Tel: (office) +82-42-350-2848, (lab) +82-42-350-2888, (administrative) +82-42-350-5814
Location: (office) Room 206 (Bldg. E6-6), (lab) Room 214, 215 (Bldg. E6-6)
Fax: +82-42-350-2810

03/2003-02/2007 KAIST, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering (Ph.D.)
03/2001-02/2003 KAIST, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering (M.S.)
03/1997-02/2001 Yonsei University, Chemical Engineering (B.S.)

09/2021-present Professor, KAIST
04/2014-08/2021 Associate Professor, KAIST
04/2011-03/2014 Assistant Professor, KAIST
03/2009-03/2011 Postdoctoral Researcher, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
03/2007-03/2009 P Senior Engineer, Samsung Electronics

► Mid-career Researcher Award at the Polymer Society of Korean (2022. 04)

► Transdisciplinary Research Prize at the 50th anniversary of founding KAIST (2021. 05)

► Award for Advanced Research at 126th General meeting of Korean Chemical Society (2020. 10)

► Prime Minister’s Award at 53th Science Day (2020. 04)

► Merck Young Scientist Award at the 17th International Meeting on Inf. Dis. (2017), Korea (2017.08)

► MOE (Ministry of Education) Excellent basic research 50, Korea (2014.11)

► ILCS(The International Liquid Crystal Society) Early-Career Award: The Michi Nakata Prize in the 24th International Liquid Crystal Conference (ILCC 2012), US (2012.08)

► Synthesis of soft matters; small molecular weight liquid crystals, supramolecules, polymers, biopolymers, inorganic particles, etc
► Nano- and microfabrication and orientation control of soft matters by topographic confinement
► Nano- and micro-structural analyses; scattering and microscopy
► Organic optics and electronics using soft matters

1. Geonhyeong Park, Ahram Suh, Hanqing Zhao, Changjae Lee, Ivan I. Smalyukh*, and Dong Ki Yoon*, “Morphogenesis of topological solitons in patterned chiral liquid crystals” Adv. Mater. (in press: doi/10.1002/adma.202201749)
2. Moon Jong Han, Dayan Wei, David M. Walba, and Dong Ki Yoon*, “Three-dimensional Orientation Control of Liquid Crystal Semiconductor via Flipping Over” NPG Asia Mater, 14, 28 (2022. 04. 01)
3. Moon Jong Han, Hee Seong Yun, Yongjoon Cho, Minkyu Kim, Changduk Yang, Vladimir Tsukruk*, and Dong Ki Yoon* “Chiral Optoelectronic Functionalities via the DNA–Organic Semiconductor Complex” ACS Nano 2021, 15(12), 20353-20363 (2021. 12. 07)
4. Soon Mo Park, Massimo Bagnani, Hee Seong Yun, Moon Jong Han, Raffaele Mezzenga*, Dong Ki Yoon* “Hierarchically Fabricated Amyloid Fibers via Evaporation-Induced Self-Assembly” ACS Nano, 2021, 15(12), 20261-20266 (2021. 12. 10)
5. Soon Mo Park Won-Geun Kim, Junkyu Kim, Eun-Jung Choi, Hyoungsoo Kim, Jin-woo Oh*, Dong Ki Yoon*, “Fabrication of Chiral M13 Bacteriophage Film by Evaporation-Induced Self-Assembly” Small 2021, 17, 2008097 (2021. 06. 03) (featured as an inside back cover)
6. Moon Jong Han, Junkyu Kim, Bomi Kim, Soon Mo Park, Hyungju Ahn, Tae Joo Shin, BongSoo Kim*, Hyoungsoo Kim*, and Dong Ki Yoon* “Orientation Control of Semiconducting Polymers Using Microchannel Molds” ACS Nano 2020, 14(10), 12951–12961 (2020.10.16)
7. Geonhyeong Park, Simon Čopar, Ahram Suh, Minyong Yang, Uroš Tkalec*, and Dong Ki Yoon*, "Periodic Arrays of Chiral Domains Generated from the Self-Assembly of Micropatterned Achiral Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystal", ACS Cent. Sci. 2020, 6(11), 1964-1970 (2020. 09. 09) (featured as a front cover)
8. Yun Jeong Cha, Soon Mo Park, Ra You, Hyoungsoo Kim and Dong Ki Yoon* "Microstructure arrays of DNA using topographic control" Nat. Commun., 2019, 10, 2512 (2019.06.07)
9. Dae Seok Kim, Simon Copar, Uros Tkalec*, Dong Ki Yoon* “Mosaics of topological defects in micro-templated liquid crystal phases” Science Advances 2018, 4(11), eaau8064 (2018. 11.23)
10. Moon Jong Han, Dayan Wei, Yun Ho Kim, David M. Walba*, Dong Ki Yoon* “Highly oriented liquid crystal semiconductor for organic thin film transistor” ACS Central Science‎ 2018, 4(11), 1495-1502 (2018.10.24)