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2023

1. M. Mousavi, M. Alzgool, B. Davaji, S. Towfighian, ”°High Signal-To-Noise Ratio Event-Driven MEMS Motion Sensing,”± Small, 2304591, 2023.

2. M. Rezaie, Z. Rafiee, and  S. Choi, ”°A biobattery capsule for ingestible electronics in the small intestine: biopower production from intestinal fluids activated germination of exoelectrogenic bacterial endospores,”± Advanced Energy Materials, 13, 2202581, 2023

3. S. Choi, ”°Biofuel cells and Biobatteries: Misconceptions, Opportunities, and Challenges,”± Batteries, 9, 119, 2023

4. M. Rezaie, and  S. Choi, ”°Moisture-Enabled Germination of Heat-Activated Bacillus Endospores for Rapid and Practical Bioelectricity Generation: Toward Portable, Storable Bacteria-Powered Biobatteries,”± Small, 19, 2301125, 2023

5. Ji Hyun Yang, Uchechukwu David, Yeon Sik Noh, Ahyeon Koh, ”°Dual-valved skin-interfaced microfluidic device for programmed time-control sweat collection,”± Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 395, 134441, 2023.

2022

1. S. Choi, ”°Electrogenic Bacteria Promise New Opportunities for Powering, Sensing, and Synthesizing,”± Small, Review Article, 18, 2107902, 2022

2. Jayanth Sivakumar, Ji Hyun Yang, Matthew S Kelly, Ahyeon Koh, Daehan Won, "An automated lateral flow assay identification framework: Exploring the challenges of a wearable lateral flow assay in mobile application," Expert Systems with Applications, 210, 118471, 2022.

3. M. Landers, and S. Choi, ”°Small-scale, Storable Paper Biobatteries Activated Via Human Bodily Fluids,”± Nano Energy, 97, 107227, 2022.

4. Z. Rafiee, M. Rezaie, and S. Choi, ”°Accelerated antibiotic susceptibility testing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by monitoring extracellular electron transfer on a 3-D paper-based cell culture platform,”± Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 216, 114604, 2022

2021

1. M Pallay, R Miles, S Towfighian."Towards A High Bias Voltage MEMS Filter using Electrostatic Levitation," Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 150, 107250, 2021.

2. J. Ryu, and S. Choi, ”°Bioelectricity Production from Sweat-Activated Germination of Bacterial Endospores,”± Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 186, 113293, 2021.

2020

1. Tu, E.; Pearlmutter, P.; Tiangco, M.; Derose, G.; Begdache, L.; Koh, A. "Comparison of Colorimetric Analyses to Determine Cortisol in Human Sweat" ACS Omega, 2020, 5 (14), 8211-8218

2. M. Tahernia, M. Mohammadifar, Y. Gao, W. Panmanee, D.J. Hassett, and S. Choi, ”°A 96-well high-throughput, rapid-screening platform of extracellular electron transfer in microbial fuel cells,”± Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 162,  112259, 2020

3. Y. Gao, J.H. Cho, J. Ryu, and S. Choi, ”°A scalable yarn-based biobattery for biochemical energy harvesting in smart textiles,”± Nano Energy, 74, 104897, 2020

4. M. Mohammadifar, M. Tahernia, and S. Choi, ”°A miniatuirzed, self-sustaining, and integrable Bio-solar power system,”± Nano Energy, 72, 1046668, 2020

5. J. Ryu, M. Mohammadifar, M. Tahernia, H. Chun, Y. Gao, and S. Choi, ”°Paper Robotics: Self-folding, Gripping, and Locomotion,”± Advanced Materials Technologies (A new sister journal of Advanced Materials), 5, 1901054, 2020

6. M. Tahernia, M. Mohammadifar,  and S. Choi, ”°Paper-supported High-throughput 3-D Culturing, Trapping, and Monitoring of  Caenorhabditis Elegans,”± Micromachines, Special Issue "10th Anniversary of Micromachines, 11, 99

7. L. Liu, and S. Choi, ”°A Paper-based Biological Solar Cell,”± SLAS Technology, 25, 75-81

2019

1. Ashley, B. A.; Brown, M. S.; Park, Y.; Kuan, S.; Koh, A. "Skin-inspired, Open Mesh Electrochemical Sensors for Lactate and Oxygen Monitoring" Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2019, 132, 343-351

2. A. Lu; H-L. Sun; N. Zhang; L. Che; S. Shan; J. Luo; J. Zheng; L. F. Yang, Lefu; Peng, Dong-Liang; Zhong, Chuan-Jian; Chen, Bing-Hui, "Surface Partial-Charge-Tuned Enhancement of Catalytic Activity of Platinum Nanocatalysts for Toluene Oxidation", ACS Catal., 2019, 9, 7431-7442.

