Professor So-Jung Park is a professor in the department of chemistry and nanoscience at Ewha Womans University. She obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry at Northwestern University in 2002 under the guidance of Prof. Chad Mirkin. Her PhD work was recognized by the Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry. After postdoctoral research with Prof. Paul Barbara at University of Texas at Austin, she joined the faculty of the department of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania as an assistant professor in the fall of 2005 and promoted to an associate professor with tenure in 2012. She then moved to Ewha woman’s university as a professor in 2013. Her research focuses on self-assembly of nanoparticles and functional polymers and their applications in biomedicine and alternative energy. The research projects aim to understand collective behavior of nanomaterials and to develop new functional materials through self-assembly. She has received the NSF career award, ARO young investigator award, and Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award.
Director, Center for Hybrid Interfacial Chemical Structure
Gold nanoshells with varying morphologies through templated surfactant-assisted seed-growth methodBulletin of the Korean Chemical Society, 2024, v.45 no.6, 486-494
Directional Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles Coated with Thermoresponsive Block Copolymers and Charged Small MoleculesACS MACRO LETTERS, 2023, v.12 no.7, 986-992
Multicolor Conjugated Polymer Thin Films with Tunable Responsivity to Oxidative and Reductive EnvironmentsACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2023, v.15 no.44, 51753-51762
In Situ Liquid Phase TEM of Nanoparticle Formation and Diffusion in a Phase-Separated MediumACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2022, v.14 no.20, 22810-22817
Magnetic Field-Induced Self-Assembly of Conjugated Block Copolymers and Nanoparticles at the Air-Water InterfaceACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 2022, v.14 no.6, 8266-8273
Molecular-Level Control of the Intersheet Distance and Electronic Coupling between 2D Semiconducting and Metallic Nanosheets: Establishing Design Rules for High-Performance Hybrid PhotocatalystsAdvanced Science, 2021, v.8 no.7, 2004530
Size and Shape Control of Ice Crystals by Amphiphilic Block Copolymers and Their Implication in the Cryoprotection of Mesenchymal Stem CellsACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 2021, v.13 no.29, 33969-33980
The core composition of DNA block copolymer micelles dictates DNA hybridization properties, nuclease stabilities, and cellular uptake efficienciesNANOSCALE, 2021, v.13 no.32, 13758-13763
Synthesis and Single-Particle Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Study of Plasmonic Tripod Nanoframes with Y-Shaped Hot-ZonesNANO LETTERS, 2020, v.20 no.6, 4362-4369
Binary Self-Assembly of Conjugated Block Copolymers and Quantum Dots at the Air-Liquid Interface into Ordered Functional NanoarraysACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2019, v.11 no.31, 28538-28545
Controlling Association and Separation of Gold Nanoparticles with Computationally Designed Zinc-Coordinating ProteinsJournal of the American Chemical Society, 2017, v.139 no.49, 17811-17823
Silver Seeds and Aromatic Surfactants Facilitate the Growth of Anisotropic Metal Nanoparticles: Gold Triangular Nanoprisms and Ultrathin NanowiresCHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS, 2014, v.26 no.21, 6172-6177
Synthesis and catalytic reactions of nanoparticles formed by electrospray ionization of coinage metalsAngewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2014, v.53 no.12, 3147-3150