Biomicrofluidics Lab

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[04.09.2025] Manuscript ("A microfluidic-based blood viscometer") was published in "Physics of fluids". pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/article-abstract/37/9/091904/3361628/A-microfluidic-based-blood-viscometer?redirectedFrom=PDF 

[20.08.2025] Manuscript ("A microfluidic-based blood viscometer") was accepted in "Physics of fluids". The decision letter was received as, " Dear Prof. Dr. Kang, I am pleased to report that your manuscript has been accepted for publication in Physics of Fluids and is tentatively scheduled to appear in the next issue. Congratulations! ...

Sincerely, Prof. Ing. Martin Zatloukal, Ph.D., DSc., Deputy Editor, Physics of Fluids (IF 4.3, CS 5.9) "

[12.08.2025] Manuscript (...multi-parameter sensing...) was resubmitted to a peer-review journal.

[17.05.2025] Manuscript (Microfluidic chip for quantitatively assessing hemorheological parameters) was published in the "Micromachines": "...Thank you for publishing with us. We are pleased to inform you that our journal office plan to select your this paper as the cover story candidate for the forthcoming issue 5...". www.mdpi.com/2072-666X/16/5/567

[06.05.2025] A 2024 Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS: ScholarGPS celebrates Highly Ranked Scholars™ for their exceptional performance in various Fields, Disciplines, and Specialties. Your prolific publication record, the high impact of your work, and the outstanding quality of your scholarly contributions have placed you in the top 0.05% of all scholars worldwide according to the most recent 2024 ScholarGPS rankings. scholargps.com/scholars/70841158712282/yang-jun-kang?e_ref=e00abc8a3c48eeb732da 

[02.04.2025] Winner of Micromachines (2023) Best Paper Award: On behalf of the Micromachines Best Paper Awards Committee, we are pleased to inform you that your paper "Biomechanical  Assessment of Red Blood Cells in Pulsatile Blood Flows"(https://www.mdpi.com/2072-666X/14/2/317) has been selected as the winner of the Micromachines Best Paper Awards among 2257 papers published as part of the Micromachines. The award is determined by the committee based on an overall evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, considering citations and downloads. Overall, 5 winners were chosen. The announcement of the winner has been officially released and can be viewed here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/micromachines/awards/3027.

[14.03.2025] Visiting: Yang Jun visits GIST for investigating red cell morphology with 3D holotomography. gaia.gist.ac.kr

[24.02.2025] Visiting: Yang-Jun visited Universität Zürich (Prof. Anna Bogdanova www.vetphys.uzh.ch/en/missionstatement/staff/groupleaders-ga.html  ) and ETH Zürich (Dr. Sung-Sik Lee  bc.biol.ethz.ch/research/peter/people/sung-sik-lee.html) from 02.02.2025 to 23.02.2025. During this visit, he conducted many activities for investigating thermal impact on individual red cells using a holotomography and a microfluidic chip integrated with a heating substrate.    

[20.12.2024] Manuscript (Assessment of multiple hemorheological properties in microfluidic environment) was published in  "Physics of Fluids". pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/article-abstract/36/12/121923/3327779/Assessment-of-multiple-hemorheological-properties?redirectedFrom=fulltext

[15.11.2025] Achievement in the top 100 (most-cited, most-cited last month, and most-read) of Biomicrofluidics. https://www.researchgate.net/journal/Biomicrofluidics-1932-1058#journal-top-authors 

[31.10.2024] Project: "Hemorhelogical assessment of blood flows in microfluidic channel" was received from Chosun University.

[24.10.2024] Stanford/Elsevier World Top 2% Scientists List 2024 (topresearcherslist.com/Home/Profile/956444) 

[02.10.2024] Patent: "#1: apparatus and method for measurement of blood physiometer, #2: blood viscometer and method using the same " were filed for "KS patent".

[27.09.2024] Project: Final report of Korea-Switzerland bilateral exchange program was submitted to the NRF in South Korea. 

[01.09.2024] Project: Yang-Jun returned to South Korea from Zurich after conducting Korea-Switzerland Bilateral Exchange Program (Host: Prof. Anna Bogdanova, Institute of Veterinary Physiology, University of Zurich, Co-host: Dr. Sung-Sik Lee, ScopeM, ETH Zurich).

