Publications

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Submitted

Jeong, S.; Shin, D.; Son, C. Y.*; “From Clustered Motion to Percolation: Unveiling Correlated Lithium Ion Dynamics in Ionic Liquid Mixtures via an Ab Initio Force Field” submitted

Kwon, J.†; Hassan, S. Z.†; Ham, G.; Kang, S.; An, S.; Sim, H. R.; Jang, S.; Son, C. Y.; Cha, H.*; Chung, D. S.*; “Visible-Light-Driven All-Organic Photoprogrammable Transistors Enabled by Triplet-Sensitized Diarylethene Blends” submitted

Choi, Y.†; Lee, S.†; Choi, J.-K.; Han, H.; Choi, Y.; Im, J.-H.; Kim, H.; Jeon, S.; Lee, M.*; Son, C. Y.*; Kim, Y.-K.*; “Design of Optical Transducer for Recognition of Biomolecular Interactions between Bacterial Lipopolysaccharides and Amino Acids” submitted

Jeong, K.-J.; Son, C.Y*.; “Importance of Collective Ion Transport in Molecular Weight Dependence of Conductivity in Block Copolymer Electrolytes” submitted

Son, S.-H.†; Kim, M.†; Moon, S.Y.; Oh, S.S.*; Son, C.Y.*; Lee, J.Y.*; “Spatial Control of Enzyme Orientation at Lipid Droplet Interfaces Enables Regio- and Chemo-selective Metabolic Flux” submitted

Kim, D.†; Kim, S.†; Hong, S.†; Kim, J.; Shin, G.; Kim, M.*; Moon, H.C.*; Son, C.Y.*; Park, T.*; “Architecting Stable Percolated Spiro-OMeTAD Networks via Mutualistic Radical-Dopant Synergy” submitted

Baek, S.; Lee, S.; Kang, J.; Kang, S.; Hassan, S.Z.; Oh, J.; An. S.; Park, K.; Sim, H.R.; Son, C.Y.; Kim, S.-J.; Chung, D.S.*; “Perfluoroarene-based interlayers unlock high external quantum efficiency in planar heterojunction OPDs” submitted

Published

Accepted

Kim, M.; Kim, J.; Kim, H.; Ahn, D.; Lee, J.; Wang, H.M.; Son, C.Y.*; Chung, S.J.*; Shin, M.H.*; Lim, H.-S.*; “In Situ Click Chemistry Screen Facilitated by an On-Nanoparticle DNA-Encoded Library Identifies Highly Selective and Potent Peptoid Ligands for a Phosphatase” accepted in Angewandte Chemie

2025

Room‐Temperature Single Li ⁺ Ion Conducting Organic Solid‐State Electrolyte with 10 ⁻⁴ S cm ⁻¹ Conductivity for Lithium‐Metal Batteries Rak Hyeon Choi†, Akshay Gurumoorthi†, Sangwon Bae, Chang Yun Son*, Hye Ryung Byon*. Advanced Energy Materials, 2025, Early View. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202504143

Energetic Disorder in Doped P3HT: A Crucial Factor in Overcoming Coulomb Binding for Free Charge Generation Seong Hyeon Kim, Seonghyeon Kang, Minyoung Jeong, Jisang Park, Seungwon Jeong, Hyunji Lee, Chang Yun Son, Kilwon Cho*. ACS Nano, 2025, 19 (32), 29265-29275. doi:10.1021/acsnano.5c04666

Stoichiometric anion exchange by a low-dielectric-constant solvent for highly-doped conjugated polymers with enhanced environmental stability Daegun Kim†, Jiwoo Min†, Kyeong-Jun Jeong†, Eunsol Ok, Jaemin Im, Hyun Ho Choi, Giwon Lee, Chang Yun Son*, Kilwon Cho*. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2025, 13, 18966-18977. doi:10.1039/d5ta01703c

Aptamer-Guided, Hydrolysis-Resistant Deoxyoxanosine Enables Epitope- and Moiety-Selective Conjugation to Nonengineered Proteins Even in Complex Environments Hyesung Jo, Seonmin Ju, Minhye Kim, Jiyun Beon, Se-Young Jang, Seung Pil Pack, Chang Yun Son, Jong-Seo Kim, Seung Soo Oh^*. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025, 147 (11), 9328–9340. doi:10.1021/jacs.4c15674

Tailoring of Selective Chemo‐Responsiveness in Liquid Crystals via Organic Ionic Plastic Crystals Jin‐Kang Choi†, Kyeong‐Jun Jeong†, Yena Choi, Won‐Sik Kim, Jong Chan Shin, Jun‐Hyung Im, Hyein Kim, Minjae Lee^*, Chang Yun Son^*, Young‐Ki Kim^*. Small, 2025, 2410079. doi:10.1002/smll.202410079

2024

Molecular Engineering of Coordination Ligand for Multifunctional Sol-gel Oxides Juhyeok Lee†, Syed Zahid Hassan†, Hye Ryun Sim, Sangjun Lee, Kyeong‐Jun Jeong, Jieun Kwon, Chang Yun Son, Dae Sung Chung^*. Advanced Materials, 2024, 36 (46), 2409906. doi:10.1002/adma.202409906

