(전) 펜실베니아 대학 화학과 박소정 교수

박소정 교수

이화여대 화학과

연구분야 : 나노재료화학, 생체소재화학
연구실 : 나노 바이오 소재 연구실 https://sites.google.com/site/sojungparksgroup/
E-mail : sojungpark@ewha.ac.kr
Tel : 02-3277-4191
Office: 종합과학관 B동 206호

Dr. 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 with a thesis on DNA-mediated assembly of nanostructured materials: structure, properties, and biodetection applications. Her Ph.D. work was recognized by several prestigious awards including the ACS Nobel signature award. She then carried out her postdoctoral research with Prof. Paul Barbara at University of Texas at Austin, where she developed a new technique that allows for single molecule optical measurements correlated with electrical modulation for photophysical studies of semiconducting polymers and nanocrystals. 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 electronic device. Her current research topics includes 1) colloidal self-assembly of nanoparticels and block-copolymers, 2) self-organizing conjugated polymers, 3) DNA nanostructures for biological detection and medicine, and 4) dynamic nanostructures. The research projects aim to understand collective behaviour 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.

So-Jung Park
Assistant Professor of Chemistry (-2013)
Inorganic and Nanoscale Chemistry

Office: 251N
Phone: (215) 746-2354
Fax: (215) 898-6242
Email: sojungp@sas.upenn.edu

    * B.S. Ewha Women's University (1994)
    * M.S. Ewha Women's University (1996)
    * Research Scientist, Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    * Ph.D. Northwestern University (2002)
    * Postdoctoral fellow, University of Texas, Austin

Research Statement

Our research involves synthesis and characterization of nanoscale inorganic solids and their hybrids with functional bio/organic materials. Nanometer scale inorganic solids exhibit fascinating properties that are different from their bulk counterparts. Their properties can be tailored by controlling their sizes, shapes, and surface functionalities as well as their compositions. Furthermore, when they are organized into ordered superstructures, new sets of optical and electrical properties can be created. Many of these properties introduce challenging scientific questions and also provide much opportunity for innovation in a variety of technologies ranging from quantum computing to biosensors.

Our goal is to understand how the structure of individual particles and their spatial organization affect these physical properties and use that knowledge to design new materials with useful properties. To achieve this, we use concepts and tools from several different disciplines. We adopt self-assembly principles in biology to control nanoparticle growth and their assembly structure. We use a variety of spectroscopic and structural characterization techniques including single molecule spectroscopy and scanning probe microscopy to develop detailed understanding on their structure-property relationship. We are particularly interested in 1) colloidal metal/semiconductor heterostructures for bioanalysis applications, 2) organization of inorganic nanostructures in lipid supramolecular assemblies, and 3) controlling energy carriers in nanostructured materials, interfaces, and devices.

Selected Publications
Park, S. -J.; Gesquiere A. J.; Yu J.; Barbara P. F., "Charge Injection and Photooxidation of Single Conjugated Polymer Molecules", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 4116.

Park, S. -J.; Taton, T. A.; Mirkin, C. A., "Array-Based Electrical Detection of DNA with Nanoparticle Probes", Science, 2002, 295, 1503.

Lee, K. -B.; Park, S. -J.; Mirkin, C. A.; Smith, J. C.; Mrksich, M.,"Protein Nanoarrays Generated by Dip-Pen Nanolithography",
Science, 2002, 295, 1702.

Park, S. -J.; Lazarides, A. A.; Mirkin, C. A.; Brazis, P. W.; Kannewurf, C. R.; Letsinger, R. L., "Electrical Properties of Au Nanoparticle Assemblies Linked by DNA", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2000, 39, 3845.