September 22, 2020
Dr. Kai Wu and coauthors have recenlty pubsliehd a review paper on ACS Appl. Nano Mater. titled "Magnetic-Nanosensor-Based Virus and Pathogen Detection Strategies before and during COVID-19". They reviewed the popular magnetic nanosensing techniques including magnetoresistance, magnetic particle spectroscopy, and nuclear magnetic resonance.
October 23, 2020
Distinguished McKnight University Professor Jian-Ping Wang has been elected fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). The APS citation reads: “For outstanding contributions to the synthesis and fundamental understanding of magnetic and spintronic materials, and to the fabrication of devices for applications in computing.”
News source: UMN ECE
June 17, 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Jinming Liu. He has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Synthesis of Magnetic Materials for Rare-Earth-Free Permanent Magnets Applications"!
June 3, 2020
Congratulations to Renata and coauthors, their joint work "Tunable magnetic skyrmions in spintronic nanostructures for cellular-level magnetic neurostimulation" is highlighted on the cover of Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.
March 22, 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Kai Wu and the co-authors. Their join work "Magnetic Particle Spectroscopy for Detection of Influenza A Virus Subtype H1N1" is publisehd in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces.
March 3, 2020
Congratluations to Jinming and coauthors, their review paper titled "High-moment magnetic nanoparticles" is publisehd on the Journal of Nanoparticle Research.
February 7, 2020
A project jointly undertaken by scientists from ECE, the departments of Neurosurgery, and Biomedical Engineering, and the Mayo Clinic has received close to $1 million in a grant from the Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics. The project is titled, “Magnetic Nanodevice Arrays for the Treatment of Neurological Diseases.” The funding will enable the team to develop an implantable magnetic nanodevice array with the ability to generate highly localized magnetic fields for neuromodulation.
January 31, 2020
Our current group member, postdoctoral associate, Dr. Kai Wu, is recently featured on the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering website. Dr. Wu graduated from our group with a PhD degree in 2017. He is the first student in our group to get the PhD degree within four years right after his undergraduate study. Since joininng our group in 2013, Dr.
January 10, 2020
Dr. Lee’s team from Mayo Clinic is visiting our lab on this Friday (Jan 10th). His team is working on the deep brain stimulation treatments. Profs. Tay Netoff, Walter C. Low, and Zhi Yang also joined today's meeting. The PIs, postdocs, researchers, and PhD students discussed the ongoing research and future collaboration plans.
November 15, 2019
Congratulations to Diqing and coauthors, their recent article “Tunable magnetic domain walls for therapeutic neuromodulation at cellular level: Stimulating neurons through magnetic domain walls,” has been featured on the cover of Journal of Applied Physics.