Tak Sing Wong, Ph.D.

The Pennsylvania State University

Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering & Materials Research Institute

University Park, Pennsylvania 16802

Tel: (814) 865-6122; Email: tswong@psu.edu; URL: www.mne.psu.edu/wong

EDUCATION

2009 Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

2003 B.Eng. (Automation), The Chinese University of Hong Kong

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

01/2013 – Present Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Penn State

07/2010 – 12/2012 Wyss Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University

07/2009 – 06/2010 Postdoctoral Research Scholar, UCLA

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Biomimicry & Bioinspiration, Wetting & Interfacial Engineering, Micro- & Nanomanufacturing

AWARDS and HONORS

2013 NSF CAREER Award

2013 Gizmag’s 2013 The Year in Science (SLIPS technology)

2012 R&D 100 Award (Invention: Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces, SLIPS)

2011 Best Inventions Using Biomimicry, by TreeHugger, A Discovery Company

2010 – 2012 Croucher Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

2007 – 2009 INTEL Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship

2008 Full Scholarship, Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School

2003 Best Poster Paper Award,

IEEE 3rd International Conference on Nanotechnology, San Francisco, USA

2003 2nd Prize, Best Student Paper, IEEE Region 10 Student Paper Contest

2003 1st Prize, Best Student Paper, IEEE (Hong Kong) Student Paper Contest

2003 1st Prize, Best Paper on Materials, Hong Kong Institute of Engineers

2001 Lucent Global Science Scholars Award

EXTERNAL PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

2013 – NSF Review Panel (CMMI: MSE & MPM)

2013 – Guest Editor, MRS Bulletin on Interfacial Materials of Special Wettability

2013 – Topic Co-Organizer: ASME Int’l Mechanical Engineering Congress & Expo.

2012 – Session Chair: ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Expo.

2012 – Session Chair: IEEE Nanotechnology Device and Materials Conference

2008 – Journal Reviewer for >10 peer-review journals including Angewandte Chemie

International Edition, Advanced Functional Materials, ACS Applied Materials &

Interfaces, ACS Nano, Current Medicinal Chemistry, Diagnostics , NPG Asia

Materials, Lab on a Chip, Nano Letters, Langmuir, Scientific Reports, The

Journal of Physical Chemistry, IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine.

2007 – Conference Proceedings Reviewer for ASME International Mechanical

Engineering Congress and Exposition (2007 – 2011); ASME International Design

Engineering Technical Conference: Undergraduate Student Mechanisms Design

Contest (2013); IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics

(2009).

TEACHING & MENTORING

A. Courses

2014 Spring Penn State: ME 497A: Bio-inspired Interfacial Engineering (Class Size: TDB)

2013 Fall Penn State: ME 320: Fluid Flows (Class Size: TDB)

2013 Spring Penn State: ME 320: Fluid Flows (Class Size: 68)

2010 Spring UCLA: Guest Lecture, MAE 284: Sensors, Actuators and Signal Processing

2008 Winter UCLA: Guest Lecture, MAE 284: Sensors, Actuators and Signal Processing

B. Postdoc, Graduate and Undergraduate Students Mentoring

2013 – Shikuan Yang (Penn State, Postdoc, joined on Sept. 2013)

Xianming Dai (Penn State, Postdoc, joined on Aug. 2013)

Jing Wang (Penn State, Grad., joined Spring 2013)

Nan Sun (Penn State, Grad., joined Spring 2013)

Ryan Sikorsko (Penn State, Grad, joined Fall 2013)

Birgitt Boschitsch (Penn State, Grad, joined Fall 2013)

Alexander Blois (Penn State, Undergrad., joined Summer 2013)

Keiko Kato (UIUC, REU Undergrad., joined May 2013)

Nathan M. Custodio (Penn State, Undergrad., joined Summer 2013)

Lisa Meier (Penn State, Undergrad, joined Fall 2013)

Jon Wang (Penn State, Undergrad, joined Fall 2013)

Ashlee Palm (Penn State, MNE Scholar, joined Spring 2014)

2010 – 2012 Rebecca Relisle (Harvard Research Fellow; Next: PhD student, Stanford U.,

NSF/DOE Fellow)

Daniel Daniel (Harvard Grad)

Max Markin (Harvard Grad, Fannie and John Hertz Fellow)

Cicely Shillingford (U. Waterloo Undergrad.)

