Microfluidic Chips
Droplets, cells, channels, and on-chip measurement.
IMLAB at NYCU Mechanical Engineering
Intelligent Microsystem Lab
Microsystems for lab-on-a-chip science, plasma-enabled fabrication, robotics, and biomedical devices.
Plasma Processing
Surface activation, bonding, and programmable treatment paths.
Robotic Interaction
Manipulation, sensing, and contact-rich microsystem control.
Research Themes
Microscale systems for real-world measurement and manipulation.
IMLAB connects microfluidics, plasma processing, robotic manipulation, and biomedical engineering through experimental platforms that can be updated as the lab portfolio grows.
Lab-on-a-Chip and Biomedical Microsystems
Microfluidic platforms for cell handling, cell mechanics, droplet generation, and biomedical measurement.
Plasma-Enabled Microfluidic Fabrication
Atmospheric-pressure plasma processes for fast, patternable surface treatment and bonding of microfluidic chips.
Micro/Nano Robotics and Manipulation
Robotic systems for high-speed manipulation, grasping, contact modeling, and micro-scale interaction.
Viscoelastic Contact Interfaces
Modeling and sensing of deformable contact interfaces for robotic manipulation and microsystem interaction.
Recent Work
Recent journal publications
Recent Journal Publications
5 entries2026
On-Chip Evaluation of Red Blood Cell Deformability Through Transit Velocity Index in Hematological Diseases
Kenji Kajitani, Chia-Hung Dylan Tsai, Tomohito Ohtani, Shigeo Wada, Ivan Cimrák, Misato Chimura, Tatsunori Taniguchi, Yasutaka Ueda, Jun-ichi Nishimura, Yasushi Sakata
Small, 2026. DOI: 10.1002/smll.202514520
2026
Voiceprint features and CNN for label-free identification of Na-alginate microdroplet size and concentration during high-frequency generation
Peng-Nian Chen, Chia-Hung Dylan Tsai
Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 400, 117467, 2026-04. DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2026.117467
2026
Effects of Short- and Long-Lived ROS Generated by a Cold Atmospheric Plasma Jet on Human Xenograft A2058 Melanoma and Associated Side Effects in a Nude Mouse Model
Tung Ku, Chia-Hung Dylan Tsai, Chao-Yu Chen, Ivan Gomez Ho, Chih-Tung Liu, Ru-Tsun Mai, Yun-Chien Cheng
IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences, 10, 629-639, 2026-04. DOI: 10.1109/TRPMS.2025.3597795
2025
An on-chip deformability checker demonstrates that the severity of iron deficiency is associated with increased deformability of red blood cells
Kenji Kajitani, Tomohito Ohtani, Rie Higuchi, Misato Chimura, Fusako Sera, Chia-Hung Dylan Tsai, Yasutaka Ueda, Jun-ichi Nishimura, Yasushi Sakata
Scientific Reports, 15, 19994, 2025-06. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-05483-2
2024
Voiceprint-based method for sensing droplet generation and mode transition from a coaxial microfluidic device
Peng-Nian Chen, Jin-Jia Hu, Chia-Hung Dylan Tsai
Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 379, 115943, 2024-12. DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2024.115943
Lab Updates
News
2026-06-24
Yi-Lun Lan presents oral paper at APCOT 2026
Yi-Lun Lan presented the oral paper "Automated Adaptive Feature Extraction for Microfluidic Droplet Voiceprint Monitoring via Heuristic Optimization" at APCOT 2026 & ICSS 2026 in Taichung, Taiwan.
2026-06-11
New IMLAB website draft started
A maintainable GitHub Pages-ready website structure was created with editable data files.
2026-06-02
NYCU ORCA AUV team reaches SAUVC 2026 finals
CNA reported that the NYCU ORCA AUV student team, co-advised by Prof. Chia-Hung Tsai, advanced to the finals of the Singapore AUV Challenge and validated autonomous underwater navigation and sensing integration.
2025-07-31
Microcapsule project period completed
Public NYCU profile lists recent projects on controllable microcapsules toward artificial red blood cells.