Sunghwan Kim
Research Group
Laboratory for Advanced Biomaterials & Biodevices
(THE LAB2)
Papers
(*Corresponding author & +Co-first authors)
- Submitted manuscript -
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A wavelength-scale silk protein color filter array for ultra-high-resolution 80k DPI displays
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μm-thick and water-taping protein electronic tattoos for multifunctional on-skin electronics
2025
Materials Horizons [accept]
Semiconducting and environmental-responsive melanin-doped silk nanofibres for multifunctional electronic tattoos
By Shalik Ram Joshi, Soohoon Lee, and Sunghwan Kim*
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules [accept]
Breathability and imperceptible on-skin electronic tattoos with a hybrid of silk and cellulose and highly conductive electrodes for monitoring skin hydration
By Juwan Choi+, Soohoon Lee+, Shalik Ram Joshi, and Sunghwan Kim*
ACS Applied Polymer Materials [accept]
Ultrathin and breathable silk-protein electronic tattoos for iontophoretic transdermal drug delivery
By Shalik Ram Joshi, Hyunji Lee, Soohoon Lee, and Sunghwan Kim*
Optical Materials 160, 116759 [Link]
Tunable protein color micropixels for sensing and imaging transparent objects
By Juwan Choi+, Ji Hyun Lee+, Kwanhyun Nam+, Namyeong Kwon, Myungwon Lee, Yei Hwan Jung, and Sunghwan Kim*
2024
Nature Nanotechnology 19, 1581 [News and Views, Link]
Silk protein connecting water and nanofabrication
By Sunghwan Kim*
Nano Energy 132, 110352 [Link]
A fully nanofiber-based ultrathin electronic patch for self-powered and multifunctional on-skin applications
By Daeun Ji+, Shalik Ram Joshi+, Taehun Kim, Soohoon Lee, Sunghwan Kim*, and Kyungtaek Min*
Journal of Power Sources 624, 235538 [Link]
Functional silk-protein-based nanocomposites for light-stimulated and highly efficient triboelectric nanogenerators and charge storage devices
By Shalik Ram Joshi and Sunghwan Kim*
Small 20, 2403169 [Link]
Recording and revealing 2.5D nanopatterned hidden information on silk protein bioresists
By Tae-Yun Lee+, Juwan Choi+, Soohoon Lee, Heonsu Jeon, and Sunghwan Kim*
Chemical Engineering Journal 496, 154160 [Link]
Self-powered, multifunctional, and skin-compatible electronic-tattoos based on hybrid bio-nanomaterials as electrically functionalized skins
By Shalik Ram Joshi, Minjoo Lee, Hyun Young Lee, Mi-Eun Lee, and Sunghwan Kim*
ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 10, 4552 [Link]
Naturally derived luminescent material in engineered silk and its application as a fluorescent dye with a large Stokes shift and sensing capability
By Sunghwan Kim*, Seo-Young Jang, Rakesh Kumar Jha, and Juwan Choi
Chemical Engineering Journal 489, 151248 [Link]
High power triboelectric nanogenerator based on nanofibers of silk protein and PVBVA and its motion sensing applications
By Shalik Ram Joshi and Sunghwan Kim*
Journal of Natural Fibers 21, 2357239 [Link]
Naturally bred Korean silkworm cocoon showing strong green fluorescence and its textile-based environmental sensing applications
By Rakesh Kumar Jha, Seong-Wan Kim, and Sunghwan Kim*
Chemical Engineering Research and Design 203, 293 [Link]
Potentiality of PLA 3D printed macro-structured feed spacers with a rational and facile layout for improved MD desalination performance
