In a recent paper published in JACS, We report that increasing temperature during the polymerization-induced self-assembly can depolymerize the solvophobic block and thus induce a reversible morphological transition by temperature swing.

“Ligand-Controlled Stereoselective Synthesis of Heterotactic Polylactide with Titanium(IV) Complexes” by Yeolib Jeong et al. was published in Organometallics.

“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!

“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