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Welcome to SMALL@SUNYBuffalo
Sensors
& MicroActuators Learning
Lab
Lab Director:
KWANG W. OH, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
SUNY at Buffalo |
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January 2012
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Course Offering:
EE 203 Electric Circuit 2 in Spring 2012
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PAPER: Kwang W. Oh*,
Kangsun Lee, Byungwook Ahn, Edward P. Furlani, "Critical Review:
Design of pressure-driven microfluidic networks using electric
circuit analogy," Lab Chip, 2012, 12, 515-545 (Impact
Factor: 6.3) [Link]

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This paper is listed as one of "the most downloaded
articles for the last 30 days (updated daily)"
since12/22/2011 [Link].
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This article provides a
comprehensive overview of the physics of pressure-driven
laminar flow, the formal analogy between electric and
hydraulic circuits, applications of circuit theory to
microfluidic network-based devices, recent development and
applications of concentration- and flow-dependent
microfluidic networks, and promising future applications.



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December 2011
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PAPER: Jing Xu,
Byungwook Ahn, Kangsun Lee, Hun Lee, Rajagopal Panchapakesan,
Linfeng Xu, and Kwang W. Oh*, "Droplet-based microfluidic
device for multiple-droplet clustering," Lab Chip, 2012,
DOI:10.1039/C2LC20883K (Impact
Factor: 6.3)
[Link]
[Movie
S1], [Movie
S2], [Movie
S3]

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This paper was listed as one of the most downloaded articles
for the last 30 days since 12/23/2011 until 01/14/2012 [Link].
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It
has been highlighted on the
LOC
blog:
Hot articles on bubble removal,
microfluidic wound-healing assays, multiplexed screening and more [Link].


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Our
recent article, "A new fabrication process for uniform SU-8
thick photoresist structures by simultaneously removing edge bead
and air bubbles," in Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
(JMM), Vol 21, pp125006 (2011), has been downloaded more than 250
times so far within 1.5 month (from 11/03/2011 to 12/20/2011)
(IF: 2.281) [Link]
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To put this into
context, across all IOP (Institute of Physics) journals only
10% of articles were accessed over 250 times this quarter
(4th quarter of 2011).



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November 2011
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NEW OFFICE and LAB SPACE: Prof. Kwang W.
Oh's office is placed in 113C Davis Hall (from the week of
11/14/2011) and SMALLab is placed in 117 Davis Hall and 326 Bonner
Hall (from the week
of 10/31/2011).
 

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COVER PAGE on Lab Chip Journal Issue 23, 2011
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On the cover of Lab Chip journal
(impact factor: 6.3) our recent work has been highlighted
with an image describing our method for droplet combination
in microfluidic devices that allows passive parallel
synchronization. They describe the layout as being analogous
to a train track, as the network consists of a top channel,
a bottom channel, and ladder-like connections between the
two main channels. It has also been highlighted on the LOC
blog at http://blogs.rsc.org/lc/.


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Byungwook Ahn, Kangsun Lee, Hun
Lee, Rajagopal Panchapakesan and Kwang W. Oh, "Parallel
synchronization of two trains of droplets using a railroad-like
channel network," Lab Chip,
11, 3956-3962,
2011
(Impact Factor: 6.3) [Link]
[Movie
S1], [Movie
S2], [Movie
S3]


 
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October 2011
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PAPER:
Byungwook Ahn, Kangsun Lee, Hun
Lee, Rajagopal Panchapakesan, Linfeng Xu, Jing Xu and Kwang W. Oh, "Guiding,
distribution, and storage of trains of shape-dependent droplets,"
Lab Chip,
DOI: 10.1039/c1lc20729f, 2011
(Impact Factor: 6.3) [Link]
[Movie
S1], [Movie
S2], [Movie
S3]


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CONFERENCE: SMALLab presented one oral and four poster
presentations in MicroTAS 2011, Seattle, WA, USA (10/02/2011 -
10/06/2011).

