TAK-SING WONG, Ph.D.
Dept. of Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
Email: [email protected]
URL: www.mne.psu.edu/wong
Phone: (814) 865-6122
EDUCATION
2009
2003
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
B.Eng., Automation & Computer Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
09/2015 – Present
Wormley Family Early Career Assistant Professor, The Pennsylvania State University
01/2013 – Present
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
07/2010 – 12/2012
Croucher Postdoctoral Fellow, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering,
Harvard University
07/2009 – 06/2010
Postdoctoral Research Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles
AWARDS and HONORS
2015
Wormley Family Early Career Professorship in Engineering
2014
35 Innovators Under 35 (Global) – formerly known as TR35, MIT Technology Review
2014
DARPA Young Faculty Award
2014
US Frontiers of Engineering Invitee, National Academy of Engineering
2014
National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award
2014
Outstanding Alumnae, Dept. of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, CUHK
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
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
2015
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology
2015
Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)
2014
Invited Session Organizer, IEEE Int’l Conf. on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems,
Wakiki Beach, Hawaii, USA.
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 20+ peer-review journals including Science, Nature, Nature
Communications, Physical Review Letters, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Chemical
Society Reviews, ACS Nano, Nano Letters, Advanced Functional Materials, ACS Applied
Materials & Interfaces, Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, Current Medicinal Chemistry,
Diagnostics , Chemistry of Materials, NPG Asia Materials, Lab on a Chip, NPG Asia Materials,
Langmuir, PLOS ONE, Scientific Reports, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Physical Review
E, IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
2015 – Present
SME
2013 – Present
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
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)
PUBLICATIONS:
#journal publications: 21; 400+ citations: 1; 100+ citations: 5 (Citation data from Google Scholar as of 9/13/2015)
A. Representative Journal Publications
1. Tak-Sing Wong, Sung Hoon Kang, Sindy K. Y. Tang, Elizabeth J. Smythe, Benjamin D. Hatton, Alison
Grinthal, and Joanna Aizenberg, (2011). Bioinspired Self-Repairing Slippery Surfaces with Pressure-stable
Omniphobicity. Nature, 477: 443 – 447. (Cited: 429)
2. Tak-Sing Wong, Taolei Sun, Lin Feng, and Joanna Aizenberg, (2013). Interfacial Materials with Special
Wettability. MRS Bulletin, 38: 366 – 371. (Cited: 29)
3. Xi Yao, Yuhang Hu, Alison Grithal, Tak-Sing Wong, L. Mahadevan, and Joanna Aizenberg, (2013).
Adaptive Liquid-Infused Porous Films with Tunable Transparency and Wettability. Nature Materials, 12:
529 – 534. (Cited: 57)
4. Nicolas Vogel, Rebecca Belisle, Benjamin Hatton, Tak-Sing Wong, and Joanna Aizenberg, (2013). Fully
Transparent Omniphobic Surfaces based on Inverse Colloidal Monolayers. Nature Communications, 4: 2176.
(Cited: 54)
5. Alex Epstein, Tak-Sing Wong, Rebecca Belisle, Emily Marie Boggs, and Joanna Aizenberg, (2012). LiquidInfused Structured Surfaces with Exceptional Anti-Biofouling Performance. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, USA, 109: 13182 – 13187. (Cited: 112)
6. 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). (Cited: 160)
7. 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] (Cited: 115)
8. Tak-Sing Wong and Chih-Ming Ho, (2009). Dependence of Macroscopic Wetting on Nanoscopic Surface
Textures. Langmuir, 25: 12851 – 12854. (Cited: 45)
9. Xianming Dai, Birgitt Boschitsch Stogin, Shikuan Yang, and Tak-Sing Wong, “Slippery Wenzel State”, ACS
Nano, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b04151 (2015). [Top 20 most-read article in 2015]
B. Other Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
10. Noah MacCallum, Caitlin Howell, Philseok Kim, Derek Sun, Ronn Friedlander, Jonathan Ranisau, Onye
Ahanotu, Jenny Lin, Benjamin Hatton, Tak-Sing Wong, and Joanna Aizenberg, “Liquid-infused silicone as a
biofouling-free medical materials”, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, vol. 1, 43 – 51 (2015). [Top
20 most-read article in 2015] (Cited: 5)
11. Cicely Shillingford, Noah MacCallum, Tak-Sing Wong, Philseok Kim, and Joanna Aizenberg, “Fabrics
coated with lubricated nanostructures display robust omniphobicity”, Nanotechnology, vol. 25, 014019
(2014). (Cited: 24)
12. 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 (Cited: 23)
13. 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. (Cited: 68)
14. Tak-Sing Wong, Adam Huang, and Chih-Ming Ho, “Wetting Behaviors of Individual Nanostructures”,
Langmuir, vol. 25, 6599 – 6603 (2009). (Cited: 19)
15. 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] (Cited: 25)
16. 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). (Cited: 21)
17. 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). (Cited: 16)
18. 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). (Cited: 17)
19. 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). (Cited: 109)
20. 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). (Cited: 14)
C. Book Chapter, Review and News Articles
1. 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.
