
Research Areas
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Professor, Pathobiology
Professor, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Professor, Micro and Nanotechnology Lab
Professor, Bioengineering
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Robert W. Schaefer Scholar, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Recent Publications
Ballance, W. C., Karthikeyan, V., Oh, I., Qin, E. C., Seo, Y., Spearman-White, T., Bashir, R., Hu, Y., Phillips, H., & Kong, H. (2020). Preoperative vascular surgery model using a single polymer tough hydrogel with controllable elastic moduli. Soft Matter, 16(34), 8057-8068. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0sm00981d
Goswami, N., He, Y. R., Deng, Y-H., Oh, C., Sobh, N., Valera, E., Bashir, R., Ismail, N., Kong, H. J., Nguyen, T. H., Best-Popescu, C., & Popescu, G. (2020). Rapid SARS-CoV-2 Detection and Classification Using Phase Imaging with Computational Specificity. (bioRxiv). Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.14.422601
Hong, Y. T., Bregante, D. T., Lee, J. C. W., Seo, Y., Kim, D. H., Lee, Y. J., Schook, L. B., Jeon, H., Sung, H. J., Flaherty, D. W., Rogers, S. A., & Kong, H. (2020). Catalytic Microgelators for Decoupled Control of Gelation Rate and Rigidity of the Biological Gels. Journal of Controlled Release, 317, 166-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconrel.2019.10.029
Kandel, M. E., He, Y. R., Lee, Y. J., Chen, T. H. Y., Sullivan, K. M., Aydin, O., Saif, M. T. A., Kong, H., Sobh, N., & Popescu, G. (2020). Phase imaging with computational specificity (PICS) for measuring dry mass changes in sub-cellular compartments. Nature communications, 11(1), [6256]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20062-x
Kim, B. S., Kim, M. K., Cho, Y., Hamed, E. E., Gillette, M. U., Cha, H., Miljkovic, N., Aakalu, V. K., Kang, K., Son, K. N., Schachtschneider, K. M., Schook, L. B., Hu, C., Popescu, G., Park, Y., Ballance, W. C., Yu, S., Im, S. G., Lee, J., ... Kong, H. (2020). Electrothermal soft manipulator enabling safe transport and handling of thin cell/tissue sheets and bioelectronic devices. Science Advances, 6(42), [eabc5630]. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abc5630