Noah MacCallum (U. Waterloo Undergrad.)

2005 – 2009 Xiaoying Shen (UCLA Undergrad.; Next: PhD student, Stanford U.)

Adam Lin (UCLA Undergrad.; Next: M.D./Ph.D. student at Baylor School of

Medicine/Rice University)

Robert Lam (UCLA Undergrad.; Next: Ph.D. student, Northwestern U.)

PUBLICATIONS (Citations: 762; H-index: 15, as of January 12, 2014)

A. Book Chapter, Review and News Articles

1. Tak-Sing Wong, Taolei Sun, Lin Feng, and Joanna Aizenberg, MRS Bulletin, “Interfacial

Materials with Special Wettability”, vol. 38, pp. 366 – 371 (2013).

2. Chih-Ming Ho, Tak-Sing Wong, and Xiaoying Shen, “Coffee Rings for Microscale

Biomolecular Processing”, SPIE Newsroom, 2010, July 8, DOI: 10.1117/2.1201006.003067.

3. Tak-Sing Wong, Branden Brough and Chih-Ming Ho, “Creation of Functional Micro and

Nanosystems through Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches”, Molecular and Cellular

Biomechanics, vol.6, pp. 1 – 55 (2009).

4. Wen J. Li, Ning Xi, Wai-Kung Fung, Tak Sing Wong, “Nanorobotics and

Nanomanipulation”, in Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, vol. 7, H.S.

Nalwa, Ed.: American Scientific Publishers, 2004, pp. 351-365.

B. Research Journal Articles

5. Cicely Shillingford, Noah MacCallum, Tak-Sing Wong, Philseok Kim, and Joanna

Aizenberg, “Fabrics coated with lubricated nanostructures display robust omniphobicity”,

Nanotechnology, vol. 25, 014019 (2013).

6. Nicolas Vogel, Rebecca Belisle, Benjamin Hatton, Tak-Sing Wong, and Joanna Aizenberg,

“Fully Transparent, Omniphobic Surfaces based on Inverse Colloidal Monolayers”, Nature

Communications, vol. 4, 2167 (2013).

7. Daniel Daniel, Max N. Mankin, Rebecca A. Belisle, Tak-Sing Wong‡, Joanna Aizenberg‡,

“Liquid-Infused Micro/Nano-structured Surfaces with Tunable Dynamic Omniphobicity at

High Temperatures”, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 102, 231603 (2013). ‡Corresponding

authors

8. Xi Yao, Yuhang Hu, Alison Grinthal, Tak-Sing Wong, L. Mahadevan, and Joanna

Aizenberg, “Adaptive Fluid-Infused Porous Films with Tunable Transparency and

Wettability”, Nature Materials, vol. 12, pp. 529 - 534 (2013). Featured in BBC News &

Popular Mechanics

9. Alex Epstein, Tak-Sing Wong, Rebecca Belisle, Emily Marie Boggs, and Joanna Aizenberg,

“Liquid-Infused Structured Surfaces with Exceptional Anti-Biofouling Performance”,

Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, USA, vol. 109, pp. 13182 – 13187 (2012).

Featured in Nature, PNAS and Discover

10. Philseok Kim, Tak-Sing Wong, Jack Alvarenga, Wilmer Adorno, and Joanna Aizenberg,

“Liquid-Infused Nanostructured Surfaces with Extreme Anti-Ice and Anti-Frost

Performance”, ACS Nano, vol. 6, pp. 6569 – 6577 (2012). Featured in The Wall Street

Journal & Discovery News

11. Tak-Sing Wong, Sung Hoon Kang, Sindy K. Y. Tang, Elizabeth J. Smythe, Benjamin D.

Hatton, Alison Grinthal, and Joanna Aizenberg, “Bioinspired Self-Repairing Slippery

Surfaces with Pressure-stable Omniphobicity”, Nature, vol. 477, pp. 443 – 447 (2011).

