AWARD/RECOGNITION: Prof. Oh has been selected for the 2017
SEAS Senior Teacher of the Year Award! [Link]
PAPER PUBLICATION:
Kwang W. Oh, "Multidisciplinary Role of Microfluidics for
Biomedical and Diagnostic Applications: Biomedical Microfluidic
Devices," Micromachines 2017, 8(12), 343; doi:10.3390/mi8120343 (IF:
1.833). [Link]
November 2017
EDITORIAL BOARD: Prof. Oh joins the Editorial Board of
Micromachines, MDPI (Impact Factor: 1.833). [Link].
NEW GRANT: Prof. Oh (EE) and Prof. Jun Xia (BME) receive a new grant
from NSF I/UCRC CITeR. This grant will be used to support our
research for photoacoustic imaging of test phantom
fingers for fingerprint and liveness.
WORKSHOP:
Prof. Oh
and Mr. Phil Schneider have attended NSF I/UCRC CITeR Fall 2017 Program Review (November
8th & 9th, 2017, The Erickson Alumni Center, West Virginia
University, Morgantown, WV).
BEST POSTER AWARD: Mr. Phil Schneider's poster was
selected as the best poster in Progress Reports
Poster Session at NSF I/UCRC CITeR Fall 2017 Program
Review.
October 2017
MicroTAS 2017:
A. Wang, D. Koh, P. Schneider, Y. Zhai, B. Bosinski and K. W. Oh, "Backflow-assisted sequential injection in vacuum-driven power-free microfluidic device,"
Proceedings of MicroTAS 2017 (International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences), Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society (CBMS),
pp. 752-753.
Y. Zhai, A. Wang and K.W. Oh, "A simple pressure balancer for increasing mixing performance in passive driven microfluidic system,"
Proceedings of MicroTAS 2017 (International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences), Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society (CBMS),
pp. 1415-1416.
New Paper Publication:
Bendong Liu, Domin Koh, Anyang Wang, Phil Schneider and Kwang W.
Oh, "Hermetic encapsulation of negative-pressure-driven PDMS
microfluidic devices using paraffin wax and glass," Microsystem
Technologies, 2017 (IF:
1.195). [Link]
Invited Talk: Prof. Oh has visited Prof. Bendong
Liu’s laboratory at Beijing University of Technology during the
last week of August, 2017. Prof. Liu is currently a chair in
Department of Mechanical Design and Theory at College of
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Electronics Technology,
Beijing University of Technology, China. He was a visiting
scholar in Prof. Oh’s SMALL (Sensors and MicroActuators Learning
Lab) laboratory at UB for one year from January 2015 to January
2016.
July 2017
Accepted Abstracts: Two abstracts have been selected for
presentation in MicroTAS 2017,
Savannah, Georgia, USA.
New Paper Publication: Hun Lee, Domin
Koh, Linfeng Xu, Sindhu Row, Stelios T. Andreadis and Kwang W.
Oh, "A Simple Method for Fabrication of Microstructures Using a
PDMS Stamp", Micromachines 2016, 7, 173;
doi:10.3390/mi7100173 (IF:
1.833).
AUGUST 2016
Featured Student:
Mr.
Brett Bosinski's interview is featured on UB EE website. He said
that "Engineering is about making things work, and I needed to
find the major that was going to work for me. I chose Electrical
Engineering because I wanted a better understanding of how
modern technology works in order to be able to develop new
technologies that will help shape society for a better future." [Link]
JUNE 2016
Guest Editor: Prof. Oh is serving as Guest Editor
of a Special Issue of The journal Micromachines (ISSN
2072-666X), entitled "Biomedical Microfluidic Devices" (IF:
1.295) [Link]
New Grant:
Prof. Oh has a new grant
from NSF I/UCRC: CITeR (Center for Identification Technology
Research). This grant will be used to support Prof. Oh's
Microfluidic 3D Capillary Network Test Phantom research. [Link]
MAY 2016
Co-Chair: Prof. Oh has co-chaired a Symposium:
Micro, Nano & Bio Fluidics on NanoTech 2016,
Washington, DC, May 22 -25, 2016.
MS Defense: Congratulations to Ms. Emily Oakley
(MS, EE, UB, 2016; BS, Biomedical Eng., The George Washington
University, 2013). She has successfully defended her MS
thesis dissertation (Surface markers for image-guided
interstitial photodynamic therapy) on 05/05/2016. She will
continue her doctoral study in Photodynamic Therapy Center,
UB/RPCI.
APRIL 2016
MS Defense: Congratulations to Mr. Phil
Schneider (MS, EE, UB, 2016; BS, EE, UB, 2014). He has
successfully defended his MS thesis dissertation (A feasibility
study of an acoustic test phantom arm ) on 04/28/2016. He will
continue his doctoral study in our SMALL lab.
JANUARY 2016
Editorial Board Member: Professor Oh is
assigned as Editorial Borad Member of American Journal of
Engineering and Applied Sciences, Science Publications (ISSN:
1941-7020)
OCTOBER 2015
MicroTAS 2015: Deekshitha Jetta, Hun Lee, Nikhila
Nyayapathi and Kwang W. Oh, "VACUUM-ASSISTED,
PHASEGUIDE-ASSISTED BLOOD TYPING DEVICE FOR POINT-OF-CARE(POC)
DIAGNOSTICS", MicroTAS 2015, Oct 25 - 29, 2015,
Gyeongju, Korea.
