Researcher Ke Du’s article featured on journal cover
Magnetic bead device developed to isolate E. coli bacteria
Wenrong He, ‘20 MFA Medical Illustration
Ke Du, an assistant professor in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering and his research team, recently published the article Rapid Escherichia coli Trapping and Retrieval from Bodily Fluids via a Three-Dimensional Bead-Stacked Nanodevice in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. The cover art for this article was designed by PHT180 medical illustrator Wenrong He, ‘20 MFA Medical Illustration, and published on the cover of Volume 12, Issue 7.
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