About the Lab

The research goal of our lab is to develop a multidisciplinary program that advances nanobiotechnologies through three main research themes in advanced manufacturing, nanophotonics, and biomolecular sensing. The educational goal is to train students at different levels with fundamental engineering and physical concepts, provide them with opportunities to tackle complex real-world problems, and prepare them with the skills and mindset that allow them to strive in the ever-changing technology landscape.

Recent News

2023.9 Eashan Chopde joined our lab as a Ph.D. student. Eashan graduated with a B.E Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2021 (BITS Pilani, Pilani, India) and a M.S, Biomedical Engineering (Penn State – UP) in 2022. Welcome, Eashan!

2023.8 Four summer students completed their internships in our lab: Sean McClure, Andrew Fishell, Kai-Isabella Marrero, and Sri Manaswini Palaparthi. Best luck to your future studies, guys!

2023.8 Jiawei’s paper, “Chip-Integrated Full-Stokes Polarimetric CMOS Imaging Sensor,” is accepted by Light: Science & Applications. Congratulations to Jiawei and the coauthors (Jing Bai, Shinhyuk Choi, Ali Basiri, Xiahui Chen, Chao Wang, and Yu Yao)

2023.8 Prof. Chao Wang delivered a presentation at the USDA grantee meeting, and reported the research progress on African swine fever detection.

2023.6 Tingting Zhang and Radhika VATTIKUNTA joined our lab as postdoc researchers. Tingting obtained her PhD degree in polymers from University of Bordeaux (2022, France). Previously she worked on polypeptide modification, self-assembly and gel formation. Radhika received her Ph.D. degree from University of Hyderabad, India 2020 and worked as a postdoc at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 2021. Welcome, Tingting and Radhika!

2023.6. Prof. Chao Wang joined the NIH High-Risk, High-Reward Research Symposium in Bethesda, MD.

2023.5 Our group went to the EIPBN conference at San Francisco. Sina, Maziyar, Yeji, Nimar, and Abdulla got to meet with many seasoned professors in the nanoscience and fabrication area. Sina also successfully presented his COVID-neutralizing antibody detection work — his first oral presentation in the lab!

2023.3 Our group enjoyed a great time in the Papago park for a picnic!

2023.2 Pengkun’s paper, “Wafer-Scale Fabrication of Uniform, Micrometer-Sized, Triangular Membranes on Sapphire for High-Speed Protein Sensing in a Nanopore,” is published on ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Congratulations, Pengkun and the coauthors (Md Ashiqur Rahman Laskar, and Chao Wang)!

2023.2 Our group participated in the ASU Open Door this year to demonstrate our portable diagnostic technology. Hundreds of people from different parts of Arizona joined us to understand the science and had some hands-on practice of experiments. It was such a successful and fun experience!

2023.1 Jiawei successfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Zuo!

2023.1 Abdulla Al Mamun and Nimarpreet Bamrah joined our lab as Ph.D. students. Abdulla received his B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Degree from Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh in 2013 and his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Washington State University in December 2022. Nimar completed her B.Sc. in 2018 and M.Sc. in physics in 2020, from Guru Nanak College, Sri Muktsar Sahib. She also worked with Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India in 2021. Abdulla and Nimar will work on nanofabrication, additive manufacturing, nanophotonics and biosensors. Welcome, Abdulla and Nimar!

2023.1 Dr. Faizan Ahmed joined our lab as a postdoctoral scholar. Faizan received his doctorate from IIIT Allahabad in 2021. His research interests include 2D films, heterostructures, nanoelectronics devices and Optoelectronics. Welcome, Faizan!

2022.11 Dr. Chao Wang delivered an invited talk on “Digital Biosensing with Nanoparticles for Infectious Diseases” to IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference.

2022.11 Shinhyuk successfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Choi!

2022.9 Dr. Wang is awarded prestigious NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (estimated $2.2M in 5 years) to develop single-protein sequencing technology! See news release here:
ASU researcher advances the science of protein sequencing with NIH Innovator Award | ASU News
New Innovator Award Recipients (nih.gov)

2022.9 Pengkun successfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Xia!

2022.9 Andrew Kemeklis continues his research on machine learning for nanopore data analysis as a master’s student.

2022.9 Eight (8) new undergrad students join our lab to do research, with seven (7) of them supported by NSF as REU students. Welcome, Scott Clemens, Najia Khan, Ji Yeon Lee, Kylie Peterson, Britney Hill, Abyssinia Bizuneh, Misa Lin Kalvelage, and Alexandra Krylova!

2022.8 Ashif successfully defended his dissertation, and started his new career at Intel. Congratulations, Dr. Ikbal!

2022.7 Our lab hosted 4 SURI students: Andrew Kemeklis, Alexandra Krylova, Maria ‘Isa’ Tornelli , and Mugdhasrija R. Desai. Great job, team!