AUGUST 2015
New Paper Publication: Linfeng
Xu, Hun Lee, Deekshitha Jetta and Kwang
W Oh, "Critical Review: Vacuum-driven power-free
microfluidics utilizing the gas solubility or permeability of
polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)", Lab Chip, 2015;
DOI: 10.1039/C5LC00716J
(IF: 6115).
JULY 2015
New Grant: Prof. Oh has a new grant
from QUALCOMM. This grant will be used to support Prof. Oh's
blood vessel phantom microfluidic device research.
Accepted Abstracts: One poster presentation will be presented in MicroTAS 2015,
Gyeongju , S. Korea.
JUNE 2015
Track Chair: Prof. Oh
has organized and chaired a Track: BioSensor, NanoTechnology, BioMEMS on 2015 World Congress on Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, Toronto, Candanda, June 7 -12, 2015.
[Link]
Co-Chair: Prof. Oh has co-chaired a Symposium:
Micro, Nano & Bio Fluidics on NanoTech 2015,
Washington, DC, June 14 -17, 2015.
Oral Presentations:
Hun Lee, Domin Koh, and Kwang W.
Oh, "A simple method for fabrication of microarrays and
microfluidic device using PDMS stamp", Proc. in Nanotech
2015, Washington DC, June 14 - 17 (oral presentation)
Wilfrido D. Mojica, Kwang W. Oh,
Xiaozheng Xue and Edward Furlani, "Microfluidics for
multiplexing of core needle biopsies", Proc. in Nanotech
2015, Washington DC, June 14 - 17 (oral presentation)
Linfeng Xu and Kwang W. Oh, "On-chip blood plasma separation using vacuum-assisted
micropumping for point-of-care application", 2015 World
Congress on Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering,
Toronto, Canada, June 7 - 12, 2015 (invited talk)
New Member: Mr. Brett Bosinski (Freshmen, Ee, UB,
2018)
MAY 2015
New Paper: Wilfrido D. Mojica, Kwang W. Oh,
Hun Lee, Edward Furlani, and Amy M. Sands, "Maximizing derivable
information from cytologic specimens for pathologic and
molecular diagnostics," Journal of the American Society of
Cytopathology, 4, 141-147, 2015,
doi:10.1016/j.jasc.2015.01.007 [Link].
MS Defense: Congratulations to Ms. Deekshitha Jett
(MS, EE, UB, 2015; BS, Electronics &
Communication Eng, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University,
India, 2012). She has successfully defended her MS thesis
dissertation (Vacuum-assisted and Phaseguide-assited blood
typing device for point-of-care diagnostics) on 05/19/2015.
MARCH 2015
New Grant: SPPS (School of Pharmacy
and Pharmaceutical Sciences) Seed Grant Support Program, UB,
04/2015 - 03/2016; PI: Dr. Juliane Nguyen (Assistant
Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences) and Co-PI: Dr.
Kwang W. Oh (Associate Professor, Department of Electrical
Engineering)
Ph.D Defense: Congratulations to
Dr.
Hun Lee (PhD, EE, UB, 2015; MS, EE, Dankook
University, 2009;
BS, EE, Dankook University, 2007). He has succeefully
defended his Ph.D. thesis dissertation on 03/10/2015. He
will join the R&D division in SK Hynix in Korea.
New Member: Dr. Bendong Liu (Visiting
Scholar, College of Mechanical Engineering and Applied
Electronics Technology, Beijing University of
Technology，China)
JANUARY 2015
Editorial Board Member: Prof.
Oh serves as Editorial Board Member of Biomedical Engineering Letters, Springer (ISSN:
2093-9868 for print version, ISSN: 2093-985X for electronic
version) (2015 - current)
New Course: Prof. Oh teaches EE 526 "Wearable and
Implantable Sensors" in Spring 2015 for graduate students, which
is a first-time offered. The enrollment for this course is about
50 graduate students. See a syllabus of EE 526 [Link]
New Paper: Linfeng Xu, Hun Lee, Mariana Vanderlei
Brasil Pinheiro, Phil Schneider, Deekshitha Jetta and Kwang W.
Oh, "Phaseguide-assisted blood separation microfluidic device
for point-of-care applications," Biomicrofluidics 9, 014106
(2015); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4906458 (IF: 3.771)
[Link]
New Member: Mr. Evan Breloff (PhD student; BS, EE, UB, 2013)
DECEMBER 2014
Ph.D Defense: Congratulations to
Dr.
Linfeng Xu (PhD, EE, UB, 2014; MS, EE, UB 2011;
BS, Informatics and Control Engineering, Shanghai
University of Electric Power, 2009). He has succeefully
defended his Ph.D. thesis dissertation on 12/22/2014.
NOVEMBER 2014
Track Chair: Prof. Oh is organizing a Track: BioSensor, NanoTechnology, BioMEMS on 2015 World Congress on Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, Toronto, Candanda, June 7 -12, 2015
[Link].
Editorial Board Member: Prof. Oh is a founding member
of the Honorary Editorial Board of a new open access
journal, Advanced Health Care Technologies,
Dove Medical Press [Link].
