News
Sept 2023 - Minghao receives the UCSD Materials Science & Engineering (MATS) Dissertation Fellowship 2023-24. Congratulations!
June 2023 - We welcome Rohan (SDNI REU), Anju (MRSEC RIMSE) and Martin & Hannia (ENLACE 2023) to the group.
May 2023 - Dr. Donghwan Ji receives the NRF Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations!
Mar 2023 - Prof. Bae receives the 2023 ACS PMSE Young Investigator Award. This award is a recognition of her outstanding early-career professional achievements in the field of polymer science and engineering. She will give an invited talk at the Fall ACS Meeting in San Francisco. [link]
Mar 2023 - Our article, ‘Multi-Functional Hydrogels for Flexible Zinc-Based Batteries Working under Extreme Conditions’, published in Advance Energy Materials, was one of the most downloaded papers during its first year of publication. [Check this article]
Feb 2023 - Prof. Bae is featured in the Soft Matter Emerging Investigator Series. [Read the blog]
Feb 2023 - Minghao passes his Senate Exam & Zhecun passes her Literature Review Exam, congrats!
Feb 2023 - We welcome a new postdoc, Dr. Donghwan Ji joins the group. Welcome to the lab!
Jan 2023 - Jiayu passes her Senate Exam, congrats!
Jan 2023 - Our article, ‘Advances in 4D Printing of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers: Materials, Techniques, and Applications’, has been featured in the Materials Horizons 2022 Most Popular Articles collection. [link]
Jan 2023 - Willie Lei (ChemE undergraduate student) joins the group. Welcome to the lab!
Nov 2022 - Prof. Bae is selected as one of the 2022 Soft Matter Emerging Investigators.
Nov 2022 - Prof. Bae is selected as one of the 2023 Nanoscale Emerging Investigators.
Sept 2022 - We welcome Yejin Shim (visiting student from Singapore Polytechnic) to the group.
Aug 23, 2022 - Prof. Bae gives an invited talk in the "Polymer Self-Assembly & Interfaces: Symposium Honoring Thomas P. Russell's Career in Polymer Science" session at the ACS Fall 2022 Meeting
June 2022 - We welcome Daniel (MRSEC REU), Thomas (STARS 2022) and Claudia Dayannara González Moreno & Annette Montserrat Cedillo (ENLACE 2022) to the group!
June 2022 - Congratulations to Elizabeth Howard (B.S./M.S. NanoEngineering 2022) and Joseph Liu (B.S. NanoEngineering, 2022) on their graduation. Best wishes for your next journey! You will be missed!
June 2022 - Joseph is selected for the Outstanding Senior NanoEngineering Award 2022. Congrats!
Apr 2022 - We welcome new MS students, Emily Lam and Diwei Shi!
Mar 20, 2022 - Prof. Jinhye Bae gives an invited talk in the "Molecular Design of Polymers with Multi-scale Mechanical Properties" session at the ACS Spring 2022 Meeting
Feb 2022 - Yumi Rho (ChemE undergraduate student) joins the group. Welcome to the lab!
Feb 23, 2022 - Prof. Jinhye Bae gives a keynote presentation at the Adhesion Society 45th Annual Meeting.
Feb, 2022 - Prof. Jinhye Bae is selected as the outstanding reviewer in Communications Materials, Nature. (see the announcement here)
Jan 2022 -Prof. Jinhye Bae receives the INNOX Young Investigator Award.
Oct 2021 - Rebecca Wheeler (ChemE undergraduate student) joins the group. Welcome to the lab!
Sept 2021 - We welcome new graduate students, Lisa Tang and Xiao Li!
Sept 2021 - Our review paper, "Multi-Functional Hydrogels for Flexible Zinc-Based Batteries Working under Extreme Conditions", has been selected as the back cover in Advanced Energy Materials (click here to read).
