It is true that nature begins by reasoning and ends by experience. Nevertheless, we must begin with experiments and try through it to discover the reason. Leonardro Da Vinci
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5. Sean Brigandi has successfully completed his M.S.M.E. in the Kim Group. His research involved developing techniques to utilize Tetrahymena pyriformis as a cellular robot. He now works for Remington & Vernick Engineers as a design engineer (December 2011) 
4.Two assessment based courses - Fundmentals of Nanomanufacturing & Applications and Fundamentals of Nano Metrology & Best Practices are now available on the ASME's Nano Educational Series - Podcasts - which are designed to offer engineers concise video and audio summaries of nano applications in energy, materials, life sciences, and the environment. The development of nanomanufacturing and nanometrology courses has been supported by NSF CCLI Type I Program. (December 2011)
3. Microbiorobotics - Biologically Inspired Microscale Robotic Systems edited by Prof. Kim, Prof. Julius and Dr. Steager is available online (officially released in May 2012). This book introduces an inter-disciplinary readership to the toolkit that micro-organisms offer to micro-engineering, in which a variety of microrobots and control theories are described to accomplish micro-scale engineering tasks, such as micromanipulation and microassembly. (December 2011)
2. Kevin Freedman has been invited to present his nanopore research for HIV detection at the 2012 Nanopore Conference, in which Prof. Kim as an invited speaker will introduce nanopore technology for single molecule biophysics research. (November 2011)
1. Kevin Freedman and Anmiv Prabhu have been invited to present their nanopore research for protein kinetics and flagellar polymorphism at the 56th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in San Diego. (November 2011)
1. Dalhyung Kim, and Paul Kim have published a paper in the Applied Physics Letters, entitled "Three-dimensional control of Tetrahymena pyriformis using artificial magnetotaxis." This study demonstrates three-dimensional control with the euakryotic cell using two sets of Helmholtz coils for xy-plane motion and a single electromagnet for z-direction motion. T. pyriformis is modified to have artificial magnetotaxis with internalized magnetite. The 3D control of the live microorganism T. pyriformis as a cullular robot shows great potential for practical applications in microscale tasks, such as target transport and cell therapy. (Feburary 2012)
2. The ability of photon to thermal conversion on wet chemically synthesized gold nanorods has been shown in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research (Vol. 14, 699, 2012) by Wonjin Jo and Dr. Jun-Hee Lee. In this study, we demonstrate the thermal response of a single patterned gold nanorod cluster in aqueous solution under near infrared irradiation. The correlation between fluorescence intensities and temperature was investigated with two dyes by controlling the near infrared laser intensities to heat up the gold nanorods. (January 2012)
3. Wonjin Jo and Kevin Freedman have published a paper in Nanotechnology, entitled "Fabrication of tunable silica-mineralized nanotubes using flagella as bio-templates." Bacterial flagella are particularly attractive bio-templates for nanotubes due to their tubular structures and small inner and outer diameters. In this work, flagella isolated from Salmonella typhimurium were used as templates for silica-mineralized nanotubes. (January 2012)
4. In collaboration with Dr. Prashanta Dutta at Washington State University, Anmiv Prabhy has published a paper in Electrophoresis, entitled "Modeling and simulation of biological particle separation in a solid-state nanopore." In the paper, we have simulated high-density lipoprotein (HDL) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) as the sample nanoparticles to demonstrate the capability of a solid-state nanopore platform. (January 2012)
5. Anmiv Prabhu and Kevin Freedman in collaboration with Drs. John Kasianowicz and Joseph Robertson in NIST have investigated the mechanism by which the diameter of solid-state nanopores is reduced by a scanning electron microscope. The process depends on beam parameters such as the accelerating voltage and electron fluc and does not involve simple electron-beam-induced deposition of hydrocarbon contaminants. We also show that pores fabricated in this manner can detect double stranded DNA. The paper, entitled "SEM-induced shrinking of solid-state nanopores for single molecule detection," is now available in the IOP Nanotechnology. (September 2011)