OCTOBER 2014
Oral Presentation/CBMS Student/Young Researcher Grant at MicroTAS 2014: Mr. Linfeng Xu did an excellent job at MicroTAS 2014 conference. He proudly presented his work in front of an audience of more than 500+ people in a huge hall. Also Mr. Linfeng Xu has been selected to receive the prestigious CBMS Student/Young Researcher Grant for travel support, on a competitive basis, for attending the 18th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2014, San Antonio, Texas, Oct 26-30, 2014) from the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society (CBMS).
SEPTEMBER 2014
New Paper: Hun Lee, Linfeng Xu, Domin Koh, Nikhila Nyayapathi and Kwang W. Oh, "Various on-chip sensors with microfluidics for biological applications," Sensors, 14, 17008-17036; doi:10.3390/s140917008, 2014 (This article belongs to the Special Issue: On-Chip Sensors) (IF: 2.048)
[Link]
New Member: Mr. Phil Schneider (MS student; BS, EE, UB, 2014), Mr. Anyang Wang (PhD students; MS, EE, Tohoku University, Japan, 2014), Mr. Beom Jin Oh (Undergraduate, EE, UB, 2015)
AUGUST 2014
Invited Talk: Hun Lee, Linfeng Xu, and Kwang W. Oh, A journey of trains of droplets in droplet-based microfluidic devices, Proceedings of The 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBC 2014), August 26-30, 2014, Chicago, Illinois, USA.Chicago, USA, pp. 778 - 781, 2014
JUNE 2014
New Project: Cell-cell adhesion and stem cell fate commitment, funded from NSF (06/2014 - 05/2017)
Accepted Abstracts: One oral presentation and one poster will be presented in MicroTAS 2014.
Invited Talks: Prof. Kwang W. Oh delivered 15 invited talks at major universities and research institutes in South Korea in May and June 2014. His presentation consisted of brief introduction of UB programs to students who might have an interest in studying abroad, and the research activities at his Sensors and MicroActuators Learning Lab (SMALL). An example of the title of his talk was “A journey of trains of droplets in droplet-based microfluidic devices”. Through this visit to his home country, he expects to bring more attention to potential students and collaborators.
The institutions that he visited include
Advanced Institutes of Convergence Technology at Seoul National University in Suwon
Applied Chemistry department at Kyunghee University in Suwon
Bio and Brain Engineering department at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon
Biomedical Engineering department at Chung-Ang University in Seoul
Biomedical Information Technology Convergence Center in Gumi
Bionano Engineering department at Hanyang University in Ansan
Center for BioMicrosystems at Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in Seoul
Chemical Engineering department at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POST) in Pohang
Electrical Engineering department at Kwangwoon University in Seoul
Energy Science department at Sungkyunkwan University in Suwon
Healthcare Business Division at SK Telecom in Seoul
Mechanical Engineering department at Chonbuk National University in Jeonju
Mechanical Engineering department at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in Ulsan
Polymer Nanoengineering department at Chonbuk National University in Jeonju
Samsung Bioepis in Songdo.
MAY 2014
Oral Talk: Hun Lee, Sindhu Row, Linfeng Xu, Stelios T. Andreadis, and Kwang W. Oh, A simple and robust fabrication of microwell array by PDMS on a glass substrate for cell-to-cell adhesion, Proc. in NSTI - NanoTech 2014, Vol. 2, pp. 145-148, 2014
September 2013
New Project: A new developmental MRI
project titled "Development of an Instrument for
Quantitative Characterization of Behavior of Magnetic
Particles and Magnetically-Labeled Biomaterials in
Emerging Applications," was funded from NSF (09/2013 -
08/2016).
New
Member: Mr.
Domin Koh (Ph.D. student; B.S. in EE at SUNY-Buffalo in
2013), Ms. Nikhila Nyayapathi (Ph.D. student), Ms.
Deekshitha Jetta (M.S. student),Ms.
Mariana Vanderlei Brasil Pinheiro (Junior, international
exchange student from Brasil)
June 2013
Conference:
Ph.D student Linfeng Xu and Prof. Oh have attended
Nanotech 2013 Micro & Nano Fluidics to present two oral
talks (05/13-14/2013). Prof. Oh has co-chaired the
symposium section
of Micro & Nano Fluidics and invited two talks: Dr.
Vamsee Pamula (Advanced Liquid Logic Inc) and Prof. Tony
Huang (Penn State).
New Members:
Three senior students from Brazil under the auspices
of the Brazil Scientific Mobility Program of the
Brazilian Government are joined SMALLab as SHIP
summer intern during Summer 2013.
Visiting Student:
Mr. Christopher Steven (Ph.D., international visiting
student from Prof. Duncan Graham’s lab, Pure and Applied
Chemistry University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK)
visited SMALLab during Spring 2013.
February 2013
Paper: K.P. Bhat, K.W. Oh; D.C. Hopkins,"Feasibility of a MEMS Sensor for Gas Detection in HV Oil-Insulated Transformer,"
IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 49, 316 - 321, 2013 [Link].
New Members:
Mr. Christopher Adams (senior student), Mr. Danilo
Sulino Silveira Pinto (senior, international excahnge
student from Brazil), Mr. Rahul Prakash K Moodbidri
(graduate student)
January 2013
Ph.D
Defense: Congratulations to Dr. Rajagopal
Panchapakesan (PhD, EE, UB, 2012; MS, ME, UB 2007; BS,
ME, Anna University, India, 2005). He has succeefully
defended his Ph.D. thesis dissertation on 01/09/2013.
Also congratulate Dr. Panchapakesan for having a
position at Advanced Liquid Logic Inc, Research Triagle
Park, NC.
