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

“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.

"Synthesis of carboxylic acid-functionalized polymethacrylate-b-polystyrene as an Ag ion-loadable block copolymer thin film template” by Isaac Shin, Kyu Hyo Han, Seung Keun Cha, Sang Ouk Kim, and Myungeun Seo was published in Polymer.

“Synthesis of Heterograft Copolymers with a Semifluorinated Backbone by Combination of Grafting-through and Grafting-from Polymerizations” by Jeonghyeon Lee, Gérald Lopez, Bruno Améduri, and Myungeun Seo was published in Macromolecules. Link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.macromol.9b02493

“Well-defined poly(ether sulfone)-b-polylactide: synthesis and microphase separation behavior” by Jinhee Lee, Jongmin Park, and Myungeun Seo was published in Polymer Journal. This manuscript was submitted in response to the invitation to the special issue entitled “Precision Polymer Synthesis”. Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41428-019-0268-2

“Nanoporous poly(ether sulfone) from polylactide-b-poly(ether sulfone)-b-polylactide precursor”, Jinhee Lee, Jongmin Park, Jaehoon Oh, Sanghwa Lee, Sang Youl Kim and Myungeun Seo was published in Polymer. Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032386119307104

Our first patent invented by Dr. Seo, Dr. Jinhee Lee, and Prof. Sang Youl Kim in the department of chemistry was just registered on February 15, 2017!

“Synthesis of coil-comb block copolymers containing polystyrene coil and poly(methyl methacrylate) side chains via atom transfer radical polymerization” by Seonhee Shin, Seohyun Moon, Myungeun Seo, and Sang Youl Kim just appeared in Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry.   Link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pola.28182/full  

An invited review entitled “Porous polymers derived from block polymer precursors” by Jaehoon Oh, Soobin Kim, Jongmin Park, and Myungeun Seo just appeared in Polymer Science and Technology which is a monthly magazine published by the Polymer Society of Korea. The article was written in Korean. Check out the link for the full content. 한국고분자학회에서...

“Hierarchically Porous Polymers from Hyper-cross-linked Block Polymer Precursors” by Myungeun Seo, Soobin Kim, Jaehoon Oh, Sun-Jung Kim, and Marc A. Hillmyer was just published in the Journal of the American Chemical Socieity as an ASAP article.   Link: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja511581w