BioNEMS News

2008

2008 SCI Citation Summary: According to the ISI Science Citation Index (SCI), the Penn State BioNEMS Lab’s publications have been cited 82 times in the first eight months of 2008 alone (from January 2008 to August 2008)
BioNEMS research on “Light-Driven Plasmonic Switches” was highlighted in ACS Nanotation
BioNEMS research on “Light-Driven Plasmonic Switches” was featured as the front cover image on the September 17, 2008 issue of Advanced Materials
BioNEMS graduate student researcher Jinjie Shi has been selected to receive the Sabih and Guler Hayek Graduate Scholarship in Engineering Science and Mechanics during Fall 2008. This honor is based on Jinjie's outstanding academic performance. Congratulations, Jinjie!
BioNEMS student Yuebing Zheng has been selected as a King Abdullah Scholar. This prestigious award is a unique opportunity to recognize excellence in academics and research by graduate students around the world, and it carries up to $50,000 per year for tuition fee, living stipend and professional development and up to $10,000 per year for research activities
BioNEMS research on “Standing Surface Acoustic Wave (SSAW) Focusing of Microparticles” was highlighted in Wired Science
BioNEMS research on “Wide-Band Acoustic Collimation Lens” was featured as the front cover image on the March 17, 2008 issue of Applied Physics Letters
BioNEMS paper “Systematic investigation of localized surface plasmon resonance of long-range ordered Au nanodisk arrays” was among the 20 research articles with the most full-text downloads during the month of January 2008 in Journal of Applied Physics
BioNEMS research on “Tunable Optofluidic Microlens” was highlighted in Photonics Spectra
BioNEMS students made noise in the 2008 ESM Today Graduate Research Symposium. Jinjie wins the Grand Prize, Xiaole the Innovation Award, and Yuebing the First-Place Presentation Prize, Congratulations to their great work!
BioNEMS student Yuebing Zheng wins 2008 Founder's Prize of the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), Congratulations to Yuebing!
BioNEMS research on “Standing Surface Acoustic Wave (SSAW) Focusing of Microparticles” will be featured as the front cover image on IEEE Nano Magazine

2007

2007 SCI Citation Summary: According to the ISI Science Citation Index (SCI), the Penn State BioNEMS Lab’s publications have been cited 74 times in 2007 alone (from January 2007 to December 2007)
Our research on “nanopore-based humidity sensor” was featured on Nanotechweb
Prof. Huang was featured on Research Penn State Magazine
BioNEMS students Xiaole Mao, John Waldeisen, and Prof. Huang was featured on the Penn State Engineering News
BioNEMS students Xiaole Mao, John Waldeisen, and Prof. Huang was featured on the Penn State Live
BioNEMS research on “Microfluidic Drifting” was featured as the front cover image on the October 2007 issue of Lab on a Chip
BioNEMS Lab Manager & postdoctoral researcher Vincent Hsiao will become an Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Materials and Optoelectronic Engineering in National Chi Nan University, Nantou, Taiwan, this Fall. Congratulations and best wishes to Prof. Hsiao!
BioNEMS graduate student researcher Yuebing Zheng has been selected to receive the Sabih and Guler Hayek Graduate Scholarship in Engineering Science and Mechanics during Fall 2007. This honor is based on Yuebing's outstanding academic performance. Congratulations, Yuebing!
BioNEMS Lab undergraduate researcher John Waldeisen has been accepted by top Bioengineering Ph.D. programs such as UC Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, UCLA, etc. Congratulations, John!
Prof. Huang and his colleagues’ work on molecular machine-based NEMS was highlighted by a review article onAngew. Chem. Int. Ed. as a feature image

2006

2006 SCI Citation Summary: According to the ISI Science Citation Index (SCI), the Penn State BioNEMS Lab’s publications have been cited 67 times in 2006 alone (from January 2006 to December 2006)
Prof. Huang and colleagues’ work on molecular machine-based NEMS was highlighted by a review article on Nature Nanotechnology as a feature image
BioNEMS Ph.D. student Xiaole Mao received the 1st place award in the 2006 HP competition for the ASME Best Student Paper in Micro- and Nanoscale Thermal-Fluid Engineering
Prof. Huang was featured on the Penn State Live
Prof. Huang and colleagues’ work on molecular machine-based NEMS was highlighted by a review article on Chemical Society Review as a feature image
BioNEMS group was awarded the Grace Woodward Grant for Collaborative Research in Engineering and Medicine
BioNEMS group was awarded the prestigious Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams (NIRT) Grant from the National science Foundation (NSF)
Prof. Huang and his colleagues’ work on molecular machine-based NEMS was highlighted by a review article on Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology as a feature image
Prof. Huang was featured on the Penn State Live
Prof. Huang was selected to receive the prestigious Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award

2005

2005 SCI Citation Summary: According to the ISI Science Citation Index (SCI), the Bio-NEMS Lab’s publications have been cited 30 times in 2005 alone (from January 2005 to December 2005)
Prof. Huang and colleagues’ paper on the J. Am. Chem. Soc. was featured as one of the five most intriguing articles in the third quarter of 2005 by CAS Science Spotlight
Prof. Huang and colleagues’ work on molecular machine-based NEMS was highlighted by a review article onAdvanced Materials as a feature image
Prof. Huang and colleagues’ work on molecular machine-based NEMS was featured on Nature (Nanozone News)
Prof. Huang was featured on Material Research Institute (MRI) Faculty Spotlight
Prof. Huang and colleagues’ work on molecular machine-based NEMS was featured as the front cover image on Applied Physics Letters