September 2012
INVITED TALK: Prof. Kwang W. Oh has
been invited to talk about his research ("Active
and passive manipulation of microdroplets in
droplet-based microfluidics platform")
at University of Toronto, Canada, September 27, 2012.
PAPER: Namhyun Choi, Kang Sun Lee,
Dong Woo Lim, Eun Kyu Lee, Soo-Ik Chang, Kwang W. Oh* and
Jaebum Choo*, "Simultaneous detection of duplex DNA oligonucleotides
using a SERS-based micro-network gradient chip," Lab Chip,
DOI: 10.1039/C2LC40890B, 2012 (featured on the back cover of Lab
Chip journal)
[Link]
Research from Prof. Kwang W. Oh Featured in Lab on a Chip's 2012
Emerging Investigators Themed Issue
Prof. Kwang W. Oh has been promoted and featured in
Lab on a Chip's 2012 Emerging Investigators
Themed Issue, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). "...This
newest cohort of Emerging Investigators
is, in a word, a group of "control freaks": controlling
fluids, controlling forces, controlling fields..." (from Editorial: Mission impossible to mission control,
DOI: 10.1039/c2lc90099h) [Link].
Cover Page:
21 emerging investigators' work have been featured on the cover
of Lab on a chip, including Prof. Oh's work (see the image in the left top corner)
[Link].
PAPER: Linfeng Xu, Hun Lee,
Rajagopal Panchapakesan, and Kwang W.
Oh*, "Fusion and sorting of two parallel trains of
droplets by using a railroad-like channel network and
guiding tracks," Special Issue on Emerging Investigators 2012,
Lab Chip,
12, 3936-3942, DOI:10.1039/C2LC40456G, 2012
[Link]
[Movie 1]
[Movie 2]
[Movie 3]
[Animation GIF]
[Supporting Info].
June 2012
Co-chair: Prof. Kwang W. Oh has served as a section chair in the symposium, Micro & Nano
Fluidics, NanoTech 2012, Santa Clara, California, June
18-21, 2012
[Link].
INVITED TALK: Prof. Kwang W. Oh
has been invited to talk about his research ("Droplet-based
Microfluidics") in the symposium section of Micro & Nano Fluidics
at the
Bio Nanotech Conference and Expo 2012,
June 18-21, 2012 to be held at Santa Clara, California
[Link].
PAPER: Moonkwon Lee, Kang
Sun Lee, Ki Hyung Kim, Kwang W. Oh*, Jaebum Choo*,
"SERS-based immunoassay using a gold array-embedded gradient optofluidic chip,"
Special Issue on Optofluidics,
Lab Chip, DOI: 10.1039/C2LC40353F, 2012 (invited paper)
[Link]
May 2012
Our recent article, "A new
fabrication process for uniform SU-8 thick photoresist
structures by simultaneously removing edge bead and air
bubbles," in Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
(JMM), Vol 21, pp125006 (2011), has
been downloaded more than 500 times so far (IF: 2.281)
[Link]
April 2012
AWARD:
Professional Development Award 2012 from New York State/United
University Professions
PAPER: Hun Lee, Linfeng
Xu, Byungwook Ahn, Kangsun Lee and Kwang W. Oh*,
"Continuous-flow in-droplet magnetic particle separation in
a droplet-based microfluidic platform," Special Issue:
Magnetic-Based Microfluidics in Microfluidics and
Nanofluidics (2012) DOI 10.1007/s10404-012-0978-7 (Impact Factor: 3.507)
[Link]
March 2012
PAPER: Kangsun Lee,
Choong Kim, Jae Young Yang, Hun Lee, Byungwook Ahn,
Linfeng
Xu, Ji Yoon Kang, and Kwang W. Oh*, "Gravity-oriented microfluidic device for uniform and massive cell spheroid
formation," Biomicrofluidics 6, 014114 (2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3687409
(7 pages) (Impact Factor: 3.896)
[Link]
[Movie 1]
Kwang W. Oh*, Kangsun Lee, Byungwook Ahn, Edward P. Furlani, "Critical Review:
Design of pressure-driven microfluidic networks using electric circuit analogy," Lab Chip, 2012, 12, 515-545
(Impact Factor: 6.3)
[Link]
Kwang W. Oh*, Kangsun Lee, Byungwook Ahn, Edward P. Furlani, "Critical Review:
Design of pressure-driven microfluidic networks using electric
circuit analogy," Lab Chip, 2012, 12, 515-545 (Impact
Factor: 6.3)
[Link]
Jing Xu, Byungwook Ahn, Kangsun Lee, Hun Lee, Rajagopal Panchapakesan,
Linfeng Xu, and Kwang W. Oh*, "Droplet-based microfluidic
device for multiple-droplet clustering," Lab Chip, 2012,
DOI:10.1039/C2LC20883K
(Impact Factor: 6.3)
[Link]
[Movie S1],
[Movie S2],
[Movie S3]
January 2012
Course Offering:
EE 203 Electric Circuit 2 in Spring 2012
PAPER: Kwang W. Oh*,
Kangsun Lee, Byungwook Ahn, Edward P. Furlani, "Critical Review:
Design of pressure-driven microfluidic networks using electric
circuit analogy," Lab Chip, 2012, 12, 515-545 (Impact
Factor: 6.3)
[Link]
This paper is listed as one of "the most downloaded
articles for the last 30 days (updated daily)"
since12/22/2011 until 1/30/2012
[Link].
