Cody Lentz
Research at Rochester Institute of Technology
Cody is currently a fifth year Mechanical Engineering Student and a Masters student in the Mechanical Engineering program. Cody joined the MSB lab in May 2018. He is currently working on using nonlinear electrophoresis to separate protein nanoparticles and designing custom devices for the rapid charicterizaiton of particle nonlinear electrophoretic mobility.Academic Background
- B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York (Expected 5/2020).
- M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York (Expected 5/2020).
Current Projects
- Nonlinear electrokinetics for the separation and concentration of protein nanoparticles
- Electrokenetic device for the rapid assment of particle nonlinear electrokinetic mobility
- Cyclical applied voltages for the seperation of particles using nonlinear electrokinetics
Journal Articles
- Antunez-Vela, S.; Perez-Gonzalez, V.H.; Coll De Peña, A.; Lentz, C.J.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* Simultaneous determination of linear and nonlinear electrophoretic mobilities of cells and microparticles, submitted, 2020.
- Quevedo, D.; Lentz, C.J.; Coll De Peña, A.; Hernandez, Y.; Habibi, N.; Miki, R.; Lahann, J.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* Electrokinetic characterization of synthetic protein nanoparticles, under minor revisions, 2020.
- Coll De Peña, A.; Miller, A.;Lentz, C.J.; Hill, N.; Hudson, A.O.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.;* Creation of an electrokinetic characterization library for the detection and identification of biological cells, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, in press, DOI: 10.1007/s00216-020-02621-9, 2020. I.F. 3.286
- Lentz, C.J.; Hidalgo-Caballero, S.;Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* Low frequency cyclical potentials for fine tuning insulator-based dielectrophoretic separations, Biomicrofluidics, 13:044114, 2019.
- Hidalgo-Caballero, S.; Lentz, C.J.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* Assessment of submicron particle zeta potential in simple electrokinetic microdevices, Electrophoresis, 40(3):358-375, 2019.
Conference Presentations
- Lentz, C.; Hidalgo-Caballero, S.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.;* Application of low frequency cyclical potentials for particle separations with dielectrophoresis; 2019 RIT Undergraduate Research Symposium, Rochester NY, 08/2019.
- Lentz, C.; Hidalgo-Caballero, S.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.;* Low frequency AC potentials for insulator based dielectrophoresis; 2018 RIT Undergraduate Research Symposium, Rochester NY, 08/2018.
- Lentz, C.J.; Quevedo, D.; Lahann, J.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.; Electrokinetic characterization and sorting of protein nanoparticles, 2019 AES Annual meeting at Scix, Palm Springs CA, 10/2019.
- Lentz, C.J.; Hidalgo-Caballero, S.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.; Design of Custom Electrical Signals for fine-tuning dielectrophoretic particle separations, 2019 AES Annual meeting at Scix, Palm Springs CA, 10/2019.