Under funding provided by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the National Science Foundation, Dr. Scott White, a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and a Willett Faculty Scholar at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Sciences and Technology, teamed with other UIUC scientists to discover a technique for fabricating three-dimensional microvascular networks. These miniscule networks could have many uses as compact fluidic channels and reservoirs in sensors, chemical reactors, and computers. Dr. White collaborated with Dr. Jennifer Lewis, a UIUC professor of material science and chemical engineering, and Mr. Daniel Therriault, a UIUC graduate student, to produce a pervasive network of interconnected cylindrical channels that can range from 10 to 300 µm in diameter.
