Dr. Byung-Wook Park

Dr. Byung-Wook Park

Assistant Professor

Rayen School of Engineering

Moser Hall 2070

phone: (330) 941-3088

bwpark@ysu.edu

bwpark.people.ysu.edu/

Bio

Byung-Wook Park, PhD is an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering in the Rayen School of Engineering. He is also a graduate faculty member in the Materials Science and Engineering at Youngstown State University. He earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toledo in 2012. He then completed his postdoctoral fellow in the Bioengineering Institute at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and subsequently in the Physical Intelligence Department at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany. Dr. Park joined Youngstown State University as an Assistant Professor in 2018. His research currently focuses on developing engineered living materials multifunctional hydrogels, and wearable bioelectronic platforms for treating diseases for biomedical applications including bacterial infections and chronic wounds.

Research Interests

Engineered biohybrid materials
Microrobots
Multifunctional hydrogels
Bioelectronics

Teaching Interests

Chemical Engineering Principles, CHEN 2683
Computer Methods in Chemical Engineering, CHEN 2650
Measurements and Instrumentation, CHEN 3700
Unit Operation Laboratory, CHEN 4801
Principles of Biomedical Engineering, CHEN 5805

• Education

  • 2012

    Ph D, Chemical Engineering

    The University of Toledo

  • 2005

    MS, Chemical Engineering

    Kwangwoon University

  • 2003

    BS, Chemical Engineering, (Double major in Electronic Materials Engineering)

    Kwangwoon University

• Awards and Honors

  • 2019

    UT-WSU Graduate Research Symposium

    Keynote Speaker Award

  • 2011

    AIChE Annual Meeting

    Doh Wonsuk Memorial Award

  • 2011

    US-Korea Joint Symposium of Nanotechnology

    Best Presentation Award

  • 2004

    National Instruments

    Outstanding Intern Award

• Professional Positions

  • 2018 -

    Youngstown State University

    Assistant Professor

  • 2014 - 2017

    Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

    Postdoctoral Fellow

• Intellectual Contributions

  • 2025

    "Label‐Free Impedimetric Determination of Cortisol Using Gold Nanoparticles Functionalized Laser‐Induced Graphene Interdigitated Electrodes"

    K. Duke, P. Dhungana, C. Richards, K. Preusser, A. Romeo, J. Gonzalez‐Garcia, B. Mummareddy, P. Cortes, F. Li, B. Park

    Advanced Materials Technologies, Wiley

  • 2023

    "Impedance Measurements Using a High Precision, Low Power Analog Front End"

    B. Kuzior, V. Borra, F. Li, B. Park, P. Cortes

  • 2021

    "Advances in Smoking Related In Vitro Inhalation Toxicology: A Perspective Case of Challenges and Opportunities from Progresses in Lung-on-Chip Technologies."

    A. Singh, R. Maharjan, C. Kromer, P. Laux, A. Luch, T. Vats, V. Chandrasekar, S. Dakua, B. Park

    Chemical research in toxicology, volume 34, issue 9, p. 1984-2002

  • 2021

    "Emerging Technologies for In Vitro Inhalation Toxicology."

    A. Singh, A. Romeo, K. Scott, S. Wagener, L. Leibrock, P. Laux, A. Luch, P. Kerkar, S. Balakrishnan, S. Dakua, B. Park

    Advanced healthcare materials, volume 10, issue 18, p. e2100633

  • 2020

    "Carbon nitride-based light-driven microswimmers with intrinsic photocharging ability."

    V. Sridhar, F. Podjaski, J. Kröger, A. Jiménez-Solano, B. Park, B. Lotsch, M. Sitti

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, volume 117, issue 40, p. 24748-24756

  • 2020

    "Multiwavelength-Steerable Visible-Light-Driven Magnetic CoO-TiO(2) Microswimmers."

    V. Sridhar, B. Park, S. Guo, P. van Aken, M. Sitti

    ACS applied materials & interfaces, volume 12, issue 21, p. 24149-24155

  • 2020

    "Multi-wavelength steerable visible light-driven magnetic CoO-TiO2 microswimmers"

    B. Park

    ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces

  • 2018

    "3D skeletal muscle fascicle engineering is improved with TGF-β1 treatment of myogenic cells and their co-culture with myofibroblasts."

