Yeojin Jung

  • Doctoral Student, Chen Lab, Nanoscience Initiative

Yeojin is a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof. Xi Chen and Prof. Raymond Tu of City College of New York. Her research focuses on engineering of the water responsive polymeric materials. Prior to joining CCNY’s Chemical Engineering PhD program, she worked as a research assistant at Advanced Battery Research Center in Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI), South Korea. She obtained her B.S. in Energy & Mineral Resources Engineering (2014) and M.S. in Mineral Processing (2016) at the Sejong University.

Publications

Y. Jung, S.S. Golru, T.-D. Li, E.J. Biddinger, R.S. Tu, and X. Chen, Tuning water-responsiveness with Bombyx mori silk-silica nanoparticle composites, Soft Matter, 2021, 17, 7817-7821.

Y. Park, Y. Jung, T.-D. Li, J. Lao, R. Tu, X. Chen, β-Sheet Nanocrystals Dictate Water Responsiveness of Bombyx Mori Silk, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2020, 1900612.