Welcome to the BAST Lab at Southern Methodist University.
We are active in research covering a wide variety of topics, including:
•Microbiorobotics
•Soft robotics
•Single molecule biophysics
•Single cell analysis
•Micro/nanofluidics
Recent Highlights
Tiny surgical robots that swim through the bloodstream:
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About Us
We are an interdisciplinary experimental group that is developing small scale materials and devices for biological applications.
ongoing research program can be broadly categorized into three core subject areas: transport phenomena, bioinspired systems design and fabrication, and single molecule biophysics. Although each core program consists of a distinct project, we would like to emphasize their synergistic nature - advances in one core are expected to drive the development of the...
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In collaboration with Dr. Henry Fu at the University of Utah, we received a three-year NSF BMMB grant to separately and controllably interrogate mechanical, hydrodynamic, and contact interactions by studying artificial flagellar motors in mimetic mucus. (May 2018)
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Prof. Kim has been a recipient of the Gerlad J. Ford Research Fellowship. (May 2018)
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Our soft microrobots will be deploying to the Perot Museum of Nature and Science for their interactive “May the Fourth” displays, in which we will discuss our research on artificial cells for softrobotics. (May 2018)
M.J. Kim, A.A. Julius, U.K. Cheang
“Microbiorobotics: Biologically Inspired Microscale Robotic Systems,” 2nd Edition, Elsevier, 2017.
J.B. Edel, M.J. Kim, A. Ivanov
“Nanofludics,” 2nd Edition, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016.
H. Kim, J. Ali, K. Phuyal, S. Park, M. J. Kim
"Investigation of bacterial chemotaxis using simple three-point microfluidic systems," Biochip J., Vol. 9, No. 1, p. 50-58, 2015.