Murat Guvendiren

Associate Professor, Chemical & Materials Engineering

330 York Center (YORK)

About Me

Murat Guvendiren is the principal investigator of the Instructive Biomaterials and Additive Manufacturing Laboratory (IBAM-Lab) and an associate professor in the Chemical and Materials Engineering Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University. He did a postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining to NJIT, he was a research assistant professor at Rutgers University.

Recent Honors and Awards
- NJIT Excellence in Research Award, 2022
- NCE 2022 Rising Star Research Award, 2022
- Elected Senior Member, National Academy of Inventors, 2022
- NSF CAREER Award, (2021-2026)
- NJIT Excellence in Innovative Teaching Award, 2021
- NCE Soul K. Fenster Innovation in Engineering Education Award, 2020
- MTF Biologics Junior Investigator Award, 2019
- Xerox Sabbatical Program at PARC, Summer 2019

Education

PostDoc; University of Pennsylvania; Bioengineering ; 2013

Ph.D.; Northwestern University; Materials Science And Engineering; 2007

M.S.; Middle East Technical University; Metallurgical And Materials Engineering; 2003

B.S.; Middle East Technical University; Metallurgical And Materials Engineering; 2000

Website

http://guvendirenlab.njit.edu

2024 Fall Courses

MTEN 491 - RESEARCH & INDEPENDENT STUDY I

MTEN 492 - RESRCH AND INDPENDENT STUDY II

CHE 701B - MASTERS THESIS

CHE 701C - MASTERS THESIS

CHE 705 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

MTEN 701B - MASTERS THESIS

MTEN 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

BME 492 - RESEARCH & INDPNDNT STUDY II

CHE 706 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

CHE 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES

MTEN 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT

CHE 492 - RESEARCH & INDEP STUDY

CHE 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

MTEN 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

PHEN 701B - MASTER'S THESIS

PHEN 701C - MASTER'S THESIS

PHEN 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

CHE 491 - RESEARCH & INDEP STUDY

CHE 700B - MASTERS PROJECT

MTEN 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

MTEN 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES

Teaching Interests

Materials engineering; Processing and characterization of materials; Additive manufacturing and applications; Polymer physics and chemistry; Biomaterials

Past Courses

CHE 375: STRCTURE PROP & PROC MATERIALS

CHE 375: STRUCTURE, PROPERTIES AND PROCESSING OF MATERIALS

CHE 402: 3 D PRINTING

CHE 415: INTRODUCTION TO 3D PRINTING

CHE 681: POLYMERIZATION PRINC & PRACT

CHE 702: ST: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING AND APPLICATIONS

CHE 722: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING & APPL

CHE 791: GRADUATE SEMINAR

MTEN 101: INTRODUCTION TO MATERIALS ENGINEERING

Research Interests

- Synthesis, processing and characterization of cell-instructive biomaterials
- Hydrogels with spatiotemporal control of their properties
- Formulation and characterization of 3D printable materials including hydrogel-based bioinks, biodegradable polymers, polymer-based composites and semi-solid formulations
- 3D bioprinting of vasculature and musculoskeletal tissue
- Additive manufacturing process control to enhance interlayer adhesion
- 4D printing of stimuli responsive hydrogels

Journal Article

Yu, S, & Reddy, O, & Abaci, A, & Ai, Y, & Li, Y, & Chen, H, & Guvendiren, Murat, & Belfield, Kevin D., & Zhang, Yuanwei Novel BODIPY-Based Photobase Generators for Photoinduced Polymerization. American Chemical Society, 15(38), 45281–45289.

Andrew, House, & Cornick, Jason, & Butt, Quratulain, & Guvendiren, Murat (2023). Elastomeric platform with surface wrinkling patterns to control cardiac cell alignment. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, 111(8), 1228-1242.

Abaci, Alperen, & Camci-Unal, Gulden, & Guvendiren, Murat (2023). Three-dimensional bioprinting for medical applications. MRS Bulletin, 48(6), 624-631.

Gharacheh, Hadis, & Guvendiren, Murat (2023). 3D bioprinting vascularized bone tissue. MRS Bulletin, 48(6), 668-675.

Andrew, House, & Kuna, Anna, & Hastings, Daniel, & Rodriguez, Nikki, & Schoenitz, Mirko, & Dreyzin, Edward L., & Guvendiren, Murat (2023). Effect of particle shape on rheology and printability of highly filled reactive inks for direct ink writing. Progress in Additive Manufacturing,

Edited Collection

Bioprinting the Future
SLAS Technology, May 2023

Chapter

Pountos, Ippokratis, & Tellisi, Nazzar, & Darabi, Mohammad Ali, & Erdem, Ahmet, & Guvendiren, Murat, & Ashammakhi, Nureddin, & Mohamed, Tamer (2021). 3D Bioprinting, Sam Atallah (Ed.), Springer. (pp. 215-232). Springer

Pountos, Ippokratis, & Tellisi, Nazzar, & Darabi, Mohammad Ali, & Erdem, Ahmet, & Mohamed, Tamer, & Guvendiren, Murat, & Ashammakhi, Nureddin (2020). 3D Bioprinting, Atallah S. (Ed.), Springer, Cham. (pp. 215-232). Springer, Cham

Liaw, Chya-Yan, & Pereyra, Jorge, & Guvendiren, Murat (2019). Wrinkling on Covalently Anchored Hydrogels, Springer Ed.. (pp. 205-227). Springer Ed.

Guvendiren, Murat, & Burdick, Jason A. (2015). Hydrogels with dynamically tunable properties, Cambridge University Press. (pp. ISBN--978). Cambridge University Press

Guvendiren, Murat (2015). Reaction-diffusion dynamics induced surface instabilities, Springer Ed.. (pp. ISBN--978). Springer Ed.