2. 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). (Cited: 26)
3. 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. (Cited: 16)
PATENTS: Awarded US Patent (3); Pending US Patents (8); See below:
1. Slippery Surfaces with High Pressure Stability, Optical Transparency, and Self-Healing Characteristics
(2011). US Patent Numbers: 9,121,306. Issued on September 1, 2015. Inventors: Joanna Aizenberg, Michael
Aizenberg, Sung Hoon Kang, Philseok Kim, and Tak-Sing Wong.
2. Slippery Surfaces with High Pressure Stability, Optical Transparency, and Self-Healing Characteristics
(2011). US Patent Number: 9,121,307. Issued on September 1, 2015. Inventors: Joanna Aizenberg, Michael
Aizenberg, Sung Hoon Kang, Philseok Kim, and Tak-Sing Wong.
3. A Particle-based Microfluidic Device for Providing High Magnetic Field Gradient (2013). US Patent
Number: US 8,551,333 B2. Issued on October 8, 2013. Inventors: Adam Yuh Lin and Tak-Sing Wong.
4. Slippery Rough Surfaces (2015). US Patent Pending. Inventors: Xianming Dai, Birgitt Boschitsch, Jing Wang
and Tak-Sing Wong.
5. Self-healable Coatings and Methods of Making the Same (2014). US Patent Pending. Inventors: Jing Wang
and Tak-Sing Wong.
6. Reconfigurable Surfaces for Information Security and Protection of Physical Biometrics (2012). US Patent
Pending. Application No.: PCT/US2013/040294. Inventors: Joanna Aizenberg, Tak-Sing Wong, and Michael
Bucaro.
7. Anti-counterfeiting Methods (2012). U.S. Patent Pending. Application No.: PCT/US2013/043627. Inventors:
Joanna Aizenberg, Tak-Sing Wong, Sung Hoon Kang, and Ximin He.
8. Selective Wetting and Transport Surfaces (2012). U.S. Patent Pending. Application No.:
PCT/US2013/050402. Inventors: Joanna Aizenberg, Benjamin D. Hatton and Tak-Sing Wong.
9. Multifunctional Repellent Materials (2012). U.S. Patent Pending. Application No.: PCT/US2013/050403.
Inventors: Joanna Aizenberg, Michael Aizenberg, Tak-Sing Wong, Nocolas Vogel, Cicely Shillingford,
Philseok Kim, Benjamin Hatton, Oktay Uzan, Steffi Sunny, and Stefanie Utech.
10. Slippery Self-lubricating Polymer Surfaces (2012). U.S. Patent Pending, Application No.:
PCT/US2013/050406. Inventors: Joanna Aizenberg, Michael Aizenberg, Jiaxi Cui, Stuart Dunn. Benjamin
Hatton, Caitlin Howell, Philseok Kim, Tak-Sing Wong, and Xi Yao.
11. Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces and Biological Applications Thereof (2011). US Patent Pending.
Application No.: PCT/US2012/021929. Inventors: Joanna Aizenberg, Benjamin Hatton, Donald E. Ingber,
Michael Super and Tak-Sing Wong.
INVITED TALKS: Academic Institutions (17); National and International Conferences (9); Industry (1). See
selected below:
1. DARPA Young Faculty Award Seminar Series, Raytheon BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA, USA,
November 30, 2015
2. National Youth Leadership Forum: Engineering & Technology Conference, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA,
USA, June 21, 2015 (Keynote speech)
3. Harvard Project for Asian and International Relationship, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, Feb
13 – 16, 2015.
