POSTECH
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    Smart Soft
    Materials
    Lab.
    The Smart Soft Materials Lab focuses on studying hydrogels and their base polymers to develop new functional materials.
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    Kim's
    Research Lab!
    We're advancing together, driven by innovative ideas
    and a collaborative, dynamic environment.
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    Gels that shape,
    shift, and return.
    We craft organic hydrogels that transform with heat —
    not by chance, but by design.
    Programmable motion in soft matter.
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    Living Gels,
    Moving Ions.
    At the frontier of soft matter and electrochemistry,
    we create gel electrolytes that
    not only conduct, but communicate.
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    Sticking Around
    Without Drying Out.
    We make gels that cling, flex, and stay—
    no matter how dry the world gets.
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    Sakura time Here, ideas blossom — and so do we.

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Contact Us

  • POSTECH RIST Building 3, Prof.'s office: Room 3296, Lab: Room 3255
  • Tel : +82 54-279-2136
  • ysookim@postech.ac.kr