Current Lab Members

Vishal Tandon, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate

Email: vishtandon@gmail.com

Education 

B.S. in Bioengineering, 2005.
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, 2009.
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, 2011.
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Research

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Tandon, V. and Kirby, B.J. “Electrokinetic Potential of Hydrophobic, Zeonor Substrates is a Function of Ambient Pressure.” Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 361:381-387 (2011).

Tandon, V., Bhagavatula, S.K., and Kirby, B.J. “Transient Zeta-Potential Measurements in Hydrophobic, TOPAS Microfluidic Substrates.” Electrophoresis. 30:2656-2667 (2009).

Tandon, V., and Kirby, B.J. “Zeta Potential and Electroosmotic Mobility in Microfluidic Devices Fabricated from Hydrophobic Polymers: 2. Slip and Interfacial Water Structure.” Electrophoresis. 29:1102-1114 (2008).

Tandon, V., Bhagavatula, S.K., Nelson, W.C., and Kirby, B.J. “Zeta Potential and Electroosmotic Mobility in Microfluidic Devices Fabricated from Hydrophobic Polymers: 1. The Origins of Charge.” Electrophoresis. 29:1092-1101 (2008).

Lin, F., Shaw, L.J., Berman, D.S., Callister, T.Q., Weinsaft, J.W., Wong, F.J., Szulc, M., Tandon, V, Okin, P.M., Devereux, R.B., and Min, J.K. “Multidetector Computed Tomography Coronary Artery Plaque Predictors of Stress-Induced Myocardial Ischemia by SPECT.” Atherosclerosis. 197:700-709 (2008).

Book Chapters

Tandon, V and Peck, W. “Fundamentals of Microfluidics for High School Physics Students with no Prior Knowledge of Fluid Mechanics.” Methods in Molecular Biology: Volume 2, Microfluidic Diagnostics. Accepted (2011).

Published Conference Proceedings

Tandon, V., Bhagavatula, S.K., and Kirby, B.J. “Disruption of Long-term Electrokinetic Transients in Pressure Driven Flow via a Short-term Application of an Electric Field.” MicroTAS, Jeju, Korea (2009).

Tandon, V., Bhagavatula, S.K., and Kirby, B.J. “Transient Electrokinetic Phenomena in Hydrophobic Microfluidic Devices.” MicroTAS, San Diego, CA (2008).

Tandon, V., Sharma, A.N., Bhagavatula, S.K., and Kirby, B.J. “Electrokinetic and Atomic Force Microscopy Characterization of Interfacial Vapor Void Phenomena in Hydrophobic Microfluidic Devices.” AIChE annual meeting, Salt Lake City, UT (2007).

Tandon, V., Sharma, A.N., Bhagavatula, S.K., and Kirby B.J. “Electrokinetic and Atomic Force Microscopy Characterization of Interfacial Vapor Void Phenomena in Hydrophobic Microfluidic Devices.” MicroTAS, Paris, France (2007).

Tandon, V., Ghosh, S., Bhagwat, A.R., Renshaw, C.K., Goh, S., Gaeta, A.L., and Kirby, B.J. “In-situ microfluidic synthesis of materials for nonlinear optical devices: control of atomic vapor populations in microchannel waveguides.” MicroTAS, Paris, France (2007).

Hawkins, B.G., Tandon, V., and Kirby, B.J. “Electrokinetic Tool for Cellular Screening in Plastic Microdevices: Interfacial Characterization and Engineering Design.” 212th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Washington, DC (2007).