News

2025. 01.

New Publications!

Jieun, Seunghwan, and Juyoung's paper entitled "Scalable Fabrication of Freestanding Jammed Nanoparticle Films via Pickering Emulsion-Mediated Interfacial Assembly" was accepted in ACS Nano. Congratulation all! 

2024. 10.

Congratulations! 

Seunghwan Seo won the Best Poster Grand Award from the Korea Polymer Society 2024 Fall meeting held in Busan with a topic of Pickering emulsion-mediated two-step interfacial assembly of carbon film with catalysts.


서승환 학생이 2024년 추계 고분자 학술대회에서 태원시스켐 포스터대상을 수상하였습니다. 축하합니다:)


2024. 09.

Congratulations!

Juyoung Lee, an integrated master and Ph.D. student, has been selected for the Ph.D. Student Research Encouragement Program conducted by the National Research Foundation of Korea. The Ph.D. Student Research Encouragement Program is established to support creative and challenging ideas related to Ph.D. dissertation research. Outstanding Ph.D. students are selected for this program and receive a total of 50 million KRW over two years.


석박통합과정 이주영 학생이 한국연구재단에서 수행하는 박사과정생 연구장려금 지원사업에 선정되었습니다.  박사과정생 연구장려금지원사업은 박사과정생의 박사학위 논문 연구과 관련된 창의적 도전적 아이디어를 지원하기 위해 설립된 사업으로 우수 박사과정생을 선발하여 2년간 총액 5000만원을 지원받습니다. 

2024. 08.

New Publications!

Hyeong Seok, Kyeong Jin, and Juyoung's paper entitled "Unveiling the Structural Influence of Nematic Mesogens on Customizable Temperature and Spectral Responses" was accepted in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. Congratulation all! 

2024. 07.

New Publications!

Juyoung has co-authored a paper titled "Nanoscopic Catalyst-loaded Porous Metal Oxide Hollow Frameworks using Porous Block Copolymer Templates for High Performance Formaldehyde Sensors" which has been accepted in Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical. Congratulation Juyoung! :) 

2024. 07.

Welcome New Member!

Hayoung Kim, Youngin Kim, and Youjin Kim  joined the PCFL as internship students. 

2024. 01.

New Publications!

Jieun and Seunghwan's paper entitled "Stimuli-Responsive Nanoparticle Self-Assembly in Complex Fluids: A New Insight into Dynamic Surface Chemistry" was accepted in Nanoscale. Congratulation all! 

2024. 01.

New Publications!

Juyoung, Soohyun, Kyuhyung, Hyeong Seok, and Jinhyeok's paper entitled "Dynamic Photonic Janus Colloids with Axially Stacked Structural Layers" was accepted in ACS Nano. Congratulation all! 

2024. 01.

Welcome New Member!

Juri Kim, Seohyun Ahn, Sanghyeok Lee, and Tae Young Kim  joined the PCFL as internship students. 

2023. 10

Prof. Ku won Korea Toray Fellowship Award from the Korea Toray Science Foundation. Congrats:)

관련기사: 연합뉴스 [link]  조선일보 [link]  동아일보 [link]

2023. 09.

New Publications!

Juyoung's first paper entitled "Nanosheet Particles with Defect-Free Block Copolymer Structures Driven by Emulsions Containing Crystallizable Surfactants" was published in Small. Congratulation Juyoung! :)  

2023. 07.

Hyeongseok Oh won the Best Poster Award from the Symposium at the Korean Chemical Society 2023 with a topic of thermochromic cholesteric liquid crystal droplets with alkyl chain length-controlled nematic mesogens. Congratulation Hyeongseok! :)

2023. 07.

Welcome New Member!

Hyun Jung  Joo, Ji-O Kim, Jin Hyeok Cho, Minseok Kang joined the PCFL as internship students. 

2023. 03.

Welcome New Member!

Minseok Kang joined the PCFL as an undergraduate internship student. 

2023. 02

PCFL in MEDIA!

우리 연구실이 2022년실험실 특화형 창업선도대학 육성사업 수행을 통해 창업유망기술팀으로 소개되었습니다. 

2023. 01.

Welcome New Members!

Kyeong Jin Kim, Jieun Heo, and Suhyeon Ban joined the PCFL as MS/PhD combined course students. Seunghwan Seo and Kyu Hyung Jo joined the PCFL as master's students. Jun Seong Park and Jin Hyeok Cho joined the PCFL as undergraduate internship students. 

2022. 11

New Publications!

Two articles entitled "Investigating Structural Effects of Quaternizing Additives on Shape Transitions of Block Copolymer Particles" and "Effect of Molecular Structure of Photoswitchable Surfactant on Light-Responsive Shape Transition of Block Copolymer Particles" by Prof. Ku were published in Macromolecules.  

2022. 09.

Welcome New Members!

Hyewon Jung joined the PCFL as a master's student. She will study under the guidance of her co-advisor, Dr. Sangho Lee at KRICT. Seungho Park joined the PCFL as an undergraduate internship student. He will study smart complex colloidal materials.

2022. 07. 

Prof. Ku won Korea Loreal-Unesco Women in Science Awards from the Women's Bioscience Forum. Congrats:)

관련기사: 연합뉴스 [link]  UNIST뉴스 [link] 조선일보 [link

2022. 07.

Welcome New Members for the U-SURF program! 

Kyeong Jin Kim, Suhyeon Ban, Da Gyeom Chang, and Seunghwan Seo joined the PCFL as U-SURF internship students. They will study the synthesis of hybrid materials.

2022. 06.

Welcome New Members!

Jieun Heo joined the PCFL as an undergraduate internship student. She will study bioplastic-based functional materials.

2022. 02.

Welcome New Members!

Hyeongseok Oh and Juyoung Lee joined the PCFL as MS/PhD combined course students. Hyeongseok will study liquid crystal-based complex colloids, and Juyoung will study functional block copolymer particles.

2022. 02.

The Ku Research Group open in Feb. 2022!

PCFL is currently seeking highly motivated postdocs, graduate students (MS/PhD), and undergraduate students. If you are interested in the group, please contact Prof. Ku!

kangheeku@unist.ac.kr 

2021. 11.

Prof. Ku won Miwon Young Scientist Award in 2021 KSIEC fall meeting. Congrats:) 

2021. 04.

An article entitled "Recent Progress in Development of Polymer Particles by Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers from Emulsions" by Hyeongseok Oh, Juyoung Lee, and Kang Hee Ku was introduced in Polymer Science and Technology (Vol 32, No.2).