By Shalik Ram Joshi+, Saikat Sinha Ray+, Sunghwan Kim*, and Young-Nam Kwon*
Biomedical Engineering Letters 14, 707 [Link]
Ultrathin silk nanofiber–carbon nanotube skin tattoos for wirelessly triggered and temperature feedbacked transdermal drug delivery
By Shalik Ram Joshi+, Ajay Pratap+, and Sunghwan Kim*
International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials 48, 19 [Link]
Fluorescent properties of Daehwangjam, Golden Silk, and Juhwangjam and their diminishing upon HCl vapor exposure
By Rakesh Kumar Jha, Seong-Wan Kim, and Sunghwan Kim*
Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics (한국광학회지) 35, 30 [Link]
Enhanced fluorescence from silk protein by TiO₂ scatters (산화티타늄 나노입자에 의한 실크 단백질 형광증폭 연구)
By Rakesh Kumar Jha and Sunghwan Kim*
2023
ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 9, 6390 [Link]
Microscopic projection lithography for integrating metallic microstructures on silk protein for biodevice applications
By Juwan Choi and Sunghwan Kim*
Materials Today Bio 20, 100642 [Link]
A biomaterial-silicon junction photodetector
By Narendar Gogurla, Abdul Wahab, and Sunghwan Kim*
Advanced Science 10, 2206848 [Link]
DNA-nanocrystal assemblies for environmentally responsive and highly efficient energy harvesting and storage
By Mallikarjuna Reddy Kesama and Sunghwan Kim*
Advanced Materials Technologies 8, 2201917 [Link]
Ecofriendly polymer-graphene-based conductive ink for multifunctional printed electronics
By Shalik Ram Joshi, Sumit Kumar, and Sunghwan Kim*
Advanced Electronic Materials 9, 2201095 [Link]
Ultrathin, breathable, permeable, and skin-adhesive charge storage electronic tattoos based on biopolymer nanofibers and carbon nanotubes
By Shalik Ram Joshi, Ajay Pratap, Narendar Gogurla, and Sunghwan Kim*
2022
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 14, 56623 [Link]
Engineering silk protein to modulate polymorphic transitions for green lithography resists
By Soon-Chun Chung, Joon-Song Park, Rakesh Kumar Jha, Jieun Kim, Jinha Kim, Muyoung Kim, Juwan Choi, Hongdeok Kim, Da-Hye Park, Narendar Gogurla, Tae-Yun Lee, Heonsu Jeon, Ji-Yong Park, Joonmyung Choi, Ginam Kim,* Sunghwan Kim*
Current Applied Physics 41, 131 [Link]
Brush drawing multifunctional electronic textiles for human-machine interfaces
By Narendar Gogurla, Ajay Pratap, In Chul Um, and Sunghwan Kim*
ACS Applied Electronic Materials 4, 1124 [Link]
Elastic and skin-contact triboelectric nanogenerators and their applicability in energy harvesting and tactile sensing
By Ajay Pratap+, Narendar Gogurla+, and Sunghwan Kim*
Advanced Materials Technologies 7, 2101271 [Link]
Architecting silk protein and melanin for photo-responsive and self-healable optoelectronic skins
By Abdul Wahab+, Narendar Gogurla+, Ji-Yong Park, and Sunghwan Kim*
2021
Advanced Energy Materials 11, 2100801 [Link]
(Inside cover paper, Hot topic paper: Flexible Electronics)
Self-powered and imperceptible electronic tattoos based on silk protein nanofiber and carbon nanotubes for human-machine interfaces
By Narendar Gogurla and Sunghwan Kim*
Journal of the Korean Physical Society 79, 64 [Link]
Photothermal, ultra-thin, and biocompatible carbon nanotube/silk nanofiber membrane
By Narendar Gogurla, Abdul Wahab, and Sunghwan Kim*
