In a collaborative work with Hyunjoon Song group at KAIST published in Nanoscale (and selected as the outside backcover), we used bottlebrush copolymer ligands to rapidly form patches on Au nanoparticle surface and direct secondary metal deposition.

Our recent Macromolecules paper shows the grafting-from polymerization produces Janus bottlebrush polymer materials with periodic order via polymerization-induced microphase separation process.

In this featured review article published in Chemical Physics Reviews, we teamed up with the YongJoo Kim group at Korea University to discuss how to explore the self-assembly of nonlinear macromolecules by integrating experiments and simulations.

We teamed up with polymer simulation people to investigate the scaling behavior of bottlebrush copolymer micelles, and published the results in Macromolecules.

A review article entitled “From macromonomers to bottlebrush copolymers with sequence control: synthesis, properties and applications” by Ki Hyun Kim, Jiyun Nam, Jinwoong Choi, Myungeun Seo and Joona Bang was published in Polymer Chemistry.

“Side-Chain Density Driven Morphology Transition in Brush−Linear Diblock Copolymers” by Jaemin Park, Jiyun Nam, Myungeun Seo and Sheng Li was published in ACS Macro Letters in collaboration of the Li and the Seo groups at KAIST.

“Self-assembly of monolayer vesicles via backbone-shiftable synthesis of Janus core–shell bottlebrush polymer” by Jiyun Nam, YongJoo Kim, Jeung Gon Kim, and Myungeun Seo was published in Macromolecules. We are proud that our manuscript featured the cover of the issue, which was published at the end of 2019. Link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01429 See the cover art in the...