Science and technology news/information
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Nature Communications 2026: We uncover a controllable nonequilibrium pathway to create highly ordered colloidal crystals driven by dynamically evolving electrostatic interactions. By combining microfluidic platforms with particle-level analysis and simulations, this work establishes a powerful model system for studying interaction-driven self-assembly (1st authors: In Hwan Jung and Chetan Revadekar). This work was selected as a featured article.
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Nature Communications 2024: Development of a system for quantitative analysis of local mechanical stress using a PDA conjugated sensor particle in a mimicked stenotic vessel (1st author: Narges Ahmadi)
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Nature Communications 2023: Successful prediction of the Debye interaction at the molecular level using micro-sized colloidal particles
A round of applause for Hyang Mi and Yong Woo, whose master's research has now been published as 1st authors in Nature Communications. Through the use of optical laser tweezers at the colloidal scale, we have measured dipole-induced interactions, and the resulting interparticle force's scaling behavior has been confirmed to perfectly align with that of the Debye interaction, the 2nd contribution to the van der Waals interactions.
See more detailed info. from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39561-8
KHU focus: https://give.khu.ac.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=s5_3&wr_id=201
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2018 Nobel Prize winner in Physics - Arthur Ashkin, Bell Lab., "for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems""The inventions being honoured this year have revolutionised laser physics. Extremely small objects and incredibly rapid processes are now being seen in a new light. Advanced precision instruments are opening up unexplored areas of research and a multitude of industrial and medical applications"See more detailed info. from https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2018/press-release/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWsXyhuRoXo&feature=youtu.be