    J. Krieger, B. Park, C. Lambert, C. Malcuit

    PeerJ, volume 6, p. e4939

  • 2018

    "Cancer cells biomineralize ionic gold into nanoparticles-microplates via secreting defense proteins with specific gold-binding peptides."

    A. Singh, T. Jahnke, V. Kishore, B. Park, M. Batuwangala, J. Bill, M. Sitti

    Acta biomaterialia, volume 71, p. 61-71

  • 2018

    "Three-dimensional patterning in biomedicine: Importance and applications in neuropharmacology."

    A. Vikram Singh, T. Gharat, M. Batuwangala, B. Park, T. Endlein, M. Sitti

    Journal of biomedical materials research. Part B, Applied biomaterials, volume 106, issue 3, p. 1369-1382

  • 2018

    "Light-driven Janus hollow mesoporous TiO2-Au microswimmers"

    B. Park

    Adv. Funct. Mater

  • 2018

    "Incorporation of terbium into a microalga leads to magnetotactic swimmers"

    B. Park

    Adv. Biosys

  • 2017

    "Microemulsion-Based Soft Bacteria-Driven Microswimmers for Active Cargo Delivery."

    A. Singh, Z. Hosseinidoust, B. Park, O. Yasa, M. Sitti

    ACS nano, volume 11, issue 10, p. 9759-9769

  • 2017

    "Multifunctional Bacteria-Driven Microswimmers for Targeted Active Drug Delivery."

    B. Park, J. Zhuang, O. Yasa, M. Sitti

    ACS nano, volume 11, issue 9, p. 8910-8923

  • 2017

    "Propulsion and Chemotaxis in Bacteria-Driven Microswimmers."

    J. Zhuang, B. Park, M. Sitti

    Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), volume 4, issue 9, p. 1700109

  • 2017

    "Biohybrid Microtube Swimmers Driven by Single Captured Bacteria."

    M. Stanton, B. Park, A. Miguel-López, X. Ma, M. Sitti, S. Sánchez

    Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), volume 13, issue 19

  • 2017

    "Hydrophobic pinning with copper nanowhiskers leads to bactericidal properties."

    A. Singh, S. Baylan, B. Park, G. Richter, M. Sitti

    PloS one, volume 12, issue 4, p. e0175428

  • 2017

    "Microemulsion-based soft biohybrid microswimmers for targeted cargo delivery"

    B. Park

    ACS Nano

  • 2017

    "Magnetotactic Bacteria Powered Biohybrids Target E. coli Biofilms"

    B. Park

    ACS Nano

  • 2017

    "Hydrophobic pinning with copper nanowhiskers leads to bactericidal properties"

    B. Park

    PLOS ONE

  • 2016

    "Bioengineered and biohybrid bacteria-based systems for drug delivery."

    Z. Hosseinidoust, B. Mostaghaci, O. Yasa, B. Park, A. Singh, M. Sitti

    Advanced drug delivery reviews, volume 106, issue Pt A, p. 27-44

  • 2016

    "Use of atomic force microscopy in the forensic application of chronological order of toners and stamping inks in questioned documents."

    T. Kang, J. Lee, B. Park

    Forensic science international, volume 261, p. 26-32

  • 2016

    "A Novel Hybrid‐Structured Titanium Surface Promotes Adhesion of Human Dermal Fibroblasts and Osteogenesis of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells while Reducing S. epidermidis Biofilm Accumulation"

    B. Park, J. Krieger, G. Sondag, F. Moussa, J. Rankenberg, F. Safadi, N. Gatsonis, W. McGimpsey, C. Lambert, C. Malcuit

    Advanced Engineering Materials, Wiley, volume 18, issue 4, p. 518-531

  • 2016

    "Amperometric mediatorless hydrogen peroxide sensor with horseradish peroxidase encapsulated in peptide nanotubes"

    B. Park

    Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research

  • 2016

    "A Novel Hybrid-Structured Titanium Surface Promotes Adhesion of Human Dermal Fibroblasts and Osteogenesis of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells while Reducing S epidermidis Biofilm Accumulation"

    B. Park, J. Krieger, G. Sondag, F. Moussa, J. Rankenberg, F. Safadi, N. Gatsonis, W. McGimpsey, C. Lambert, C. Malcuit

    ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS, volume 18, issue 4, p. 14

  • 2015

    "Biocompatible, biodegradable and porous liquid crystal elastomer scaffolds for spatial cell cultures."