June 2021 - We welcome Eberardo Camorlinga & Judy Mohamad (STARS program 2021) and Keanu Masga (UCSD MRSEC REU) to the group!
June 2021 - Congrats to Soyoung Shin (B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2021)! We wish Soyoung the best of luck in her PhD program at Caltech.
May 2021 - Prof. Jinhye Bae receives an ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award.
May 2021 - Prof. Jinhye Bae receives the International Association of Advanced Materials Young Scientist Medal, and gives the award lecture in the Advanced Materials Lecture Series.
Mar 2021 - Prof. Jinhye Bae wins the 2021 KIChE President Young Investigator Award.
Mar 2021 - Prof. Jinhye Bae is selected as the UCSD Faculty Career Development Program Awardee (2020-2021).
Mar 2021 - Soyoung is selected for Triton Research & Experiential Learning Scholars (TRELS) award in Spring 2021. Congrats!
Jan 2021 - Soyoung is selected for Triton Research & Experiential Learning Scholars (TRELS) award in Winter 2021. Congrats!
Sept 2020 - Zhecun Guan (Graduate student) and Brandon Ho (undergraduate student) join the group.
Welcome to the lab!
Nov 2, 2020 - Soyoung Shin (CENG undergraduate) published a paper on role of soft-gel substrates on bouncing-merging transition in drop impact on liquid film" as first author in Soft matter (click here to read).
July 8, 2020 - We are very excited to be part of the UC San Diego MRSEC!
Bae Lab will be part of the Living Materials IRG.
May 2020 - Soyoung is selected as a Genentech scholar in Summer 2020!
March 26, 2020 - Soyoung is selected for Triton Research & Experiential Learning Scholars (TRELS) award in Spring 2020. Congrats Soyoung!
March 4, 2020 - Minghao's first paper on tunable swelling and deswelling behaviors of graphene oxide-poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (GO-PNIPAM) composite hydrogels is published in Polymer Chemistry (click here to read) and this paper is part of the collection of Polymer Chemistry Emerging Investigators.
February 2020 - We welcome an undergraduate student, Elizabeth Howard to the lab!
September 2019 - We welcome new graduate students, Guolingzi Yang, Michael Kozma and Jiayu Zhao!
September 24, 2019 - Prof. Jinhye Bae receives the Faculty Poster Award (2nd place) at the 16th U.S.-Korea Forum on Nanotechnology.
June 23, 2019 - The Bae lab welcomes Maxwell Arias and Karla Guerrero (high school students in ENLACE 2019 Summer Research Program at UCSD), work on stimuli-responsive hydrogels.
June 2019 - We welcome high school students, Rebekah Woo and Grace Chen to the lab.
April 29, 2019 - Congratulations to Booseong for passing the comprehensive exam.
April 29, 2019 - Prof. Jinhye Bae gives an invited talk in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California San Diego.
February 2019 - Undergraduate students, Joseph Liu and Soyoung Shin; and a graduate student, Minghao Li, join the group. Welcome to the lab!
February 1, 2019 - Prof. Jinhye Bae receives the UCSD General Campus Travel Award.
January 2019 - The Bae lab welcomes a graduate student, Changlai Wang, and two undergraduate students, Marina Shatalova and Roumina Aghakoochak Esfahani.
November 2018 - Graduate sutdents, Haenara Shin and Booseong Kim, join the group. Welcome!
November 2018 - The Bae lab officially opens in the NanoEngineering at UC San Diego.
October 31, 2018 - Dr. Jinhye Bae receives the 2018 KOFWST Excellence Award for Young Scientist.
Feb 5, 2024 - Minghao receives the UCSD Materials Science & Engineering (MATS) Dissertation Fellowship 2023-24. Congratulations!
Jiayu Zhao for her Ph.D defense! Her defense on "Engineering Soft Responsive Material Hybrids with Non-Living and Living Systems" was completed Monday 2/5/24. Jiayu was the one of the first to spend most of her PhD as an IRG trainee.