Group News

Call for a Postdoctoral Position

We have an open position for a postdoctoral researcher that starts on April 1, 2026.

January 9, 2026 | Group

Awards from the Polymer Society of Korea!

We received a LG Chem Mid-Career Academic Award, a Best poster presentation award, and a Poster presentation award from the 2025 fall PSK meeting.

October 21, 2025 | Group

PIMS brings transparency, impact resistance, and thermal stability to PMMA

In collaboration with the Suk-kyun Ahn group at Pusan National University and Dr. Sungmin Park at KRICT, we published a paper entitled "Impact-resistant, haze-free, 3D-printable transparent block copolymer resin via photopolymerization-induced microphase separation" in NPG Asia Materials.

October 21, 2025 | Publication

Welcome Jooyeon to the Group!

The group welcomes Dr. Jooyeon Lee as the InnoCore HydroStudio-powered-by-AI postdoctoral fellow.

September 19, 2025 | Group

Welcome Junghyun to the Group!

The group welcomes Dr. Junghyun Cho as the first InnoCore AI-ACE postdoctoral fellow.

September 4, 2025 | Group

Light-induced amination of polyethers

In collaboration with the Sukbok Chang group, we report in Nature Communications that the C-H bond adjacent to the oxygen in polyethers can be selectively functionalized under mild conditions to produce unprecedented amino-polyethers.

August 29, 2025 | Publication

Welcome Daung to the Group!

The group welcomes Daung Jeon, joining our group as a new graduate student in the Department of Chemistry in 2025 fall.

August 10, 2025 | Group

Governing permselectivity by channel morphology in AEMs

Our first work on anion exchange membranes (AEMs), in collaboration with Soonyong So in KRICT, was published in Journal of Membrane Science.

July 13, 2025 | Publication

Review on multicompartment polymer nanoparticles

We published a review article in Macromolecular Research about how to compartmentalize polymer nanoparticles based on architecture-controlled polymer synthesis.

July 13, 2025 | Publication

Looking for postdocs for InnoCore projects

We look for postdocs for two InnoCORE projects related to ionomers/membranes for hydrogen technology and synthesis/self-assembly of artificial oligopeptide-like molecules.

June 29, 2025 | Group