We are experimentally investigating the mechanics of fluids at small scales including the behavior of biological materials in micro- and nanofabricated structures.
Recent News
5. Dr. MinJun Kim (as CoPI, PI:Dr. Mira Olson) has been awarded the USDA equipment grant, which will be used to purchase a real-time PCR equipment for qualification of environmental pathogens. (Apr. 2008)
4. Dr. MinJun Kim has been selected as a recipient of a Drexel University Career Development Award, which enables to organize a working group of collaborators in Imperial College of London and National Institute of Standards and Technology to visit Drexel concurrently to discuss a potential collaborative research project as well as offer a "two-day" workshop to introduce development of nanomanufacturing, single molecule analysis for nucleic acids and biomimetic design and fabrication of organic-inorganic nanoarchitectures for faculty, students, and post docs at Drexel. (Apr. 2008)
3. Rafael Mulero has been awarded the NSF IGERT fellowship, which provides the best and brightest students with an opportunity to embark on research in the multidisciplinary field of nanotechnology. Congratulations!!! (Apr. 2008)
2. Rafael Muleroof the Micro/Nanofluidics & Biotransport lab was awarded first place in the graduate oral research presentation competition at the 11th Annual Philadelphia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Research Symposium and Mentoring Conference on April 5, 2008. (Apr. 2008) [more information ]
1. Rafael Mulero, Ed Steager, and Dr. MinJun Kim have been awarded NSF fellowships to attend the NSF Summer Institute on Nanomechanics, Nanomaterials and Micro/Nanomanufacturing with a focus on "the Energy Challenge and Nanotechnology". (Mar. 2008) [more information ]
5. Dr. Kim and his colleagues at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Kyungwon University, and Imperial College London have published a paper in Lab-on-a-Chip entitled, "Gold nanoparticles for one step DNA extraction and real-time PCR of pathogens in a single chamber". In the paper, experimental results show the successful demonstration of a one step real-time PCR system for pathogen detection without removal or changing of reagents (Mar. 2008).
4. An entirely new class of microfluidic pumping systems, "Self-Organizing Bacteria-Powered Microfluidic Pump," has been published in Small (Jan. 2008).
3. A new journal paper by Ed Steager, Jigar Patel, ChangBeom Kim, et al. is now available online in Microfluidics & Nanofluidics, entitled "A Novel Method of Microfabrication and Manipulation of Bacterial Teamsters in Low Reynolds Number Fluidic Environments" (Dec. 2007).
2. A study of nanowire array in Kim Group has been published in Physics Letters A: Field Emission Characteristics of ZnO Nanoneedle Array Cell under Ultraviolet Irradiation (Oct. 2007).
1. Nano Letters published our manuscript entitled, "Single Molecule Spectroscopy Using Nanoporous Membranes," which is very exciting and highly novel for high throughput single molecule detection as well as the first demonstration of using optics with nanopore array. In order to achieve ultra-fast high throughput single molecule analysis, we are collaborating with Dr. Joshua Edel and Prof. Andrew deMello in Imperial College London. The paper is available online: synopsis (Aug. 2007).