    A. Sharma, A. Neshat, C. Mahnen, A. Nielsen, J. Snyder, T. Stankovich, B. Daum, E. LaSpina, G. Beltrano, Y. Gao, S. Li , B. Park, R. Clements, E. Freeman, C. Malcuit, J. McDonough, L. Korley, T. Hegmann, E. Hegmann

    Macromolecular bioscience, volume 15, issue 2, p. 200-14

  • 2014

    "Cell behavior on surface modified polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)."

    M. Stanton, J. Rankenberg, B. Park, W. McGimpsey, C. Malcuit, C. Lambert

    Macromolecular bioscience, volume 14, issue 7, p. 953-64

  • 2013

    "Graphitic mesoporous carbons with embedded Prussian Blue-derived iron oxide nanoparticles synthesized by soft templating and low-temperature graphitization"

    B. Park

    Chem. Mater

  • 2012

    "A novel glucose biosensor using bi-enzyme incorporated with peptide nanotubes."

    B. Park, R. Zheng, K. Ko, B. Cameron, D. Yoon, D. Kim

    Biosensors & bioelectronics, volume 38, issue 1, p. 295-301

  • 2012

    "Enzyme activity assay for horseradish peroxidase encapsulated in peptide nanotubes."

    B. Park, K. Ko, D. Yoon, D. Kim

    Enzyme and microbial technology, volume 51, issue 2, p. 81-5

  • 2012

    "Enzyme activity assay for horseradish peroxidase encapsulated in peptide nanotubes"

    B. Park

    Enzyme Microb. Technol

  • 2011

    "Development of a highly specific amine-terminated aptamer functionalized surface plasmon resonance biosensor for blood protein detection."

    R. Zheng, B. Park, D. Kim, B. Cameron

    Biomedical optics express, volume 2, issue 9, p. 2731-40

  • 2011

    "Surface modification of gold electrode with gold nanoparticles and mixed SAMs for enzyme biosensors"

    B. Park

    Korean J. Chem. Eng

  • 2011

    "Peptide nanotubes in biomedical and environmental applications in Nanoscale Multifunctional Materials: Science & Applications"

    B. Park

    John Wiley and Sons

  • 2011

    "Formation and modification of a binary self-assembled monolayer on a nanostructured gold electrode via selective desorption and its structural characterization by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy"

    B. Park

    J. Electroanal. Chem

  • 2011

    "Development of pupil measuring system using infrared"

    B. Park

    Korean J. Forensic Sci

  • 2010

    "Recent progress in bio-sensing techniques with encapsulated enzymes."

    B. Park, D. Yoon, D. Kim

    Biosensors & bioelectronics, volume 26, issue 1, p. 1-10

  • 2010

    "Encapsulation of enzymes inside peptide nanotube for hydrogen peroxide detection"

    B. Park

    ECS Transactions

  • 2009

    "Optical communication and sensing modules for plastic optical fibers"

    B. Park

    Korean Chem. Eng. Res

  • 2008

    "Influence of processing temperature on the image transfer characteristics of an image guide made of polymer optical fibers"

    B. Park

    Korean J. Chem. Eng

• Professional Service

  • 2022 - present

    Editorial Review Board Member
    Biomaterials and Bio-Inspired Materials, Frontier in Materials

  • 2021 - present

    Editorial Review Board Member
    Topical Advisory Panel Member in Nanomaterials

  • 2021 - present

    Committee Member
    Ohio Space Grant Consortium

  • 2020 - present

    Editorial Review Board Member
    Discover Applied Sciences, Springer Nature

• Public Service

  • 2024 - 2024

    Organizer
    Mahoning Valley MATHCOUNTS