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Journal Publications

2026

30. Jong Bin Kim, Antonio Proctor Martinez, Yaoye Hong, Ziyun Zhang, Kun-Yu Wang, Shu Yang*

High Center-of-Mass, Multi-Legged Soft Robots Powered by Encoded Liquid Crystal Elastomer Arc Appendages

Advanced Materials accepted. (2026) [Link]

29. Jong Bin Kim†, Jinghui Wang†, Yinding Chi, Jingxian Wu, Alicia Ng, Guanda Qiao, Honglin Tan, Miroslaw Janowski, Piotr Walczak*, Yajie Liang*, and Shu Yang*

Elastomeric micro-balloons for remote control of cerebral blood flow and real-time in vivo imaging of rodent brain response to hypoperfusion

Advanced Materials 38, 30, e18525. (May 2026) [Link]

2025

28. Yunchan Lee, So Hee Nah, Kun-Yu Wang, Yinding Chi, Jong Bin Kim, Ziyun Zhang, Shu Yang*

Highly Scalable, Raspberry-Like Microbeads with Nano-/Micro-Confined Hybrid Hydrogel Desiccants for Rapid Atmospheric Water Harvesting

Advanced Functional Materials 35, 46, 2506725. (Nov 2025) [Link]

27. Jong Bin Kim, Shangsong Li, Kun-Yu Wang, Yinding Chi, Shu Yang*

Multi-mode Mechanochromic Responses from Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomer Tubes of Uniform Sheath

Advanced Materials 37, 34, 2504461. (Aug 2025) [Link]

26. Antonio Proctor Martinez, Lucy K. Decker, Kunyu Wang, Jong Bin Kim, Christopher B. Murray, Shu Yang*

High-Speed and Scalable Wet Spinning of Graphene/Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Composite Filaments

Advanced Functional Materials 35, 24, 2422176. (Jun 2025) [Link]

25. Pauline Pradal, Paul Hardivillé, Jong Bin Kim, Seong Kyeong Nam, Shin-Hyun Kim, Esther Amstad​*

3D Printing of Stiff Photonic Microparticles into Load-Bearing Structures

Small 21, 18, 2501172. (May 2025) [Link]

24. Hyung Han Bae, Jong Bin Kim, Hwan-Young Lee, and Shin-Hyun Kim*

Single-step Production of Doubly Re-entrant Microstructures through Reaction-Diffusion Photolithography for Omniphobic Surfaces

Small 21, 8, 2409646. (Feb 2025) [Link]

23. Hyeong Seok Oh, Kyeong Jin Kim, Juyoung Lee, Jong Bin Kim, Kang Hee Ku*

Unveiling the structural influence of nematic mesogens on customizable temperature and spectral responses

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 677, Part B, 250-258. (Jan 2025) [Link]

22. Pauline Pradal, Jong Bin Kim, Seong Kyeong Nam, Shin-Hyun Kim, Esther Amstad*

Direct Ink Writing of Rigid Microparticles

Small 21, 2, 2405675. (Jan 2025) [Link]

2024

21. So Hee Nah, Jong Bin Kim, Hiu Ning Tiffany Chui, Yeonjoon Suh, Shu Yang*

Enhanced Colorimetric Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds Using a Dye-Incorporated Photonic Crystal-Based Sensor Array

Advanced Materials 36, 46, 2409297. (Nov 2024) [Link]

(† Equal contribution)

Highlighted as Frontispiece [Link]

20. Jong Hyun Kim, Jong Bin Kim, and Shin-Hyun Kim*

Structural Color Inks containing Photonic Microbeads for Direct Writing

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 16, 16, 21098−21108. (Apr 2024) [Link]

19. Jong Bin Kim, Hwan-Young Lee, Changju Chae, Su Yeon Lee*, and Shin-Hyun Kim*

Advanced Additive Manufacturing of Structurally-Colored Architectures

Advanced Materials 36, 9, 2307917. (Mar 2024) [Link]