3. H.W. Cheng, Z.P. Wu, S. Yan, J. Li, S. Shan, L. Wang, M. D. Porter, C.J. Zhong, "A Simple Vaporous Probe with Atomic-Scale Sensitivity to Structural Ordering and Orientation of Molecular Assembly", Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 7104 - 7110

4. Y. Xie, J. Wu, A.A. Zhang, L. Xue, Q. Wang, X. Tian, S. Shan, C.J. Zhong, S. H. Zeng, Hollow copper-ceria microspheres with single and multiple shells for preferential CO oxidation, CrystEngComm, 2019, 21,3619-3626.

5. V. Petkov, Y. Maswadeh, J. A. Vargas, S. Shan, H. Kareem, Z. P. Wu, J. Luo, C. J. Zhong, Sarvjit Shastri, Peter Kenesei, "Deviations from Vegard's law and evolution of the electrocatalytic activity and stability of Pt-based nanoalloys inside fuel cells by in operando X-ray spectroscopy and total scattering", Nanoscale, 2019, 11, 5512

6. Y. Mo, M. Jiang, Y. Zhang, R. Wan, J. Li, C.J. Zhong, H. Li, S. Tang, Q. Zhang, "Comparative mouse lung injury by nickel nanoparticles with differential surface modification", J. Nanobiotechnology, 2019, 17, 2.

7. J. Cho, Y. Gao, and S. Choi, ”°A Portable, Single-use, Paper-based Microbial Fuel Cell Sensor for Rapid, On-site, Water Quality Monitoring,”± Sensors, 19, 5452, 2019

8.  M. Tahernia, M. Mohammadifar, D.J. Hassett, and S. Choi, ”°A fully disposable 64-well papertronic sensing array for screening electroactive microorganisms”± Nano Energy, 65, 104026, 2019

9.  L. Liu, and S. Choi, ”°A Self-Charging Cyanobacterial Supercapacitor”± Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 140, 11354, 2019

10. M. Mohammadifar, and S. Choi, ”°A Solid Phase Bacteria-Powered Biobattery for Low-Power, Low-Cost, Internet of Disposable Things”± Journal of Power Sources, 429, pp. 105-110, 2019

11. M. Mohammadifar, M. Tahernia, and S. Choi, ”°An Equipment-free, Paper-based Electrochemical Sensor for Visual Monitoring of Glucose Levels in Urine”± SLAS Technology, 24, 499-505, 2019

12. Y. Gao, M. Mohammadifar, and S. Choi, ”°From microbial fuel cells to Biobatteries: Moving toward on-demand micro-power generation for Small-scale Single-Use Applications,”± Progress Report (Invited), Advanced Materials Technologies (A new sister journal of Advanced Materials), 4, 1970039, 2019 (Featured on the Inside Back Cover)

13. K.K. Lee, M. Kim, and S. Choi, ”°A whole blood sample-to-answer polymer lab-on-a-chip with superhydrophilic surface toward point-of-care technology,”± Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 162, pp.28-33, 2019

14. M. Pallay, A. Ibrahim, R. Miles, S. Towfighian (2019) Pairing electrostatic levitation with triboelectric transduction for high-performance self-powered MEMS sensors and actuators, Applied Physics Letters, 115 (13).

15. M. Pallay, R. Miles, S. Towfighian (2019) Merging parallel-plate and levitation actuators to enable linearity and tunability in electrostatic MEMS, Journal of Applied Physics, 126 (1), 014501.

