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. The IGERT selection committee at Drexel University has decided to award Kevin Freedman NSF-IGERT fellowship. Congratulations! (June 2009) 
4. Prof. MinJun Kim will present as a keynote speaker at the 2009 International Symposium on Nature-Inspired Technology in Jeju, Korea. His talk is entitled "Microbiorobotics for Locomotion and Manipulation at Low Reynolds Number," in which a new class of synthetic bacteria will be introduced for drug delivery. (May 2009)
3. Our article, "Galvanotactic and phototactic control of Tetrahymena pyriformis as a microfluidic workhorse," published in Applied Physics Letters 94, 163901 (2009), has been selected for the May 1, 2009 issue of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research. The Virtual Journal, which is published by the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics in cooperation with numerous other societies and publishers, is an edited compilation of links to articles from participating publishers, covering a focused area of frontier research. (May 2009)
2. Bill Hesse has received the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for his PhD research program. Congratulations! (April 2009)
1. The prestigious National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship has been given to Bill Hesse for his advanced research. (April 2009)
5. 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).
4. 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).
3. 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).
2. A paper authored by Bill Hesse, Dave Casale, Basil Milton and Peter Fink in the Prof. Kim's senior design project team has been accepted by the 5th International Conference on Microtechnologies in Medicine and Biology. Bill will present his research progress, " biologically inspired drug delivery microrobots," in the conference (February 2009).
1. Through the NSF REU program, Rafael Mulero and Yaminah Watshon (Cheyney University of Pennsylvania) are going to present their findings in the 23rd National Conference on Undergraduate Research. The paper is entitled "Investigation into the use of chemically modified solid-state sub-micropores for biomolecular assembly"(February 2009).
