December 15, 2012
Prof. Arum Han receives the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Outstanding Professor Award.

October 11, 2012
Celal Erbay receives the Best Poster Award at the North American Meeting of the International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology (NA-ISMET) held in Cornell University for his poster titled “Power Enhancement with Carbon Nanotube Grown Macroporous Stainless Steel Mesh Anode in Microbial Fuel Cells”. Click here to see the news. Congratulations Celal!

September 16, 2012
Our NSF EFRI grant news made it to the local newspaper The Eagle. Click here for the story.

September 14, 2012
Our NSF EFRI grant co-PI Tim Devarenne's work featured in AgriLife Today under the title "Oil from algae closer to reality through studies by unique collaboration of scientists. Click here for the news.

Also click here for the YouTube interview.

Eurekalert, the science journalism site of AAAS, has posted the story as well (click here).

August 31, 2012
We have received a $2 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) office to lead a multidisciplinary team of investigators for developing technologies for next-generation microalgae-based biofuel.

Click here to see the TAMU Engineering News article.

This news was also featured in the TAMU Times on September 4, and made it to the main TAMU website.

Click here to read the NSF press release for the 15 EFRI grants for fiscal year 2012.

Out of the 15 EFRI grants, three were under the photosynthetic biorefinary (PSBR) category as "Micro-laboratory for microalgae". Click here for more information.

August 31, 2012
Hyunsoo Kim, Ph.D. student in our lab, selected as the 2012-2013 ConocoPhillips Energy Institute Fellow. Congratulations Hyunsoo!

August 24, 2012
Jaewon Park's paper "Multi-compartment neuron-glia co-culture platform for localized CNS axon-glia interaction study" featured in Lab Chip as a back cover. Congratulations Jaewon (J. Park, H. Koito, J. Li, and A. Han Lab Chip, Vol. 22, 3296-3304, 2012).

July 27, 2012
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) awards grant to us for developing a microfluidic system to combat biothreat agents and environmental microbest. Follow this link for the full article on TAMU Engineering News (click here). The news was also featured in the July 31 2012 edition of TAMU Times. Click here for the link.

July 26, 2012
About 40 middle/high school girls visited our lab as part of the 2012 Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Summer Camp, where they participated in various lab activities and demonstrations. Right side pictures show students touring our laser micromachinig facility, where each student received a laser-engraved name plate.

July, 2012
We received a grant from the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers to develop a portable system for oil detection from the environment. Follow this link for the full article (click here).

January, 2012
Former student Whitney Longsine (now at Molecular Imprints, Inc.)'s paper titled "Laser stenciling: a low-cost high-resolution CO2 laser micromachining method" has been published in Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (W. Longsine-Parker and A. Han, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 22, 015006 (9pp), 2012). The article has been also selected to be included in IOP Select (http://Select.iop.org), a special collection of journal articles, chosen by our Editors based on one or more of the following criteria: *Substantial advances or significant breakthroughs *A high degree of novelty *Significant impact on future research). Congratulations Whitney!

November, 2011
We received a Grant Challenge Exploration Award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a low-cost simultaneous wastewater treatment and biogas generation. Follow this link for the full article (click here).

October, 2011
Jaewon Park and Huijie Hou gave oral presentations at the 15th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2011) Chiwan Koo and Hyunsoo Kim also presented their posters. In total, the lab presented 2 oral talks and 3 posters. Nice work!!

June, 2011
Han Wang presented his poster titled "A High-Throughput Fully-Automated Microfluidic Live Cell Array for Combination Drug Treatment Analysis of Colorectal Cancer Cells" at the 16th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers 2011). Nice work!

June, 2011
Chiwan Koo's paper "A Magnetic Resonance (MR) Microscopy System using a Microfluidically Cryo-Cooled Planar Coil" has been published in Lab Chip (C. Koo, R. F. Godley, J. Park, M. P. McDougall, S. M. Wright, and A. Han, Lab Chip, Vol. 11 (13), 2197-2203, 2011). Congratulatios Chiwan!!!

January, 2011
Huijie Hou's paper "Air-cathode microbial fuel cell array: A device for identifying and characterizing electrochemically active microbes" has been published in Biosensors and Bioelectronics (H. Hou, L. Li, P. de Figueiredo, and A. Han, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Vol. 26 (5), 2680-2684, 2011). Congratulations!!!

October, 2010
Jaewon Park gave an oral presentation at the 14th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2010). He also presented a poster along with Hyunsoo Kim. In total, the lab presented 2 oral talks and 6 posters. Nice work!

