“Semipermeable microcapsules with a block polymer-templated nanoporous membrane” by Jaehoon Oh, Bomi Kim, Sangmin Lee, Shin-Hyun Kim, and Myungeun Seo was published in Chemistry of Materials.   Link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b04340  

“Effect of homopolymer in polymerization-induced microphase separation process” by Jongmin Park, Stacey A. Saba, Marc A. Hillmyer, Dong-Chang Kang, and Myungeun Seo just appeared in Polymer. This paper will be published as a part of the Special Issue entitled “Porous Polymers” organized by a guest editor prof. Micheal S. Silverstein.   Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003238611730424X  

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!

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...

“Photoinitiated Polymerization-induced Microphase Separation for the Preparation of Nanoporous Polymer Films” by Jaehoon Oh and Myungeun Seo just appeared in ACS Macro Letters.   Link: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsmacrolett.5b00734  

“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  

“One-step Synthesis of Crosslinked Block Polymer Precursor to a Nanoporous Thermoset” by Myungeun Seo, Christopher J. Murphy and Marc A. Hillmyer was published in ACS Macro Letters.   Link: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/mz400192f

Nanoporous polymers have promising applications such as filtration, separation, storage, and catalysis. Block polymer self-assembly provides a powerful route to well-defined nanoporous polymers with extraordinary control over pore size, structure, and functionality. We are exploring synthesis of block polymer-based nanoporous polymers and control of transport through nanopores by size for energy and catalytic applications.