Publications Before 2009

Refereed Journal Articles (Before 2009)

• S. Zheng, J.-Q. Liu, and Y. C. Tai, "Streamline based microfluidic device for erythrocytes and leukocytes separation," IEEE/ASME J. of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 17, pp 1029-1038, 2008.
• S. Zheng, J. C.-H. Lin, H. L. Kasdan, and Y. C. Tai, "Fluorescent labeling, sensing, and differentiation of leukocytes from undiluted whole blood samples," Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, vol. 132, pp 558-567, 2008.
• S. Zheng, M. S. Nandra, C. Y. Shih, W. Li, and Y. C. Tai, "Resonance induced impedance sensing of human blood cells," Sensors & Actuators: A. Physical, vol.145-146, pp 29-36, 2008.
• S. Zheng, M. Liu, and Y. C. Tai, "Micro coulter counters with platinum black electroplated electrodes for human blood cell sensing," Biomedical Microdevices, vol. 10, pp 221-231, 2008.
• S. Zheng*, H. Lin*, J.-Q. Liu, M. Balic, R. Datar, R. J. Cote, and Y.-C. Tai, "Membrane microfilter device for selective capture, electrolysis and genomic analysis of human circulating tumor cells," Journal of Chromatography A, vol. 1162, pp. 154-161, 2007. (*Authors with equal contribution)
• H. Che, S. Zheng, and X. Hong, "Integrated model for performance analysis of multiple class-of-service Internet," IEE proceedings. Communications, vol. 149, p. 139-146, 2002.
• J. H. Bai, D. Xu, H. R. Wang, S. Y. Zheng, and H. M. Zhou, "Evidence for the existence of an unfolding intermediate state for aminoacylase during denaturation in guanidine solutions," Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology, vol. 1430, p. 39, 1999.
• J. H. Bai, S. Y. Zheng, and H. M. Zhou, "Inactivation of creatine kinase is due to the conformational changes of the active sites during thermal denaturation," Biochemistry and molecular biology international, vol. 45, p. 941, 1998.
• S. Y. Zheng, H. R. Wang, J. Li, D. Xu, and H. M. Zhou, "Kinetics of irreversible inhibition of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase during modification by 4,4'-dithiodipyridine,"International journal of biological macromolecules, vol. 20, p. 307, 1997.
• H. R. Wang, J. H. Bai, S. Y. Zheng, Z. H. Wang, and H. M. Zhou, "Ascertaining the number of essential thiol groups for the folding of creatine kinase," Biochemical and biophysical research communications, vol. 221, p. 174, 1996.

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Refereed Conference Proceedings (Before 2009)

