Mar. 2013 - Feb. 2017 | B.S., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Yonsei University
Mar. 2017 - Feb. 2019 | M.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Mar. 2019 - Feb. 2023 | Ph.D. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Mar. 2023 - Apr. 2023 | Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Post-doc
May. 2023 - Aug. 2026 | Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Post-doc
Sep. 2026 - Present | Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Assistant professor

soft matter, self-assembly, colloids, liquid crystals, metal nanostructures, structural colors, plasmonics, 3D printing, microfluidics, photolithography

Jong Bin Kim, Antonio Proctor Martinez, Yaoye Hong, Ziyun Zhang, Kun-Yu Wang, Shu Yang*, High Center-of-Mass, Multi-Legged Soft Robots Powered by Encoded Liquid Crystal Elastomer Arc Appendages, Advanced Materials 38, 42, e73794 (2026)

Jong Bin Kim†, Jinghui Wang†, Yinding Chi, Jingxian Wu, Alicia Ng, Guanda Qiao, Honglin Tan, Miroslaw Janowski, Piotr Walczak*, Yajie Liang*, and Shu Yang*, Elastomeric micro-balloons for remote control of cerebral blood flow and real-time in vivo imaging of rodent brain response to hypoperfusion, Advanced Materials 38, 30, e18525 (2026)

Jong Bin Kim†, Shangsong Li†, Kun-Yu Wang, Yinding Chi, Shu Yang*, Multi-mode Mechanochromic Responses from Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomer Tubes of Uniform Sheath, Advanced Materials 37, 34, 2504461 (2025)

So Hee Nah†, Jong Bin Kim†, Hiu Ning Tiffany Chui, Yeonjoon Suh, Shu Yang*, Enhanced Colorimetric Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds Using a Dye-Incorporated Photonic Crystal-Based Sensor Array, Advanced Materials 36, 46, 2409297 (2024)

Jong Bin Kim, Hwan-Young Lee, Changju Chae, Su Yeon Lee*, and Shin-Hyun Kim*, Advanced Additive Manufacturing of Structurally-Colored Architectures, Advanced Materials 36, 9, 2307917 (2024)

Jong Bin Kim, Changju Chae, Sang Hoon Han, Su Yeon Lee, and Shin-Hyun Kim*, Direct writing of customized structural-color graphics with colloidal photonic inks, Science Advances 7, 48, eabj8780 (2021)

Jong Bin Kim, Su Yeon Lee, Nam Gi Min, Seung Yeol Lee, and Shin-Hyun Kim*, Plasmonic Janus Microspheres Created from Pickering Emulsion Drops, Advanced Materials 32, 26, 2001384 (2020)