August, 2010
Whitney Longsine's co-author paper titled "Characterization of Controlled Bone Defects using 2D and 3D Ultrasound Imaging Techniques" has been published in Physics in Medicine and Biology (B. J. Parmer, W. Longsine, E. P. Sabonghy, A. Han, E. Tasciotti, B. K. Weiner, M. Ferrari, and R. Righetti, Physic in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 55, pp. 4839-4859, 2010). Congratulations!

July, 2010
Younghak Cho (currently Assistant Professor at Seoul National University of Technology in Korea) and Jaewon Park's paper titled "Fabrication of High-Aspect-Ratio Polymer Nanochannels using a Novel Si Nanoimprint Mold and Solvent Assisted Sealing" has been published in Microfluidics and Nanofluidics (Y. H. Cho, J. Park, H. Park, X. Cheng, B. J. Kim, and A. Han, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, Vol. 9, pp. 163-170, 2010). Congratulations!

July, 2010
Huijie Hou's paper titled "Micropatterning of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAAm) Hydrogels: Effect on Thermosensitivity, Surface Properties, and Cell-Release Behavior" has been publised in Sensors and Materials (H. Hou, Y. Hou, M. A. Grunlan, D. J. Munoz-Pinto, M. S. Hahn, and A. Han, Sensors and Materials, Vol. 22 (3), pp. 109-120, 2010). Congratulations!

March 11, 2010
Jaewon Park's journal paper titled "Micro-macro Hybrid Soft-lithography Master (MMHSM) Fabrication for Lab-on-a-Chip Applications" has been published in Biomedical Microdevice (J. Park, J. Li, and A. Han, Biomedical Microdevices, Vol. 12, pp. 345-351, 2010). Congratulations!

January 26, 2010
Chiwan Koo presented his paper titled "An Integrated Microfluidic Cryo-Cooled Planar Coil System for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)" at the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2010) in Hong Kong SRA, China.

November 13, 2009
Jaewon Park's journal paper titled "Microfluidic Compartmentalized Co-culture Platform for CNS Axon Myelination Research" has been published in Biomedical Microdevices (J. Park, H. Koito, J. Li, and A. Han, “Microfluidic Compartmentalized Co-culture Platform for CNS Axon Myelination Research,” Biomedical Microdevices, Vol. 11, pp. 1145-1153, 2009). Congratulations!

November 3, 2009
Jaewon Park presented two posters titled "Multi-Compartment CNS Neuron-Glia Co-culture Platform" and "Precision Patterning of Poly(dimethyl siloxane) as an Electrical Insulating Layer using Photoresist Lift-off Process" at the 13th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (µTAS 2009) held in Jeju, Korea.

October 22, 2009
Huijie Hou's journal paper titled "A thermoresponsive hydrogel poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) micropatterning method using microfluidic techniques" was published in the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (H. Hou, W. Kim, M. Grunlan, and A. Han, "A Thermoresponsive Hydrogel Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Micropatterning Method using Microfluidic Techniques, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 19, pp. 127001, 2009.). Woosik Kim is the second author on this paper. Congraulations!

September 11, 2009
The First Texas A&M University Nano/Micro Poser Symposium was a great success with more than 65 posters and 150 participants throughout the campus. As part of the opening talk as well as the inaugural talk for the newly launched monthly Texas A&M Nano/Micro Semianr Series, Prof. Mauro Ferrari, a world-renowened expert in nanomedicine gave talk titled "Three DImensions of Individualized Nanomedicine". Thank you to all the group members who helped this event. Click here for full story in the Texas A&M Engineering News.

August 22, 2009
Two new members joined the group. Jianzhang Wu is joining as a Ph.D. student and Han Wang is joining as a M.S. student. Welcome to the group.

August 14, 2009
The new NSF grant for developing microbial fuel cell array and the related recent paper in PLoS One featured in Texas A&M Engineering News. Click here for full story.

August 10, 2009
Younghak Cho, a former member and currently an Assistant Professor at Seoul National University of Technology in Korea, publishes his paper titled "Whole-Cell Impedance Analysis for Highly and Poorly Metastatic Cancer Cells" in the Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (Y. Cho, H. S. Kim, A. B. Frazier, Z. G. Chen, D. M. Shin, and A. Han, J. Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 18 (4), pp. 808-817, 2009). Hyunsoo Kim, Ph.D. student, is the second author of this paper. Congratulations!

August 10, 2009
Huijie Hou's paper titled "Microfabricated Microbial Fuel Cell Arrays Reveal Electrochemically Active Microbes" published in the journal PLoS ONE (H. Hou, L. Li, Y. Cho, P. de Figueiredo, and A. Han, PLoS ONE, Vol. 4 (8), pp. e6570, 2009). Former member Dr. Younghak Cho is also a co-author in this paper. Congratulations!

