Jae-Hwang Lee
Assistant Professor
We are interested in high-strain-rate bio-mechanics for disease diagnosis and cell engineering.
Current Research
In order to apply HSR mechanical stimuli to a single cell, we are trying to employ a recently developed micro-ballistics technique that can produce a high-speed collision of a single micro-particle to a target specimen. Utilizing extreme mechanical stimuli from the microscopic collision, we are trying to differentiate any subtle difference in the intrinsic mechanical properties of individual cancer cells.
Learn more at blogs.umass.edu/leejh/
Academic Background
- BS Physics, Dankook University, South Korea, 1994
- MS Physics, Dankook University, South Korea, 1996
- PhD Condensed Matter Physics, Iowa State University, 2006
- Postdoctoral Associate, Ames Laboratory-USDOE, 2006-207
- Postdoctoral Associate, Materials Science & Engineering, MIT 2007-2011
- Research Scientist, Rice University, 2011-2014
R. Thevamaran, O. Lawal, S. Yazdi, S.-J. Jeon, J.-H. Lee, E.L. Thomas, "Dynamic Creation and Evolution of Gradient Nanostructure in Single-crystal Metallic Microcubes" Science 354, 312 (2016).
J.-H. Lee, P.E. Loya, J. Lou, E.L. Thomas, “Dynamic mechanical behavior of multilayer graphene via supersonic projectile penetration” Science 346, 1092 (2014).
J.-H. Lee, C. Y. Koh, J.P. Singer, S.-J. Jeon, M. Maldovan, O. Stein, E.L. Thomas, “Ordered Polymer Structures for the Engineering of Photons and Phonons” Advanced Materials 26, 532 (2014).
J.-H. Lee, D. Veysset, J. Singer, M. Retsch, G. Saini, T. Pezeril, K.A. Nelson, E.L. Thomas, “High strain rate deformation of layered nanocomposites” Nature Communications 3, 1164 (2012).
J.-H. Lee, J. Singer, E.L. Thomas*, “Micro-/nano-structured mechanical metamaterials” Advanced Materials 24, 4782 (2012).
