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COVID-19: FAMES Lab Emergency Response

Design & Production Support

Read more about our current biomedical equipment contributions to caregivers in this moment of crisis.

Coronavirus Frontline Aid

Work groups in healthcare or fabrication interested in collaboration are welcomed to contact us.

Welcome to the FAMES Lab!

About Us

The Fibers and Additive Manufacturing Enabled Systems Laboratory (FAMES Lab) established by Prof. Alexander Gumennik in 2016, is part of the newly formed  Intelligent Systems Engineering (ISE) Department at  Indiana University Bloomington. Our laboratory, located at the Multidisciplinary Engineering and Science Hall (MESH), consists of approximately 3000 square feet of clean rooms, optical laboratories, and manufacturing facilities with innovative highly customized equipment. It includes a high-bay area, which houses one of the most elaborate specialty-fiber drawing towers worldwide.

Video: Time lapse of the FAMES Lab Construction.

Our team develops a novel hybrid manufacturing technique to attain this vision. We begin with the three-dimensional printing of fiber preforms – the scaled-up replicas of the desired fiber devices. In a preform, the materials, such as metals, insulators, semiconductors, piezoelectrics, and non-linear optical media, are architecturally arranged to meet the desired functionality. Next, we thermally draw fibers from these preforms. Finally, we axially structure the fiber cores by means of controlled capillary instability into discrete integrated devices densely packed into the hosting fiber.

Our fibers warped into fabric will provide a basis for a new type of apparel that would monitor and regulate the comfort and health of its consumer. Moreover, our fibers will provide technological and scientific advances in multiple areas, such as green energy, environmental monitoring, biosynthetic electronics, tissue engineering, additive manufacturing, and fluid dynamics research.

To students, we provide a variety of training in modern technological tools combining additive manufacturing, material sciences, optics, nano-engineering, and bio-engineering, including courses in ENGR-E 537: Rapid Prototyping for Engineers and ENGR-E 505: Intro to Nano-Engineering.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to  contact us.

News

Our COVID-19 research results on the design, rapid fabrication, and testing of sterile medical nasopharyngeal swabs has been published in Advanced Engineering Materials

Presentation at CLEO Pacific Rim on the Effects of 3D Printed Preform Annealing on Structural and Optical Properties of Fibers

Mengxin Zheng presentation at the CLEO Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference on 3D printed glass for optical fibers

FAMES Lab Members Win First Place at the Cheng Wu Innovation Challenge 2020

FAMES Lab steps up to the challenge: Preparing Indiana for the COVID-19 pandemic

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2151 Multidisciplinary Engr. & Sci. Hall
2425 North Milo B. Sampson Lane
Bloomington, IN 47408, United States

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