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Associate Professor
Cullen Buie
Esther & Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Chair
Interests
- Microfluidic tools genetic transformation in synthetic biology
- Dynamic interactions between fluids and porous media
- Low cost energy storage systems
Professor Buie News + Media
Breaking Through the Bacteria Barrier
Cullen Buie's new microfluidic device allows scientists to quickly extract DNA for use in genetic engineering.
Bacteria: The Good and the Bad
In search of the ideal bacteria for use in a microbial fuel cell (MFC), MIT Associate Professor Cullen Buie researches a novel method to quickly sort and identify the various strains.
Rainfall Can Release Aerosols, Study Finds
MIT researchers believe they may have identified the mechanism that releases the earthy aroma you smell after a light rain.
Faculty Details
Education
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2003
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
B.S. -
2005
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
M.S. -
2009
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Ph.D.
Research Interests
- Microfluidics
- Electrokinetics
- Electrochemistry
- Biotechnology
Online Data
- Google Scholar: (http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rExK1G4AAAAJ&hl=en)
Honors + Awards
- 2013: Stanford Distinguished Alumni Scholar
- 2013: DARPA Young Faculty Award
- 2013: DuPont Young Professor Award
- 2012: NSF CAREER Award
Memberships
- American Physical Society
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- AES Electrophoresis Society
Professional Service
- 2010: 4th International Conference on Electrophoretic Deposition, Organizing Committee
- 2012: International Symposium, Exhibit & Workshop on Electro- and Liquid Phase-Separation
- Techniques (ITP), Session Chair
- 2012: American Electrophoresis Society, Board Member and 2014 Conference Chair
- 2012: ASME IMECE, Session Chair (1 day)
- 2012: APS DFD, Session Chair (1 day) November
- 2012: ASME IMECE Microfluidics, Plenary Session Organizer
- 2013 - present: Academic Research and Leadership Network, Steering Committee and 2016 Meeting Organizer
- 2014: ASME Fuel Cell Science, Engineering, and Technology Conference, Session Organizer
- 2014 - present: 2016 Dielectrophoresis Meeting, Chair/Organizer
- 2014- present: Transducers Conference, 2015 Program Committee
- 2014- present: ASME InterPACK/ICNMM 2015, Session Organizer
MIT Service
- 2014: MIT Lincoln Laboratory/Mechanical Engineering Task Force
- 2011: Mechanical Engineering Strategic Planning Committee
- 2011: School of Engineering Ad-Hoc Diversity Committee
- 2011 - present: Associate Housemaster, Maseeh Hall
- 2010 - present: MIT Summer Research Program, Mentor
Teaching
- Measurement and Instrumentation (2.671)
- Advanced Fluid Mechanics (2.25)
- Thermal Fluids Engineering I (2.005)
- Thermal Fluids Engineering II (2.006)
- Thermodynamics (2.05)
Publications
- Braff, W.A., Pignier, A., and Buie, C.R., "High sensitivity three-dimensional insulator-based dielectrophoresis," Lab on a Chip, 2012, 12, p.1327.
- Joung, Y.S., Buie, C.R., "A Hybrid Method Employing Breakdown Anodization and Electrophoretic Deposition for Superhydrophilic Surfaces," The Journal of Physical Chemistry: B, 2013, 117, p.1714-1723.
- Braff, W. A., Buie, C. R., Bazant, M. Z., "Boundary Layer Analysis of Membraneless Electrochemical Cells," Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2013, 160, (11), A2056-A2063.
- Figliuzzi, B., Buie, C. R., "Rise in Optimized Capillary Channels," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2013, 731, 142-161.
- Chu, K.-H., Joung, Y.S., Enright, R., Buie, C.R., and E.N. Wang, "Hierarchically structured surfaces for boiling critical heat flux enhancement," Applied Physics Letters, 2013, 102, p.151602-4.
- Braff, W. A., Bazant, M. Z., Buie, C. R., "Membrane-Less Hydrogen Bromine Flow Battery," Nature Communications, 2013, 4, p.1-6.
- Braff, W.A., Willner, D., Hugenholtz, P., Rabaey, K., Buie, C.R. "Rapid strain-level discrimination of bacteria using three-dimensional insulator-based dielectrophoresis," PLoS One, 2013, 8, (10), A2056-A2063.
- Joung, Y.S., Buie, C.R.,"Scaling laws for drop impingement on porous films and papers," Physical Review E, 2014, 89, (1), 013015:1-013015:9.
- Dingari, N.N., and C.R. Buie, "A theoretical investigation of bacteria polarizability under direct current electric fields", Langmuir, 2014, 30, (15), 4375-4384.
- Figliuzzi, B., Chan, W. H. R., Moran, J. L., and Buie, C. R., "Nonlinear electrophoresis of ideally polarizable particles," Physics of Fluids, 2014, 26, 102002-1:102002-21.
- Joung, Y.S., Figliuzzi, B.F., Buie, C.R., " Design of Capillary Flows with Functionally Graded Porous Titanium Oxide Films," Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2014, 423, (0), 143-150.
- Joung, Y.S., and C.R. Buie, "Aerosol Generation by Raindrop Impact on Soil", Nature Communications, 2015, 6.
- Braff, W.A., Bazant, M.Z., and C.R. Buie, "Inertial effects on the generation of co-laminar flows", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2015, 767, 85-94.
Patents
- J. Santiago, J. Posner, F. B. Prinz, T. Fabian, J. Eaton, S.-W. Cha, C. Buie, D. Kim, H. Tsuru, J. Sasahara, T. Kubota and Y. Saito, Fuel cell with electroosmotic pump, The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University and Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, US 2006/0029851.