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24.10.16 Han-Bit, Seong-Su, Hyeon-Joong, and Yeo-Jin in collaboration with Ph.D. student Yan-Woo, participated in the "2024 Chem Frontier: Creative Chemical Engineering Design Competition: Designing an Innovative Future with Chemical Engineering", and were awarded the Silver Prize. Congratulates!!!

(2024 KIChE Fall Meeting and International Symposium, Busan, Korea) 

24.09.30~10.02 Seong-Hyun and Min-Young presented posters and Yang-Woo had an oral research presentation at Annual Fall Meeting (2024 The Polymer Society of Korea, Busan, Korea).

23.12 Professor Michael D. Dickey at NC State University visited our lab to give a seminar and have individual meetings. We had a very productive, fruitful, and fun time. Thanks, Dr. Dickey!

23.10.11~10.14 Ji-Hye, Yang-Woo, Da-In, Dong-Hyuk, Ji-In and Seong-Hyun presented posters at Annual Fall Meeting (2023 The Polymer Society of Korea, Jeju, Korea).

21.12 The paper entitled "A Fully-Textile-based Skin pH Sensor" has been accepted in Journal of Industrial Textiles  (JCR ranking%: 12.50%).

21.10  The paper entitled "Alcohol-sensing Microfiber: Dependence of Conductance of a Hydrated Composite Fiber on Normal Aliphatic Alcohol" has been accepted in Chemical Engineering Journal  (JCR ranking%: 2.45%).

The work has been featured in press as below (selected list),

https://www.joongang.co.kr/article/25012385#home (중앙일보)

http://www.dhnews.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=145563 (대학저널)

http://www.kyosu.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=77806 (교수신문)

21.04  The paper entitled "Eco-Friendly Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Based on Water-Electrolytes and Chlorophyll" has been published in Materials  (JCR ranking%: 19.44%).

21.04 Ji-Hye presented posters at The Polymer Society of Korea and received Virtual Lightning Talk Session!! 

20.10.   The paper entitled "Dielectrophoretic Manipulation of Janus Particle in Conductive Media for Biomedical Applications" has been accepted in Biotechnology Journal (JCR ranking%: 17.53%).

20.09.   The paper entitled "Impedance study on humidity dependent conductivity of polymer composites with conductive nanofillers" has been published in Composites Part B: Engineering. (JCR ranking%: 1.6%) 

20.02.   The paper entitled "Facile fabrication of polyaniline films with hierarchical porous networks for enhanced electrochemical activity" has been published in Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (JCR ranking%: 15.73%).

19.01.   The paper entitled "A humidity-sensing composite microfiber based on moisture-induced swelling of an agarose polymer matrix" has been published in Polymer Composites (JCR ranking%: 33.52%).

18.12.   The paper entitled "A Conducting Composite Microfiber Containing Graphene/Silver Nanowires in an Agarose Matrix with Fast Humidity Sensing Ability" has been published in Polymer (Elsevier) (JCR ranking%: 13.74%).

18.11.   The paper entitled "pH dependent swelling behavior of poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate)-based copolymer hydrogels" has been published in Polymer (Korea). 

18.05.   The paper entitled "Cytotoxicity of Gallium–Indium Liquid Metal in Aqueous Environment" has been published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (JCR ranking%: 11.68%).

The work has been featured in press as below,

http://www.dhnews.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=82875

http://www.veritas-a.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=120648

http://www.metroseoul.co.kr/news/newsview?newscd=2018070400061

17.12.03. Prof. Koo gave an invited talk on agarose-based microfiber at IEEE-Nanomed 2017 in Shenzhen, China. 

17.05.   The paper entitled "Flexible and Wearable Fiber Microsupercapacitors Based on Carbon Nanotube–Agarose Gel Composite Electrodes" has been published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (JCR ranking%: 11.68%).

17.04.05~7. Yang-Woo, Ji-Hye and Hyo-Jin presented posters at the Polymer Society of Korea (Spring Meeting, Daejeon, Korea). 

17.03.   The paper entitled "Design and Characterization of Hydrogel-Based Microfluidic Devices with Biomimetic Solute Transport Networks" has been published in Biomicrofluidics (JCR ranking%: 45.89%).

17.03.   The paper entitled "Conductive Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering Applications" has been published in Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (JCR ranking%: 15.73%).

16.12.12.   Prof. Koo presented an oral presentation at Pacific Rim Symposium on Surfaces, Coatings and Interfaces (PacSurf 2016, Hawaii, USA). 

16.11.22.   The Capstone design students presented their thesis work in the department Capstone design symposium. 

16.10.   The paper entitled "Role of network geometry on fluid displacement in microfluidic color-changing windows" has been published in Smart Structures and Systems (JCR ranking%: 14.58%).

16.10.18.   Prof. Koo presented an oral presentation at 10th Asian-Australasian Conference on Composite Materials (ACCM-10, Busan, Korea).

16.10.13.   Yang-Woo presented a poster at the Korea Society for Energy Engineering (Fall meeting, Busan, Korea). 

16.10.   The paper entitled "하이드로퀴논 전해질 중간체에 의한 염료-수화젤 기반 태양전지 효율 향상" has been published in Trans. of the Korean Hydrogen and New Energy Society. 

16.07.   The paper entitled "Qualitative degradation of the pesticide coumaphos in solution, controlled aerosol, and solid phases on quaternary ammonium fluoride polymer brushes" has been published in Polymers for Advanced Technologies (Wiley) (JCR ranking%: 26.92%).

16.06.   The paper entitled "수퍼커패시터 응용을 위한 EGaIn 액체 금속 전극의 전기화학 특성 연구" has been published in Trans. of the Korean Hydrogen and New Energy Society. 

14.09.01   Prof. Koo has started his faculty career.