Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Additional Campus Affiliations

Robert W. Schaefer Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Professor, Bioengineering
Professor, Micro and Nanotechnology Lab
Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Professor, Pathobiology
Professor, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

Recent Publications

Chung, J. Y., Ahn, Y., Lee, J. H., Yang, S., Lee, S. C., Kong, H., & Chung, H. J. (2025). Microbubble-Controlled Delivery of Biofilm-Targeting Nanoparticles to Treat MRSA Infection. Advanced Functional Materials. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202508291

Deng, Y. H., Lee, J. H., Kim, M. J., & Kong, H. (2025). Biofilm comes back: Controlling regrowth by mitigating the cell-matrix interaction. Chemical Engineering Journal, 508, Article 160947. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2025.160947

Huang, K. Y., Chung, H. J., & Kong, H. (2025). Reply to Caruso Bavisotto et al. Toward exploring the potential of muscle-secreting exosomes in the muscle–brain axis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(1), Article e2421378121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2421378121

Kong, H., Hong, Y.-T., & Seo, Y. (2025). Catalytic microgelators for decoupled control of gelation rate and rigidity of biological gels. (U.S. Patent No. 12201730).

Kong, H., Kim, B., Lee, J., Lee, C. H., & Kim, M. K. (2025). Electrothermal Manipulator. (U.S. Patent No. 12280492).

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