2/3/2022: Our collaborative article "Digitally-embroidered Liquid Metal Wearable Wireless Systems" with Prof. John Ho at the National University of Singapore has been accepted at Nature Communications.
2/3/2022: Our article "Machine Learning-enabled Feature Classification of Evaporation-driven Multi-scale 3D Printing" has been accepted at Flexible and Printed Electronics.
5/25/2021: Our article "A 3D Printed Self-Learning Three-Linked Sphere Robot for Autonomous Confined Space Navigation" has been accepted at Advanced Intelligent Systems.
5/6/2021: Professor Kong has been awarded the 2021-22 Utah NASA Space Grant Consortium (UNSGC) Faculty Research Seed Funding. Thank you Utah Space Grant Consortium for the support.
4/27/2021: Thank you students from the Spring 2021 Engineering Design I (ME EN 4000) for the amazing semester! You are awesome! All the very best and please keep in touch! 😀
4/23/2021: Congratulations to Jared Anklam for passing his Ph.D. qualifying examination!
3/6/2021: Professor Kong has been awarded the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award. This highly competitive award is nominated by 3M researchers and selected based on the faculty's outstanding research, experience and academic leadership. Thank you 3M for the award.
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1/13/2021: Professor Kong has been selected for the The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) Functional Materials Division (FMD) Young Leaders Professional Development Award. Thank you TMS for the award.
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12/3/2020: Thank you so much to the students from the Fall 2020 Additive Manufacturing (ME EN 5960/6960) for the great semester! All the very best and please keep in touch! 🙂
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12/5/2019: Professor Kong introduced a new manufacturing course: the first "Additive Manufacturing" at the University of Utah. Thank you class of ME EN 5960/6960 of Fall 2019 for the exciting and amazing teaching experience! All the very best and please keep in touch! 🙂
6/13/2019: Our invited article "Transforming military medicine with 3D printed bioelectronics" has been published and selected as the cover of the Homeland Defense & Security Information Analysis Center (HDIAC) Journal.
5/20/2019: Professor Kong has been selected to receive the 2019-2020 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. Thank you Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) for the award.
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[Department News | U.S. Patent 9,887,356]
- "3D Printed Active Electronic Materials and Devices." U.S. Patent 9,887,356 (issued February 6, 2018).
- "3D Printed Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diodes." Nano Letters 14, 7017-7023 (2014).
- Featured in "Device fabrication: Three-dimensional printed electronics." Nature 518, 42-43 (2015).
- Highlighted in "Materials: Diodes printed in three dimensions." Nature 515, 468 (2014).
August 2016: Annual Robert S. Langer Laboratory beach party.
December, 2015: Final Public Oral with Professor Howard A. Stone and the Stonelab members.
December 2015: Farewell gathering with friends from Stonelab.
December 2013: Fund Experts Forum, Zurich, Switzerland.
October, 2013: Group photo with Professor Michael C. McAlpine and lab members.