Bo Lu - Caltech Micromachining Laboratory - California Institute of ...

PATENTS
1. Y.C. Tai, M.S. Humayun and B. Lu, “A 3D parylene scaffold cage for culturing retinal pigment epithelial cells”
2. Y.C. Tai and B. Lu, “Methods and design of membrane filters”
3. Y.C. Tai and B. Lu, “Ultrathin parylene-C membranes for biomedical applications”
4. A. Goldkorn, Y.C. Tai, T. Xu and B. Lu, “Method for cancer detection, diagnosis and prognosis”
5. S. Zheng, R. Cote, H. Lin, B. Lu and Y.C. Tai, “Method and apparatus for microfiltration to perform cell separation”
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Conference
Journal
1. B. Lu, D. Zhu, D. Hinton, M.S. Humayun and Y.C. Tai, “A 3D parylene scaffold cage for culturing retinal pigment
epithelial cells”, Proc. of MEMS 2012, Paris, France, 2012, pp. 741-744.
2. B. Lu, Z. Liu, L. Liu, D. Zhu, D. Hinton, B. Thomas, M.S. Humayun and Y.C. Tai, “Semipermeable parylene
membrane as an artificial Bruch's membrane”, Proc. of Transducers 2011, Beijing, China, 2011, pp. 950-953.
3. B. Lu, J.H.C. Chang and Y.C. Tai, “Time-dependent cell membrane damage under mechanical tension:
experiments and modeling”, Proc. of Transducers 2011, Beijing, China, 2011, pp. 446-449.
4. B. Lu, Z. Liu and Y.C. Tai, “Ultrathin parylene-C semipermeable membranes for biomedical applications”, Proc. of
MEMS 2011, Cancun, Mexico, 2011, pp. 505-508.
5. B. Lu, J.C.H. Lin, Z. Liu, Y.K. Lee and Y.C. Tai, “Highly flexible, transparent and patternable parylene-C
superhydrophobic films with high and low adhesion”, Proc. of MEMS 2011, Cancun, Mexico, 2011, pp.
1143-1146.
6. B. Lu, T. Xu, A. Goldkorn and Y.C. Tai, “The capture and 3-D culture of viable circulating tumor cells using high
open-factor parylene-C/HT membrane filters”, Proc. of Hilton Head 2010, Hilton Head Island, SC, USA, 2010, pp.
439-442
7. B. Lu, T. Xu, S. Zheng, A. Goldkorn and Y.C. Tai, “Parylene membrane slot filter for the capture, analysis and
culture of viable circulating tumor cells”, Proc. of MEMS 2010, Hong Kong, China, 2010, pp. 935-938.
8. B. Lu, S. Zheng, S. Xie and Y.C. Tai, “Live capture of circulating tumor cells from human blood by a splitable 3D
parylene membrane filtration device”, Proc. of µTAS 2009, Jeju, Korea, 2009, pp. 588-590.
9. B. Lu, S. Zheng and Y.C. Tai, "Parylene background fluorescence for BioMEMS applications", Proc. of
Transducers 2009, Denver, CO, USA, 2009, pp. 176-179.
1. B. Lu, D. Zhu, D. Hinton, M.S. Humayun and Y.C. Tai, “Mesh-supported submicron parylene-C membranes for
culturing retinal pigment epithelial cells”, Biomedical Microdevices, DOI: 10.1007/s10544-012-9645-8, 2012.
2. B. Lu*, T. Xu*, Y.C. Tai and A. Goldkorn, “A cancer detection platform which measures telomerase activity from
live circulating tumor cells captured on a microfilter”, Cancer Research, vol. 70, pp. 6420-6426, 2010. (*equal first
authors)
3. B. Lu, S. Zheng, B. Q. Quach and Y. C. Tai, “A study of the autofluorescence of parylene materials for microTAS
applications”, Lab on a Chip, vol. 10, pp. 1826-1834, 2010.
4. B. Lv*, X. Liu, Z. Yang and G. Yan, “Simulation of a novel lateral axis micromachined gyroscope in the presence of
fabrication imperfections”, Microsystem Technologies, vol. 14, pp. 711-718, 2008. (*Lu can also be spelt as Lv)
5. B. Lu, X. Liu, J. Cui, Z. Yang and G. Yan, “A method of simulating the decoupling property of lateral axis micro
gyroscope using finite element tool”, Chinese Journal of Sensors and Actuators, vol. 21, pp. 255-257, 2008.