Tun Naw Sut | Chemical Engineering | Best Researcher Award

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Dr. Tun Naw Sut | Chemical Engineering | Best Researcher Award

Sungkyunkwan University | South Korea

Dr. Tun Naw Sut is a nanomedicine and chemical engineering researcher whose work integrates biomimetic membrane science, lipid nanoarchitectonics, and advanced biointerface engineering to address challenges in diagnostics, biosensing, and therapeutic design. His research focuses on constructing lipid-based biomimetic membrane platforms, investigating lipid self-assembly mechanisms, and elucidating how lipid–protein and lipid–nanomaterial interactions influence membrane structure, stability, and function. He has made notable contributions to understanding antimicrobial lipid mixtures, multivalency-driven membrane deformation, cholesterol-dependent membrane behavior, and the mechanobiology of extracellular vesicle mimetics. His extensive publication record spans high-impact journals in nanotechnology, materials science, and biointerfaces, demonstrating expertise in supported lipid bilayers, bicelle-mediated membrane fabrication, plasmonic biosensing platforms, antiviral lipid systems, and membrane-disruptive nanostructures. Professionally, he has engaged in interdisciplinary research environments advancing membrane technologies for biosensing, virus detection, antimicrobial strategies, and therapeutic delivery. He has also contributed to scientific leadership as a guest editor and topic editor in reputable journals, supporting the dissemination of emerging work in biomimicry, functional materials, and membrane science. His research portfolio reflects robust experience in experimental design, membrane characterization, microfluidic lipid nanoparticle development, and the translation of lipid-based systems toward diagnostic and therapeutic applications.

Profiles: Scopus | Orcid | Google Scholar

Featured Publications

Sut, T. N., Yoon, B. K., & Jackman, J. A. (2025). Synergistic membrane disruption of E. coli tethered lipid bilayers by antimicrobial lipid mixtures. Biomimetics, 10(11), Article 739.

Sut, T. N., & Yoon, B. K. (2024). Editorial for the Special Issue: “Biomimicry and Functional Materials—First, Second, and Third Editions”. Biomimetics, 9(7), 437.

Moon, S., Sut, T. N., Yoon, B. K., & Jackman, J. A. (2024). Unraveling how antimicrobial lipid mixtures disrupt virus-mimicking lipid vesicles: A QCM-D study. Biomimetics, 9(2), 67.

Sut, T. N., Jackman, J. A., & Cho, N.-J. (2023). Cholesterol-enriched hybrid lipid bilayer formation on inverse phosphocholine lipid-functionalized titanium oxide surfaces. Biomimetics, 8(8), 588.

Park, H., Sut, T. N., Yoon, B. K., Zhdanov, V. P., Kim, J. W., Cho, N.-J., & Jackman, J. A. (2022). Multivalency-induced shape deformation of nanoscale lipid vesicles: Size-dependent membrane bending effects. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 13.

Wojciech Zapala | Chemical Engineering | Editorial Board Member

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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Wojciech Zapala | Chemical Engineering | Editorial Board Member

Professor | Rzeszow University of Technology | Poland

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Wojciech Zapala is a researcher whose work spans chromatographic science, adsorption thermodynamics, sorption kinetics, separation mechanisms, and the physicochemical behaviour of materials under complex processing conditions. His research integrates experimental chromatography, mathematical modelling, spectral and thermal analyses, and discrete element simulations, contributing to a deeper understanding of mass transport, retention processes, and material flow dynamics. He has extensively studied hydrophilic interaction chromatography, mixed-mode systems, ion-exclusion processes, and the influence of modifiers, temperature, and stationary-phase characteristics on retention. His contributions also include the development and characterization of transition-metal and lanthanide complexes, with detailed investigations of their spectroscopic, thermal, decomposition, and antibacterial properties. In addition, his work explores the mechanical, rheological, and flowability properties of agricultural residues, biomass, and solid mixtures, combining modelling approaches with laboratory experiments to support process optimization in engineering applications. He has authored numerous publications in international journals, covering areas such as chromatographic column behaviour, adsorption energy distribution, biomass mechanics, complexation chemistry, and advanced thermal analysis. His interdisciplinary expertise allows him to bridge chemical engineering, analytical chemistry, materials science, and computational modelling, contributing valuable insights into separation science, material characterization, and process design. Throughout his career, he has engaged in competitive research grants, collaborated with multidisciplinary teams, and contributed to the advancement of chromatographic theory and applied material science through sustained scholarly output and innovative methodological approaches.

Profiles: Scopus | Orcid | Google Scholar

Featured Publications

Gubernak, M., Zapała, W., & Kaczmarski, K. (2003). Analysis of amylbenzene adsorption equilibria on an RP-18e chromatographic column. Acta Chromatographica, 38–59.

Kaczmarski, K., Kostka, J., Zapała, W., & Guiochon, G. (2009). Modeling of thermal processes in high pressure liquid chromatography: I. Low pressure onset of thermal heterogeneity. Journal of Chromatography A, 1216(38), 6560–6574.

Zapała, L., Kosińska, M., Woźnicka, E., Byczyński, Ł., & Zapała, W. (2016). Synthesis, spectral and thermal study of La(III), Nd(III), Sm(III), Eu(III), Gd(III) and Tb(III) complexes with mefenamic acid. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 124(1), 363–374.

Zapała, L., Kosińska, M., Woźnicka, E., Byczyński, Ł., Ciszkowicz, E., et al. (2019). Comparison of spectral and thermal properties and antibacterial activity of new binary and ternary complexes of Sm(III), Eu(III) and Gd(III) ions with N-phenylanthranilic acid. Thermochimica Acta, 671, 134–148.

Zapała, L., Kosińska, M., Woźnicka, E., Byczyński, Ł., Zapała, W., et al. (2018). Preparation, spectral properties and thermal decomposition of new ternary complexes of La(III), Ce(III), Pr(III) and Nd(III) ions with N-phenylanthranilic acid and 1,10-phenanthroline. Thermochimica Acta, 659, 242–252.