Featured in The Times, Reuters, BBC, Nature, TED, Engadget, Discover, Popular Science &

200+ media coverage; Best Inventions in Biomimicry (2011); R&D 100 (2012); Gizmag’s

2013 The Year in Science (2013)

12. Tak-Sing Wong*‡, Ting-Hsuan Chen*, Xiaoying Shen, and Chih-Ming Ho‡, “Nano-

Chromatography Driven by the Coffee Ring Effect”, Analytical Chemistry, vol. 83, pp. 1871

– 1873 (2011). *Shared first authors, ‡Corresponding author. Featured in Chemical &

Engineering News

13. Xiaoying Shen, Chih-Ming Ho, and Tak-Sing Wong‡, “Minimal Size of Coffee Ring

Structure”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 114, pp. 5269 – 5274 (2010). ‡Corresponding author [Cover Image Article] Featured in GEO & Spektrumdirekt

14. Tak-Sing Wong and Chih-Ming Ho, “Dependence of Macroscopic Wetting on Nanoscopic

Surface Textures”, Langmuir, vol. 25, 12851 – 12854 (2009).

15. Tak-Sing Wong, Adam Huang, and Chih-Ming Ho, “Wetting Behaviors of Individual

Nanostructures”, Langmuir, vol. 25, 6599 – 6603 (2009).

16. Branden Brough*, Karen L. Christman*, Tak-Sing Wong, Christopher M. Kolodziej, Jeff G.

Forbes, Kuan Wang, Heather D. Maynard and Chih-Ming Ho, “Surface Initiated Actin

Polymerization from Top-down Manufactured Nanopatterns”, Soft Matter, vol. 3, pp. 541 –

546 (2007) *Shared first authors [Cover Image Article]

17. Yuh “Adam” Lin, Tak-Sing Wong, Urvashi Bhardwaj, Jia-Ming Chen, Chih-Ming Ho,

Edward McCabe, “Formation of High Electromagnetic Gradient through Particle-based

Microfluidic Approach”, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, vol. 17, pp.

1299 – 1306 (2007).

18. Adam Huang, Tak-Sing Wong, and Chih-Ming Ho, “Silicone Polymer Chemical Vapor

Sensors Fabricated by Direct Polymer Patterning on Substrate Technique (DDPOST)”,

Sensors and Actuators B, Chemical, vol. 116, pp. 2-10 (2006).

19. King W.C. Lai, Carmen K.M. Fung, Tak-Sing Wong, Mandy L.Y. Sin, Wen J. Li and C.P.

Kwong, “Development of an Automated Microspotting System for Rapid Dielectrophoretic

Fabrication of Bundled Carbon Nanotube Sensors”, IEEE Transactions on Automation

Science and Engineering, vol. 3, pp. 218 – 227 (2006).

20. Carmen K.M. Fung, Tak-Sing Wong, Rosa H.M. Chan and Wen J. Li, “Dielectrophoretic

Batch Fabrication of Bundled Carbon Nanotube Thermal Sensors”, IEEE Transactions on

Nanotechnology, vol. 3, pp. 395 - 403 (2004).

21. Tak-Sing Wong and Wen J. Li, “Dependence of AC Electrophoresis Carbon Nanotube

Manipulation on Microelectrode Geometry”, International Journal of Non-linear Sciences

and Numerical Simulation, vol. 3, nos. 3 – 4, pp. 769 -774 (2002).

C. Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

22. Tak-Sing Wong, Branden Brough, Karen L. Christman, Christopher M. Kolodziej, Adam

Huang, Robert Lam§, Jeffrey G. Forbes, Kuan Wang, Heather D. Maynard, and Chih-Ming

Ho, “Manufacture of Nanoscale Structures through Integrated Top-down and Bottom-up

Approaches”, in Proceedings of IEEE 7th International Conference on Nanotechnology 2007

(Nano’07), pp. 126 – 130, Hong Kong SAR, Aug 2 – 5, 2007.

23. Karen L. Christman, Branden Brough, Tak-Sing Wong, Chris. M. Kolodziej, Jeffrey G.

Forbes, Kuan Wang, Chih-Ming Ho, and Heather D. Maynard, “Modified Multi-Arm

Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Nanopatterns for Unidirectional Actin Polymerization”, Transactions

of the Society for Biomaterials”, vol.32, pp. 705, 2007.

