Samuel M. Stavis

Samuel M. Stavis is a Project Leader in the Nanofabrication Research Group. He received a B.S.E. in Engineering Physics from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Cornell University, where he was also a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Biological and Environmental Engineering. At Cornell, Sam combined spectroscopic and nanofluidic methods to measure single biomolecules and nanoparticles. He joined the NIST staff in 2007 as a National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral Research Associate. In the Physical Measurement Laboratory at NIST, he developed fluidic nanomanufacturing processes, engineered nanofluidic devices, and advanced single molecule fluorescence microscopy methods. In 2012, Sam joined the CNST, where his research is focused on the fabrication and measurement of nanoscale particles and fluidic devices. 

• Widening the nanoparticle characterization bottleneck  

• A glowing future for lab on a chip testing standards, S. M. Stavis, Lab on a Chip 12, 3008-3011 (2012).
  
• Quantitative measurements of the size scaling of linear and circular DNA in nanofluidic slitlike confinement, E. A. Strychalski, J. Geist, M. Gaitan, L. E. Locascio, and S. M. Stavis, Macromolecules 45, 1602–1611 (2012). 
• DNA molecules descending a nanofluidic staircase by entropophoresis, S. M. Stavis, J. Geist, M. Gaitan, L. E. Locascio, and E. A. Strychalski, Lab on a Chip 12, 1174-1182 (2012). 
• Microfluidic mixing and the formation of nanoscale lipid vesicles, A. Jahn, S. M. Stavis, J. S. Hong, W. N. Vreeland, D. L. DeVoe, and M. Gaitan, ACS Nano 4, 2077-2087 (2010). 
• Separation and metrology of nanoparticles by nanofluidic size exclusion, S. M. Stavis, J. Geist, and M. Gaitan, Lab on a Chip 10, 2618-2621 (2010). 
• Nanofluidic structures with complex three-dimensional surfaces, S. M. Stavis, E. A. Strychalski, and M. Gaitan, Nanotechnology 20, 165302 (2009).