Spring 2012
January, Jung Tae from Prof. Jong Hak Kim's group at Yonsei University (Korea) joins the group. Welcome!
January, our paper "Harnessing Interfacial Phenomena to Program the Release Properties of Hollow Microcapsules" is featured in the Frontispiece of Advanced Fucntional Materials, Vol 22, Issue 1.
January, Lakshmi Madhavan (MS student) joins the Lee group. Welcome!
Fall 2011
December, Bum Jun's paper "Equilibrium Orientation of Non-Spherical Janus Particles at Fluid-Fluid Interfaces" is accepted for publication in ACS Nano. Congratulations!
November, Prof. Lee presents an invited talk titled "Designer Drops and Bubbles" in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the City College of New York.
November, Steven Lee is admitted to the Rachleff Scholar's program. Congratulations!
November, Myung Han's paper "Effect of Composition on Water Permeability of Model Stratum Corneum Lipid Membranes" is accepted for publication in Soft Matter. Congratulations!
November, Teresa receives a Graduate Fellowship from the La Caixa Foundation. Congratulations!
November, Ankit Kumar and Wonjae Lee (PhD students) join the group. Welcome!
November, Kwadwo, Teresa, Fuquan, Jacob and Bum Jun present posters at the 2011 CBE Graduate Student Symposium.
October, Prof. Lee gives an invited talk titled "Designer Polymer Particles from Drops and Bubbles" at NIST Polymer Division.
October, Prof. Lee gives an invited talk titled "Enhancing Assembly and Properties of Nanoparticle Thin Films" at 3M.
October, Prof. Lee makes two presentations at the 2011 AIChE Meeting in Minneapolis, MN.
October, Dr. Sang-Wook Lee joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!
September, our article ‘Janus particles at an oil-water interface’ is one of the top ten most-read articles from the online version of Soft Matter in July, 2011.
September, Dr. Lei Zhang joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!
September, Weifeng Wang (MS Student) joins the group. Welcome!
Summer 2011
August, Prof. Lee and Kwadwo make presetations at the 2011 Fall ACS Meeting in Denver.
August, Myung Han's paper "Harnessing Interfacial Phenomena to Program the Release Properties of Hollow Microcapsules" is accepted for publication in Advanced Functional Materials. Congratulations!
August, Soft Nanomaterials Lab visits Ridley Creek State Park for hiking and BBQ. Prof. Feng's group from Villanova and Prof. Vohs join us.
August, Prof. Lee makes a presentation at the 2011 US-Korea Conference in Park City, Utah.
July, our article ‘Janus particles at an oil-water interface’ is one of the top ten most-read articles from the online version of Soft Matter in June, 2011.
July, Teresa's paper "Generation of Amphiphilic Janus Bubbles and Their Behavior at an Air-Water Interface" is accepted for publication in Advanced Functional Materials. Congratulations!
June, The Korea Times names Prof. Lee as one of "New Korean-American Leader 100".
June, Eungjin Ahn from UNIST joins the Soft Nanomaterials Lab. Welcome!
June, Kwadwo and Teresa make presentations at the 2011 ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium in Montreal.
June, Steven Lee (Penn CBE; PURM Fellow) joins the Soft Nanomaterials Lab. Welcome!
June, Kwadwo receives a student travel stipend to attend the 2011 Fall ACS National meeting in Denver. We acknowledge the support by the NSF DMR. Congratulations!
June, the Lee group successfully hosts the 7th Mid-Atlantic Soft Matter Workshop.
June, Prof. Lee receives a Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) grant from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS PRF). Congratulations!
June, Kwadwo's review article "Recent Progress in Superhydrophilic Surface Development" is accepted for publication in Materials Express. Congratulations!
June, Prof. Lee delivers an invited talk titled "Functional Nanoparticle Suprastructures Based on Directed Assembly" at UOP.
May, Will Mulhearn (Penn CBE; MRSEC REU) joins the Soft Nanomaterials Lab. Welcome!
