We are experimentally investigating cellular mechanics for biological actuation, sensing and transport as well as molecular dynamics for bionanotechnology utilizing novel nanoscale architectures.
Recent News
5. Anmiv Prabhu wins the Best Paper Award at the ASME IMECE 2009. (January 2010) 
4. Prof. Kim will speak to the 'UConn-Drexel-POSTECH Joint Workshop on Frontier Research in Nano/MEMS/Bio Technology' at the University of Connecticut on January 27th. (January 2010)
3. Prof. Kim spoke to the Center for Research and Education in Optical Sciences and Applications at Delaware State University on December 3rd. His talk is entitled "Bacterial Microfluidics and Nanofluidics for Microbiorobotics and Single Molecule Analysis ". (December 2009)
2. Hosted by the Laurence A. Baiada Center for Enterpreneurship in Technology, the Drexel Green Initiative and the Great Works Symposium, Dheeraj Roy and Kevin Freedman entered the competition with the idea that a novel scientific device would contribute to the nationalwide green initiative. "Carbon Nanotube Filter to Reduce Greenhouse Effect," won the 2nd place overall and a cash prize of $400 (November 2009)
1. Prof. Kim chaired the Microfluidics Symposium: Fluid Engineering in Micro- and Nanosystems at the 2009 ASME IMECE meeting, which covered the latest developments in uses of fluid mechanics for the design and optimization of micro-devices for mechanical, chemical and biological applications and devices in research and industry (November 2009)
5. In collaboration with the GRASP laboratory at Penn, Ed Steager, Dalhyung Kim, and Prof. Kim have published a paper in the Applied Physics Letters, entitled "Single Cell Manipulation Using Ferromagnetic Composite Microtransporters." We demostrate that biocompatible ferromagnetic microtransporters can be navigated to manipulate single cells with micron-size precision without disturbing the local environment. (Feburary 2010).
4. A review paper, entitled "Bacterial Nanofluidic Structures for Medicine and Engineering," has been published in the SMALL. Bill Hesse (currently at MIT), Kevin Freedman, and Prof. Kim have reviewed bacterial nanopores and nanotubes for the use of a variety of medical and engineering purposes in the paper (January 2010).
3. In collaboration with Advanced Materials & Mechanics Laboratory @ Binghamton, Bill Hesse, Rafael Mulero, and Prof. Kim have published a paper in the Materials Science & Engineering C. The paper is entitled "Mineralization of Flagella for Nanotube Formation," in which flagella isolated from Salmonella typhimurium are used as a template for the formation of TiO2 nanotubes (May 2009).
2. Methods for control of Tetrahymena pyriformis using galvanotaxis and phototaxis in low Reynolds number fluidic environments have been demonstrated in the Applied Physics Letters (Vol. 94, p163901, 2009)by Dal Hyung Kim (G), Dave Casale (UG), and Prof. Kim. The paper, entitled "Galvanotactic and Phototactic Control of Tetrahymena pyriformis as a Microfluidic Workhorse," explains that light stimulation results in a rotational motion of the cells. The foundation of this work is to progress further with biological microfluidic actuators or sensors for use in engineering systems (April 2009).
1. A novel detection of Candida pathogens has been reported in the Jornal of Sensors (Vol. 9, p1590-1598, 2009) by Rafael Mulero and Prof. Kim in collaboration with the Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine at Drexel. The paper, entitled "Ultra-Fast Low Concentration Detection of Candida Pathogens Utilizing High Resolution Micropore Chips," shows that the direct electrical addressing of C. albicans has estblished criteria for distinquishing individual yeast based on their structural properties, which may reduce the currently used methods' complexity for both identification and quantification capabilities in mixed blood samples (March 2009).
