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Marco Mende is a leading innovator at the intersection of laser-based microfabrication and high-throughput chemical synthesis. His research focuses on developing advanced laser-transfer techniques, particularly Laser-Induced Forward Transfer (LIFT), to revolutionize the creation of microarrays for biomedical applications. Mende’s major contributions include the design of a low-cost, nano-3D polymer printer that enables rapid surface patterning and the combinatorial synthesis of peptide and glycan microarrays, effectively using polymer nanolayers as a "solid solvent" for chemical building blocks. His most cited work, "A Low‐Cost Laser‐Based Nano‐3D Polymer Printer for Rapid Surface Patterning and Chemical Synthesis of Peptide and Glycan Microarrays" (2019), and its follow-up, "Automated Laser‐Transfer Synthesis of High‐Density Microarrays for Infectious Disease Screening" (2022), each with 16 citations, showcase his impact. Notably, Mende overcame the key limitation of LIFT—lack of automation and precision—by developing an automated system capable of synthesizing high-density microarrays, moving beyond proof-of-concept to practical, high-throughput screening for infectious diseases. His work promises to accelerate diagnostics and materials discovery.
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