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Professor Justin Cooper-White has research interests in biomaterials processing, tissue engineering, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, rheology and microfluidics.

The Tissue Engineering and Microfluidics (TEAM) Laboratory has projects in all of these areas with a common focus of providing fundamental insight into complex polymer-based structures and systems, with the aim of ultimately tailoring and controlling their interactions with biological systems.

In detail, these projects are investigating novel methods of manufacturing polymeric scaffolds and methods of surface engineering of these scaffolds for drug delivery and tissue engineering applications, new in vitro modules for mapping cell-surface and cell-scaffold interactions, manufacturing functional microparticles with micro processing plants and complex fluid behaviour in microdevices.

 Research Projects

• Micro Process Plants - Non-Newtonian Flow and Particle Synthesis in confined geometries.
• Mastering the microenvironment – Integrated, functional, biosynthetic scaffolds for tissue engineering.
• Bioactive polymers for wound healing applications.
• Bioreactor platform for stem cell expansion.
• Functional polymers for tissue engineering applications.
• Continuous manufacturing methods for encapsulation. 
• Continuous manufacturing methods for biodegradable scaffolds.
• Diagnostic microdevices for functional foods, cosmetics and personal care products

Key Publications (Top 10 Last 5 years)

1. Hofer S.O.P., Knight K.M., Cooper-White J.J., O’Connor A.J., Perera J.M., Stevens G.W., Penington A.J., Knight K.R., Morrison W.A. and Messina A., “Increasing the volume of vascularised tissue formation in engineered constructs. An experimental study in rats”, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 111(3), 1186-92, 2003.
2. Croll, T., O’Connor A.J., Stevens G.W., Cooper-White, J.J., ‘Controllable surface modification of poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) by hydrolysis or aminolysis I: physical, chemical and theoretical aspects’, Biomacromolecules, 5 (2), 463-473 2004.
3. Roux, D.C. and Cooper-White, J.J.(*), ‘Dynamics of water spreading on a glass surface’, J. of Colloid and Interface Science 277 (2): 424-436 SEP 15 2004
4. Rodd, L.E.; Scott, T.P.; Cooper-White, J.J.; McKinley, G.H. Capillary break-up rheometry of low-viscosity elastic fluids. Applied Rheology, 2005, 15(1), 12-27.
5. Domachuk, P.; Grillet, C.; Ta'eed, V.; Magi, E.; Bolger, J.; Eggleton, B. J.; Rodd, L. E.; Cooper-White, J.J. Microfluidic interferometer. Applied Physics Letters, 2005, 86(2), 024103/1-024103/3. 
6. Rodd, Lucy E.; Boger, D.V., Cooper-White, Justin J., McKinley, Gareth H., ‘The inertio-elastic planar entry flow of low-viscosity elastic fluids in micro-fabricated geometries’, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 129, pp. 1-22, 2005. 
7. Cao Y, Croll TI, Lees JG, Tuch, B., Cooper-White, J.J., “Scaffolds, stem cells, and tissue engineering: A potent combination!” Invited review article Australian Journal of Chemistry 58(10): 691-703 2005. 
8. Cao, Y., Mitchell, G., Messina, A., Thompson, E., Pennington, A., Morrison, W., O’Connor A.J., Stevens G.W., Cooper-White, J.J., ‘The influence of architecture on degradation and vascularisation of three dimensional poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) scaffolds invitro and in vivo’, Biomaterials 27: 2854-2864 2006. 
9. Croll, Tristan I., O'Connor, Andrea J., Stevens, Geoffrey W., Cooper-White, Justin J., ‘A blank slate? Layer-by-layer deposition of hyaluronic acid and chitosan onto various surfaces’, Biomacromolecules, 7(5), 1610-1622, 2006. 
10. Vashi, A. V., Abberton, K.M., Thomas, G.P., Morrison, W.A., O’Connor, A.J., Cooper-White, J.J. and Thompson, E.W., ‘Adipose tissue engineering based on the controlled release of Fibroblast Growth Factor-2 (FGF-2) in a collagen matrix’, Tissue Engineering 12 (11), 2006.