August 5, 2009
Prof. Arum Han gave a talk titled "Microsystems for Biology" at the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Japan.

June 6, 2009
Prof. Arum Han gave a talk titled "Microsystem Platform for Cell Culture and Cell Analysis" at Inje University, Korea.

May 20, 2009
Jaewon Park and Hyunsoo Kim's journal paper titled "Micropatterning of Poly(dimethylsiloxane) using a Photoresist Lift-off Technique for Selective Electrical Insulation of Microelectrode Arrays" published in the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (J. Park, H. S. Kim, and A. Han, J. Micromech. Microeng. Vol. 19, pp. 065016, 2009). Congratulations!!!

March 19, 2009
Prof. Arum Han and four of his students, Jaewon Park, Hyunsoo Kim, Huijie Hou, and Woosik Kim, gave four oral presentations and one poster presentation at the 26th Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research (HSEMB), Houston, TX. The presented papers are as following.

Huijie Hou, Ph.D. student, gave an oral presentation titled "Thermosensitivity and Surface Properties of Microstructured Poly (N-Isopropylacrylamide) for Regulated Cell Release."

Hyunsoo Kim, M.S. student, gave an oral presentation titled "Whole Cell Impedance Spectroscopy Microsystem for Highly-Metastatic and Poorly-Metastatic Cancer Cell Analysis."

Jaewon Park, Ph.D. student, gave an oral presentation titled "Microfluidic Co-Culture Platform for CNS Axon-glia Interaction."

Woosik Kim, M.S. student, presented his poster titled "A Method for Poly(N-Isopropylamide) Micropatterning Controlled by Microfluidics."

Prof. Arum Han gave an oral presentation titled "Nanochannel Fabrication for Single DNA Analysis."

February 28, 2009
Dr. Younghak Cho who worked as a postdoctoral researcher for the past year and half in our lab is joining the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Seoul National University of Technology as an Assistant Professor as of March 31, 2009. Congratulations!

February 27, 2009
Prof. Han's recent grant award from the National Institutes of Health / National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIH/NIBIB) to develop and apply microsystems for neuroscience research in collaboration with Prof. Jianrong Li in the Veterinary Integrative Biosciences was featured in the Texas A&M Engineering news (click here for full news).

January 28, 2009
Hyunsoo Kim , M.S. student, presented his poster titled " Whole Cell Impedance Analysis of Metastatic and Non-metastatic Head-and-Neck Cancer Cells," at the 22nd IEEE International Conferece on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, Sorrento, Italy.

December 19, 2008
Prof. Han's new USDA grant to develop a portable plant pathogen detection system was featured on the Texas A&M University website and in the Texas A&M Engineering News (click here for full news).

December 4, 2008
Huijie Hou, Ph.D. student, presented her poster titled " Regulating Thermosensitivity and Surface Properties of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) through Micropatterning,"at the 2008 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA.

December 2, 2008
Huijie Hou, Ph.D. student, gave an oral presentation titled "Micropatterning of a Photocurable Hydrogel in a Microfluidic System," at the 2008 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA.

November 17, 2008
Jaewon Park, Ph.D. student, presented his poster titled "Microfluidic Co-Culture Platform for Studying CNS Axon-glia Interaction " at the Neuroscience 2008 , Washington, DC.

October 13, 2008
Jaewon Park, Ph.D. student, presented his poster titled "Microfluidic Co-Culture Platform for CNS Axon Myelination" at the 12th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (uTAS 2008), San Diego, CA.

September 29 , 2008
Prof. Arum Han gave a talk titled "Microsystem Platform for Neuronal Cell Culture" at the Biomedical Engineering Department seminar series at Texas A&M University.

September 29 , 2008
Prof. Arum Han gave a talk titled "Microsystem Platform for Neuronal Cell Culture" at the Biomedical Engineering Department seminar series at Texas A&M University.

July 4, 2008
Prof. Arum Han talked about microsystem platform for cell culture and cellular analysis at the BK21/ERC seminar series at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

June 26, 2008
Prof. Arum Han gave a talk titled "Microsystem platform for cell culture and cellular analysis" at the Bio Nano Robo Seminars series at theUniversity of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

May, 2008
Huijie Hou's co-author paper titled "Thermoresponsive Nanocomposite Hydrogels with Cell-Releasing Behavior" was published in Biomaterials. (Y. Hou, A. R. Matthews, A. M. Smitherman, A. S. Bulick, M. S. Hahn, H. Hou, A. Han, and M. A. Grunlan, Biomaterials, Vol. 29, pp. 3175-3184, 2008