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PROCEEDING: Byungwook Ahn, Kangsun Lee,
Rajagopal Panchapakesan, Hun Lee, and Kwang W. Oh, ¡°Guiding and
distribution of a train of droplets employing side flows and guiding
tracks,¡± Proc. in MicroTAS 2011, pp. 674 – 676 (accept rate:
6.8% for oral presentation)
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PROCEEDING:
Byungwook Ahn, Kangsun Lee, Hun Lee, Rajagopal Panchapakesan, and
Kwang W. Oh, ¡°Droplet synchronization of two parallel trains of
droplets using a ladder-like channel network,¡± Proc. in MicroTAS
2011, pp. 1639 – 1641 (accept rate: 44%)
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PROCEEDING:
Hun Lee, Byungwook Ahn, Kangsun Lee, and Kwang W. Oh,
¡°Continuous-flow in-droplet magnetic particle separation in a
droplet-based microfluidic platform,¡± Proc. in MicroTAS 2011,
pp. 948 – 950 (accept rate: 44%)
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PROCEEDING:
Jing Xu, Byungwook Ahn, Hun Lee, Kangsun Lee,
Rajagopal Panchapakesan, Linfeng Xu, and Kwang W. Oh, ¡°Droplet-based
microfluidic devices for multiple-droplet trapping, storing, and
clustering employing guiding tracks and forward/backward flows,¡±
Proc. in MicroTAS 2011, pp. 257 – 259 (accept rate: 44%)
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PROCEEDING:
Kangsun Lee, Choong Kim, Byungwook Ahn, Hun Lee, Rajagopal
Panchapakesan, Linfeng Xu, Jing Xu, Ji Yoon Kang, and Kwang W. Oh,
¡°Single-layer microfluidic network-based combinatorial dilution for
a standard Simplex-Lattice combinatorial design,¡± Proc. in
MicroTAS 2011, 939 – 941 (accept rate: 44%)
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September 2011
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Course Offering: EE 428/528 BioMEMS and
Lab-on-a-chip (Fall 2011)
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New Student: Ms. Deepika Kalra joined
our SMALLab as a master student.
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New Student: Ms. Ailin Lin joined our SMALLab as a
SHIP-Undergraduate Intern.
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August 2011
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Ph.D. Thesis Defense:
Congratulations to Dr. Kangsun Lee. He has successfully
defended his Ph.D thesis dissertation on 08/17/2011. Also
congratulate Dr. Lee for having a R&D position at LG
Electronics Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea.
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Ph.D. Thesis Defense:
Congratulations to Dr. Byungwook Ahn. He has successfully
defended his Ph.D thesis dissertation on 08/15/2011. Also
congratulate Dr. Ahn for having a post-doc position at Emory
University School of Medicine and Georgia Institute of
Technology.
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July 2011
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MS Thesis Defense: Mr. Jing Xu has
successfully presented his MS thesis on 07/28/2011.
He will continue to study at UB for his
doctoral study.
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SELECTED for
Virtual
Journal of
Nanoscale Science &
Technology (VJNano) and
Virtual Journal of Biological Physics
Research (VJbio):
"On-demand electrostatic droplet charging and sorting,"
published in Biomicrofluidics 5, 024113 (2011), has been
selected for the July 4, 2011 issue of VJnano.
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ACCEPTED for MicroTAS 2011 CONFERENCE: 1 oral
presentation and 4 posters will be presented in MicroTAS
2011, Seattle, Oct. 2-6, 2011.
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June 2011
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PAPER:
Byungwook Ahn, Kangsun Lee,
Rajagopal Panchapakesan, and Kwang W. Oh, "On-demand
electrostatic droplet charging and sorting,"
Biomicrofluidics,
5, paper 024113, 2011
(Impact Factor: 3.9) [Link].
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May 2011
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February 2011
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PAPER:
K. Lee, C. Kim, Y. Kim, B. Ahn, R. Panchapakesan, J. Bang,
J. Kim, Y. K. Yoon, J. Y. Kang, and K. W. Oh, "Microfluidic
concentration-on-demand combinatorial dilutions," Microfluid
Nanofluid, 11, pp. 75-86, 2011
(Impact Factor: 3.5)
[
Link].

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January 2011
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PAPER:
C. Kim, K.S. Lee, J.H. Bang,
Y.E. Kim, M.-C. Kim, K.W. Oh, S.H. Lee and J.Y.
Kang, "3-dimensional cell culture for on-chip
differentiation of stem cells in embryoid body," Lab
Chip, 11, pp. 874-882, 2011
(Impact Factor: 6.3)
[Link]
[Movie
1] [Movie
2] [Movie
3].
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PAPER:
C. Kim, S. Chung, Y.E. Kim, K.S. Lee, S.H. Lee,
K.W. Oh, and J.Y. Kang, "Generation of core-shell
microcapsules with three-dimensional focusing device for
efficient formation of cell spheroid," Lab Chip, 11,
pp. 246-252
(Impact Factor: 6.3)
[Link].
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New Student:
Mr. Miguel Gadea and Mr. Seongeun Jin joined SMALL lab as
undergraduate students.
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Course Offering:
EE 203 Electric Circuit 2 in Spring 2011
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Course Offering: UE141T:
BRINGING PHYSICS & ENGINEERING TO LIFE" in Spring 2011 (DISCOVERY
SEMINAR COURSE)
- Instructors:
Professors
Markelz (Physics, UB), Oh (Electrical Eng, UB),
and Snell (Structural Biology, HWI)
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Highlights: You will see how biology is studied from three
very different view points: Prof. Markelz is a physicist and
she is looking for fundamental physical properties using
optics, Prof. Oh is an electrical engineer who
designs and fabricates microfluidic systems for manipulation
of biological samples and Prof. Snell is a structural
biologist who is studying the relationship between the
structure of proteins and what they do and how to prevent
bad things from happening.
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