Sustainable Plastics Lab.

26년 1학기 연구프로젝트/학부연구생은 박사과정/통합과정 (for 26년 이후) 을 전제로한 참여만 가능합니다.

관심있으신 분들은 본인의 각오(^^)를 이메일로 신청바랍니다.

25년 TO는 마감되었습니다.

Welcome to Jeyoung Park's research team for sustainable plastics!

Our laboratory mainly aims for plastic-waste-free society by doing research, science, and technology.

Also, we welcome new ideas to change the world  toward sustainable society.

• Notification and News

• 2025.09.10.: Congrat! 재범, 수빈. Paper in Polymer accepted.

• 2025.09.01.: Welcome!! 김해민, 동현지, 장나영 joined the team as master/combined course students.

• 2025.08.21.: Congrat! Graduation Jimin, and Subin. 석사졸업을 축하합니다.

• 2025.08.21.: Congrat! Jimin. Paper in Advanced Sustainable Systems accepted.

• 2025.08.05.: News article in 동아 사이언스: 1300℃ 화염에 노출돼도 쉽게 꺼지는 플라스틱 소재: https://m.dongascience.com/news.php?idx=73265

• 2025.07.16.: Paper in Adv Compos Hybrid Mater accepted: Flame-retardant ANF-composites.

• 2025.06.25.: 고분자 과학과 기술 (Polymer Science and Technology) Vol.36, No.3 에 연구실 소개 

• 2025.06.10.: 언론보도: 레고 원리로 배양육에 '마블링' 구현했다: https://www.chosun.com/economy/science/2025/06/10/GGWCLEYV2UFEWOM76WL64QBCOE/

• 2025.03.05.: Front Cover selected on Advanced Materials 2025, 37, 2570070; 언론보도: https://www.etnews.com/20250427000118

• 2025.03.01. : Welcome!! 이혜원 joined the team as master/combined course students.

• 2025.03.: Many Congrats below new SCI papers outcome!

 (성현-1st author) Polymer Degradation and Stability; Polymer Testing

  Advanced Materials, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

• 2024.12.: Citations > 100 times !!: Nanochitin and nanochitosan: Chitin nanostructure engineering with multiscale properties for biomedical and environmental applications, Advanced Materials, 2023, 35, 2203325. First published online at 31-May-2022

• Congrat! (Dr.) Seonghyun Chung passed the defense seminar for his Ph.D. (2024.12.17)

• 2024.12.: Citations > 100 times !!: A self‐healing nanofiber‐based self‐responsive time‐temperature indicator for securing a cold‐supply chain, Advanced Materials, 2020, 32, 1907064. First published online at 5-Feb-2020

• 2024.11.: Many Congrats below new SCI papers outcome!

 (세빈-1st author) Progress in Organic Coatings; Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society; Polymers for Advanced Technologies

• 2024.10.: Citations > 100 times !!: Highly self-healable and flexible cable-type pH sensors for real-time monitoring of human fluids, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2023, 150, 111946. First published online at 7-Dec-2019

• 2024.10.01. : Thank you for winning the Polymer Science Advancement Award (고분자학술진보상) in Fall meeting of the Polymer Society of Korea

• 2024.09.25. : Keynote presentation in INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DYNAMIC POLYMER NETWORKS, Changchun, China

• 2024.09.01. : Welcome!! Undergraduate participant: 동현지

• 2024.09.01. : Welcome!! 장재범 changed to combined MS/PhD course student.

• 2024.09.01. : Welcome!! 김지헌, 안영환, 정혜원 joined the team as master/combined course students.

• 2024.09.01. : Welcome!! 박정식, 김태현 joined the team as BS/MS combined course students.

• 2024.08.: Citations > 100 times !!: Review of polymer technologies for improving the recycling and upcycling efficiency of plastic waste, Chemosphere, 2023, 320, 138089. First published online at 6-Feb-2022

• 2024.05.07.: Congrat! New SCI papers [100th] outcome! titled: 

Next-generation all-organic composites: A sustainable successor to organic–inorganic hybrid materials 

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.127790

• 2024.05.: Citations > 100 times !!: Biorenewable, transparent, and oxygen/moisture barrier nanocellulose/nanochitin-based coating on polypropylene for food packaging applications, Carbohydrate Polymers, 2021, 271, 118421. First published online at 10-Jul-2021

• 2024.04.16.: Honorable Congrat! Our Nat. Rev. Bioeng. review article is featured in Front Cover as well as Editorial comment of Apr.-issue-2024

     https://www.nature.com/natrevbioeng/volumes/2/issues/4

      https://www.nature.com/articles/s44222-024-00181-6

• 2024.03.: Citations > 100 times !!: Highly self-healable and flexible cable-type pH sensors for real-time monitoring of human fluids, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2020, 150, 111946. First published online at 12-Dec-2019

• 2024.03.01.: Welcome!! Undergraduate participant: 혜원

• 2024.03.: Many Congrats below new SCI papers outcome!