This article provides a
comprehensive overview of the physics of pressure-driven
laminar flow, the formal analogy between electric and
hydraulic circuits, applications of circuit theory to
microfluidic network-based devices, recent development and
applications of concentration- and flow-dependent
microfluidic networks, and promising future applications.
December 2011
PAPER: Jing Xu,
Byungwook Ahn, Kangsun Lee, Hun Lee, Rajagopal Panchapakesan,
Linfeng Xu, and Kwang W. Oh*, "Droplet-based microfluidic
device for multiple-droplet clustering," Lab Chip, 2012,
DOI:10.1039/C2LC20883K (Impact Factor: 6.3)
[Link],
[Movie S1],
[Movie S2],
[Movie S3]
This paper was listed as one of the most downloaded articles
for the last 30 days since 12/23/2011 until 01/14/2012
[Link].
Our recent article, "A new fabrication process for uniform SU-8
thick photoresist structures by simultaneously removing edge bead
and air bubbles," in Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
(JMM), Vol 21, pp125006 (2011), has been downloaded more than 250
times so far within 1.5 month (from 11/03/2011 to 12/20/2011)
(IF: 2.281)
[Link]
To put this into context, across all IOP (Institute of Physics) journals only
10% of articles were accessed over 250 times this quarter
(4th quarter of 2011).
November 2011
NEW OFFICE and LAB SPACE: Prof. Kwang W.
Oh's office is placed in 113C Davis Hall (from the week of
11/14/2011) and SMALLab is placed in 117 Davis Hall and 326 Bonner
Hall (from the week of 10/31/2011).
Byungwook Ahn, Kangsun Lee, Hun
Lee, Rajagopal Panchapakesan and Kwang W. Oh, "Parallel
synchronization of two trains of droplets using a railroad-like
channel network," Lab Chip, 11, 3956-3962, 2011 (Impact Factor: 6.3)
[Link],
[Movie S1],
[Movie S2],
[Movie S3]
October 2011
PAPER: Byungwook Ahn, Kangsun Lee, Hun
Lee, Rajagopal Panchapakesan, Linfeng Xu, Jing Xu and Kwang W. Oh, "Guiding,
distribution, and storage of trains of shape-dependent droplets,"
Lab Chip, DOI: 10.1039/c1lc20729f, 2011 (Impact Factor: 6.3)
[Link],
[Movie S1],
[Movie S2],
[Movie S3]
CONFERENCE: SMALLab presented one oral and four poster
presentations in MicroTAS 2011, Seattle, WA, USA (10/02/2011 -
10/06/2011).
PROCEEDING: Byungwook Ahn, Kangsun Lee,
Rajagopal Panchapakesan, Hun Lee, and Kwang W. Oh, Guiding and
distribution of a train of droplets employing side flows and guiding
tracks, Proc. in MicroTAS 2011, pp. 674 – 676 (accept rate:
6.8% for oral presentation)
PROCEEDING:
Byungwook Ahn, Kangsun Lee, Hun Lee, Rajagopal Panchapakesan, and
Kwang W. Oh, Droplet synchronization of two parallel trains of
droplets using a ladder-like channel network, Proc. in MicroTAS
2011, pp. 1639 – 1641 (accept rate: 44%)
PROCEEDING:
Hun Lee, Byungwook Ahn, Kangsun Lee, and Kwang W. Oh,
Continuous-flow in-droplet magnetic particle separation in a
droplet-based microfluidic platform, Proc. in MicroTAS 2011,
pp. 948 – 950 (accept rate: 44%)
PROCEEDING: Jing Xu, Byungwook Ahn, Hun Lee, Kangsun Lee,
Rajagopal Panchapakesan, Linfeng Xu, and Kwang W. Oh, Droplet-based
microfluidic devices for multiple-droplet trapping, storing, and
clustering employing guiding tracks and forward/backward flows,
Proc. in MicroTAS 2011, pp. 257 – 259 (accept rate: 44%)
PROCEEDING:
Kangsun Lee, Choong Kim, Byungwook Ahn, Hun Lee, Rajagopal
Panchapakesan, Linfeng Xu, Jing Xu, Ji Yoon Kang, and Kwang W. Oh,
Single-layer microfluidic network-based combinatorial dilution for
a standard Simplex-Lattice combinatorial design, Proc. in
MicroTAS 2011, 939 – 941 (accept rate: 44%)
September 2011
Course Offering: EE 428/528 BioMEMS and
Lab-on-a-chip (Fall 2011)
New Student: Ms. Deepika Kalra joined
our SMALLab as a master student.
New Student: Ms. Ailin Lin joined our SMALLab as a
SHIP-Undergraduate Intern.
August 2011
Ph.D. Thesis Defense:
Congratulations to Dr. Kangsun Lee. He has successfully
defended his Ph.D thesis dissertation on 08/17/2011. Also
congratulate Dr. Lee for having a R&D position at LG
Electronics Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea.
Ph.D. Thesis Defense:
Congratulations to Dr. Byungwook Ahn. He has successfully
defended his Ph.D thesis dissertation on 08/15/2011. Also
congratulate Dr. Ahn for having a post-doc position at Emory
University School of Medicine and Georgia Institute of
Technology.
July 2011
MS Thesis Defense: Mr. Jing Xu has
successfully presented his MS thesis on 07/28/2011.