16. D. Nelson, A. Ibrahim, S. Towfighian (2019) A Tunable Triboelectric Wideband Energy Harvester, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 30 (12).

17. M. Daeichin, M. Ozdogan, S. Towfighian, R. Miles (2019), Dynamic Response of a Tunable MEMS Accelerometer Based on Repulsive Force, Sensors and Actuators: A Physical, Vol. 289, pp. 34-43.

18. A. Ibrahim, M. Jain, E. Salman, R. Willing, S. Towfighian (2019), A Smart Knee Implant Using Triboelectric Energy Harvesters, Smart Materials and Structures, 28 (2), 025040 (11 pp).

19. W. Yang, S. Towfighian (2019), A Parametric Resonator with Low Threshold Excitation for Vibration Energy Harvesting, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 446, pp. 129-143.

20. D. Nelson, A. Ibrahim, S. Towfighian (2019), Dynamics of a Threshold Shock Sensor: Combining Bi-stability and Triboelectricity, Sensors and Actuators: A Physical, Vol. 285, pp. 666-675.

21. M. Farahikia and Ron Miles, Viscous flow sensing using micro-beam arrays, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146, 2837, 2019.

2018

1.   Francis J. Osonga, Phuong Le, David Luther, Laura Sakhaee and Omowunmi A. Sadik, Water-based synthesis of gold and silver nanoparticles with cuboidal and spherical shapes using luteolin tetraphosphate at room temperature, Environmental Science: Nano, 5, 917, 2018.

2.  Idris Yazgan, Ayfer Akgu, Lauren E Cronmiller, Ali Akgul, JingZhang, Victor Kariuki, Francis Osonga, Abbey McMahon, Yang Gao, Seokheun Choi, Omowunmi A Sadik, Selective Detection of Penicillium italicum using Gold Nanoparticles and Carbohydrate-lectin Interactions at Paper and other Substrates, ACS Sensors, 3, 648-654, 2018.

3. Francis J. Osonga, AliAkgul, Idris Yazgan, Ayfer Akgul, Renata Ontman, Victor M. Kariuki, Gaddi Eshun & Omowunmi A. Sadik, Flavonoid-derivatized anisotropic silver nanoparticles inhibit growth and change the expression of virulence genes in Escherichia coli SM1, RSC Advances, 2018, 8, 4649 ? 4661.

4. Maedeh Mohammadifar, Idris Yazgan, Omowunmi Sadik, and SeokheunChoi, Green Biobatteries: Hybrid Paper-Polymer Microbial Fuel Cells, Advanced Sustainable Systems, in-print, 2018.

5. Mohomodou Maiga, Idris Yazgan, Victor Kariuki, Dilek OdaciDemirkol, Omowunmi A. Sadik and Suna Timur, Brilliant green sequestered poly (amic) acid film for dual-mode detection: Fluorescence and electrochemical enzymatic biosensor, Sensors & Actuators, B 256, 71-78, 2018.

6. Mohammaadifar;J. Zhang; I. Yazgan; O. Sadik; S. Choi. Power-on-paper: Origami-inspired Fabrication of 3-D Microbial Fuel Cells. Renewable Energy, 118, 696-700, 2018.

2017

1.   Victor M.  Kariuki, Jason C. Hoffemeir, Idris Yazgan, and Omowunmi A. Sadik, Seedless synthesis and SERS characterization of multi-branched gold nanoflowers using water soluble polymers, Nanoscale, 2017, 9, 8330-8340.

2. Jing Zhang, Idris Yazgan, Victor M. Kariuki, and Omowunmi A.Sadik, Poly (amic) acid improves the efficiency and stability of PtCr Nanoparticle Catalyst during Ethanol Oxidation Reaction, Journal of Electrochemical Society, 164 (12) H701-H706 (2017).

3. Francis J. Osonga, Joab O. Onyango, Samuel K. Mwilu, NaomihM.Noah, Jurgen Schulte, Ming An & Omowunmi A. Sadik,Synthesis and characterization of novel flavonoid derivatives via sequential phosphorylation of Quercetin, Tetrahedron Letters 58 (2017) 1474?1479.