     (준혁-1st author) Polymer Testing

     (미라-1st author) Polymer Testing

     (세민-1st author) Advanced Science

     (지원-1st author) Chemical Engineering Journal

• 2024.02.: Citations > 100 times !!: Sustainable and recyclable super engineering thermoplastic from biorenewable monomer, Nature Communications, 2019, 10, 2601. First published online at 13-Jun-2019

• 2024.01.18.: Congrat! New SCI papers outcome! titled: 

Optimizing bioplastics translation 

Nature Review Bioengineering https://doi.org/10.1038/s44222-023-00142-5

• 2024.01.05.: Congrat! New SCI papers outcome! titled: 

     Network of cyano-p-aramid nanofibres creates ultrastiff and water-rich hydrospongels.     

      Nature Materials https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01760-5

• 2024.01.01.: Welcome!! Undergraduate participants/researchers: 태현, 의린, 지헌

• 2023.12.14.: Thank you for winning the 1st EYSA·Ecopro Young Scientist Awards-Environment Division (에코프로 젊은 과학자상-환경부문) 

• 2023.11.27.:  Our research out is featured in YOUTUBE! (self-healing materials)

                          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKN4XvX8RI4

                               https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MKz7fvw6WG0

• 2023.11.21.: Congrat! New SCI papers outcome! titled: 

     Improved mechanical properties of biodegradable polycaprolactone nanocomposites prepared using cellulose nanocrystals.     

      Celluose https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-023-05615-9

• 2023.11.04.: Congrat! New SCI papers outcome! titled: 

Preparation of a nanocellulose/nanochitin coating on a poly(lactic acid) film for improved hydrolysis resistance

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.127790

• 2023.10.26.: Thank you for winning the TCI-Emerging scholar award (신진학술상) in Fall meeting of Korean Chemical Society (Polymer Chemistry Division)

• 2023.10.07.: Congrat! New SCI papers outcome! titled: 

Circular waste management: Superworms as a sustainable solution for biodegradable plastic degradation and resource recovery

Waste Management https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2023.09.027

• 2023.09.30.: Citations > 100 times !!: Recent progress in self-healing polymers and hydrogels based on reversible dynamic B–O bonds: boronic/boronate esters, borax, and benzoxaborole, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021, 9, 14630. First published online at 18-May-2021

• 2023.09.27.: Congrat! New SCI papers outcome! titled: 

Molecular dynamics interpretation of hydrogen bonds for colorless, water-resistant, tough, and self-healable elastomers

Journal of Materials Chemistry A https://doi.org/10.1039/D3TA03811D (Outside Front Cover)

• 2023.09.22.: Congrat! New SCI papers outcome! titled: 

Exploring the Potential of 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid-Based Bioplastics: Properties, Synthesis, and Applications

Polymer Degradation and Stability https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2023.110539

• 2023.09.12.: Congrat! The first patent registered with assignee of "Sogang U." titled:

생분해도가 우수한 방향족 폴리아미드-방향족 폴리에스테르 공중합체 및 이의 제조 방법

• 2023.09.11.: Congrat! New SCI papers outcome! titled: 

Extending the high-performing boundaries of a fully bio-based thermal shrinkage film targeted for food packaging applications

Green Chemistry https://doi.org/10.1039/D3GC02193A

Flexible Poly(Lactic acid) suitable for deep freeze packaging synthesized using lactic acid-based ester precursors

Polymer Testing https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymertesting.2023.108197

• 2023.09.01.: Welcome!! Undergraduate participants/researchers: 예락, 해민, 하윤

• 2023.09.01.: Huge Welcome!! Hyung Rai Kim, Jimin Ryoo, Soobin Kim, Jaebeom Jang joined the team as post-graduate students.

• 2023.08.30.: [Youtube-크랩] 종이 빨대가 해롭다고 말 나오는 이유 진짜인지 확인해 봄

https://youtu.be/99iCcRGrukE?si=po4LyovUy6rRJkvY

• 2023.07.13. : Welcome!! Undergraduate participants/researchers: 기연

• 2023.06.17. : Congrat! New SCI paper outcome! titled: 

Biobased super engineering plastic nanocomposite of cellulose nanofibers and isosorbide

Polymer Degradation and Stability https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2023.110445

• 2023.06.03. : Citations > 100 times !!: Extremely fast self-healable bio-based supramolecular polymer for wearable real-time sweat-monitoring sensor, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2019, 11, 46165. First published online at 27-Nov-2019

• 2023.05.31.: Wish good luck to 수정 for her happy life.

