Murat Guvendiren
Associate Professor, Chemical & Materials Engineering
973-596-2932
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
2025 Fall Courses
MTEN 491 - RESEARCH & INDEPENDENT STUDY I

MTEN 492 - RESRCH AND INDPENDENT STUDY II

CHEM 491 - RESEARCH & INDEP STUDY I

CHE 701B - MASTERS THESIS

CHE 701C - MASTERS THESIS

CHE 705 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

MTEN 701B - MASTERS THESIS

MTEN 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

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 449 - MATER. DESIGN I

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
S Yu, O Reddy, A Abaci, Y Ai, Y Li, H Chen, Murat Guvendiren, Kevin D. Belfield, Yuanwei Zhang. "Novel BODIPY-Based Photobase Generators for Photoinduced Polymerization." American Chemical Society , vol. 15 , no. 38 , pp. 45281–45289.

House Andrew, Jason Cornick, Quratulain Butt, Murat Guvendiren. 2023. "Elastomeric platform with surface wrinkling patterns to control cardiac cell alignment." Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A , vol. 111 , no. 8 , pp. 1228-1242.

Alperen Abaci, Gulden Camci-Unal, Murat Guvendiren. 2023. "Three-dimensional bioprinting for medical applications." MRS Bulletin , vol. 48 , no. 6 , pp. 624-631.

Hadis Gharacheh, Murat Guvendiren. 2023. "3D bioprinting vascularized bone tissue." MRS Bulletin , vol. 48 , no. 6 , pp. 668-675.

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

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Edited Collection
"Bioprinting the Future"
SLAS Technology, May, 2023.

Chapter
Ippokratis Pountos, Nazzar Tellisi, Mohammad Ali Darabi, Ahmet Erdem, Murat Guvendiren, Nureddin Ashammakhi, Tamer Mohamed. "3D Bioprinting." In Sam Atallah, eds., "Digital Surgery," pp. 215-232. Springer, 2021.

Ippokratis Pountos, Nazzar Tellisi, Mohammad Ali Darabi, Ahmet Erdem, Tamer Mohamed, Murat Guvendiren, Nureddin Ashammakhi. "3D Bioprinting." In Atallah S., eds., "Digital Surgery," pp. 215-232. Springer, Cham, 2020.

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

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

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