He will continue to study at UB for his
doctoral study.
SELECTED for
Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science &Technology (VJNano)
and
Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research (VJbio):
"On-demand electrostatic droplet charging and sorting,"
published in Biomicrofluidics 5, 024113 (2011), has been
selected for the July 4, 2011 issue of VJnano.
ACCEPTED for MicroTAS 2011 CONFERENCE: 1 oral
presentation and 4 posters will be presented in MicroTAS
2011, Seattle, Oct. 2-6, 2011.
June 2011
PAPER: Byungwook Ahn, Kangsun Lee,
Rajagopal Panchapakesan, and Kwang W. Oh, "On-demand
electrostatic droplet charging and sorting,"
Biomicrofluidics, 5, paper 024113, 2011 (Impact Factor: 3.9)
[Link].
May 2011
MS Thesis Defense: Mr. Linfeng Xu has
successfully presented his MS thesis on 05/26/2011. He will
continue to be SMALL member for his doctoral study.
News Article:
"EE's Oh researches droplet manipulation," pp. 23, "NYSTAR
Center for Advanced Technology: Adding Value for Regional
Economy," pp. 25, Buffalo Engineer, Spring 2011, UB.
[Link]
February 2011
PAPER: K. Lee, C. Kim, Y. Kim, B. Ahn, R. Panchapakesan, J. Bang,
J. Kim, Y. K. Yoon, J. Y. Kang, and K. W. Oh, "Microfluidic
concentration-on-demand combinatorial dilutions," Microfluid
Nanofluid, 11, pp. 75-86, 2011
(Impact Factor: 3.5)
[Link]
January 2011
PAPER: C. Kim, K.S. Lee, J.H. Bang,
Y.E. Kim, M.-C. Kim, K.W. Oh, S.H. Lee and J.Y.
Kang, "3-dimensional cell culture for on-chip
differentiation of stem cells in embryoid body," Lab
Chip, 11, pp. 874-882, 2011 (Impact Factor: 6.3)
[Link],
[Movie 1],
[Movie 2],
[Movie 3].
PAPER: C. Kim, S. Chung, Y.E. Kim, K.S. Lee, S.H. Lee,
K.W. Oh, and J.Y. Kang, "Generation of core-shell
microcapsules with three-dimensional focusing device for
efficient formation of cell spheroid," Lab Chip, 11,
pp. 246-252 (Impact Factor: 6.3)
[Link].
New Student: Mr. Miguel Gadea and Mr. Seongeun Jin joined SMALL lab as
undergraduate students.
Course Offering: EE 203 Electric Circuit 2 in Spring 2011
Course Offering: UE141T:
BRINGING PHYSICS & ENGINEERING TO LIFE" in Spring 2011
(DISCOVERY SEMINAR COURSE)
Highlights: You will see how biology is studied from three
very different view points: Prof. Markelz is a physicist and
she is looking for fundamental physical properties using
optics, Prof. Oh is an electrical engineer who
designs and fabricates microfluidic systems for manipulation
of biological samples and Prof. Snell is a structural
biologist who is studying the relationship between the
structure of proteins and what they do and how to prevent
bad things from happening.
October 2010
STUDENT AWARD: Byungwook Ahn received the Mark Diamond Research (MDRF)
Award for his Ph.D. research from Graduate Student
Association (GSA) at UB.
August 2010
New Student: Mr. Hun Lee joined SMALL lab as a Ph.D.
student.
Course Offering: Prof. Oh offers
EE 428/528 BioMEMS & Lab-on-a-chip in Fall 2010.
June 2010
MS Thesis Defense: Preethi Gopalan has successfully
presented her MS thesis work on 06/28/2010.
CONFERENCE PAPER ACCEPTED: Our SMALL group will present our
research in MicroTAS 2010 conference, Groningen, The
Netherlands, 10/03/10-10/07/10.
"Gravity-oriented Microfluidic Device for Cell Spheroid Formation"
"Microfluidic Network-based Combinatorial Dilution Device with an Initial Concentration Controller"
"Robust On-demand Electrostatic Droplet Charging and Sorting in a Droplet-based Microfluidic Device"
STUDENT AWARD: Rajagopal Panchapakesan received the Mark Diamond Research (MDRF) Award for his Ph.D. research from Graduate Student Association (GSA) at UB.
May 2010
AWARD: Professional Development Award 2010, New York State/United
University Professions
GRANT AWARD:Droplet-based Microfluidic Separation
Technology for High-throughput Magnetic Bead-based
Immunoassays, Single PI, NSF, 05/2010 - 04/2013
February 2010
GRANT AWARD:
NSF #0959989: MRI-R^2:
Development of STIM and DATS for Protein and Nanosystem
Characterization, PI: Andrea Markelz, Co-PIs: John Cerne,
Edward Snell, Kwang Oh, 02/2010 - 01/2013
AWARD: Research
Initiatives Travel Fund Program, School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences, UB (for ASME IMECE 2009)
CALL FOR A PAPER
Prof. Kwang W. Oh is co-organizing a topic of "Energy and Power
in Micro and Nano Systems" in Micro and NanoSystems, ASME
IMECE (International Mechanical Engineering Congress &
Exposition), Vancouber, Canada, November 12 - 18, 2010.
The objective of this symposium is to advance the
state of the art in Microsystems and technologies for energy
conversion, storage, and management.
