Walter Reisner

My research program, straddling the fields of nanotechnology and soft-matter/biophysics, is devoted to developing the field of nanofluidics. 

Nanofluidic devices are networks of fluid-filled structures on a chip, such as nanochannels and nanopores, with dimensions on order of 1-100 nm. Devices with such small dimensions can analyze and manipulate single biomolecules/bioparticles without need for molecular amplification, enabling interrogation of disease critical biological heterogeneity obscured by traditional methods that average over pools of disparate cells/particles/molecules. Hand in hand with developing new types of nanofluidic tools, we elucidate fundamental soft-matter physics and biophysical questions arising in the context of nanoconfined systems.