• B. Lu, S. Zheng, S. Xie and Y. -C. Tai, "Live capture of circulating tumor cells from human blood by a splitable 3D parylene membrane filtration device", in Proceedings ofthe 13th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (microTAS'09), Jeju, Korea, 2009, p. 588-590.
• W. Shi, S. Zheng, H. L. Kasdan, A. Fridge and Y. -C. Tai, "Leukocyte count and two-part differential in whole blood based on a portable microflow cytometer", inProceedings of the 15th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers '09), Denver, CO, USA, June 21-25, 2009, p.616-619.
• B. Lv, S. Zheng, and Y. -C. Tai, " Parylene background fluorescence study for biomems applications", in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers '09), Denver, CO, USA, June 21-25, 2009, p.176-179.
• S. Zheng, H. L. Kasdan, A. Fridge, and Y. -C. Tai, "Blood Cell Analysis Using Portable Flow Cytometer with Microfluidic Chips as Cartridge", in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (microTAS'08), San Diego, CA, USA, Oct. 12-16, 2008.
• S. Zheng, H. K. Lin, R. J. Cote, and Y.-C. Tai, "A Novel 3D Micro Membrane Filtration Device for Capture Viable Rare Circulating Tumor Cells from Whole Blood," inProceedings of the 13th in the series of Hilton Head Workshops on the science and technology of solid-state sensors, actuators, and microsystems (Hilton Head 2008), Hilton Head Island, SC, USA, June 1-5, 2008, p. 134-137.
• S. Zheng and Y. C. Tai, "Dual frequency resonance impedance spectroscopy flow cytometry for blood and tumor cells," in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (microTAS'07), Paris, France, Oct. 7-11, 2007, p.488-490.
• S. Zheng, J. C.-H. Lin, H. L. Kasdan, and Y. C. Tai, "Fluorescent Labeling, Sensing and Differentiation of Leukocytes from Undiluted Whole Blood Samples," in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers '07), Lyon, France, June 10-14, 2007, p.807-810.
• S. Zheng, M. S. Nandra, C. Y. Shih, W. Li, and Y. C. Tai, "Resonance Induced Impedance Sensing of Human Blood Cells," in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers '07), Lyon, France, June 10-14, 2007, p. 1741-1744.
• S. Zheng, M. S. Nandra, and Y. C. Tai, "Human Blood Cell Sensing with Platinum Black Electroplated Impedance Sensor," in Proceedings of the 2nd Annual IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (IEEE-NEMS' 07), Bangkok, Thailand, Jan. 16-19, 2007, p.520-523.
• C. Y. Shih, W. Li, S. Zheng, and Y. C. Tai, "A Resonance-Induced Sensitivity Enhancement Method for Conductivity Sensors," in Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Conference on Sensors, Daegu, Korea, Oct. 22-25, 2006, p.271-274.
• S. Zheng and Y. C. Tai, "Streamline based design of a MEMS device for continuous blood cell separation," in Proceedings of the twelfth in the series of Hilton Head Workshops on the science and technology of solid-state sensors, actuators, and microsystems (Hilton Head 2006), Hilton Head Island, SC, USA, June 6-8, 2006, p. 140-143.
• S. Zheng and Y. C. Tai, "Design and fabrication of a micro Coulter counter with thin film electrodes," in Proceedings of the 4th Annual International IEEE EMBS Special Topic Conference on Microtechnologies in Medicine and Biology (IEEE-EMBS/MMB2005), Bankoku-Shinryokan, Okinawa, JAPAN, May 5-9, 2006, p. 16-19.
• S. Zheng, M. Liu, H. L. Kasdan, and Y. C. Tai, "Platinum Black Electroplated Impedance Particle Sensor," in Proceedings of the First Annual IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (IEEE-NEMS’06), Zhuhai, China, Jan. 18-21, 2006, p.87-91.
• S. Zheng, Y. C. Tai, and H. L. Kasdan, "MEMS device for continuous blood cell separation," in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems in Chemistry and Life Sciences (microTAS05), Boston, USA, Oct. 9-13, 2005, p. 385-387.
• S. Zheng, Y. C. Tai, H. Lin, M. Balic, R. Datar, and R. J. Cote, "Circulating tumor cell capture from whole blood by parylene filter devices," in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems in Chemistry and Life Sciences (microTAS'05), Boston, USA, Oct. 9-13, 2005, p. 874-876.
• S. Zheng, Y. C. Tai, and H. L. Kasdan, "A micro device for separation of erythrocytes and leukocytes in human blood," in Proceedings of the 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBS'05), Shanghai, China, Sept. 1-4, 2005, p. 1024-1027.
• S. Zheng, R. Yung, Y. C. Tai, and H. L. Kasdan, "Deterninistic lateral displacement MEMS device for continuous blood cell separation," in Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS '05), Miami Beach, USA, Jan.30-Feb.3, 2005, p. 851-854.
• C. Y. Shih, S. Zheng, Y. C. Tai, Y. Liu, and J. F. Stoddart, "Shear Flow Self-Assembled Nanoparticle Film For Chemiresistor Applications," in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems in Chemistry and Life Sciences (microTAS'04), Malmo, Sweden, Sept. 26-30, 2004, p. 339-341.
• C. Y. Shih, S. Zheng, E. Meng, Y. C. Tai, Y. Liu, and J. F. Stoddart, "Nano-to-Micro Self-Assembly Using Shear-Flow Devices," in Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS '04), Maastricht, Netherlands, Jan. 25-29, 2004, p.422-425.
• C. Y. Shih, S. Zheng, A. Chang, and Y. C. Tai, "Nanometer Gaps by Feedback-controlled Electromigration," in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers '03), Boston, USA, Sept. 5-9, 2003, p. 1530-1533.
• H. Che, S. Zheng, and X. Hong, "A framework for performance analysis of pricing and link bandwidth allocation in a multiple class-of-service Internet," in 9th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IC3N'2000), Las Vegas, USA, Oct. 16-18, 2000.

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Patent (Before 2009)

• Y. C. Tai, S. Zheng, J. C.-H. Lin, and H. Kasdan, "Fluorescent labeling, sensing and differentiation of leukocytes from undiluted whole blood samples", US patent application 12/062,808, 2008.
• Y.-C. Tai, C.-Y. Shih, W. Li, and S. Zheng, "Resonance-Induced sensitivity enhancement method for conductivity sensors", US patent 7,629,797, 2007.
• Y. C. Tai, S. Zheng, H. Lin, R. Datar, and R. J. Cote, "Uses of parylene membrane filters", US patent 7,846,743, 2010.
• Y. C. Tai, S. Zheng, H. Lin, R. Datar, and R. J. Cote, "Membrane filter for capturing circulating tumor cells", US patent 7,846,393, 2010.
• Y.-C. Tai and S. Zheng, "Streamline-based microfluidic device", US patent application 11/408,514, 2006.
• Y. C. Tai, S. Miserendino, Q. He, and S. Zheng, "Modular microfluidic packaging system", US patent application 11/192,434, 2006.
• Y. C. Tai, C. Y. Shih, and S. Zheng, "Method and system for processing nanoparticles using a self assembly mechanism to form combined species ", US patent application 10/985,841, 2006.

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