Original manuscripts are solicited in the following topics:
Micro and nano technology for energy conversion
Micro and nanotechnology for energy storage
Micro and nano technology for energy management
Applications of energy harvesting devices
Analytical, computational, and experimental approaches using
micro/nano- devices, or technology for energy
conversion/harvest, storage, and management are all welcome.
Examples of the devices include fuel cells, micro heat
engine, piezoelectric, thermo-acoustics, thermo-electric,
photovoltaic cells, nanostructured materials, biologically
inspired approaches, streaming potential, etc. Devices for
fuel-reforming, fuel storage, and energy management with the
integration to micro/nano device/technology are also of
interest.
This is the overall publication schedule for IMECE. For
specific details and questions regarding the flexibility of
some of these dates, please contact the appropriate
volunteer Organizer.
Submission of Abstract: March 15, 2010
Author Notification of Abstract Acceptance: March 29, 2010
Submission of Full-Length Draft Paper for Review: May 31, 2010
Author Paper Review Acceptance or Revision Notification to
Author: July 19, 2010
Submission of Revised Draft Paper: August 6, 2010
Submission of Final Paper: August 19, 2010
January 2010
Editorial Committee, Prof. Oh continues to serve as
international editor for a Journal, Transactions on
Electrical and Electronic Materials
(Trans. Electr. Electron. Mater.: TEEM),
published by the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers (KIEEME) since 01/2009
Top 20 (10th) Most Downloaded Articles in Biomicrofluidics (January 2010):
"Concurrent droplet charging and sorting by electrostatic actuation,"
Byungwook Ahn, Kangsun Lee, Romain Louge, and Kwang W. Oh,
Biomicrofluidics 3, 044102 (2009)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: One paper was presented in MEMS 2010.
SMALL TALK:"Sample Delivery: Microfluidics," IDEX
Day on campus, SEAS, University at Buffalo, 01/21/2010.
NEW SMALL MEMBERS:Mr.
Linfeng Xu (M.S.) and Mr. Jing Xu have joined in our SMALL
lab.
December 2009
Top 20 (6th) Most Downloaded Articles in Biomicrofluidics
(December 2009): "Concurrent droplet charging and sorting
by electrostatic actuation,"
Byungwook Ahn, Kangsun Lee, Romain Louge, and Kwang W. Oh,
Biomicrofluidics 3, 044102 (2009)
PAPER: Kangsun Lee, Choong Kim, Byungwook Ahn, Ji
Yoon Kang, and Kwang W. Oh, "Hydrodynamically Focused
Particle Filtration Using An Island Structure," Biochip
Journal, 3, 275 – 280, 2009.
November 2009
Top 20 (5th) Most Downloaded Articles in Biomicrofluidics
(November 2009): "Concurrent droplet charging and sorting
by electrostatic actuation,"
Byungwook Ahn, Kangsun Lee, Romain Louge, and Kwang W. Oh,
Biomicrofluidics 3, 044102 (2009)
AWARD: Research
Initiatives Travel Fund Program, School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences, UB (for MicroTAS 2009)
INVITED TALK:
"Microfluidic Circuits, Devices,
and Applications," Gwangju Institute of Science and
Technology (GIST), Korea, 11/06/2009.
INVITED TALK:
"Microfluidic Systems and
Droplet-Based Microfluidics," Physics Department, Chonbuk National University, Korea, 11/05/2009.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: 3 papers were
presented in MicroTAS 2009.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: 2 papers were
presented in ASME - IMECE 2009.
October 2009
Top 20 (11th) Most Downloaded Articles in Biomicrofluidics (November 2009):
Concurrent droplet charging and sorting by electrostatic actuation Byungwook Ahn, Kangsun Lee, Romain Louge, and Kwang W. Oh,
Biomicrofluidics 3, 044102 (2009)
PAPER: "Concurrent
droplet charging and sorting by electrostatic actuation," B. Ahn, et al.,
Biomicrofluidics, 3, 044102, 2009. The impact factor of Biomicofluidics journal is 2.3.
[Link]
CONFERENCE PAPER ACCEPTED:
"Fabrication of multiple height microstructures using UV lithography on
timed-development-and-thermal-reflowed photoresist" by JK Kim, K. Lee, H. Jee, K. W. Oh, and YK
Yoon will be presented in MEMS 2010, Hongkong.
September 2009
SMALL lab moved into a new room 318A in Bonner Hall.
INVITED TALK: "BioMEMS and droplet-based microfluidics", EE, SUNY at Buffalo,
09/25/2009.
PAPER ACCEPTED:
"Microfluidic network based combinatorial dilution device for high
throughput screening and optimization", K. Lee, et al.,
Microfluid. Nanofluid., accepted, 2009. The
impact factor of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics journal is 3.3.
[Link]
NEW SMALL MEMBER: Mr. Nicholis Geile (M.S.) has joined in our SMALL lab.
August 2009
BOOK CHAPTER:
"Chapter 10: Cyclic Olefin Copolymer (COC)
Polymer Molding for LOC" in LAB ON A CHIP TECHNOLOGIES: Volume
1, pp. 139-159, ISBN: 978-1-904455-46-2, Caister Academic Press,
Norfolk, UK, 2009
[Link].