[14.08.2024] Patent: EU patent (EP- 3662816 B1, biometric signal-measuring apparatus equipped with trap unit for measuring biometric signal of micro-animal) was registered.

[27.07.2024] Project: "Multiphysics-based design and analysis of water storage tank: Ministry of SMES and Startup" was completed. A final report was submitted. The end of project was confirmed officially from the ministry of SMES and Startup.

[01.07.2024] Project: Yang-Jun visited Universität Zürich and ETH Zürich for conducting "Korea-Switzerland  Bilateral Exchange Program".

[05.06.2024] Manuscript: "Blood viscometer using capillary blood flow under disposable compliance pump" was published in "International Journal of Mechanical Sciences". www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0020740324004983?via%3Dihub .

[07.05.2024] Manuscript: "Facile compliance-based pump for blood physiometer" was published in "Physics of Fluids". Facile compliance-based pump for blood physiometer | Physics of Fluids | AIP Publishing 

[31.04.2024] Project: "Blood viscosity measuring using dynamic variations of liquid plug" was received from Chosun University.

[15.03.2024] Patent: "Microfluidic viscosity measurement system ..." was filed for "KS patent".

[02.03.2024] Research Visiting: Yang-Jun visited Universität Zürich and ETH Zürich for research activities related to single red cell, from 13.02.2024 to 01.03.2024.

[28.02.2024] Yang-Jun was selected as outstanding faculty member in research achievement (top 3%, engineering college, Chosun university).

[12.12.2023] Lab movement: Biomicrofluidics lab was moved to "#6219" of the 1st engineering building.

[26.11.2023] Paper: "Microfluidic viscometer using capillary pressure sensing" was published. pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/article/35/12/121907/2929557/Microfluidic-viscometer-using-capillary-pressure?searchresult=1 

[10.11.2023] Research project: "Bilateral exchange program" was received from NRF (South Korea) and SNSF (Switzerland).

[01.09.2023] Research project, "Multiphysics-based design and analysis of water storage tank" was received from ministry of smes and startups (MSS). 

[26.08.2023] Yang-Jun visited Universität Zürich and ETH Zürich for studying red cell heterogeneity with quantitative-phase-imaging technique.

[15.08.2023] Yang-Jun as one of Guest Editors is organizing Special Issue (SI) of Micromachine (ISSN 2072-666X): microfluidic platform for bio-sample preparation and analysis. www.mdpi.com/journal/micromachines/special_issues/BKJJ2215NA 

[13.08.2023] Paper: "Biophysical investigation of red cell sedimentation using blood shear stress and blood flow image in a capillary chip", was published.www.mdpi.com/2072-666X/14/8/1594 

[05.07.2023] Paper: "Biophysical investigation of red cell sedimentation using blood shear stress and blood flow image in a capillary chip", was published at Preprints.org. www.preprints.org/manuscript/202307.0253/v1  

[03.04.2023] Paper: "Quantification of blood viscoelasticity under microcapillary blood flow", was published. www.mdpi.com/2072-666X/14/4/814 

[20.03.2023] Patent: "Bio-signal measurement of zebrafish...", was transferred to "ZEFIT Co.", from 2023.07 to 2037.12.

[10.03.2023] Paper: "Simultaneous viscosity measurement of suspended blood and plasma separated by an ultrasonic transducer", was published. www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/6/3574 

[18.02.2023] Yang-Jun visited Universität Zürich and ETH Zürich for studying red cell heterogeneity using QPI (quantitative-phase-imaging) technique. Throughout this visit, the QPI was adopted to find out difference in individual RBCs with several parameters (i.e., dry mass, surface area, volume, sphericity index, membrane fluctuation, optical density). 

[26.01.2023] Paper: "Biomechanical assessment of red blood cells in pulsatile blood flows, Micromachines", was published. www.mdpi.com/2072-666X/14/2/317. The paper was selected as "Feature Paper" as well as "Editor's Choice". 

[01.01.2023] Paper: "Biosensing of haemorheological properties using microblood flow manipulation and quantification",  was published. www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/1/408