Hydrophilic Photocrosslinkers as a Universal Solution to Endow Water Affinity to a Polymer Photocatalyst for an Enhanced Hydrogen Evolution Rate Sanghyeok An†, Kyeong‐Jun Jeong†, Syed Zahid Hassan, Gayoung Ham, Seonghyeon Kang, ..., Han Young Woo, Han‐Hee Cho, Hyojung Cha^*, Chang Yun Son^*, Dae Sung Chung^*. Advanced Science, 2024, 11 (28), 2309786. doi:10.1002/advs.202309786

2023

G‐Quadruplex‐Filtered Selective Ion‐to‐Ion Current Amplification for Non‐Invasive Ion Monitoring in Real Time Hyebin Yoo, Hyun‐Ro Lee, Soon‐Bo Kang, Juhwa Lee, Kunwoong Park, ..., Kyung‐Mi Lee, Hyun‐Ho Lim^*, Chang Yun Son^*, Jeong‐Yun Sun^*, Seung Soo Oh^*. Advanced Materials, 2023, 35 (42), 2303655. doi:10.1002/adma.202303655

Sculpting In‐plane Fractal Porous Patterns in Two‐Dimensional MOF Nanocrystals for Photoelectrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction Soumen Dutta, Akshay Gurumoorthi, Shinbi Lee, Sun Woo Jang, Nitee Kumari, Yu‐Rim Hong, Wonyong Choi, Chang Yun Son^*, In Su Lee^*. Angewandte Chemie, 2023, 62 (28), e202303890. doi:10.1002/ange.202303890

Effects of Connecting Polymer Structure and Morphology at Inter‐Tube Junctions on the Thermoelectric Properties of Conjugated Polymer/Carbon Nanotube Composites Seong Hyeon Kim†, Seungwon Jeong†, Daegun Kim, Chang Yun Son^*, Kilwon Cho^*. Advanced Electronic Materials, 2023, 9 (7), 2201293. doi:10.1002/aelm.202201293

2022

Predictive Molecular Models for Charged Materials Systems: From Energy Materials to Biomacromolecules Kyeong‐jun Jeong†, Seungwon Jeong†, Sangmin Lee†, Chang Yun Son^*. Advanced Materials, 2022, 35 (4), 2204272. doi:10.1002/adma.202204272

Perspective article

De novo selected hACE2 mimics that integrate hotspot peptides with aptameric scaffolds for binding tolerance of SARS-CoV-2 variants Minjong Lee, Byunghwa Kang, Juhwa Lee, Jisun Lee, Sang Taek Jung, Chang Yun Son, Seung Soo Oh^*. Science Advances, 2022, 8 (43), eabq6207. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abq6207

Superionic Bifunctional Polymer Electrolytes for Solid‐State Energy Storage and Conversion Rui‐Yang Wang, Seungwon Jeong, Hyeonseong Ham, Jihoon Kim, Hojun Lee, Chang Yun Son^*, Moon Jeong Park^*. Advanced Materials, 2022, 35 (4), 2203413. doi:10.1002/adma.202203413

Chain flexibility of medicinal lipids determines their selective partitioning into lipid droplets So-Hee Son, Gyuri Park, Junho Lim, Chang Yun Son^*, Seung Soo Oh^*, Ju Young Lee^*. Nature Communications, 2022, 13 (1), 3612. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-31400-6

paper

Metastable hexagonal close-packed palladium hydride in liquid cell TEM Jaeyoung Hong, Jee-Hwan Bae, Hyesung Jo, Hee-Young Park, Sehyun Lee, ..., Chang Yun Son^*, Yongsoo Yang^*, Young-Su Lee^*, Sung Jong Yoo^*, Dong Won Chun^*. Nature, 2022, 603, 631-636. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04391-5

Enhanced Electrochemical Properties of Block Copolymer Electrolytes with Blended End-Functionalized Homopolymers Jihoon Kim, Kyeong-Jun Jeong, Kyoungwook Kim, Chang Yun Son, Moon Jeong Park^*. Macromolecules, 2022, 55 (6), 2028-2040. doi:10.1021/acs.macromol.1c02461

2021

Enhancing ion transport in charged block copolymers by stabilizing low symmetry morphology: Electrostatic control of interfaces Jaemin Min, Ha Young Jung, Seungwon Jeong, Byeongdu Lee, Chang Yun Son^*, Moon Jeong Park^*. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021, 118 (32), e2107987118. doi:10.1073/pnas.2107987118

Au/Pt‐Egg‐in‐Nest Nanomotor for Glucose‐Powered Catalytic Motion and Enhanced Molecular Transport to Living Cells Taewan Kwon, Nitee Kumari, Amit Kumar, Jongwon Lim, Chang Yun Son, In Su Lee^*. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2021, 60 (32), 17579–17586. doi:10.1002/anie.202103827