24. Adam Huang, Tak-Sing Wong and Chih-Ming Ho, “Conductive Silicone Based MEMS

Sensor and Actuator”, in Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Solid-State

Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems 2005 (Transducers’05), pp. 1406 - 1411, Seoul, Korea.

25. Tak-Sing Wong, Adam Huang and Chih-Ming Ho, “Towards High Density Silicone

Polymeric Chemical Vapor Sensor Arrays”, in Proceedings of 11th International Symposium

on Olfaction and Electronic Nose 2005 (ISOEN’05), pp. 398 – 401, Barcelona, Spain.

26. Tak-Sing Wong, Adam Huang and Chih-Ming Ho, “SU-8 Lift-Off Patterned Silicone

Chemical Vapor Sensor Arrays”, in Proceedings of 18th Annual IEEE International

Conference on Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems 2005 (MEMS’05), pp. 754 – 757, Miami,

USA.

27. Adam Huang, Po-Jui Chen, Justin Boland, Daniel Alberer, Tak-Sing Wong, H.Q. Yang,

Yu-Chong Tai, and Chih-Ming Ho, “Liquid-Rotor Electret Power Generator Energized by a

MEMS-based Pulsed Combustor”, in Proceedings of PowerMEMS’04 (PowerMEMS’04),

pp. 171-174, Kyoto, Japan.

28. Tak-Sing Wong and Wen J. Li, “Bundled Carbon Nanotube as Electronic Circuit and

Sensing Elements”, invited paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics

and Automation (ICRA 2003), vol. 3, pp. 3648 – 3653, Taipei, Taiwan.

29. Carmen K.M. Fung, Tak-Sing Wong and Wen J. Li, “Towards Batch Fabrication of Bundled

Carbon Nanotube Thermal Sensors”, Proceedings of IEEE Third Conference on

Nanotechnology 2003 (Nano’03), vol. 2, pp. 866 – 869, San Francisco, USA. [Best Poster

Paper Award]

30. Tak-Sing Wong and Wen J. Li, "Bulk Carbon Nanotubes for Micro Anemometry", in

Proceedings of the 2003 ASME/JSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference 1C, pp. 1739 –

1744, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

31. Tak-Sing Wong and Wen J. Li, “Bulk Carbon Nanotube as Thermal Sensing and Electronic

Circuit Elements”, in Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits

and Systems (ISCAS’03), vol. 4, pp. 844 – 847, Bangkok, Thailand.

32. Tak-Sing Wong and Wen J. Li, “Bulk Carbon Nanotubes as Sensing Element for

Temperature and Anemometry Micro Sensing”, in Proceedings of 16th Annual IEEE

International Conference on Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems 2003 (MEMS’03), pp. 41 –

44, Kyoto, Japan.

PATENTS/PATENT APPLICATIONS

1. “A Particle-based Microfluidic Device for Providing High Magnetic Field Gradient”, US

Patent Number: US 8,551,333 B2, Issued on October 8, 2013. Inventors: Adam Yuh

Lin§, Tak-Sing Wong.

2. “Reconfigurable Surfaces for Information Security and Protection of Physical

Biometrics”, US Patent Pending. PCT No.:PCT/US2013/040294. Inventors: Joanna

Aizenberg, Tak-Sing Wong, and Michael Bucaro (2013).

3. “Anti-counterfeiting Methods”, US Patent Pending, PCT/US2013/043627. Inventors:

Joanna Aizenberg, Tak-Sing Wong, Sung Hoon Kang, and Ximin He (2013).

4. “Slippery Surfaces with High Pressure Stability, Optical Transparency, and Self-Healing

Characteristics”, US Patent Pending. PCT No.: PCT/US2012/021928. Inventors: Joanna

Aizenberg, Michael Aizenberg, Sung Hoon Kang, Philseok Kim, Kam Yan Tang, &

Tak-Sing Wong (2012).

5. “Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces and Biological Applications Thereof”, US

Patent Pending. PCT No.: PCT/US2012/021929. Inventors: Joanna Aizenberg, Benjamin

Hatton, Donald E. Ingber, Michael Super & Tak-Sing Wong (2012).

