Jong Bin Kim
Feb. 2026
Jong Bin presented his work titled 'Yield-Stress-Aided Fabrication of Elastomeric Micro-Balloons via Colloidal Networks for Remote Control of Cerebral Hypoperfusion,' at the Gorden Research Conference (GRC) on Colloidal, Macromolecular and Polyelectrolyte Solutions in Ventura, California.
Dec. 2025
Two of Jong Bin’s posters received Best Poster nominations, with one taking home the award at the 2025 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dec. 2025
Jong Bin presented his work titled 'Liquid Crystal Elastomer Fiber-Based Soft Robots with a High Center of Mass for Octopus-Inspired Versatile Locomotion' at the 2025 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.
Oct. 2025
Jong Bin presented his work titled 'Intelligent Soft Materials: From a Novel Platform to AI Integration with Color and Robotics' at the 2025 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual meeting.
Jun. 2025
Jong Bin's proposal, 'AI-assisted Adaptive Liquid Crystal Elastomers: Dynamic Color Displays and Soft Robotic Systems,' was selected as one of the <100 recipients for the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF).
Jun. 2025
Jong Bin's first-author paper titled 'Multi-Mode Mechanochromic Responses from Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomer Tubes of Uniform Sheath' has been published in Advanced Materials.
Apr. 2025
Jong Bin presented his work titled 'Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomer Tubes with Highly Strain-Sensitive Structural Colors and Adjustable Spatial Configurations' at the 2025 Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring meeting.
Sep. 2024
Jong Bin's first-author paper titled 'Enhanced Colorimetric Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds Using a Dye-Incorporated Photonic Crystal-Based Sensor Array ' has been published in Advanced Materials.
May 2024
Jong Bin presented his work titled 'Colorimetric Sensing of Volatile Organic Compounds using Dye-Photonic Crystal Sensor Arrays' at the 2024 CiPD Symposium and won Outstanding Poster Award.
Feb. 2023
Jong Bin won PhD Dissertation Award in 2022 by the KAIST College of Engineering.
Nov. 2022
Jong Bin presented his work titled 'Structural-Color Coatings created by Adaptive Dense Packing of Emulsion Droplets' at the 2022 Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (KSIEC) Fall Conference and won Excellent Paper Presentation Award.
Nov. 2022
Jong Bin's work has been selected as
KAIST's Top 10 Research Achievement in 2021 by Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)!
Nov. 2021
Jong Bin presented his work titled 'Direct Writing of viscoelastic colloidal inks for customizable patterns with structural colors' at the 2021 Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (KSIEC) Fall Conference and won Excellent Paper Presentation Award.
Feb. 2021
Jong Bin won 27th Samsung HumanTech Paper Award's Bronze Prize by Samsung Electronics.
Oct. 2020
Jong Bin presented his work titled 'Janus Microspheres with Plasmonic Colors designed from Pickering-Emulsion Templates' at the 2020 Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers (KIChE) Fall Meeting and won Excellent Poster Presentation Award.
Sep. 2020
Jong Bin has been selected as Kim Young Han Global Leader Scholarship Student.
Sep. 2019
Jong Bin presented his work titled 'Interfacial Assembly of Amphiphilic Photonic Tiles' at the 2019 and 8th China Soft Matter Day and won Best Poster Award in Hangzhou, China.
Apr. 2019
Jong Bin presented his work titled 'Interfacial Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Tiles for Reconfigurable Photonic Surfaces' at the Annual Spring Meeting of the Polymer Society of Korea (PSK) and won Excellent Poster Presentation Award.
Oct. 2018
Jong Bin presented his work titled 'Reconfigurable Capsule Resonator containing Cholesteric Liquid Crystals' at the Annual Fall Meeting of the Polymer Society of Korea (PSK) and won Excellent Oral Presentation Award.