{"id":4,"date":"2013-07-01T15:51:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T15:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/bellanlab\/about-me\/"},"modified":"2016-03-22T15:48:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T20:48:39","slug":"lmb","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/bellanlab\/lmb\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Leon Bellan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dr. Leon M. Bellan received his B.S. in Physics at Caltech in 2003 and his Ph.D. in Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell in 2008.\u00a0 At Cornell, he studied applications and properties of electrospun nanofibers in the laboratory of Prof. Harold Craighead.\u00a0 His work focused on microstructure and mechanical characterization of single nanofibers, electrospinning jet dynamics measurements, and the use of nanofibers for nanofabrication purposes.\u00a0 Near the end of his time at Cornell, Dr. Bellan developed a process to fabricate 3D microfluidic networks using cotton candy as a sacrificial material.<\/div>\n

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After completing his Ph.D., Dr. Bellan joined the laboratory of Prof. Robert Langer at MIT as a postdoctoral researcher to further develop the sacrificial cotton candy technique.\u00a0 At MIT, Dr. Bellan expanded the range of materials compatible with the fabrication process to include hydrogels.\u00a0 These microfluidic networks in hydrogel biomaterials could be used as artificial vascular systems in engineered tissue, providing embedded cells with nutrients and gasses necessary for survival.<\/div>\n

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In August 2013 Dr. Bellan joined the Mechanical Engineering department at Vanderbilt University as an Assistant Professor.\u00a0 His research interests currently focus on the development of scalable micro\/nanofabrication techniques for the production of smart materials with novel functionality.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Dr. Leon M. Bellan received his B.S. in Physics at Caltech in 2003 and his Ph.D. in Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell in 2008.\u00a0 At Cornell, he studied applications and properties of electrospun nanofibers in the laboratory of Prof. Harold Craighead.\u00a0 His work focused on microstructure and mechanical characterization of single nanofibers, electrospinning…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1956,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/bellanlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/bellanlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/bellanlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/bellanlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1956"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/bellanlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/bellanlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/bellanlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/bellanlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/bellanlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}