Spring 2011
May, Bum Jun's paper "Janus Particles at an Oil-Water Interface" is accepted for publication in Soft Matter. Congratulations!
May, Prof. Lee and Prof. Feng (Villanova) receive the 2011 PSTR (Program for Support of Translational Research) Proof-of-Concept Fund from the Nanotechnology Institute . Congratulations!
May, Prof. Lee gives an invited talk titled "Designer Drops, Capsules and Bubbles" at POSTECH, Korea.
May, Prof. Lee receives the 2011 KSEA (Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association) Young Investigator Award . Congratulations!
May, Maj, Iris and Sam graduate. Congratulations and wish you the best of luck!
May, Jacob and Fuquan pass the qualifying exam. Congratultions!
May, Jacob receives an NSF-IGERT Fellowship from the Penn Nano/Bio Interface Center. Congratultions!
May, Michele receives the 2011 American Gastroenterological Association-Stuart Brotman Student Research Fellowship Award. Congratultions!
May, Maj's paper "Mechanical Reinforcement of Nanoparticle Thin Films Using Atomic Layer Deposition" is accepted for publication in ACS Nano. Congratulations!
April, Maj Dafinone gives her thesis presentation. Congratulations!
March, Yile Gu joins the group from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He will be working on a collaborative project between the Lee group and Dr. Rebecca Well's group in Medical School. Welcome!
March, Prof. Lee gives an invited talk titled "Designer Drops, Capsules and Bubbles" at Dow.
February, Kwadwo's paper "Modulating Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Oppositely Charged Nanoparticles Using a Short Amphiphilic Molecule" is accepted for publication in Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Congratulations!
February, Myung Han Lee successfully completes his postdoctoral fellowship in the Lee Research Group and joins LG Chemicals in Korea. Congratulations and Farewell!
February, Prof. Lee wins an NSF CAREER Award. The CAREER award is the NSF's most prestigious award in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Congratulations!
February, Soft Nanomaterials Lab presents an exhibit at the Philly Materials Science and Engineering Day held at Drexel University.
Fall 2010
December, Prof. Lee makes two presentations at the International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (2010 Pacifichem) held in Honolulu, Hawaii.
December, Dr. Bum Jun Park joins the group as a post-doctoral fellow. Welcome!
November, Jacob Prosser and Fuquan Tu (PhD candidates, CBE) join the group. Welcome!
November, Prof. Lee makes two presentations at the AIChE meeting held in Salt Lake City.
November, Penn Currents (newsletter of the CBE Department at Penn) features Prof. Lee and our research program. Link to the newsletter.
October, the Lee group participates in the NanoDays@Penn event sponsored by Nano/Bio Interface Center. Kwadwo and Maj make poster presentations, and Kwadwo is selected as the runner-up in the poster competition. Congratulations!. The group presents an exhibit in Nanotech Fair and interacts with local high school students.
October, Prof. Lee and Maj make presentations at 2010 Discovery to Commercialization Conference organized by the nanotechnology institute (NTI) and the energy commercialization institute (ECI).Link to Conference website
October, Myung Han, Kwadwo, Teresa and Maj make poster presentations at 2010 CBE Graduate Student Symposium.
September, Iris, Greg, Joan, Imran, Rohan and Sam join the group. Welcome!
Summer 2010
August, Prof. Lee gives an invited talk in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Villanova University.
August, Kwadwo's paper "Photocatalytic and Conductive MWCNT/TiO2 Nanocomposite Thin Films" is accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Congratulations!
July, The Lee group enjoys a HOT summer day with BBQ at Prof. Lee's home.
July, Prof. Lee receives an NSF grant. Congratulations!
July, Myung Han's paper "Elastic instability of polymer-shelled bubbles formed from air-in-oil-in-water compound bubbles" is accepted for publication in Soft Matter. Congratulations!
July, Prof. Lee receives a University Research Foundation (URF) Award from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research. Congratulations!