Advanced Materials 33, 2008308 [Link]
(Frontispiece paper, Hot topic paper: Carbon, Graphite, and Graphene, and Flexible Electronics)
Multifunctional and ultrathin electronic tattoos for on-skin diagnostic and therapeutic applications
By Narendar Gogurla, Yisub Kim, Suyoung Cho, Jangsun Kim, and Sunghwan Kim*
Optical Materials 114, 110932 [Link]
All-polymer silk-fibroin optical planar waveguides
By Vaclav Prajzler, Kyungtaek Min, Sunghwan Kim, and Pavla Nekvindova*
~2020
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12, 55231 [Link]
Multi-stimuli-responsive optical hydrogel nanomembrane to construct planar color display boards for detecting local environmental changes
By Muhammad Umar+, Dongwan Son+,Sara Arif, Myungwoong Kim*, and Sunghwan Kim*
Nano Energy 77, 105242 [Link]
Self-powered artificial skin made of engineered silk protein hydrogel
By Narendar Gogurla, Biswajit Roy, and Sunghwan Kim*
Optical Materials Express 10, 818 (Editor's pick) [Link]
Inkjet-printed lasing silk text on reusable distributed feedback boards
By Muhammad Umar+,Wenyi Li+, Giorgio Bonacchini+, Kyungtaek Min, Sara Arif, Fiorenzo G. Omenetto*, and Sunghwan Kim*
Advanced Materials Technologies 5, 1900936 [Link]
A skin-Inspired, interactive, and flexible optoelectronic device with hydrated melanin nanoparticles in a protein hydrogel-elastomer hybrid
By Narendar Gogurla+,Biswajit Roy+, Kyungtaek Min, Ji-Yong Park, and Sunghwan Kim*
APL Photonics 4, 120901 (Perspective review article) [Link]
Advances in hydrogel photonics and their applications
By Muhammad Umar, Kyungtaek Min*, and Sunghwan Kim*
Scientific Reports 9, 16266 [Link]
Random lasing and amplified spontaneous emission from silk inverse opals: Optical gain enhancement via protein scatterers
By Muhammad Umar+, Kyungtaek Min+, Sookyung Kim, and Sunghwan Kim*
Nano Energy 62, 674 [Link]
Skin-contact actuated single-electrode protein triboelectric nanogenerator and strain sensor for biomechanical energy harvesting and motion sensing
By Narendar Gogurla, Biswajit Roy, Ji-Yong Park, and Sunghwan Kim*
ACS Omega 4, 9010 [Link]
An interacting metal-insulator-metal resonator by nanoporous silver and silk protein membranes and its water sensing application
By Sara Arif, Muhammad Umar, and Sunghwan Kim*
Current Optics and Photonics 3, 40 [Link]
Tuning photoluminescence of biological light emitters via silk protein based resonators
By Sara Arif, Muhammad Umar, and Sunghwan Kim*
Optics Express 26, 33575 [Link]
Humidity sensing using THz metamaterials with silk protein fibroin
By Hwan Sik Kim, Sung Ho Cha, Biswajit Roy, Sunghwan Kim, and Yeong-Hwan Ahn*
Scientific Reports 8, 9598 [Link]
Silk protein nanofibers for highly efficient, eco-friendly, optically translucent, and multifunctional air filters
By Kyungtaek Min+, Sookyung Kim+, and Sunghwan Kim*
ACS Nano 12, 5637 [Link]
Protein-based electronic skin akin to biological tissues
By Minsik Jo+, Kyungtaek Min+, Biswajit Roy, Sookyoung Kim, Sangmin Lee, Ji-Yong Park, and Sunghwan Kim*
Optical Materials 80, 241 [Link]
Ultra-thin, conformal, and hydratable color-absorbers using silk protein hydrogel
By Muhammad Umar+, Kyungtaek Min+, Minsik Jo, and Sunghwan Kim*
Nano Letters 18, 1930 [Link]
High-contrast infrared absorption spectroscopy via mass-produced coaxial zero-mode resonators with sub-10-nm gaps