18. Minji Kim, Jong Bin Kim, Shin-Hyun Kim*

Hyper-reflective Photonic Crystals created by Shearing Colloidal Dispersions at Ultrahigh Volume Fraction

Microsystems & Nanoengineering 10, 1, 21. (Jan 2024) [Link]

2023

17.  Yi Yang, Jong Bin Kim, Seong Kyeong Nam, Mengmeng Zhang, Jiangping Xu, Jintao Zhu*, and Shin-Hyun Kim*

Nanostructure-Free Crescent-Shaped Microparticles as Full-Color Reflective Pigments

Nature Communications 14, 1, 793. (Feb 2023) ​[Link]

16. Jong Bin Kim†, Seong Kyeong Nam†, Sanghyuk Park, Esther Amstad, and Shin-Hyun Kim*

Void-Free Photonic Surfaces created by Adaptive Dense Packing of Emulsion Droplets

Chemistry of Materials 35, 1, 261–270. (Jan 2023) [Link]

(Equal contribution)

Featured as Supplementary cover [Link]

15. Hyeong Jun Lee, Sanghyuk Park, Jong Bin Kim, and Shin-Hyun Kim*

Designing 3D Polymeric Structures through Capillary Wetting on Colloidal Monolayer

Advanced Functional Materials 33, 1, 2208402. (Jan 2023) [Link]

2022

14. Jong Bin Kim, Ji-Won Kim, Minjung Kim,  and Shin-Hyun Kim*

Dual-Colored Janus Microspheres with Photonic and Plasmonic Faces

Small 2022, 18, 21, 2201437. (May 2022) [Link]

13.  Minjung Kim, Jong Bin Kim, Seung Yeol Lee, Seong Kyeong Nam, and Shin-Hyun Kim*

Designing Multicolor Graphics of Plasmonic Metasurfaces through Gradual Protrusion of Particles at Free Interface

Advanced Materials Interfaces 9, 7, 2102240. (Mar 2022) [Link]

12.  Jong Hyun Kim, Jong Bin Kim, Ye Hun Choi, Sanghyuk Park, and Shin-Hyun Kim*

Photonic Microbeads templated by Oil-in-Oil Emulsion Droplets for High Saturation of Structural Colors

Small 18, 8, 2105225. (Feb 2022) [Link]

2021

11. Jong Bin Kim, Changju Chae, Sang Hoon Han, Su Yeon Lee, and Shin-Hyun Kim*

Direct writing of customized structural-color graphics with colloidal photonic inks

Science Advances 7, 48, eabj8780. (Nov 2021) [Link]

2020

10. Seong Kyeong Nam, Jong Bin Kim, Sang Hoon Han, and  Shin-Hyun Kim*

Photonic Janus Balls with Controlled Magnetic Moment and Density Asymmetry

ACS Nano 14, 11, 15714−15722. (Nov 2020) [Link]

9. Jong Bin Kim, Su Yeon Lee, Nam Gi Min, Seung Yeol Lee, and Shin-Hyun Kim*

Plasmonic Janus Microspheres Created from Pickering Emulsion Drops

Advanced Materials 32, 26, 2001384. (Jul 2020) [Link]

Featured as front cover [Link]

8. Jong Hyun Kim, Gun Ho Lee, Jong Bin Kim, and Shin-Hyun Kim*

Macroporous Hydrogels for Fast and Reversible Switching between Transparent and Structurally-Colored States

Advanced Functional Materials 30, 22, 2001318. (May 2020) [Link]

7. Gun Ho Lee, Sang Hoon Han, Jong Bin Kim, Dong Jae Kim, Sangmin Lee,  Wahyu Martumpal Hamonangan, Jung Min Lee, and Shin-Hyun Kim*

Elastic Photonic Microbeads as Building Blocks for Mechanochromic Materials

ACS Applied Polymer Materials2, 2, 706−714. (Mar 2020) [Link]

