, 2020, 159: 107580.
(3) W. H. Tse, L. Chen, C. M. McCurdy, C. M. Tarapacki, B. A. Chronik, and J. Zhang. Development of biocompatible NaGdF4: Er3+, Yb3+ upconversion nanoparticles used as contrast agents for bio-imaging. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2019, 97(10): 2678-2684.
(4) L. Chen, E. Hwang, and J. Zhang. Fluorescent Nanobiosensors for Sensing Glucose. Sensors, 2018, 18(5): 1440.
L. Chen, W. H. Tse, Y. Chen, M. W. McDonald, J. Melling, and J. Zhang. Nanostructured biosensor for detecting glucose in tear by applying fluorescence resonance energy transfer quenching mechanism. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2017, 91: 393-399.
Field of research:
Pharmaceutical Analysis and Pharmaceutics.