Isabelle won the best poster award at the Florida Semiconductor Summit. She presented a piezoelectric polymer for tissue engineering (title: Surface-Engineerable Piezoelectric PVDF Films for Tissue Engineering). Co-authors are Sophia and Raneen. Congratulation!
Dr. Kim was highlighted in the USF Tech Tour with the work of "implantable microdevice for cancer treatment."
"AK lab attended the BMES 2023 conference and collectively presented 7 research projects (2 oral and 5 posters)
Drs. Albert Kim and Geelsu Hwang received a new grant from the NSF DMR program to develop a new metal-piezoelectric biomaterial. We thank the NSF for supporting our research.
Title: Collaborative Research: Novel Hybrid Metal-Piezoelectric Biomaterials for Anti-infectious Implantable Medical Devices
DMR-2321385
Total award amount: $200,000
Details: Award Link
A journal paper titled "Protein redox by a piezoelectric acousto-nanodevice" is accepted in Nanoscale.
A journal paper titled "Omni-Directional Ultrasonic Powering via Platonic Solid Receiver for mm-Scale Implantable Devices" is accepted in ACS Materials Letters
18TH IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS)
Prof. Albert Kim was invited to speak at the IEEE NEMS 2023, where he talked about his research on Acousto-Bioelectronics.
Trisha Mou and Rana Saha joined Acousto-Bioelectronics Lab. Welcome!
Dr. Kim received the BME Professor of the Year (2022-2023), awarded by the Biomedical Engineering Society, University of South Florida Chapter.
16TH IEEE DALLAS CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS CONFERENCE [APRIL 14TH - 16TH 2023]
Prof. Albert Kim was invited as a Keynote speaker at the DCAS 2023, where he talked about his research on Acousto-Bioelectronics.
More details: https://www.dcas2023.com/invited-speakers.html
Our journal paper titled “Totally Implantable Oxygen Generator (TIOG) for Hypoxia and Hypoxemia” is featured in IEEE Transaction in Biomedical Engineering (TBME) [Link] and made it to the Front Cover (TBME, April 2023 issue).
A new National Institute of Health grant (R21; Bacterial Adhesion Inhibition and Biofilm Disruption by Adaptive Piezoelectric Biomaterial) was awarded to Dr. Hwang and Dr. Kim. Congratulations!
A journal paper titled "Totally Implantable Oxygen Generator (TIOG) for Hypoxia and Hypoxemia" is accepted in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME).
Dr. Albert Kim received a new grant from the NSF ECCS program to develop an ambulatory dental care platform, a human oral motion-powered Smart Dental Implant (SDI) system. We thank the NSF for supporting our research.
Title: Collaborative Research: Smart Dental Implant System for Ambulatory Dental Care
ECCS-2300985
Total award amount: $250,000
Details: Award Link
It was the in-person conference meeting for the first time since the pandemic. Sayemul and Rebecca presented their work: "Multifunctional 3D Printed BaTiO3 Platonic Solids Packaging for Implantable Microdevices" and "Hydrogel Actuated Micronnedle (HAM) Wound Patch." Good job everyone!
Our journal paper, "Performance Evaluation of Magnetic Resonance Coupling Method for Intra-Body Network (IBNet)," is selected as a featured article in IEEE Transaction in Biomedical Engineering (TBME):
Dr. Albert Kim received the NSF CAREER Award. Dr. Kim will lead a new project, "Acousto-Bioelectronics" to develop an implantable microsystem for multimodal cancer therapy using omnidirectional ultrasonic powering.
Title: CAREER: Acousto-Bioelectronics
ECCS-2245090
Total award amount: $500,000
Details: Award Link
Dr. Albert Kim and Dr. JK Kim at Kansas State University received a new grant from the NSF ECCS program to develop a microneedle-mediate wound dressing. We thank the NSF for supporting our research.
Title: Collaborative Research: Microneedle-mediated Adaptive Phototherapy (MAP) for Wound Healing
ECCS-2054492
Total award amount: $500,000
Details: Award Link
Dr. Albert Kim and Dr. Krishna Kant at the College of Science and Technology received a new grant from the NSF CISE program to develop a reconfigurable intrabody network for therapeutics. We thank the NSF for supporting our research.
Title: CNS Small: Reconfigurable Intraboy Network for Therapeutics (RIBNeT)
CNS-2129659
Total award amount: $500,000
Details: Award Link
Dr. Kim co-authored a journal paper, "A bio-inspired optical directional microphone with cavity-coupled diaphragms" in JASA Express Letters, led by Dr. Haijun Liu
Dr. Kim co-authored a journal paper, "Modeling, Characterization, and Fabrication of Bell-tip Microneedle Array by Diffraction and Self-Aligned Lens Effects" in Applied Physics Letters, led by Dr. Jungkuwn Kim.
Sayemul Islam's paper is selected as a Best Paper Finalist at the Transducer 2021. Congratulations!
Our journal paper, "Machine Learning Enabled Wireless Intracranial Brain Deformation Sensing System," is selected as a featured article in IEEE Transaction in Biomedical Engineering (TBME): https://www.embs.org/tbme/articles/a-machine-learning-enabled-wireless-intracranial-brain-deformation-sensing-system/
A journal paper titled "Implantable Cisplatin Synthesis Microdevice for Regional Chemotherapy" is accepted in Advanced Healthcare Materials.
A journal paper titled "A Hydrogel-based Ultrasonic Backscattering Wireless Biochemical Sensing" is accepted in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology.
Dr. Albert Kim, Dr. Haijun Liu (Mechanical Engineering), and Dr. JK Kim (Kansas State University) received a new grant from the NSF CCSS program to develop a Smart Stent. We thank the NSF for supporting our research. We are excited to develop the Smart Stent.
Our Smart Stent project has been featured in Temple News.
Title: Collaborative Research: Smart Stent for Post-Endovascular Aneurysm Repair Surveillance
ECCS-2029077
Total award amount: $500,000
Details: Award Link
A journal paper titled “Human Oral Motion-Powered Smart Dental Implant (SDI) for In Situ Ambulatory Photobiomodulation Therapy” is accepted in Advanced Healthcare Material.
A journal paper titled “In vitro Study on Smart Stent for Autonomous Post-Endovascular Aneurysm Repair Surveillance” is accepted in IEEE Access.
A journal paper titled “A Machine Learning Enabled Wireless Intracranial Brain Deformation Sensing System” is accepted in IEEE Transaction in Biomedical Engineering (TBME)
A journal paper titled “Biodegradable Piezoelectric Transducer for Powering Transient Implants” is accepted in IEEE Access.
A journal paper titled “An Ultrasonically Powered Implantable Microprobe for Electrolytic Ablation,” is accepted in Nature Scientific Reports.