Welcome to PEARLS
at Seoul National University of Science and Technology
News
Sep. 2026
Jong Bin joined the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Seoul National University of Science and Technology as an Assistant Professor.
Jun. 2026
Jong Bin's first-author paper titled 'High Center-of-Mass, Multi-Legged Soft Robots Powered by Geometrically Encoded Liquid Crystal Elastomer Arc Appendages' has been accepted in Advanced Materials.
May 2026
Jong Bin was named to the 2026 CAS FUTURE LEADERS TOP 100 by CAS, a division of American Chemical Society (ACS)!
We are recruiting...
We are looking for motivated graduate (M.S. / Ph.D.) and undergraduate researchers interested in:
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Photonic materials for next-generation sensors and displays
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Soft robotics for biomedical and adaptive systems
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Self-/directed assembly of colloidal particles and liquid crystal molecules
If you are interested, please contact Prof. Jong Bin Kim via email (jongbink@seoultech.ac.kr).
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