Polymer Thin Film & Analysis Laboratory
Du Yeol Ryu research group
Research Interests
Self-assembled nanostructures (including quasicrystals) by block copolymer
Interface engineering : Interaction between polymer film and adjacent surfaces
Hardcore polymer physics : glass transition, order-disorder transition, and dewetting
Organic-inorganic hybrid with 3-dimensional gyroid and its application to optics
Analysis with precision by small-angle scattering (X-ray or neutron)
Current Researches
Block copolymer (BCP)
Fundamental issues on BCP self-assembly in both bulk and thin film states.
Understanding the core properties leads to a firmer foundation for practical applications.
News & Notice
Du-Yeol Ryu Selected as a 2024 Fellow of the American Physical Society
(October 2024)
Best Poster Award
Dr. Seungyun Jo won the 1st Place Poster Winner award at PPC 18: The 18th Pacific Polymer Conference (2023) . Congratulations!
(December 2023)
Congrats to Sungmin!
Dr. Sungmin Park successfully finished his post-doc research career in RPI (USA) and starts a new job at KRICT (Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology).
(September 2019)
Journal Cover Invitation
"Irreversible Physisorption of PS‑b‑PMMA Copolymers on Substrates for Balanced Interfacial Interactions as a Versatile Surface Modification " was invited to be a main cover of ACS Macro Letters (May 2019)
Feature article was published
Taesuk, Seungyun, and Prof. Ryu contributed to "Giant-molecular-weight Block copolymer Self-assembly toward Materialization of Visible Photonic crystals"
Polymer Science and Technology (Korea)
(April 2019)