INVITED ACADEMIC & CONFERENCE TALKS

1. Tak-Sing Wong, “Recent Developments on Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces

(SLIPS)”, Symposium on Contact Angle, Wettability and Adhesion, June 16 – 18, 2014,

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA.

2. Tak-Sing Wong, “Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces (SLIPS) as Universal Anti-

biofouling Coatings and Beyond”, IEEE Nanotechnology Material and Device

Conference (NMDC), October 6 – 9, 2013, Tainan, Taiwan.

3. Tak-Sing Wong, “Nature’s Most Repellent Materials and Their Applications”,

Mechanical Engineering Seminar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan

State University, March 26, 2013, Lansing, MI, USA.

4. Tak-Sing Wong, “Science and Technology of Nature’s Most Repellent Materials”,

Mechanical Engineering Seminar, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering,

The Pennsylvania State University, February 5, 2013, State College, PA, USA.

5. Tak-Sing Wong, “Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces (SLIPS): A New Class of

Repellent Material for Water, Energy, and Biomedical Applications”, Environmental

Fluid Mechanics Seminar, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November 15, 2012, Cambridge, MA, USA.

6. Tak-Sing Wong, “Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces (SLIPS): A New Class of

Repellent Material for Energy and Biomedical Applications”, ASME 2012 International

Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 9 – 15, 2012, Houston,

Texas, USA.

7. Tak-Sing Wong, “Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces (SLIPS): A New Class of

Repellent Material for Energy and Biomedical Applications”, IEEE Nanotechnology

Material and Device Conference 2012, October 16 – 19, 2012, Waikiki Beach, Hawaii,

USA.

8. Tak-Sing Wong, “Bioinspired Slippery Surfaces with Pressure-Stable Omniphobicity

and Self-Repair”, American Coatings Conference 2012, May 7, 2012, Indianapolis, IN,

USA.

9. Tak-Sing Wong, “Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces (SLIPS): A New Class of

Repellent Material for Water, Energy, and Biomedical Applications”, Department of

Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, April 18, 2012, Seattle, WA, USA.

10. Tak-Sing Wong, “Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces (SLIPS): A New Class of

Repellent Material for Biomedical and Energy Applications”, Department of Mechanical

and Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, March 20, 2012, University

Park, PA, USA.

11. Tak-Sing Wong, “Observe and Be Inspired: Translating the Genius of Nature into

Advanced Functional Devices and Materials”, Department of Mechanical Engineering,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 22, 2012, Cambridge, MA, USA.

12. Tak-Sing Wong, “Bioinspired Slippery Surfaces for Oil Exploration and Transport

Applications”, EPNanoNet Summit, December 6 – 7, 2011, Houston, TX, USA.

13. Tak-Sing Wong, “Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surface (SLIPS): A Bioinspired

Material that Repels Almost Everything”, 3rd Annual Retreat at the Wyss Institute for

Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, November 3, 2011, Boston, MA,

USA.

14. Tak-Sing Wong, “Bio-inspired Slippery Surfaces that Repels “Almost” Everything”,

Chemistry and Chemical Biology Seminar, Harvard University, October 14, 2011,

Cambridge, USA.

15. Tak-Sing Wong, “Beyond the Lotus Effect: A Pitcher-Plant Inspired Surface with

Omniphobicity, High Pressure Stability, Optical Transparency, and Self-healing

Characteristics”, Materials Science Summer Seminar, Harvard University, July 21, 2011,

Cambridge, USA.

16. Tak-Sing Wong, “Bio-Separation and Concentration Technologies Inspired by Natural

Phenomenon”, National Tsing Hua University, December 22, 2010, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

17. Tak-Sing Wong, “Nature Inspired Technologies for Low-Cost Medical Diagnostics”,

National Cheng Kung University, December 21, 2010, Tainan, Taiwan.

18. Tak-Sing Wong, Branden Brough, and Chih-Ming Ho, “Creation of Functional

Micro/Nano Systems through Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches”, Invited

Presentation, International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering

and Sciences 2010, Mar 28 – Apr 1, Las Vegas, USA.