• 2023.05.03./05.24.: Welcome!! Undergraduate participants/researchers: 형래, 영

• 2023.04.18. : Congrat! New SCI paper outcome! titled: 

Method to analyze phthalate esters from soft toys dissolving into water mimicking infant playing

Chemosphere https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138695

• 2023.04.01. : Welcome!! Soobin Kim, Jimin Ryoo, Sujeong Kim joined the team as pre-master participant students.

• 2023.04.01. : Citations > 100 times !!: Mechano-responsive hydrogen-bonding array of thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer captures both strength and self-healing, Nature Communications, 2021, 12, 621. First published online at 27-Jan-2021

• 2023.04.01. : Citations > 100 times !!: Biodegradable, Efficient, and Breathable Multi-Use Face Mask Filter, Advanced Science, 2021, 8, 2003155. First published online at 29-Jan-2021

• 2023.03.08. : Congrat! New SCI paper outcome! titled: 

Chitosan Coating in the Form of Polymer and Nanowhiskers on Clothing Fabrics for Improved Particulate Matter Removal Efficiency in Face Mask Filters

Journal of Natural Fibers https://doi.org/10.1080/15440478.2023.2187507

• 2023.02.22.: Welcome!! Undergraduate participants/researchers: 수정 

• 2023.02.10.: Congrat! Drs. 도훈, 성빈, 하오's PhD graduation ceremony

• 2023.02.09.: Huge Congrat! 150 Altmetric score recorded in the SCI paper entitled "Biodegradable, Water‐Resistant, Anti‐Fizzing, Polyester Nanocellulose Composite Paper Straws"

https://wiley.altmetric.com/details/138709867

• 2023.02.06. : Congrat! New SCI paper outcome! titled: 

Review of polymer technologies for improving the recycling and upcycling efficiency of plastic waste

Chemosphere https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138089

• 2023.02.02. : Huge Congrat! Our New SCI paper  is featured in International news, titled:

Want a stronger biodegradable plastic? Add a ‘pinch’ of cream of tartar

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/977960

• 2022. 01.22. : Congrat! New SCI paper outcome! titled: 

Toward Sustaining Bioplastics: Add a Pinch of Seasoning

ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c06247

As well as Huge Congrat to be featured as Editor's choice.

• 2023.1.13.: Congrat! Outside Front Cover Selected in ACS Appl. Polym. Mater.  Vol. 5. Iss. 1:

https://pubs.acs.org/toc/aapmcd/5/1

• 2023.1.10.: Welcome!! Junhyeok Lee, Mira Shin joined the team as combined Ph.D. course students.

• 2023.1.4.: Congrat! Inside Front Cover Selected in Adv. Sci. Vol. 10. Iss. 1:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202370002

• 2023.1.3.:  Welcome!! Undergraduate participants/researchers: 수빈, 지민, 태현, 정식, 정우, 세원, 유미 (7-members)

• 2022.12.30. : Citations > 100 times !!:  Ion-conductive self-healing hydrogels based on an interpenetrating polymer network for a multimodal sensor, Chem. Eng. J. 2019, 371, 452-460. First published online at 11-Apr-2019 / 

• 2022. 12.15. : Congrat! New SCI paper outcome! titled: 

Enhanced Mechanical Properties of Poly(butylene adipate-co-terephthalate)/Cellulose Nanocrystal Nanocomposites Obtained by In Situ Polymerization

ACS Applied Polymer Materials https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.2c01694

• 2022. 12.15. : Congrat! Se Bin Jin! New SCI paper outcome! titled: 

Masterbatch of Chitosan Nanowhiskers for Preparation of Nylon 6,10 Nanocomposite by Melt Blending

Polymers https://doi.org/10.3390/polym14245488

• 2022.12.07. : Huge Congrat! Our New SCI paper  is featured in Domestic media and news, titled:

“눅눅해져 불편했는데”...젖지 않는 친환경 빨대 개발

https://n.news.naver.com/mnews/article/009/0005055959?sid=105

• 2022. 11.21. : Huge Congrat! Our New SCI paper is featured in Advanced Science News! titled: 

Finally, an anti-fizzing paper straw that doesn’t get soggy 

https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/finally-an-anti-fizzing-paper-straw-that-doesnt-get-soggy/

• 2022. 11.20. : Congrat! New SCI paper outcome! titled: 

Biodegradable, Water-Resistant, Anti-Fizzing, Polyester Nanocellulose Composite Paper Straws

Advanced Science https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202205554

• 2022. 11.15. : Congrat! New SCI paper outcome! titled: 

Ultra-Fast Self-Healable Stretchable Bio-based Elastomer/Graphene Ink using Fluid Dynamics Process for Printed Wearable Sweat-Monitoring Sensor

Chemical Engineering Journal https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.140443 

• 2022.09.01. : Welcome!! Se Bin Jin joined the team as a Ph.D. course student.

• 2022.09.01. : Start JYP-Research Team at Sogang University.

Please take a look at these videos what we are pursuing.