4. S.M. Rodrigues, P., Demokritou, N. Dokoozlian, C. Hendren, B.Karn, M. S. Mauter, O. A. Sadik, M. Safarpour, J. Unrine, J., Viers, P. Welle, J. White, M. Wiesner and G. V. Lowry, Nanotechnology for Sustainable Food Production: Promising opportunities, and scientific challenges, Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2017, 4, 767-781.

5. E. Cho, M. Mohammadifar, and S. Choi, ”°A Single-use, Self-powered, Paper-based Sensor Patch for Detection of Exercise-induced Hypoglycemia,”± Micromachines, VIP Feature Article (Invited), 8, 265, 2017.

6. M.  Mohammadifar and S. Choi, ”°A Papertronics, On-demand and Disposable Biobattery: Saliva-activated Electricity Generation from Lyophilized Exoelectrogens pre-inoculated on Paper,”± Advanced Materials Technologies, 2, 1700127, 2017.

2016

1.    Francis J. Osonga, Idris Yazgan, Victor Kariuki, David Luther, Apryl Jimenez, Phuong Le & Omowunmi A. Sadik, Greener Synthesis and Characterization, Antimicrobial and Cytotoxicity Studies of Gold Nanoparticles of Novel Shapes and Sizes, RSC Advances, 2016, 6, 2302.

2.     Kun Xiang, Yinglei Li, William Ford, Walker Land, David Schaffer, RobertCongdon, Omowunmi Sadik, Automated Analysis of Food-borne Pathogens using a Novel Microbial Cell Culture, Sensing and Classification System, Analyst, 2016, 141, 1472 ? 1482.

3.    Victor M.  Kariuki , Sohaib A Fasih-Ahmad, Francis J Osonga and Omowunmi A. Sadik, Electrochemical Sensor for Nitrobenzene using „š-conjugated Polymer-embedded Nanosilver, Analyst 2016, 14, 2259-2269, DOI: 10.1039/C6an00029k.

4.    Veronica Okello, Francis Osonga,Michael Knipfing, Victor Bushlyar & Omowunmi Sadik, Total Removal of Lead in Water and Sediments using Quercetin and Other Flavonoids, Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 2016, 18, 306 ? 313, DOI: 10.1039/C5EM00580A.

5.    Victor M.  Kariuki · Jing Zhang , Magdalena Parlinska, Omowunmi Sadik, 3D „š-Conjugated Poly(amic) Acid Polymer as Support Matrices for Ethanol Electro-oxidation on Palladium and Platinum Catalysts, Electrocatalysis, 2016 (In Press), DOI 10. 1007/s12678-016-0307-0.

6.   A. Fraiwan, H. Lee, and S. Choi, ”°A Paper-based Cantilever Array Sensor: Monitoring Volatile Organic Compounds with Naked Eye,”± Talanta, in-print, 2016.

7.     A. Fraiwan,  L. Kwan, and S. Choi, ”°A Disposable Power Source in Resource-limited Environments: A Paper-based Biobattery Generating Electricity from Wastewater,”± Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 85, 190-197, 2016.

8.    A. Fraiwan, and S. Choi, ”°A stackable, Two-chambered, Paper-based Microbial Fuel Cell,”± Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 83, 27-32, 2016 .

9.    X. Wei, H. Lee, and S. Choi, ”°Biopower generation in a microfluidic bio-solar panel,”± Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical, 228, pp.151-155, 2016

10.    C. Fischer, A. Fraiwan, and S. Choi, ”°A 3D paper-based enzymatic fuel cell for self-powered, low-cost glucose monitoring,”±  Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 79, pp.193-197, 2016.

11.    W. Yang, X. Wei, A. Fraiwan, C.G. Coogan, H. Lee, and S. Choi, ”°Fast and Sensitive Water Quality Assessment: A uL-scale Microbial Fuel Cell-based biosensor Integrated with an air-bubble trap and electrochemical sensing functionality,”± Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical, 226, pp.191-195, 2016

12.    G. Choi and S. Choi, ”°Cellular Flow in Paper-based Microfluidics,”± Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical, In print, 2016.

13.    S. Choi, ”°Powering point-of-care diagnostic devices,”± Biotechnology Advances, Review Article, 34, pp. 321-330, 2016.