Amir Sheikhi

Affiliate Researcher
Titles and Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering

Research Summary

Micro- and nanoengineered soft materials for medicine and the environment; microfluidic-enabled biomaterials for tissue engineering and regeneration; living materials; next-generation bioadhesives, tissue sealants, and hemostatic agents; hydrogels for minimally invasive medical technologies; self-healing and adaptable soft materials; smart coatings; hairy nanocelluloses as an emerging family of advanced materials

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Projects

Recent Publications

Accelerating Patterned Vascularization Using Granular Hydrogel Scaffolds and Surgical Micropuncture

Ataie, Z., Horchler, S., Jaberi, A., Koduru, S. V., El-Mallah, J. C., Sun, M., Kheirabadi, S., Kedzierski, A., Risbud, A., Silva, A. R. A. E., Ravnic, D. J. & Sheikhi, A., Feb 22 2024, In: Small. 20, 8, 2307928.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Chemical structure–property relationships in nanocelluloses

Pitcher, M. L., Koshani, R. & Sheikhi, A., Jan 1 2024, In: Journal of Polymer Science. 62, 1, p. 9-31 23 p.

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Relaxation dynamics of water in the vicinity of cellulose nanocrystals

Chae, I., Paniagua-Guerra, L. E., Pitcher, M. L., Koshani, R., Yuan, M., Lin, Y. T., Lee, J., Perini, S. E., Sheikhi, A., Ramos-Alvarado, B., Lanagan, M. T. & Kim, S. H., Sep 2023, In: Cellulose. 30, 13, p. 8051-8061 11 p.

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Injectable, Antibacterial, and Hemostatic Tissue Sealant Hydrogels

Haghniaz, R., Montazerian, H., Rabbani, A., Baidya, A., Usui, B., Zhu, Y., Tavafoghi, M., Wahid, F., Kim, H. J., Sheikhi, A. & Khademhosseini, A., Dec 15 2023, In: Advanced Healthcare Materials. 12, 31, 2301551.

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Tissue adhesive hemostatic microneedle arrays for rapid hemorrhage treatment

Haghniaz, R., Kim, H. J., Montazerian, H., Baidya, A., Tavafoghi, M., Chen, Y., Zhu, Y., Karamikamkar, S., Sheikhi, A. & Khademhosseini, A., May 2023, In: Bioactive Materials. 23, p. 314-327 14 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Nanoengineering the Redispersibility of Cellulose Nanocrystals

Huntington, B., Pitcher, M. L. & Sheikhi, A., Jan 9 2023, In: Biomacromolecules. 24, 1, p. 43-56 14 p.

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Iron inhibits glioblastoma cell migration and polarization

Shenoy, G., Kheirabadi, S., Ataie, Z., Sahu, A. P., Palsa, K., Wade, Q., Khunsriraksakul, C., Khristov, V., Slagle-Webb, B., Lathia, J. D., Wang, H. G., Sheikhi, A. & Connor, J. R., Dec 2023, In: FASEB Journal. 37, 12, e23307.

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Dynein-Powered Cell Locomotion Guides Metastasis of Breast Cancer

Tagay, Y., Kheirabadi, S., Ataie, Z., Singh, R. K., Prince, O., Nguyen, A., Zhovmer, A. S., Ma, X., Sheikhi, A., Tsygankov, D. & Tabdanov, E. D., Nov 3 2023, In: Advanced Science. 10, 31, 2302229.

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Colloidal aspects of calcium carbonate scaling in water-in-oil emulsions: A fundamental study using droplet-based microfluidics

Yeh, S. L., Koshani, R. & Sheikhi, A., Mar 2023, In: Journal of Colloid And Interface Science. 633, p. 536-545 10 p.

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Mussel-Inspired Nanocellulose Coating for Selective Neodymium Recovery

Yeh, S. L., Alexander, D., Narasimhalu, N., Koshani, R. & Sheikhi, A., Sep 20 2023, In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. 15, 37, p. 44154-44166 13 p.

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Gelatin Methacryloyl Granular Hydrogel Scaffolds: High-throughput Microgel Fabrication, Lyophilization, Chemical Assembly, and 3D Bioprinting

Ataie, Z., Jaberi, A., Kheirabadi, S., Risbud, A. & Sheikhi, A., Dec 2022, In: Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2022, 190, e64829.

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Nanoengineered Granular Hydrogel Bioinks with Preserved Interconnected Microporosity for Extrusion Bioprinting

Ataie, Z., Kheirabadi, S., Zhang, J. W., Kedzierski, A., Petrosky, C., Jiang, R., Vollberg, C. & Sheikhi, A., Sep 15 2022, In: Small.

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A Cohesive Shear-Thinning Biomaterial for Catheter-Based Minimally Invasive Therapeutics

Baidya, A., Haghniaz, R., Tom, G., Edalati, M., Kaneko, N., Alizadeh, P., Tavafoghi, M., Khademhosseini, A. & Sheikhi, A., Sep 28 2022, In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. 14, 38, p. 42852-42863 12 p.

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Recent advances and challenges in recycling and reusing biomedical materials

Kheirabadi, S. & Sheikhi, A., Dec 2022, In: Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry. 38, 100695.

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A Readily Scalable, Clinically Demonstrated, Antibiofouling Zwitterionic Surface Treatment for Implantable Medical Devices

McVerry, B., Polasko, A., Rao, E., Haghniaz, R., Chen, D., He, N., Ramos, P., Hayashi, J., Curson, P., Wu, C. Y., Bandaru, P., Anderson, M., Bui, B., Sayegh, A., Mahendra, S., Carlo, D. D., Kreydin, E., Khademhosseini, A., Sheikhi, A. & Kaner, R. B., May 19 2022, In: Advanced Materials. 34, 20, 2200254.

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