Image-charge effects on ion adsorption near aqueous interfaces Chang Yun Son, Zhen-Gang Wang^*. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021, 118 (19), e2020615118. doi:10.1073/pnas.2020615118

2020

Identifying the proton loading site cluster in the ba cytochrome c oxidase that loads and traps protons Xiuhong Cai, Chang Yun Son, Junjun Mao, Divya Kaur, Yingying Zhang, Umesh Khaniya, Qiang Cui, M.R. Gunner. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 2020, 1861 (10), 148239. doi:10.1016/j.bbabio.2020.148239

Ion transport in small-molecule and polymer electrolytes Chang Yun Son^*, Zhen-Gang Wang^*. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020, 153 (10), 100903. doi:10.1063/5.0016163

Protonation-Driven Aqueous Lyotropic Self-Assembly of Synthetic Six-Tail Lipidoids James Jennings, Matthew C. D. Carter, Chang Yun Son, Qiang Cui, David M. Lynn, Mahesh. K. Mahanthappa. Langmuir, 2020, 36 (28), 8240–8252. doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c01369

2019

Proper Thermal Equilibration of Simulations with Drude Polarizable Models: Temperature-Grouped Dual-Nosé–Hoover Thermostat Chang Yun Son, Jesse G. McDaniel, Qiang Cui, Arun Yethiraj. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2019, 10 (23), 7523–7530. doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02983

2018

Network analysis of a proposed exit pathway for protons to the P-side of cytochrome c oxidase Xiuhong Cai, Kamran Haider, Jianxun Lu, Slaven Radic, Chang Yun Son, Qiang Cui, M.R. Gunner. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 2018, 1859 (10), 997-1005. doi:10.1016/j.bbabio.2018.05.010

Conformational and Dynamic Properties of Poly(ethylene oxide) in BMIM⁺BF₄^–: A Microsecond Computer Simulation Study Using ab Initio Force Fields Chang Yun Son, Jesse G. McDaniel, Qiang Cui, Arun Yethiraj. Macromolecules, 2018, 51 (14), 5336–5345. doi:10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01002

Ion Correlation and Collective Dynamics in BMIM/BF₄-Based Organic Electrolytes: From Dilute Solutions to the Ionic Liquid Limit Jesse G. McDaniel, Chang Yun Son. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2018, 122 (28), 7154–7169. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b04886

Ab Initio Force Fields for Organic Anions: Properties of [BMIM][TFSI], [BMIM][FSI], and [BMIM][OTf] Ionic Liquids Jesse G. McDaniel, Chang Yun Son, Arun Yethiraj. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2018, 122 (14), 4101–4114. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b01221

2017

Cavity hydration dynamics in cytochrome c oxidase and functional implications Chang Yun Son, Arun Yethiraj, Qiang Cui. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017, 114 (42),E8830-E8836. doi:10.1073/pnas.1707922114

2016

Ab Initio Force Fields for Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids Jesse G. McDaniel, Eunsong Choi, Chang Yun Son, J. R. Schmidt, Arun Yethiraj. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2016, 120 (28), 7024–7036. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b05328

First-Principles United Atom Force Field for the Ionic Liquid BMIM⁺BF₄^–: An Alternative to Charge Scaling Chang Yun Son, Jesse G. McDaniel, J. R. Schmidt, Qiang Cui, Arun Yethiraj. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2016, 120 (14), 3560–3568. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b12371

Conformational and Dynamic Properties of Poly(ethylene oxide) in an Ionic Liquid: Development and Implementation of a First-Principles Force Field Jesse G. McDaniel, Eunsong Choi, Chang Yun Son, J. R. Schmidt, Arun Yethiraj. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2016, 120 (1), 231–243. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b10065

Multiple gas-phase conformations of proline-containing peptides: is it always cis/trans isomerization? Christopher B. Lietz, Zhengwei Chen, Chang Yun Son, Xueqin Pang, Qiang Cui, Lingjun Li. The Analyst, 2016, 141 (16), 4863-4869. doi:10.1039/C5AN00835B

2013

An accurate expression for the rates of diffusion-influenced bimolecular reactions with long-range reactivity Chang Yun Son, Jaehoon Kim, Ji-Hyun Kim, Jun Soo Kim, Sangyoub Lee. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2013, 138 (16), 164123. doi:10.1063/1.4802584

2011

Effects of the interaction potential and hydrodynamic interaction on the diffusion-influenced reaction rates Chang Yun Son, Sangyoub Lee. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2011, 135 (22), 224512. doi:10.1063/1.3665415

Zwanzig-Mori equation for the time-dependent pair distribution function Song-Ho Chong, Chang Yun Son, Sangyoub Lee. Physical Review E, 2011, 83, 041201. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.83.041201

Communication: Propagator for diffusive dynamics of an interacting molecular pair Sangyoub Lee, Chang Yun Son, Jaeyoung Sung, Song-Ho Chong. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2011, 134 (12),121102. doi:10.1063/1.3565476