19. Tak-Sing Wong, “From the Physics of Coffee Ring Phenomenon to Miniaturized

Biosensor Development”, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Med-X Research Institute,

March 17, 2010, Shanghai, P. R. China.

20. Tak-Sing Wong, “Biologically Inspired Micro and Nano Manufacturing”, University of

Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, March 15, 2010, Shanghai, P. R.

China.

21. Tak-Sing Wong, “Biologically Inspired Micro and Nano Engineering”, The City

University of Hong Kong, Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering

Management, February 24, 2010, Hong Kong.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS

1. Jing Wang, Keiko Kato, Nan Sun, Alexander Blois, and Tak-Sing Wong, “Bioinspired

Omniphobic Slippery Coatings on Industrial-Relevant Metals”, 2013 MRS Fall Meeting

& Exhibit, December 4, 2013, Boston, USA.

2. Tak-Sing Wong, Alex K. Epstein, Rebecca A. Belisle, and Joanna Aizenberg, “Bio-

inspired Slippery Surfaces with Robust and Persistent Anti-Biofouling Performance”,

Oral Presentation, 2012 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Nov 25 – Nov 30, 2012, Boston,

USA.

3. Tak-Sing Wong, Sung-Hoon Kang, Sindy K.Y. Tang, and Joanna Aizenberg, “A

Synthetic Omniphobic Slippery Surface Inspired by the Nepenthes Pitcher Plants”, Oral

Presentation, 2011 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Nov 28 – Dec 2, 2011, Boston, USA.

4. Joanna Aizenberg, Tak-Sing Wong, Ben Hatton, Lidiya Mischenko, and Philseok Kim,

“Design of Liquid and Ice-Repellent Materials”, Keynote Speech, 1st International Bionic

Engineering Conference 2011, Sept 18 – 20, 2011, Boston, USA.

5. Tak-Sing Wong, Sung-Hoon Kang, Sindy K.Y. Tang, Kristopher Eric Martin, and

Joanna Aizenberg, “Beyond the Lotus Effect: A Novel Liquid-Repellent Surface Inspired

by the Nepenthes Pitcher Plants”, Poster Presentation, 1st International Bionic

Engineering Conference 2011, Sept 18 – 20, 2011, Boston, USA.

6. Tak-Sing Wong, Sung-Hoon Kang, Sindy K.Y. Tang, and Joanna Aizenberg, “Robust

Slippery Surfaces as Optically Transparent, Oleophobic, and Anti-icing Materials”,

Poster Presentation, 14th NSTI Nanotech Conference and Expo 2011, June 13 – 16, 2011,

Boston, USA.

7. Tak-Sing Wong, Branden Brough, Karen L. Christman, Christopher M. Kolodziej,

Adam Huang, Robert Lam, Jeffrey G. Forbes, Kuan Wang, Heather D. Maynard, and

Chih-Ming Ho, “Manufacture of Nanoscale Structures through Integrated Top-down and

Bottom-up Approaches”, Oral Presentation, IEEE 7th International Conference on

Nanotechnology 2007, Aug 2 – 5, 2007, Hong Kong SAR.

8. Tak-Sing Wong and Chih-Ming Ho, “Development of Silicone Polymer Sensors and

Actuators by Direct Polymer Patterning on Substrate Technique (DPPOST)”, Oral and

Poster Presentation, 1st Nagoya University-UCLA International Symposium on

Micro/Nano Mechatronics for Future Biomedicine, March 25 – 27, 2007, Nagoya, Japan.

9. Tak-Sing Wong and Chih-Ming Ho, “From the Manipulation of Biological Entities to

Single Molecule Detection”, Poster Presentation 1st Nagoya University-UCLA

International Symposium on Micro/Nano Mechatronics for Future Biomedicine, March

25 – 27, 2007, Nagoya, Japan.

10. Branden Brough, Dan Garcia, Tak-Sing Wong, and Chih-Ming Ho, “Specific Placement

of Individual Molecular Targets”, 2nd International Conference on Nanoscale Devices

and System Integration (NDSI’05), Houston, Texas, USA.

