Additional Campus Affiliations
Robert W. Schaefer Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Professor, Bioengineering
Professor, Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory
Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Professor, Pathobiology
Professor, Neuroscience Program
Professor, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Recent Publications
Ahn, Y., Lee, J. H., Hurd, C., Lee, J., Park, J., Markowicz, A. A., Zhang, Z., Hwang, J., Monroy, G. L., Rogers, S., Jung, W., Boppart, S. A., & Kong, H. J. (2026). Microblasting Wound Dressings Mechanically Disrupt Polymicrobial Biofilms to Enhance Healing in Treatment-Resistant Wounds. Advanced Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.75999
Choi, S. R., Mellican, S. M., Roberts, T. J., Kang, S., Elzey, B. D., Kong, H., Davis, C. S., Fishel, M. L., Flick, M. J., Wolberg, A. S., & Han, B. (2026). Structure-functionality relationship of collagen-fibrin interpenetrating hydrogels for engineered tumor-stroma models. Acta Biomaterialia, 214, 271-284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2026.03.023
Fliflet, A. M., Spradlin, R. A., Tan, Y., Nishitha Vijayan, A., Choi, S. J., Kao, W. C., Aksamitiene, E., Nelappana, M., Ding, S., Huang, K. Y., Joshi, A., Kambar, N., Bludgen, T., Meehan, M., Boss, J. L., Knipp, M., Fan, H., Leal, C., Sunde, R. A., ... Boppart, M. D. (2026). Exercise Training Stimulates the Release of Glutathione Peroxidase 1 (GPX1)-Enriched Extracellular Vesicles That Promote Angiogenesis. FASEB Journal, 40(12), Article e72052. https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.202505096RR
Kang, S., Kim, E. M., Burgeson, E., Han, B., Rogers, S., & Kong, H. (2026). Interrogating functional connectivity of in vitro neural glia tissue model modulated through integrative control of matrix stiffness and a neurotrophic factor. Biomaterials, 326, Article 123699. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2025.123699
Kim, B. S., Deng, Y. H., Kim, J. H., Kim, S. Y., Nwabara, U., Kim, K., Su, X., & Kong, H. J. (2026). Ambient-Stable and Resilient Glycerogel Electrolytes for Flexible Solid-State Supercapacitors. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 18(1), 1454-1462. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5c19785