News

2024
  • Our new project in collaboration with Arçelik and supported by Tubitak 1505 program has been started in May 2024
  • Our new project funded by the ERC Tubitak support program has been started in March 2024.

2023
  • Farzad received the prestigious Dr. Gursel Sonmez Research Award from Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences.
  • Morteza Ghorbani received the Outstanding Young Scientist Award (BAGEP) from The Science Academy.
  • Ünal, Mandana and Erçil joined our group to pursue their research in the field of cavitation with us.
  • Our new industrial project in collaboration with ASELSAN on the synthesis of the nanoparticle-loaded perfuorodroplets has been started in Feb 2023.
  • Our project regarding CTC detection via hydrodynamic cavitation inception has been granted in the frame of the TUBITAK 1004 scheme within the MAESTRO project under the coordination of ODTU MEMS.

2022
  • Morteza Ghorbani received the Newton International Fellowship Award from The Royal Society for the project “Large Scale Exfoliation of 2D nanomaterials using an Environmentally Friendly Hybrid Cavitation Reactor”. The project will be carried out at Oxford Brookes University in collaboration with Prof. Iakovos Tzanakis.
  • Our project entitled “Removal of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients with Micro-scale Hydrodynamic Cavitation” was accepted for funding under the scheme of bilateral call between TUBİTAK and ARRS (Slovenia). In this project, we will collaborate with Assistant Prof. Mojca Zupanc from the University of Ljubljana.
  • Our Master’s student, İlayda successfully defended her thesis in July. Her thesis title was “A Novel Methodology for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Using Next Generation Microfluidic Devices: Hydrodynamic Cavitation on a Chip“. We wish the best of luck to İlayda in her Ph.D. studies at Penn State University, USA. Good Luck İlayda!
  • Our Master’s student, Ali successfully defended his thesis in July. His thesis title was “New-generation 3D printed biomedical device based on micro-scale hydrodynamic cavitation“. We wish the best of luck to Ali in his Ph.D. studies at Lehigh University, USA. Good Luck Ali!
  • Our article entitled “On the Effect of the Respiratory Droplet Generation Condition on COVID-19 Transmission” was selected as an Editor’s Choice due to the citations it received within a short period of time in the Fluids Journal.

2021
  • We have been selected as the Winner of The Water Council’s Tech Challenge 2021 for Elimination of High OPEX; $10,000 prize money and commercialization support for the Project “A novel pretreatment approach for aerobic and anaerobic digestions via micro scale hydrodynamic cavitation”
  • We have granted three projects on the scope of the TUBITAK 1001 call. These three projects are related to the use of micro-scale hydrodynamic cavitation in different industrial and engineering applications.
  • Our new industrial project with Arçelik on improving the solubility performance of the washing machines has been started.
  • Morteza Ghorbani is selected as an Academic Editor in Frontiers in Advancements in Cooling and Heating
  • Our article has been selected as the Most Downloaded Article, MPDI Fluids Journal, July 2020 https://www.mdpi.com/2311-5521/5/3/113
  • Our article entitled “Design and fabrication of a vigorous “cavitation-on-a-chip” device with a multiple microchannel configuration” has been recognized as a feature article in Nature Microsystems & Nanoengineering Journal.
  • Our collaborative article entitled “On the Development of a Novel Contrast Pulse Sequence for Polymer-Shelled Microbubbles” has been accepted to be published in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control.

2020
  • Morteza Ghorbani is selected as a Topic Editor in Biosensors Journal.
  • Our collaborative work in the field of nanoparticle deagglomeration was published in AIP Advances.
  • Morteza Ghorbani is selected as an Academic Editor in Biomed Research International Journal.
  • Our article entitled “On the Effect of the Respiratory Droplet Generation Condition on COVID-19 Transmission” has been published in Fluids. We studied safe social distancing for unsuccessful transmission of COVID-19. 
  • Morteza Ghorbani in an invited talk presented a webinar on Microscale Cavitation; Physics and its Applications at SUNUM Nanoopen Webinar Series on June, 24.
  • Morteza Ghorbani joined the Center of Excellence for Functional Surfaces and Interfaces (EFSUN) as a new member.
  • Our Master’s student, Moein successfully defended his thesis on June, 10. His thesis title was HYDRODYNAMIC CAVITATION ON HIGH RESISTANT MICROFLUIDIC CHIPS. We wish the best of luck to Moein in his Ph.D. studies at Uppsala University, Sweden.
  • Our undergraduate student, Ece received a full Ph.D. scholarship from Johns Hopkins University, USA. Good luck Ece!
  • Our article entitled “Influence of Fluid Properties on Intensity of Hydrodynamic Cavitation and Deactivation of Salmonella typhimurium” has been published in Processes. We studied the potential of micro scale hydrodynamic cavitation reactor on the water treatment.