Publications by authors named "Bumjoon Seo"

Hydrogels are promising materials for biomedical applications, particularly in drug delivery and tissue engineering. This study highlights thermoresponsive hydrogels, specifically poly(lactic--glycolic acid) (PLGA)-poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG)-PLGA triblock copolymers, and introduces a feed rate-controlled polymerization (FRCP) method. By utilizing an organic catalyst and regulating the monomer feed rate, the sequence distribution of PLGA within the triblock copolymer is controlled.

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Cooperativity is used by living systems to circumvent energetic and entropic barriers to yield highly efficient molecular processes. Cooperative structural transitions involve the concerted displacement of molecules in a crystalline material, as opposed to typical molecule-by-molecule nucleation and growth mechanisms which often break single crystallinity. Cooperative transitions have acquired much attention for low transition barriers, ultrafast kinetics, and structural reversibility.

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Graph-based parameter assignment has been the basis for developing transferable force fields for molecular dynamics simulations for decades. Nevertheless, transferable force fields vary in how specifically terms are defined with respect to the molecular graph and the procedures for generating parametrization data. More-specific force-field terms increase the complexity of the force field, theoretically increasing accuracy but also increasing training data requirements.

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Topochemical polymerizations hold the promise of producing high molecular weight and stereoregular single crystalline polymers by first aligning monomers before polymerization. However, monomer modifications often alter the crystal packing and result in non-reactive polymorphs. Here, we report a systematic study on the side chain functionalization of the bis(indandione) derivative system that can be polymerized under visible light.

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Despite the essential role of ethylene carbonate (EC) in solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) formation, the high Li desolvation barrier and melting point (36 °C) of EC impede lithium-ion battery operation at low temperatures and induce sluggish Li reaction kinetics. Here, we demonstrate an EC-free high salt concentration electrolyte (HSCE) composed of lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide salt and tetrahydrofuran solvent with enhanced subzero temperature operation originating from unusually rapid low-temperature Li transport. Experimental and theoretical characterizations reveal the dominance of intra-aggregate ion transport in the HSCE that enables efficient low-temperature transport by increasing the exchange rate of solvating counterions relative to that of solvent molecules.

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Closed-loop circular utilization of plastics is of manifold significance, yet energy-intensive and poorly selective scission of the ubiquitous carbon-carbon (C-C) bonds in contemporary commercial polymers pose tremendous challenges to envisioned recycling and upcycling scenarios. Here, we demonstrate a topochemical approach for creating elongated C-C bonds with a bond length of 1.57∼1.

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Force-field development has undergone a revolution in the past decade with the proliferation of quantum chemistry based parametrizations and the introduction of machine learning approximations of the atomistic potential energy surface. Nevertheless, transferable force fields with broad coverage of organic chemical space remain necessary for applications in materials and chemical discovery where throughput, consistency, and computational cost are paramount. Here, we introduce a force-field development framework called Topology Automated Force-Field Interactions (TAFFI) for developing transferable force fields of varying complexity against an extensible database of quantum chemistry calculations.

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The formation of a hexagonal phase from disordered phase is one of the typical order-disorder transitions (ODTs) observed in asymmetric diblock copolymer systems. In order to drive this transition in a particle-based simulation, we introduce a shell-based bond-orientational order parameter that selectively responds to the mesoscopic order of the hexagonal cylinder phase. From metadynamics simulations in a bond-free particle model system, the characteristic pathway involved with the underlying free energy surface is deduced for the disordered-to-hexagonal transition.

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Background: Meyer is cultivated because of its medicinal effects on the immune system, blood pressure, and cancer. Major ginsenosides in fresh ginseng are converted to minor ginsenosides by structural changes such as hydrolysis and dehydration. The transformed ginsenosides are generally more bioavailable and bioactive than the primary ginsenosides.

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