By Daehan Yoo, Daniel A. Mohr, Ferran Vidal-Codina, Aurelian John-Herpin, Minsik Jo, Sunghwan Kim, Joseph R Matson, Joshua D. Caldwell, Heonsu Jeon, Ngoc Cuong Nguyen, Luis Martín-Moreno, Jaime Peraire, Hatice Altug, and Sang-Hyun Oh*
Materials 11, 112 [Link]
The Investigation of the waveguiding properties of silk fibroin from the visible to near-infrared spectrum
By Vaclav Prajzler*, Kyungtaek Min, Sunghwan Kim, and Pavla Nekvindova*
Science Advances 4, e1602796 [Link]
Anderson localizations and photonic band-tail states observed in compositionally disordered platform
By Myungjae Lee, Jeongkug Lee, Sunghwan Kim, Ségolène Callard, Christian Sessal, and Heonsu Jeon*
Sensors & Actuators B: Chemical 255, 3207 [Link]
A physically transient and eco-friendly distributed feedback laser chemosensor for detecting acid vapor
By Muhammad Umar, Kyungtaek Min*, and Sunghwan Kim*
Applied Physics Letters 111, 231103 [Link]
Single transverse mode protein laser
By Itir Bakis Dogru+, Kyungtaek Min+, Muhammad Umar, Houman Bahmani Jalali, Deniz Conkar, Elif Nur Firat Karalar, Sunghwan Kim*, and Sedat Nizamoglu*
Scientific Reports 7, 5448 [Link]
Colored and fluorescent nanofibrous silk as a physically transient chemosensor and vitamin deliverer
By Kyungtaek Min+, Sookyoung Kim+, Chang Gun Kim, and Sunghwan Kim*
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, 6185 [Link]
Deformable and conformal silk hydrogel inverse opal
By Kyungtaek Min+, Sookyoung Kim+, and Sunghwan Kim*
Annalen der Physik 529, 1700034 [Link]
Single-mode distributed feedback laser operation with no dependence on the morphology of the gain medium
By Muhammad Umar+, Kyungtaek Min+, Heonsu Jeon, and Sunghwan Kim*
Nanotechnology 28, 115201 [Link]
Silk protein as a new optically transparent adhesion layer for an ultra-smooth sub-10 nm gold layer
By Kyungtaek Min+, Muhammad Umar+, Shinyoung Ryu, Soonil Lee, and Sunghwan Kim*
RSC Advances 7, 574 [Link]
Biocompatible, optically transparent, patterned, and flexible electrodes and radio-frequency antennas prepared from silk protein and silver nanowire networks
By Kyungtaek Min+, Muhammad Umar+, Haekyo Seo, Jong Hyuk Yim, Dong Gun Kam, Heonsu Jeon, Soonil Lee, and Sunghwan Kim*
Advanced Optical Materials 4, 1738 [Link]
Physically transient distributed feedback laser using optically activated silk bio-ink
By Hyunho Jung, Kyungtaek Min, Heonsu Jeon*, and Sunghwan Kim*
RSC Advances 6, 39330 [Link]
Eco-friendly photolithography using water-developable pure silk fibroin
By Joonhan Park, Sung-Gyu Lee, Benedetto Marelli, Myungjae Lee, Taehyung Kim, Hye-Keun Oh, Heonsu Jeon, Fiorenzo G. Omenetto, and Sunghwan Kim*
Optical Materials Express 6, 993 [Link]
Natural silk protein as a new broadband nonlinear optical material
By Byungjic Lee, Hyunsoo Kwon, Sunghwan Kim*, and Fabian Rotermund*
ACS Photonics 2, 1675 [Link] (Highlighted at Nature Photonics)
Chemically tunable, biocompatible, cost-effective metal-insulator-metal resonators using silk protein and ultrathin silver films
By Hyunsoo Kwon and Sunghwan Kim*
Advanced Materials 27, 6728 [Link]
Fabrication of tunable, high-refractive index titanate-silk nanocomposites on the micro- and nanoscale
By Giovanni Perotto, Michela Cittadini, Hu Tao, Sunghwan Kim, Miaomiao Yang, David L. Kaplan, Alessandro Martucci, and Fiorenzo G. Omenetto*
