Papers

27. Yuri Hong^†, Surim Yoo^†, Jihoon Han^†, Junseong Kim, Yongjin Lee, YongSeok Jho, Youn Soo Kim* & Dong Soo Hwang*,

“Influence of the backbone chemistry and ionic functional groups of five pairs of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes on complex coacervation”, 

Communications Chemistry, 2024, 7, 182 [Link]

26. Jihoon Han^†, Saeed Najafi^†, Youyoung Byun, Lester Geonzon, Seung-Hwan Oh, Jiwon Park, Jun Mo Koo, Jehan Kim, Taehun Chung, Im Kyung Han, Suhun Chae, Dong Woo Cho, Jinah Jang, Unyong Jeong, Glenn H. Fredrickson, Soo Hyung Choi, Koichi Mayumi, Eunji Lee*, Joan-Emma Shea* and Youn Soo Kim*,

“Bridge-rich and loop-less hydrogel networks through suppressed micellization of multiblock polyelectrolytes”, 

Nature Communications, 2024, 15, 6553 [Link]

25. Masud, Md. Aftabuzzaman, Haoran Zhou, Saehyun Kim, Jaekyung Yi, Sarah S. Park, Youn Soo Kim* and Hwan Kyu Kim* ,

“Chemically synthesized poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) conducting polymer as a robust electrocatalyst for highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cells”, 

Nanoscale, 2024, 16, 13874 – 13884 [Link]

24. Masud, Youn Soo Kim, and Hwan Kyu Kim*,

“Quasi-Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Mechanically Stable Semi-Interpenetrating Network Polymer Gel Electrolytes for Indoor Applications”, 

ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2024, 7, 5226−5234 [Link]

23. Sangyeop Lee,^† Im Kyung Han,^† Na Gyeong Jeon, Yubin Lee, Hye Bin Son, Dong-Yeob Han, Seoha Nam, Taehun Chung, Myung-Jun Kwak, Youn Soo Kim,* and Soojin Park*,

“Promoting Homogeneous Zinc-ion Transfer through Preferential Ion Coordination Effect in Gel Electrolyte for Stable Zinc Metal Batteries”, 

Advanced Science, 2023, 2304915 [Link]

22. Dong-Yeob Han,^† Im Kyung Han,^† Hye Bin Son, Youn Soo Kim,* Jaegeon Ryu,* and Soojin Park*,

“Layering Charged Polymers Enables Highly Integrated High-Capacity Battery Anodes”, 

Advanced Functional Materials, 2023, 2213458. [Link] [Highlighted as a front cover]

21. Jihoon Han,^† Jemin Lee,^† Seonghyeon Kim, Anna Lee, Hyung Gyu Park* and Youn Soo Kim*,

“Mucus-inspired Organogel as an Efficient Absorbent and Retention Agent for Volatile Organic Compounds”, 

Nanoscale, 2023, 15, 101-108. [Link] [Invited Article]

20. You-Jin Kim, Jeong-Bin Moon, Hyerim Hwang, Youn Soo Kim, Gi-Ra Yi*,

”Advances in Colloidal Building Blocks: Toward Patchy Colloidal Clusters”, 

Advanced Materials , 2022, 2203045. [Link] [Invited Review]

19. Im Kyung Han,^† Kang-Il Song,^† Sang-Mun Jung, Yeonggwon Jo, Jaesub Kwon, Taehun Chung, Surim Yoo, Jinah Jang, Yong-Tae Kim, Dong Soo Hwang, Youn Soo Kim*

“Electroconductive, Adhesive, Non-swelling, and Viscoelastic Hydrogels for Bioelectronics”, 

Advanced Materials, 2022, 2203431. [Link] [Invited Article] [Highlighted as a back cover]

18. Taehun Chung, Jihoon Han, Young Jae Kim, Kyeong-Jun Jeong, Jun Mo Koo, Jemin Lee, Hyung Gyu Park, Taiha Joo, Youn Soo Kim*

“Effect of Anions on the Phase Transition Temperature of Two Structurally Isomeric Polymers: Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) and Poly(2-isopropyl-2-oxazoline)”, 

