Self-assembly

Tadpole-like particles are lined up under hard-core/soft-shoulder potential
June 29, 2025 / Group News Publication
We published a computational study about assembly of tadpole-like hard-core/soft-shell nanoparticles in Langmuir in collaboration with YongJoo Kim group at Korea University.

Bridging the gap between experiments and simulations
February 11, 2025 / Group News Publication
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.

Controlling folding height in bilayer-folded lamellae using bending rigidity
September 16, 2024 / Group News Publication
In our recent Macromolecules paper, we provide more evidence on the bilayer-folded lamellae and show that the folding height is related to the bending rigidity of the bilayers.

Biocompatible glue potentially applicable to hair transplantation
September 3, 2022 / Group News Publication
We report a sticky coacervate made of PEO-b-PLA with tannic acid can be used as a biocompatible adhesive, whose strength improves over heating/cooling cycles.

Emergence of order from random sequence ensemble
May 10, 2022 / Group News Publication
"Bilayer-folded lamellar mesophase induced by random polymer sequence" by Shin et al. was published in Nature Communications.

How chiral information can be transmitted from light and amplified
February 13, 2022 / Group News Publication
“Circularly Polarized Light can Override and Amplify Asymmetry in Supramolecular Helices” by Kang et al. was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Autonomous supramolecular polymerization of micellar building blocks
February 1, 2022 / Group News Publication
“In-Situ Supramolecular Polymerization of Micellar Nanoobjects Induced by Polymerization” by Nam Young Ahn et al. was published in ACS Macro Letters.

Review on CPL-driven supramolecular chirality with the Kim Group
February 1, 2022 / Group News Publication
A review article entitled “Circularly Polarized Light-Driven Supramolecular Chirality” was published in Macromolecular Rapid Communications.

Folding of a graft copolymer into a core cross-linked star polymer
October 4, 2021 / Group News Publication
"Folding of Sequence-Controlled Graft Copolymers to Subdomain-Defined Single-Chain Nanoparticles" by Jiyun Nam et al. was published in Macromolecules.

Monolayer vesicle from Janus core–shell bottlebrush polymers
January 7, 2020 / Group News Publication
“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...