11. Tak-Sing Wong, Adam Huang and Chih-Ming Ho, “Towards High Density Silicone

Polymeric Chemical Vapor Sensor Arrays”, Poster Presentation, 11th International

Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Nose 2005, April, 2005, Barcelona, Spain.

12. Tak-Sing Wong, Adam Huang and Chih-Ming Ho, “SU-8 Lift-Off Patterned Silicone

Chemical Vapor Sensor Arrays”, Poster Presentation, 18th Annual IEEE International

Conference on Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems 2005 (MEMS’05), February, 2005,

Miami, USA.

13. Tak-Sing Wong, “Bulk Carbon Nanotubes as Sensing Element for Temperature and

Anemometry Micro Sensing”, Oral Presentation (Student Paper Contest), Material

Science and Technology in Engineering Conference – Now, New and Next, January

2003, Lantau Island, Hong Kong SAR, China.

14. Tak-Sing Wong and Wen J. Li, “Bulk Carbon Nanotubes as Sensing Element for

Temperature and Anemometry Micro Sensing”, Poster Presentation, 16th Annual IEEE

International Conference on Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems 2003 (MEMS’03),

January 2003, Kyoto, Japan.

15. Tak-Sing Wong and Wen J. Li, “Dependence of AC Electrophoresis Carbon Nanotube

Manipulation on Microelectrode Geometry”, Oral Presentation, International Conference

on Micro and Nano Systems 2002, August, 2002, Kunming, China.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

1. Dean Ho, David Wong, Yenwen Lu, Tak-Sing Wong, Chih-Ming Ho, Branden Brough,

and Pak Kin Wong, Nanoscale and Molecular Engineering for Biomedical Applications –

Fundamentals, Technology and Applications, IEEE 7th International Conference on

Nanotechnology 2007, Aug 2 – 5, 2007, Hong Kong SAR.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

2011 – Present Materials Research Society (MRS)

2010 – Present American Chemical Society (ACS)

2010 – Present Sigma Xi – The Scientific Research Society

2000 – Present Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

SELECTED MEDIA COVERAGE

A. Research on “Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces (SLIPS)”

1. “Making Stuff Wilder”, NOVA by David Pogue, PBS, October 24, 2013.

2. “New material can halt runny liquids on demand”, BBC News, 9 April 2013.

3. “Terra Mater: Bonik – Die besten ldeen der Natur: Extreme”, a documentary directed by

John Capener from BBC, Season 1, Episode 82, November 7, 2012.

4. “Material World”, Popular Science, by Laura Geggel, p.44, November 2012.

5. “Return of the Swamp Thing”, Zygote Quarterly, by Tom Mcbeag, Issue No. 3, Fall 2012.

6. “SLIPS blitz biofilms”, Nature, vol. 488, pp. 133, August 09, 2012.

7. “SLIPS liquid repeller is inspired by carnivorous plants, enemy to insects and graffiti artists

alike”, Engadget, August 3, 2012.

8. “Ice-Phobic Airplane Wings”, The Wall Street Journal, June 22, 2012.

9. “No Scraper Required: Ice rolls off metal”, Discovery News, June 16, 2012.

10. Featured in Disruptive Ideas, TEDxBigApple, New York, February 4, 2012.

11. Featured in Material World, BBC Radio 4 (UK), September 22, 2011.

12. “Slippery customer from nature inspires ultimate non-stick pan”, The Times (UK), Biology

and Evolution Section, September 22, 2011.

13. “Super-slippery material could mean end to having to wait for ketchup”, The Telegraph, by

Richard Gray, November 13, 2011.

14. “Why ketchup will never be the same again”, The Guardian, by Leo Hickman, November

14, 2011.

15. “Carnivorous plant shows its slippery side”, Financial Times (UK), September 30, 2011.

16. “A great non-friction story: Researchers create ‘world’s most slippery surface’ which could

help create ‘the ultimate non-stick frying pan” Daily Mail (UK), September 22, 2011.

17. “ Une plante carnivore inspire un matériau lubrifiant révolutionnaire”, Agence France-

Presse (AFP), September 21, 2011.

18. “Pitcher plant inspires slippery surface”, ABC, Science Section (Australia), September 22,

2011.

