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Dr. Wonbong Choi
Associate Professor and Director of Nanomaterials & Device
Laboratory,
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering,
College of Engineering
and Computing,
Florida International
University,
EC 3465, 10555 W.
Flagler Street, Miami
FL 33174.
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Research Interests |
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Services
Our laboratory
provides
Electron beam lithography (EBL)
services for both university and industrial customers.
For more details on facility and service charges please
check the following link
EBL
service charges.
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March 19, 2009: Dr. Wonbong Choi named MRS Fellow
The title of MRS Fellow honors members of the Materials Research Society
who are notable for their distinguished research accomplishments and their
outstanding contributions to the advancement of materials research,
world-wide. The maximum number of new Fellow appointments each year is
limited to 0.2% of the current MRS membership.
March 12, 2008 Ved Verma and Jun Huang
received the second and third
place in the TMS
Best
paper competition (Nanomaterials
symposium), held at New Orleans,
LA., 2008.
February 07, 2008
Our recent work on "Enhanced field emission from aligned multistage
carbon nanotube emitter arrays"
published in the journal of Nanotechnology
has been featured in the Technology Update section of
nanotechweb
which is
a community website from
IOP Publishing
under
"Stacked
nanotubes enhance field emission"
February 07, 2008
Our work on
"Direct
Electrical Measurements on Single-Molecule Genomic DNA using
Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes" has
been reported in the
Analytical
Currents section of
American Chemical
Society, Journal of Analytical Chemistry,
a
peer-reviewed research journal that explores the latest concepts in
analytical measurements and the best new ways to increase accuracy,
selectivity, sensitivity, and reproducibility,
"Nanotube electrodes
measure DNA conductivity"
January 29, 2008
"Vertically aligned carbon
nanotube probes for monitoring blood cholesterol", Somenath Roy, Harindra
Vedala and Wonbong Choi,
published in 2006 in
the journal of Nanotechnology (Vol 17, ppS14)
was among the most highly downloaded
articles in 2007.
It has been downloaded
1416
times to-date
January 2, 2008
Our recent publication in Nanoletters journal titled
Direct Electrical Measurements on
Single-Molecule Genomic DNA Using Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
was reported in online Nanotechnology News portals
such as
Spotlight
section Nanowerk and
NewScientistTech.
August 21, 2006
Dr. Choi has been
awarded the prestigious Materials Research Society (MRS) Medal for 2006
“for important developments in the materials science and
applications of carbon nanotubes”. MRS is the leading organization
of materials scientists and engineers in the world. The Medal recognizes
a specific outstanding recent discovery or advancement which is expected
to have a major impact on the progress of a materials related field. Dr.
Choi shares the Medal with Professor Pulickel Ajayan from
Rensselear Polytechnic Institute and Mark E. Thompson from
University of Southern
California The award will be presented during the MRS
fall meeting in Boston,
Massachusetts this
November.
August 03, 2006
The 2007 TMS Annual Meeting
& Exhibition will take place in
Orlando,
Florida,
USA,
from 02/25/2007 to 03/01/2007. The nanomaterials symposium will be
organized by Dr. Won Bong Choi. (Nano
Symposium)
February 21, 2006 One of the top 25 hottest articles within the journal of
Carbon "Synthesis
of Y-junction single-wall carbon nanotubes", Y C Choi and W B Choi,
Carbon, Volume 43, Issue 13, 1 November 2005, Pages 2737-2741 and
"Vertically
aligned carbon nanotube probes for monitoring blood cholesterol", Somenath Roy, Harindra Vedala and Wonbong Choi, in
Nanotechnology, Vol 17, ppS14 (2006), has been downloaded 250 times
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Post
Doctoral and Graduate Student Research Positions |
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March 19 2009
Post doctoral
research position
The Nanomaterials and Device
Fabrication Laboratory at Florida International University, Miami invites
applications for a postdoctoral research position in nanomaterials for
energy and nano-biosensor applications. A strong background in chemical engineering,
biochemistry and/or semiconductor physics and devices is preferred. The
candidate should also possess excellent oral and written communication
skills in English. Other duties include proposal writing and providing
guidance to graduate students. Applications consisting of curriculum
vitae, publication list, and a brief description of research interests can
be submitted for full consideration till the position is filled. Email
submissions are encouraged. Email submissions should take the form of
plain text or pdf attachments, sent to choiw@fiu.edu.
Graduate
research position Positions
are available for graduate students of
Mechanical/Materials/Electrical Engineering and Physics for
research in Nanotechnology (Carbon Nanotube and other
nanomaterials based devices and applications). Candidates should
prefer to pursue Ph.D. in Mechanical and Materials Engineering.
Interested students may contact Dr.Wonbong Choi by email
choiw@fiu.edu with a copy of their CV.
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e-mail:
choiw@fiu.edu
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phone: (305) 348-1973
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