Polymer Chemistry, 2022, 13, 4615-4624. [Link] [Invited Article] [Highlighted as a front cover]

17. Wonjeong Suh, Chaeyong Park, Joosung Oh, Sungmin Moon, Seungmoon Choi, Youn Soo Kim*, Unyong Jeong*

“Small-Sized Deformable Shear Sensor Array for Direct Monitoring of Quantitative Shear Distribution”, 

Advanced Materials Technologies, 2021, 2101071. [Link]

16. Im Kyung Han, Jihoon Han, Youn Soo Kim*

“Liquid-to-Solid Phase Transitions of Imidazolium-Based Zwitterionic Polymers Induced by Hofmeister Anions”, 

Chemistry: An Asian Journal, 2021, 16, 1897–1900. [Link]

15. Sang-Mun Jung†, Jaesub Kwon†, Jinhyeon Lee, Im Kyung Han, Kyu-Su Kim, Youn Soo Kim, and Yong-Tae Kim*

“Cost-Efficient Nickel-Based Thermo-Electrochemical Cells for Utilizing Low-Grade Thermal Energy”, 

JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES, 2021, 494, 229705. [Link]

14. Taehun Chung^†, Im Kyung Han^†, Jihoon Han, Kyojin Ahn, Youn Soo Kim*

“Fast and Large Shrinking of Thermoresponsive Hydrogels with Phase-Separated Structures”, 

Gels, 2021, 7(1), 18. [Link] [Invited Article]

13. Im Kyung Han, Taehun Chung, Jihoon Han, Youn Soo Kim*

“Nanocomposite Hydrogel Actuators Hybridized with Various Dimensional Nanomaterials for Stimuli Responsiveness Enhancement.”, 

Nano Convergence, 2019, 6, 18. [Link]

12.Zhifang Sun, Yoshihiro Yamauchi, Fumito Araoka, Youn Soo Kim, Julian Bergueiro, Yasuhiro Ishida,* Yasuo Ebina,Takayoshi Sasaki, Takaaki Hikima, and Takuzo Aida*

“An Anisotropic Hydrogel Actuator Enabling Earthworm-Like Directed Peristaltic Crawling”, 

Angewandte Chemie, 2018, 57(48), 15772-15776. [Link]

11. Eunjong Lee, Youn Soo Kim,* Aya Mizutani Akimoto, and Ryo Yoshida*

“Reversible and Directional Control of Chemical Wave Propagation in a Hydrogel by Magnetic Migration through Liquid Interfaces”, 

Chemistry of Materials, 2018, 30 (17), pp 5841–5845 [Link]

10. Ko Matsukawa, Tsukuru Masuda, Youn Soo Kim, Aya Akimoto* and Ryo Yoshida*

“Thermoresponsive Surface-Grafted Gels: Controlling the Bulk Volume Change Properties by Surface- Localized Polymer Grafting with Various Densities”, 

Langmuir, 2017, 33, 48. [Link]

9. Youn Soo Kim, Ryota Tamate, Aya Mizutani Akimoto, and Ryo Yoshida*,

“Recent Developments in Self-Oscillating Polymeric Systems as Smart Materials: From Polymers to Bulk Hydrogels”, 

Materials Horizons, 2017, 4, 38. [Link]

8. Koki Sano, Youn Soo Kim, Yasuhiro Ishida*, Yasuo Ebina, Takayoshi Sasaki, Takaaki Hikima, and Takuzo Aida*

“Photonic Water Dynamically Responsive to External Stimuli”, 

Nature Communications, 2016, 7, 12559. [Link]

7. Youn Soo Kim, Mingjie Liu, Yasuhiro Ishida*, Yasuo Ebina, Takayoshi Sasaki, Takaaki Hikima, Masaki Takata and Takuzo Aida*,

“Thermoresponsive Actuation Enabled by Permittivity Switching in an Electrostatically Anisotropic Hydrogel”, 

Nature Materials, 2015, 14, 1002. [Link]