June 2009
AWARD: Professional
Development Award 2009, New York State/United
University Professions
CONFERENCE PAPER ACCEPTED: Our SMALL group will present our
research in MicroTAS 2009 conference, Jeju, Korea,
11/01/09-11/05/09
"2-layer based microfluidic dilution generator for drug
screening"
"Microfluidic network based combinatorial device for high throughput
screening an optimization"
"Microfabrication
of rounded channel and waveguide integrated microlens
using timed development and thermal reflow process"
CONFERENCE PAPER ACCEPTED: Our SMALL group will present our
research in
ASME IMECE 2009
(International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition) conference, Lake Buena
Vista, Florida, 11/13/09-11/19/09
"Hydrodynamic focusing based particle filtration using
an island structure with built-in valves"
"Streaming potential measurement in live plants for
energy harvesting applications"
May 2009
CO-ORGANIZER/SECTION CHAIR:
"Nanotechnology in Biology
and Medicine," the 2nd annual Integrated Nanostructured
Systems (INS) Workshop, Center for the Arts, The University
at Buffalo, May 2009.
April 2009
GRANT AWARD: "Development of Combinatorial Microfluidic Devices for
Stem Cell Applications." KIST.
CONFERENCE PAPER: "Double layer based micro fluidic dilution
generator for drug screening" by K. Lee, et al., Proc. in MMB 2009, the Fifth International Conference on
Microtechnologies in Medicine and Biology, Québec City,
Canada, April 1-3, 2009, pp. 92-93 (2009).
February 2009
CO-ORGANIZER/SECTION CHAIR:
"Energy and Power in Micro and Nano Systems" in Micro and NanoSystems, ASME IMECE (International Mechanical Engineering
Congress & Exposition), Lake Buena Vista, Florida, November 13 - 19, 2009.
CO-ORGANIZER/SECTION CHAIR:
"Nanotechnology in Biology
and Medicine," the 2nd annual Integrated Nanostructured
Systems (INS) Workshop, Center for the Arts, The University
at Buffalo, May 2009.
January 2009
PAPER:
"Generalized serial dilution
module for monotonic and arbitrary microfluidic gradient
generators" by K. Lee, et al., Lab Chip, 9, 709-717, 2009
(DOI:10.1039/B813582G).The impact factor of Lab on a Chip journal is 6.5.
Prof. Kwang W. Oh has been included in Marquis Who's Who in America 2009
Edition.
[Call for a paper]
Prof. Kwang W. Oh is
co-organizing a topic of "Energy and Power in Micro and Nano
Systems" in Micro and NanoSystems, ASME IMECE (International
Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition), Lake Buena Vista,
Florida, November 13 - 19, 2009.
The objective of this symposium is to advance the state of the
art in Microsystems and technologies for energy conversion,
storage, and management.
LIST OF TOPICAL AREAS Original manuscripts are solicited in the following topics:
- Micro and nano technology for energy conversion
- Micro and nano technology for energy storage - Micro and nano technology for energy management - Applications of energy harvesting devices
Analytical, computational, and experimental approaches using
micro/nano- devices, or technology for energy
conversion/harvest, storage, and management are all welcome.
Examples of the devices include fuel cells, micro heat engine,
piezoelectric, thermo-acoustics, thermo-electric, photovoltaic
cells, nanostructured materials, biologically inspired
approaches, streaming potential, etc. Devices for
fuel-reforming, fuel storage, and energy management with the
integration to micro/nano device/technology are also of
interest.
Prospective authors should submit a 400-word abstract via the
web tool at the Congress 2009 website.
SPONSORING DIVISIONS and TECHNICAL COMMITTEES
Microelectromechanical Systems Division, Design Division, Micro
and Nano Systems Technical Committee; (02/2009)
2008
A journal paper "Generalized
Serial Dilution Module For Monotonic and Arbitrary Microfluidic
Gradient Generators" by Kangsun Lee, Choong Kim, Byungwook
Ahn, Rajagopal Panchapakesan, Anthony R. Full, Ledum Nordee, Ji
Yoon Kang and Kwang W. Oh (Lab Chip,
DOI:10.1039/B813582G) was accepted to
Lab on a Chip journal, a peer-reviewed
scientific journal which publishes original research and review
articles on any aspect of miniaturization at the micro and nano
scale. The impact factor of Lab Chip is 5.821 (12/2008)
We presented our research in MicroTAS 2008 (San Diego,
10/12/08-10/16/08) conference: "Fast, robust and
simultaneous sorting with droplet generation by synchronized
high switching frequency of electrostatic actuation."
Accept rate for MicroTAS 2008 was 59% (06/2008).
We presented our research in ASME-IMECE Microfluidics 2008 (Boston,
10/31/08-11/06/08)) conference: "Simultaneous
Water Droplet Formation and Sorting Using an Electric Field."
(06/2008)
Prof. Kwang W. Oh has
been included in Marquis Who's Who in America 2009
Edition (06/2008).
2007
Prof. Kwang W. Oh has received a
fund through TCIE (The Center for Industrial Effectiveness at UB)
and New Scale Technologies, Inc (NY): "Design of a Micropump
using Piezoelectric Motors".
Prof. Kwang W. Oh has recently contributed to a new book
by writing a chapter Magnetic Actuation:
Comprehensive Microsystems - Pioneering Developments in
MEMS Technologies, 3-Volume Set (2100 pages,
internationally-recognized experts, clear and extensive
cross-referencing, full-color photographs & diagrams) /
ISBN:978-0-444-52194-1(published September 2007)
