Portrait of Jiyoung Son

Jiyoung Son

Chemical Engineer R&D Associate

Contact

SONJ1@ORNL.GOV

Bio

Dr. Jiyoung Son has 12 years of inter-disciplinary collaborative research and development projects which were focused on MEMS based environmental physical chemistry and biological analysis solutions. His specialty is developing microfluidic in-situ analysis platform for existing surface analysis tools such as ToF-SIMS, SEM, Raman, and XRS. He also has worked on mass spectrometry technique such as ToF-SIMS. 

Professional Experience

2024 – Present   Chemical Engineer (A&D Associate), ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN

2021 – 2024       Electrical Engineer, PNNL, Richland, WA

Education

PostDoc    Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. USA, 2021

Ph.D.         Electrical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake, UT, USA, 2017

M.S.          Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, 2012

B.S.           Electrical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 2009

Professional Service

  • Volunteer journal reviewer for Sensors and Energies of MDPI publication.

Trademarks and Patents

  • US patent pending, In Operando Heating and Cooling with Simultaneous Chemical Imaging, disclosure record number 31543-E, Xiao-Ying Yu and Jiyoung Son, Battelle IP filed 03/11/2019.

  • US patent, US11517900B2, “Microfluidic system for sperm separation and enrichment from various types of sperm samples”,

  • US patent pending, US2015/0145470 A1, “Micro-energy harvesting device for space-limited applications”

Other Publications

  1. Jiyoung Son, Shawn L. Riechers, and Xiao-Ying, Yu,* Microscale Electrochemical Corrosion of Uranium Oxide Particles, Micromachines, 2023, 14(9), 1727; .
  2. Cuiyun Yang, Guojuan Song, Jiyoung Son, Logan Howard and Xiao-Ying Yu*, Revealing Bacterial Quorum-Sensing Effect on the Biofilm Formation Diatom Cylindrotheca sp. Using Multimodal Imaging, Microorganisms 2023, 11(7), 1841; .
  3. Yuchen Zhang, Andrew Plymale, Jiyoung Son, Qiaoyun Huang, Wenli Chen, and Xiao-Ying Yu, Reducing the matrix effect in mass spectral imaging of biofilms using flow-cell culture, Front. Chem., 11:1203314 (2023)
  4. Lyndi Strange, Jun Gao, Jiyoung Son, Yuchen Zhang, Vineet Joshi, and Xiao-Ying Yu,* Aluminum hydroxide, bayerite, boehmite, and gibbsite ToF-SIMS spectra in the positive mode, Surface Science Spectra, Vol 29, Issue 2, 025002 (2022). 

  5. Lyndi Strange, Jun Gao, Jiyoung Son, Yuchen Zhang, Vineet Joshi, and Xiao-Ying Yu,* Aluminum hydroxide, bayerite, boehmite, and gibbsite ToF-SIMS spectra in negative mode, Surface Science Spectra, Vol 29, Issue 2, 025002 (2022). 

  6. Jun Gao, Yuchen Zhang, Jiyoung Son, Jason E. Bara, Kathryn E. O'Harra, Mark H. Engelhard, David J. Heldebrant, Roger Rousseau, Xiao-Ying Yu,” The interfacial compatibility between a potential CO2 separation membrane and capture solvents”, CCST (Front Cover), Vol 2, 2022, 10037. 
  7. Jiyoung Son, Edgar C. Buck, Shawn L. Riechers, Shalini Tripathi, S., Lyndi E. Strange, Mark H. Engelhard, and Xiao-Ying Yu,* “Studying Corrosion Using Miniaturized Particle Attached Working Electrodes and the Nafion Membrane”, Micromachines 2021, 12, 1414. 
  8. Yuchen Zhang, Rachel Komorek, Jiyoung Son, Shawn Riechers, Janet Jansson, Zihua Zhu, Christer Jansson, and Xiao-Ying Yu,* Molecular imaging of plant-microbe interactions on Brachypodium seed surface, Analyst (Front Cover), 146, 5855-5865, 2021. Doi: 10.1039/D1AN00205H.
  9. Jiyoung Son, Edgar C. Buck, Shawn L. Riechers, and Xiao-Ying Yu,* “Stamping nanoparticles onto the electrode for rapid electrochemical analysis in microfluidics” Micromachines, 12(1):60, 2021. doi: 10.3390/mi12010060. 

  10. Jiyoung Son, Raheel Samuel, Alex Jafek, Haidong Feng, Bruce Gale, Tim Jenkins, Douglas Carrell, and James Hotaling, “Microfluidic system for rapid isolation of sperm from microdissection TESE specimens” Urology, 140, 70-76, 2020.  ISSN 0090-4295

  11. Yanjie Shen, Jenn Yao, Jiyoung Son, Zihua Zhu, and Xiao-Ying Yu,* “Liquid ToF-SIMS revealing the oil, water, and surfactant interfacial evolution”, PCCP (Front Cover), 22, 11771 – 11782, 2020.  Doi: 10.1039/D0CP00528B

  12. Jiachao Yu, Yufan Zhou, Mark Engelhard, Zihua Zhu, Jiyoung Son, Songqin Liu, and Xiao-Ying Yu,* “In situ molecular imaging of adsorbed protein films in water indicating hydrophobicity and hydrophilicity.” Sci Rep 10, 3695, 2020.

  13. Jiyoung Son, Yanjie. Shen, Jennifer Yao, Daniel Payton, and Xiao-Ying Yu.* 2019. "Surface evolution of synthetic bilgewater emulsion." Chemosphere, 236, 124345, 2019.
  14. Jiyoung Son, Alex Jafek, Bruce Gale, Douglas Carrell, and James Hotaling, “Sperm-like-particle (SLP) behavior in curved microfluidic channels” Microfluid Nanofluid 23, 4, 2019.

  15. Jiyoung Son, Bruce Gale, Raheel Samuel, Douglas Carrell, and James Hotaling, “Separation of sperm from samples containing high concentrations of white blood cell using a spiral channel”, Biomicrofluidics, 11, 054106, 2017.

  16. Jiyoung Son, Kristin Murphy, Raheel Samuel, Bruce Gale, Douglas Carrell, and James Hotaling, “Non-motile sperm cell separation using a spiral channel,” Analytical Methods, 7, 8041-8047, 2015. DOI: 10.1039/C5AY02205C.

  17. Raheel Samuel, Odgrel Badamjav, Kristin E Murphy, Darshan P Patel, Jiyoung Son, Bruce K. Gale, Douglas T Carrell, James M Hotaling. “Microfluidics: The Future of Microdissection TESE?” Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine, 62, 3, 161-170, 2016. DOI: 10.3109/19396368.2016.1159748

  18. H. Jayamohan, V. Romanov, H. Li, Jiyoung Son, R. Samuel, J. Nelson, and B.K. Gale. “Advances in Microfluidics and Lab-on-a Chip Technologies” Molecular Diagnostics, Edition: 3, Elsevier, pp.197-217. (Book Chapter) 

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