4. Conference on the Emerging Technologies that Matter (EmTech MIT), Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, Sept 22 – 25, 2014
5. Environmental Fluid Mechanics Seminar, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November 15, 2012
6. Invited Seminar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February
22, 2012.
MEDIA COVERAGE: My research work have been featured in two documentaries produced by BBC (Terra
Mater: Season 1, Episode 82; November 7, 2012) and PBS (NOVA, Making Stuff Wilder, October 23, 2013), as
well as in 100+ international and national media, including Reuters, The Times, Financial Times, The Wall Street
Journal, and Nature etc. See selected below:
1. “An engineered surface unsticks sticky water droplets”, Top Story of the Day, Science 360, National Science
Foundation, September 1, 2015.
2. “科学家开发出“滴水不沾”新材料”, China Daily (China), September 6, 2015. (in Chinese)
3. “美国科学家开发出连水蒸气也不沾的新型纳米材料”, People’s Daily (China), September 7, 2015. (in
Chinese)
4. “Penn State professor makes name for himself in short time”, Centre Daily Times, front page article,
September 16, 2014.
5. “Innovators Under 35”, MIT Technology Review, August 19, 2014.
6. “Making Stuff Wilder”, PBS NOVA, October 24, 2013.
7. “New material can halt runny liquids on demand”, BBC News, 9 April 2013.
8. “Terra Mater: Bonik – Die besten ldeen der Natur: Extreme”, a documentary directed by John Capener from
BBC, Season 1, Episode 82, November 7, 2012.
9. “Material World”, Popular Science, by Laura Geggel, p.44, November 2012.
10. “SLIPS blitz biofilms”, Nature, vol. 488, pp. 133, August 09, 2012.
11. “SLIPS liquid repeller is inspired by carnivorous plants, enemy to insects and graffiti artists alike”, Engadget,
August 3, 2012.
12. “Ice-Phobic Airplane Wings”, The Wall Street Journal, June 22, 2012.
13. “Deadly pitcher-plant inspires super slippery nano-surface”, Reuters, February 6, 2012.
14. “Copied from pitcher plants; destined for ketchup bottles”, Popular Science, by Sean Kane, November 14,
2011.
15. “Super-slippery material could mean end to having to wait for ketchup”, The Telegraph, by Richard Gray,
November 13, 2011.
16. “Why ketchup will never be the same again”, The Guardian, by Leo Hickman, November 14, 2011.
17. “Copied from pitcher plants; destined for ketchup bottles”, Popular Science, by Sean Kane, November 14,
2011.
18. “Slip Up and Slide in”, The Statesman (India), Science Section, by S. Ananthanarayanan, October 5, 2011, p.
10.
19. “Carnivorous plant shows its slippery side”, Financial Times (UK), September 30, 2011.
20. “Neues abperlendes Material ubertrifft Lotuseffekt”, Die Welt (Germany), September 23, 2011. (in German)
21. “Slippery customer from nature inspires ultimate non-stick pan”, The Times, September 22, 2011.
22. “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.
23. “Pitcher plant inspires slippery surface”, ABC (Australia), Science Section, September 22, 2011.
24. “Une plante carnivore inspire un matériau lubrifiant révolutionnaire”, Agence France-Presse (AFP),
September 21, 2011. (in French)
25. “Selbstreinigende Oberfläche ohne Lotus-Effekt”, Spektrum Der Wissenschaft (Germany), September 21,
2011. (in German)
26. “Crean un Nuevo material que repele todos los liquidos”, ABC (Spain), September 21, 2011. (in Spanish)
27. “Flesh-eating plant inspires super-slippery material that repels everything”, Discover, September 21, 2011.
28. “Slippery when wetted”, Nature, News & Views, vol. 447, pp. 412 – 413, September 22, 2011.
29. “Coffee-Ring Effect Separates Particles”, Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), vol. 89, issue 7, pp. 4,
February 14, 2011.
30. “最小尺寸的咖啡环效应可用于生物检测”, XinHua Net (China), May 14, 2010. (in Chinese)
31. “FLUIDITÄT: Nanowelt kennt keinen Kaffeefleckenrand”, Spektrumdirekt (Germany), May 7, 2010 (in
German).
32. “Coffee ring may help detect disease”, featured in The Times of India and Yahoo! India News (India), May
6, 2010.