July, David Kim (Rachleff Scholar, Penn MEAM '12) joins the group for the summer. Welcome!
June, Dominique Koster (Visiting student) from Rhur University - Bochum joins the group and will work jointly with the Murray Group. Welcome!
June, Taeyeong Yoon (Visiting student) from UNIST joins the group for the summer. Welcome!
June, Joohwan Koh (PhD Candidate) from Prof. Jong Hak Kim's Laboratory at Yonsei University (Korea) joins the lab for the summer to initiate a collaboration between the two groups. Welcome!
June, Myung Han and Kwadwo present their work at the 84th Colloid and Surface Science Symposium in Akron, OH.
June, Prof. Lee delivers Victor K. LaMer Award Lecture at the 84th Colloid and Surface Science Symposium in Akron, OH.
June, Prof. Lee gives an invited talk at the 6th Mid-Atlantic Soft Matter Symposium (MASM) held at Georgetown University.
June, Carl Beige (MRSEC REU from Rowan University) and Peter Forzaglia (NBIC REU from Manhattan College) join the Lee group. Welcome!
Spring 2010
May, Prof. Lee gives a seminar in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University.
May, Teresa wins a fellowship from the Caja Madrid Foundation. Congratulations!
May, Teresa successfully passes her qualifier. Congratulations!
Jeanne Ho wins 2010 Stuart W. Churchill Individual Research Prize. This award is presented to a student of the senior class in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering with the most outstanding research/independent study report. Congratulations!
Kwadwo (PhD candidate, CBE) has his first paper accepted to Langmuir, “Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Charged Particles in Non-Polar Media.” Congratulations!
Prof. Lee wins 2010 Victor K. LaMer award for his Ph.D. research on "Surface Engineering Using Layer-by-Layer Assembly of pH-Sensitive Polymers and Nanoparticles." Congratulations! More Information
Bomyi (CBE '10) decides to go to Princeton for graduate studies. Congratulations and Good Luck!
Prof. Lee makes a poster presentation at Gordon Research Conference on "Colloidal, Macromolecular & Polyelectrolyte Solutions".
Prof. Lee gives a Chemical Engineering Department seminar at Columbia University.
Prof. Lee gives two talks at the 2010 MRS meeting and an invited talk at the 2010 PREM Link to PREM Poster
Myung Han (Post-Doctoral Fellow) authors the first published paper of the group, “Microfluidic Fabrication of Stable Nanoparticle-Shelled Bubbles.” Congratulations!
Jeanne Ho (CBE Class of '10) accepts an offer to join Bristol-Myers Squibb. Congratulations!
Fall 2009
Earnest Long, who was an NSF/AMP Scholar in the Lee Lab (Summer '09), wins Lubrizol 2010 Fellowship and Internship Award at NOBCChE for excellence in research. Congratulations!
Diya Lee (CBE '12) is a recipient of a Rachleff Scholarship. She will be continuing her research in Spring and Summer of 2010. Congratulations!
Prof. Lee and Kwadwo make presentations at the 2009 National AIChE Conference in Nashville, TN.
Teresa Brugarolas, Jen Kunkel (PhD candidates, CBE) and Maj Dafinone (MS student, CBE) join the group. Welcome!
Prof. Lee receives an MRSEC SEED grant. Congratulations! Link to Penn MRSEC website
Summer 2009
Prof. Lee wins an NBIC Innovation Award. Link to NBIC website
Earnest Long, Jennifer Kay and Varesh Prasad successfully finish their summer research programs! Congratulations!
Dr. Myung Han Lee joins the group as a post-doctoral fellow. Welcome!
The group makes an appearance on a TV program "the Science of Philadelphia" to talk about interesting wetting phenomena in nature.
Spring 2009
Varesh is a recipient of a PURM (Provost's Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program) award. Congratulations!
Kwadwo successfully passes his qualifier. Congratulations!
Jeanne Ho and Cynthia Lau (Class of 10, CBE) join the group.