19. “Flesh-eating plant inspires super-slippery material that repels everything”, Discover,

September 21, 2011.

20. “Copied from pitcher plants; destined for ketchup bottles”, Popular Science, by Sean Kane,

November 14, 2011.

21. “Pitcher plant inspires new material”, Yahoo News UK & Ireland, September 21, 2011.

22. “Slippery when wet (or anytime)”, CBC Quirks & Quarks, with Bob McDonald, October 8,

2011.

23. “Slippery when wetted”, Nature, News & Views, vol. 447, pp. 412 – 413, September 22,

2011.

24. “Pitcher plant perfect”, Nature Chemistry, vol. 3, pp. 834, October 24, 2011.

25. “Pitcher Plant Inspires Super Slippery Surface”, Chemical & Engineering News (US),

September 21, 2011; in printed version, Vol. 89, No. 39. p.5, September 26, 2011.

26. “Pitcher plant inspires ultimate non-stick surface”, Chemistry World (UK), September 22,

2011.

27. “Slippery surface inspired by pitcher plant”, Physics World (UK), September 26, 2011.

28. “Plant technology used to create super-repellent material”, The Engineer (UK), September

26, 2011.

29. “Carnivorous plant inspires super-slippery material”, New Scientist (UK), September 21,

2011.

30. “Selbstreinigende Oberfläche ohne Lotus-Effekt”, Spektrum Der Wissenschaft (Germany),

September 21, 2011.

31. “Slip Up and Slide in”, The Statesman (India), Science Section, by S. Ananthanarayanan,

October 5, 2011, p. 10.

32. “Squeezing out ketchup just got easier”, The Times of India, November 15, 2011.

33. “自修复仿生涂层几乎排斥所有液体”, Science and Technology Daily (China), p.2,

September 26, 2011.

34. “Scientists Develop SLIPS”, The Harvard Crimson, p.A3, September 26, 2011.

35. “Plant offers slick strategy”, Harvard Gazette, September 21, 2011.

36. “Slippery slope: researchers take advice from carnivorous plant”, Harvard SEAS, September

21, 2011.

B. Research on “Coffee Rings”

37. “Will Coffee Rings Find a Place in the Laboratory?”, by M. Webster and V.S. Kumar,

Clinical Chemistry, vol. 59, pp. 582 – 584, 2012.

38. “Curious Science: The Struggle for the Rings”, No. 4/12, GEO Magazine, April 2012.

39. Bunseki (Monthly Journal of Japan Society of Analytical Chemistry), vol. 11, p.672 – 673,

November 2011.

40. “Coffee-Ring Effect Separates Particles”, Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), vol. 89,

issue 7, pp. 4, February 14, 2011.

41. “Coffee Ring Chromatography” Royal Society of Chemistry – Chemistry World Blog,

February 8, 2011.

42. “Coffee Rings Hold Potential for New Biosensors”, UCLA Engineer, Issue No. 24, pp. 2,

Fall 2010.

43. “FLUIDITÄT: Nanowelt kennt keinen Kaffeefleckenrand”, Spektrumdirekt (Germany),

May 7, 2010 (in German).

44. “Coffee-ring formation can be used to set standards for biosensor devices: UCLA

researchers”, The Medical News (Australia), May 7, 2010.

45. “Coffee ring may help detect disease”, featured in The Times of India and Yahoo! India

News (India), May 6, 2010.

46. “Coffee ring may help biosensors detect disease”, Ethiopia Review, May 5, 2010

47. “How World’s Smallest ‘Coffee Ring’ May Help Biosensors Detect Disease”, featured in

UCLA Newsroom, Science Daily, ScienceBlog, R&D Magazine, PhysOrg, Medical News

Today (United Kingdom), May 5, 2010.

48. “UCLA researchers show how world’s smallest ‘coffee ring’ may help biosensors detect

disease’, featured in Eurekalert.org, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, May 5,

2010.

49. “Coffee rings & biosensing”, UC Health, May 5, 2010.

50. “UCLA Engineering researchers identify the world’s smallest coffee ring”, UCLA

Engineering, May 3, 2010.

51. Cover Article of The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, April 29, 2010.