2022.5 We delivered 5 papers (2 invited, 2 oral, and 1 poster) at EIPBN conference in New Orleans.

2022.5 We delivered 3 oral presentations at CLEO conference in San Jose.

2022.4 Shinhyuk’s work on “painting with light” has been published on Light: Science & Applications. You can learn more about this story:
Structural color printing via polymer-assiste | EurekAlert!

2022.2 Our new diagnostic technology (Nano2RED) has been published on Biosensors and Bioelectronics. Xiahui, Ashif and Shoukai (UW Washington) are the first authors. You can learn more about this story:
Fast and accurate nanosensors pinpoint infectious diseases | ASU News
New Nanosensor Assay Detects Viruses Like SARS-CoV-2 and Ebola (medscape.com)
Researchers make cheap, portable nanosensor for disease detection | KJZZ
Scientists want stop the next pandemic before it starts. Here are the tests they’re building to do it (yahoo.com)
The story is also covered by many other media outlets, including ASU Biodesign, ASU Fulton school, AZCentral, LabMedica, Verve Times, Technology Networks, Science Daily, Honest Columnist, The Science Times, MDLinx, Knowledia, Nanowerk, Medically Prime.Com, Mirage News, Phys.Org, Nano Market,  RapidMicroMethods, NovLink.co, etc.

2021.8 Smriti Sahu joins our group as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome, Smriti !

2021.8 Zhi’s paper on DNA-Origami assembled single emitters has been online published with Nano Research.  Follow this link that provides full access to the paper through the Springer Nature Content Sharing Initiative.

2021.05 Dr. Wang delivers an invited talk at the 64th International Conference On electron, ion, and photon beam technology and nanofabrication (EIPBN 2021) on nanoparticle-based inexpensive, rapid, and accessible antigen sensors.

2020.12 Xiahui Chen successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation! He is the first Ph.D. graduate from our lab. Congratulations, Xiahui! Wish you the best in your next chapter.

2020.12 Pengkun’s paper on sapphire based nanopore sensors has been online published with Biosensors & Bioelectronics.
Follow this link to read the news coverage from ASU.

2020.10 Dr. Wang delivers an invited talk at IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference on our recent research on sapphire supported low-noise nanopore sensors.

2020.8 Md Ashiqur Rahman Laskar joined our lab as a Ph.D. Student. Welcome, Ashiqur!

2020.8 Dr. Wang and collaborators Prof. Hao Yan and Prof. Rizal Hariadi are supported by NSF for DNA based storage and readout technologies (https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2027215). See the ASU news coverage here.

2020.4 Dr. Wang and collaborator Prof. Amit Meller at Technion are supported by NSF-BSF to develop a novel sapphire based TiO2 nanopore device for low-noise synchronous detection of DNA molecules and DNA methylation.

2020.4 Our paper (Printing continuous metal structures via polymer-assisted photochemical deposition) in collaboration with Dr. Yu Yao has been published on Materials Today (Impact factor 24). This work is also reported here on ASU Now.

2019.12 Dr. Wang and collaborator Dr. Yu Yao are supported by NSF to develop an additive manufacturing method to print silver structures with micrometer resolution and at ambient conditions for functional electronic and photonic applications.

2019.11 Dr. Wang and collaborator Dr. Yu Yao are supported by DOE to develop a polarimetric imaging system to attach to drones and deployed to evaluate the performance of concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) collector systems.

2019.08 Our paper in collaboration with Dr. Hao Yan (Soft Robotics Programmed with Double Crosslinking DNA Hydrogels, link) is accepted by Advanced Functional Materials (impact factor 15.6). Congratulations, Zhi!

2019.08 Our paper in collaboration with Dr. Yu Yao (On Chip-Integrated Plasmonic Flat Optics for Mid-Infrared Full-Stokes Polarization Detection, link) is accepted by Photonics Research (impact factor 5.5). Congratulations, Jing and others!

2019.08 Our paper in collaboration with Dr. Yu Yao (Nature-Inspired Chiral Metasurfaces for On-Chip Circularly Polarized Light Detection, link) is accepted by Light: Science & Applications (a journal of Nature Publishing Group, impact factor 14.0). Congratulations, Ali and others!

2019.05 Our group presented at the EIPBN conference (http://www.eipbn.org/2019/). Zhi and Pengkun delivered five (5) oral presentations!

2019.04 Zhi’s paper (Photochemical synthesis of dendritic silver nano-particles for anti-counterfeiting, link) is accepted by Journal of Materials Chemistry C (Impact factor 6.6). Congratulations, Zhi!

2019.02 Dr. Wang is awarded the NSF CAREER award to investigate a new strategy towards early-stage cancer diagnostics using liquid biopsy on an integrated optofluidic chip.