Dong Ki Yoon

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Dong Ki Yoon is a full professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea. He currently leads the Soft Material Assembly Group. The main topic of the group is patterning and display applications based on orientation-controlled soft materials such as liquid crystals, supramolecules, biomaterials, and polymers. For this, his group uses external stimuli, including electric fields, confined geometries, and mechanical shear forces.


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