PIMS

Ordered nanostructured materials via JanusPIMS
March 31, 2025 / Group News Publication
Our recent Macromolecules paper shows the grafting-from polymerization produces Janus bottlebrush polymer materials with periodic order via polymerization-induced microphase separation process.

We reviewed polymerization-induced microphase separation
September 10, 2023 / Group News Publication
Our review on the PIMS process, initially developed by Myungeun Seo and Marc Hillmyer in 2012, was published in Progress in Polymer Science to provide a comprehensive information about the field and a practical guide to colleagues interested in PIMS.

Access to 1-nm pore in block polymer-templated porous materials
June 11, 2021 / Group News Publication
"Downsizing of Block Polymer-Templated Nanopores to One Nanometer via Hyper-Cross-Linking of High χ–Low N Precursors" by Jeonghyeon Lee and Myungeun Seo was published in ACS Nano.

Pt nanoparticle-embedded porous polymer support for cross-coupling reaction
April 23, 2021 / Group News Publication
"Nesting Well-Defined Pt Nanoparticles within a Hierarchically Porous Polymer as a Heterogeneous Suzuki–Miyaura Catalyst” was published in ACS Applied Nano Materials.

Nanoporous ceramics produced via PIMS
August 4, 2020 / Group News Publication
“Synthesis of in Situ Microphase-Separated Organic–Inorganic Block Polymer Precursors to 3D-Continuous Mesoporous SiC-based Ceramic Monoliths” by Yoon-Ho Hwang, Jaehoon Oh, Hyungju Ahn, Dong-Pyo Kim, and Myungeun Seo was published in ACS Applied Polymer Materials. Link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsapm.0c00347   This work also featured the issue as one of supplementary covers: https://pubs.acs.org/toc/aapmcd/2/7

Sulfonated nanoporous membrane for vanadium redox flow batteries
August 4, 2020 / Group News Publication
“Achieving Fast Proton Transport and High Vanadium Ion Rejection with Uniformly Mesoporous Composite Membranes for High-Efficiency Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries” by Choongseop Jeon, Chanyong Choi, Hee-Tak Kim, and Myungeun Seo was published in ACS Applied Energy Materials. Link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsaem.0c00804

Conjugated cross-linkers create microporous voids in vinyl polymer networks
November 9, 2018 / Group News Publication
“Creation of micropores by RAFT copolymerization of conjugated multi-vinyl cross-linkers” by Chinnadurai Satheeshkumar and Myungeun Seo just appeared in Polymer Chemistry.   Link: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2018/py/c8py01198b#!divAbstract  

Control of mesopore size and sulfonic acid density regulates ion transport
November 9, 2018 / Group News Publication
Control of ion transport in sulfonated mesoporous polymer membranes” by Choongseop Jeon, Joong Jin Han, and Myungeun Seo just appeared in ACS Applied Materials&Interfaces.   Link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.8b14712  

Micro-/meso-/macroporous polymer monolith
June 23, 2018 / Group News Publication
“Hyper-cross-linked polymer with controlled multiscale porosity via polymerization-induced microphase separation within high internal phase emulsion” by Jongmin Park, KyuHan Kim and Myungeun Seo just appeared in Chemical Communications.   Link: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2018/cc/c8cc03508c#!divAbstract  

Structural supercapacitor fabricated via PIMS
June 23, 2018 / Group News Publication
“Load-bearing supercapacitor based on bicontinuous PEO-b-P(S-co-DVB) structural electrolyte integrated with conductive nanowire-carbon fiber electrodes” by Seok-Hu Bae, Choongseop Jeon, Saewoong Oh, Chun-Gon Kim, Myungeun Seo and Il-Kwon Oh just appeared in Carbon. Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0008622318306018     The article can be freely downloaded via the following link by August 12, 2018: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1XGUM1zUAE4BY