Area of Study / Keywords

Nanomaterials and Nanofabrication Biomedical Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Materials Characterization and Processing Polymeric Materials Sensors

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About

Hyun-Joong Chung is an Associate Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta. He leads an interdisciplinary research program on understanding physical and chemical properties of elastomeric materials, and then on translating the understanding to engineering applications in various fields. His early-career contributions include key studies on the role of jamming nanoparticles in phase-separating polymer blends. After spending 4-years in information display industry to develop zinc-oxide-based thin film transistors for AMOLEDs, he came back to academia to apply the device knowledge in stretchable bioelectronics. His recent contributions are on studying various stretchable soft materials, including gels, elastomers, and textiles with or without functional additives and reinforcements.

B.Sc. - KAIST (2000), PhD - U. Pennsylvania (2005), Senior Engineer @ Samsung Display (2006 - 2009), Post-doc - U. Illionois at Urbana-Champaign (2009 - 2012)

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Research

Please refer to my research group website:

https://sites.ualberta.ca/~chung3/

And, please see link below for recent contributions from my research group:

https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=oT7ywJkAAAAJ&hl=en

Current Projects:

• Organogels and textiles for anti-fouling application
• Elastomer composites for medical devices
• Aging and end-of-life sensors for protective textiles
• Flame-retardant textiles
• Gel polymer electrolytes
• Carbon fiber fabrication
• and any related fundamental studies on hydrogels and elastomers

Keywords: Gels, Elastomers, Soft bioelectronics, Flexible and Printed electronics, Polymer physics, Nanocomposites, Functional soft materials

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Teaching

• MatE491/669 – Solid State Physics of Mat’ls / Nano Functional Mat’ls (F16, F17, F18, F19, F20)
• CME482/689 – Fundamentals of Polymers / Polymer Properties (F14, F17)
• CME694 – Physicochemical Properties of Gels and Elastomers (F19)
• MatE211 – Characterization of Materials (W19, W20, W21)
• MatE202 – Materials Science II (F13, W14, W15, S16, S17)
• MatE390 – Introduction to Nano and Functional Materials (F15)
• CME483 – Colloquium II (W13, W21)
• CME481 – Colloquium I (F14, F16)

* On sabbatical leave (21/22)