Mengxi Wu

Contact Information

  • Office Location: 308 Research Drive, B340
  • Office Phone: 8143215479
  • Email Address: ytwumengxi@gmail.com

Education

  • Aug. 2014 - Present, Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA
  •        Ph.D. candidate in Engineering Science and Mechanics
  •        Advisor: Dr. Tony Jun Huang
  •        Specialty: Acoustofluidics and Biomedical Engineering
  • Sep. 2010 - Jun. 2013, Peking University, China
  •        M.S. in Institute of Microelectronics
  •        Advisor: Prof. Zhihong Li
  •        Specialty: BioMEMS and Microfluidics
  • Sep. 2006 - Jun. 2010, Peking University, China
  •        B.S. in Department of Microelectronics

Research Interests

  • Microfluidics and Acoustofluidics 
  • Cell separation, concentration, and purification techniques
  • Nano/micro-particle manipulation

Teaching/Work Experience:

  • Jun. 2013 - Aug. 2014, Research Assistant in Suzhou WQ Microsystems Ltd

       Focus: cell electric transfection apparatus

Awards and Honors:

  • College of Engineering Graduate Excellence Fellowship, Pennsylvania State University, 2014 - present.
  • Finalist of C. M. Ho Microfluidics Awards at the conference of 8th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS’ 13).
  • Third prize of National College Students Physics Competition, 2007.

Publications:

  • Mengxi Wu, Zhangming Mao, Kejie Chen, Hunter Bachman, Yuchao Chen, Joseph Rufo, Liqiang Ren, Peng Li, Lin Wang and Tony Jun Huang, Acoustic Separation of Nanoparticles in Continuous Flow, Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 27, pp. 1606039, 2017. 

  • Zhangming Mao,  Peng Li,  Mengxi Wu,  Hunter Bachman,  Nicolas Mesyngier,  Xiasheng Guo,  Sheng Liu,  Francesco Costanzo, Tony Jun Huang, Enriching Nanoparticles via Acoustofluidics, ACS Nano, Vol. 11, pp. 603-612, 2017. 

  • Sinem Orbay, Adem Ozcelik, James P. Lata, Murat Kaynak, Mengxi Wu, and Tony Jun Huang, Mixing high-viscosity fluids via acoustically driven bubbles, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 27, pp. 015008, 2016. 

  • Bugra Ayan, Adem Ozcelik, Hunter Bachman, Shiyang Tang, Yuliang Xie, Mengxi Wu, Peng Li. and Tony Jun Huang, Acoustofluidic coating of particles and cells , Lab on a Chip, Vol. 16, pp. 4366-4372, 2016.

  • Yuchao Chen, Mengxi Wu, Liqiang Ren, Jiayang Liu, Pamela H. Whitley, Lin Wang, and Tony Jun Huang, High-throughput acoustic separation of platelets from whole blood. Lab on a Chip, Vol. 16, pp. 3466-3472, 2016.

  • Kejie Chen, Mengxi Wu, Feng Guo, Peng Li, Chung Yu Chan, Zhangming Mao, Sixing Li, Liqiang Ren, Rui Zhang, and Tony Jun Huang, Rapid formation of size-controllable multicellular spheroids via 3D acoustic tweezers , Lab on a Chip, Vol. 16, pp. 2636-2643, 2016.