Hyun-Joong Chung, PhD, P.Eng.

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 a 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

Recent Projects:

• Hydrogels for chemical and physical sensing
• Organogels for anti-fouling application
• Magnetically controlled 3D printed structures
• Elastomer composites for medical devices
• Flame-retardant coatings and materials
• and any related fundamental and application studies on hydrogels and elastomers

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

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Teaching

• MatE491/669 – Physics and Applications of Functional Materials (F16, F17, F18, F19, F20, F22, W25)
• CME494/694 – Introduction to Polymer Science and Engineering (F24) 
• CME482/689 – Fundamentals of Polymers / Polymer Properties (F14, F17, F23)
• CME694 – Physicochemical Properties of Gels and Elastomers (F19)
• MatE211 – Characterization of Materials (W19, W20, W21, W23)
• MatE202 – Materials Science II (F13, W14, W15, S16, S17, W23)
• MatE335 – Phase Transformation I (F23)
• MatE390 – Introduction to Nano and Functional Materials (F15)
• CME483 – Colloquium II (W13, W21)
• CME481 – Colloquium I (F14, F16)

Zhitong Lin, Gabrielle Anne Bacani, Hyun-Joong Chung

ACS Applied Engineering Materials. 2025 February; 10.1021/acsaenm.4c00811

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Ozge Zengin Akca, Rayan A. M. Basodan, Fredrick Flores, Byoungyoul Park, Hyun-Joong Chung

ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 2024 October; 10.1021/acsapm.4c02989

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Nathan Jen, Jake Hadfield, Guilherme M. Bessa, Marco Amabili, David S. Nobes, Hyun-Joong Chung

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials. 2023 September; 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2023.105994

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Nathan Jen, Guilherme M. Bessa, Kaelyn Nicolson, Jianliang Xiao, David S. Nobes, Hyun-Joong Chung

iScience. 2022 June; 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104369

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Hyun‐Joong Chung, Andrew M. Parsons, Lelin Zheng

Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2021 March; 10.1002/aisy.202000186

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Dinara Zhalmuratova, Hyun-Joong Chung

ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 2020 March; 10.1021/acsapm.9b01078

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Dinara Zhalmuratova, Thanh-Giang La, Katherine Ting-Ting Yu, Alexander R. A. Szojka, Stephen H. J. Andrews, Adetola B. Adesida, Chun-il Kim, David S. Nobes, Darren H. Freed, Hyun-Joong Chung

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2019 September; 10.1021/acsami.9b10524

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Hemant Charaya, Xinda Li, Nathan Jen, Hyun-Joong Chung

Langmuir. 2019 February; 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b02281

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Thanh‐Giang La, Shide Qiu, Dylan K. Scott, Reyhaneh Bakhtiari, Jonathan W. P. Kuziek, Kyle E. Mathewson, Jana Rieger, Hyun‐Joong Chung

Advanced Healthcare Materials. 2018 November; 10.1002/adhm.201801033

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Xinda Li, Hemant Charaya, Guy M. Bernard, Janet A. W. Elliott, Vladimir K. Michaelis, Byeongdu Lee, Hyun-Joong Chung

Macromolecules. 2018 April; 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b02498

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Polymers. 2017 October; 10.3390/polym9110558

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Thanh-Giang La, Xinda Li, Amit Kumar, Yiyang Fu, Shu Yang, Hyun-Joong Chung

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2017 September; 10.1021/acsami.7b08907

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Xinda Li, Li Liu, Xianzong Wang, Yong Sik Ok, Janet A. W. Elliott, Scott X. Chang, Hyun-Joong Chung

Scientific Reports. 2017 May; 10.1038/s41598-017-01873-3

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Biomacromolecules. 2015 January; 10.1021/acs.biomac.5b00018

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