2019

6. Jong Bin Kim, Gun Ho Lee, and Shin-Hyun Kim*

Interfacial Assembly of Amphiphilic Tiles for Reconfigurable Photonic Surfaces

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 11, 48, 45237-45245. (Dec 2019) [Link]

5. Gun Ho Lee, Sang Hoon Han, Jong Bin Kim, Jong Hyun Kim, Jung Min Lee,  and Shin-Hyun Kim*

Colloidal Photonic Inks for Mechanochromic Films and Patterns with Structural Colors of High Saturation

Chemistry of Materials 31, 19, 8154−8162. (Oct 2019) [Link]

4. Jong Bin Kim, Seung Yeol Lee, Jung Min Lee, and Shin-Hyun Kim*

Designing Structural-Color Patterns composed of Colloidal Arrays

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 11, 16, 14485-14509. (Apr 2019) [Link]

3. Gun Ho Lee, Jong Bin Kim, Tae Min Choi, Jung Min Lee, and Shin-Hyun Kim*

Structural Coloration with Nonclose-Packed Array of Bidisperse Colloidal Particles

Small 15, 5, 1804548. (Feb 2019) [Link]

2018

2.  Sang Seok Lee, Jong Bin Kim, Yun Ho Kim, and Shin-Hyun Kim*

Wavelength-tunable and shape-reconfigurable photonic capsule resonators containing cholesteric liquid crystals

Science Advances  4, 6, eaat8276. (Jun 2018) [Link]

1. Gun Ho Lee, Tae Yoon Jeon, Jong Bin Kim, Byungjin Lee, Chang-Soo Lee, Su Yeon Lee*, and Shin-Hyun Kim*

Multicompartment Photonic Microcylinders toward Structural Color Inks

Chemistry of Materials 30, 11, 3789–3797. (May 2018) [Link]

Patents

REGISTRATION

5. Structural-Coloring Micro Particle With Hemisphere, Identification Mark Including The Same And Method For Fabricating Structural-Coloring Micro Particle (Republic of Korea)

    Shin-Hyun Kim, Yi Yang, Jong Bin Kim, Seong Kyeong Nam

    Patent number: 10-2690940-0000

    Registration date: 8/19/2024

4. Ink composition for direct writing of structure color structure and method for manufacturing structure color structure using same (Republic of Korea)

   구조색 구조체 직접인쇄용 잉크 조성물 및 이를 이용한 구조색 구조체 제조방법

    Shin-Hyun Kim, Jong Bin Kim, Sang Hoon Han

    Patent number: 10-2691563

    Registration date: 7/30/2024

3. A photonic crystal ink composition comprising light-absorbing nanoparticles and photonic crystal structure formed thereof (Republic of Korea)

   흡광성 나노입자를 포함하는 광결정 잉크 조성물 및 이를 통해 형성된 광결정 구조체

    Shin-Hyun Kim, Gun Ho Lee, Jong Bin Kim, Sang Hoon Han, Chan Woul Jeong

    Patent number: 10-2633941

    Registration date: 2/1/2024

2. Photonic crystal structure and its manufacturing method (Republic of Korea)

   광결정 구조체 및 이의 제조방법

    Shin-Hyun Kim, Seong Kyeong Nam, Jong Bin Kim, Sang Hoon Han

    Patent number: 10-2471634

    Registration date: 11/23/2022

1. Transparent film composed of macroporous hydrogel, and method of manufacturing the same, sensor and security products using the same (Republic of Korea)

   색 변환 다공성 하이드로젤 구조체, 이의 제조 방법 및 제조된 하이드로젤 구조체의 구조색 조절 방법

    Shin-Hyun Kim, Jong Hyun Kim, Gun Ho Lee, Jong Bin Kim

    Patent number: 10-2455608

    Registration date: 10/12/2022

APPLICATION


1. Photonic Crystal-Based Colorimetric Volatile Compound Sensors (U.S.A.)

    Shu Yang, So Hee Nah, Jong Bin Kim, Tiffany Hiu Ning Chui

    U.S. Provisional Application No.: 63/632,923

    Filing date: 4/11/2024

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