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...
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Prof. Kim will give an invited lecture in the Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation on Micro-Swimmers and Soft Robotics, which will be held on February 3-5 in Haifa, Israel. His talk is to introduce ongoing research about single particle propulsion using symmertry breaking and flagellar functionalization. (February 2020)
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Prof. Kim will give an invited talk at the 2019 Annual Conference for Society of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Biomanufacturing Division and International Symposium on Bio-Manufacturing (ACBD-ISBM 2019), which will be held on December 4-6 in Beijing, China. His talk is to introduce magnetically actuated millibars and modular robots for self-assembling and biomanufacturing. (December 2019)
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Prof. Kim will give a keynote talk at the 6th International Conference of Bionic Engineering (ICBE2019), which will be held on September 23-29, 2019 in Changchun, China. His talk is to introduce the design, modeling, integration, and application of a 3D printed high power hexapole magnetic tweezer system for 3D particle manipulation. (September 2019)
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.