Optical Materials 47, 333 [Link]
A fully biocompatible poly(ethylene glycol)-gold plasmonic crystal for optical sensing
By Hyunsoo Kwon, Shinyoung Ryu, Soonil Lee, and Sunghwan Kim*
Nano Letters 15, 3358 [Link]
A highly tunable and fully biocompatible silk nanoplasmonic optical sensor
By Myungjae Lee, Heonsu Jeon, and Sunghwan Kim*
Lab on a Chip 15, 642 [Link]
A fully biocompatible single-mode distributed feedback laser
By Yunkyoung Choi, Heonsu Jeon, and Sunghwan Kim*
Nanoscale 7, 426 [Link]
Novel and simple route to fabricate fully biocompatible plasmonic mushroom arrays adheres on silk biopolymer
By Joonhan Park+, Yunkyoung Choi+, Myungjae Lee+, Heonsu Jeon, and Sunghwan Kim*
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 26, 1259 [Link]
Nearly perfect absorption by bimetallic plasmonic crystal and its application as sensor
By Sunghwan Kim*
Nature Nanotechnology 9, 306 [Link]
All-water-based electron beam lithography using silk as a positive, negative, and biofunctional resist
By Sunghwan Kim+, Benedetto Marelli+, Mark A. Brenckle, Alexander N. Mitropoulos, Eun-Seok Gil, Konstantinos Tsioris, Hu Tao, David L. Kaplan, and Fiorenzo G. Omenetto*
Advanced Materials 26, 1105 [Link]
Synthesis of silk fibroin micro- and submicron spheres using a co-flow capillary device
By Alexander N. Mitropoulos, Giovanni Perotto, Sunghwan Kim, Benedetto Marelli, David L. Kaplan, and Fiorenzo G. Omenetto*
New Physics: Sae Mulli 63, 851 [Link]
New silk road toward high technology
By Sunghwan Kim*
Physical Review A 88, 023804 [Link]
Simultaneous observation of extended and localized modes in celluar disordered photonic crystals
By Sunghwan Kim, Jeongkug Lee, Heonsu Jeon*, Segolene Callard, Christian Seassal, Kyung-Deok Song, and Hong-Gyu Park
Optics Express 21, 8897 [Link]
Silk protein based hybrid photonic-plasmonic crystal
By Sunghwan Kim, Alexander N. Mitropoulos, Joshua D. Spitzberg, David L. Kaplan, and Fiorenzo G. Omenetto*
Applied Physics Express 6, 042703 [Link]
Nano stepping-stone laser
By Sihan Kim, Sungmo Ahn, Kyungtaek Min, Sunghwan Kim, and Heonsu Jeon*
Advanced Materials 25, 2409 [Link]
Protein-protein nanoimprinting of silk fibroin films
By Mark A. Brenckle, Hu Tao, Sunghwan Kim, Mark Paquette, David L. Kaplan, and Fiorenzo G. Omenetto*
Nature Photonics 6, 818 (2012) [Link]
Silk inverse opals
By Sunghwan Kim, Alexander N. Mitropoupls, Joshua D. Spitzberg, Hu Tao, David L. Kaplan, and Fiorenzo G. Omenetto*
Applied Physics Letters 101, 091110 (2012)
Low threshold blue lasing from silk fibroin thin films
By Stefano Toffanin+, Sunghwan Kim+, Susanna Cavallini, Marco Natali, Valentina Benfesati, Jason J. Amsden, David L. Kaplan, Roberto Zamboni*, Michele Muccini*, and Fiorenzo G. Omenetto*
Applied Physics Express 4, 122101 (2011)
Operation of photonic crystal laser in continuous-wave mode for 18 hours
By Sihan Kim, Sunghwan Kim, Jeongkug Lee, Heonsu Jeon*, and Hyo Jin Kim
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 23, 1454 (2011)
Free-standing GaN-based photonic crystal band-edge laser
By Dong-Uk Kim, Sunghwan Kim, Jeongkug Lee, Seong-Ran Jeon, and Heonsu Jeon*
Optics Express 19, 2105 (2011)
Milliwatt-level fiber-coupled laser power from photonic crystal band-edge laser
By Sunghwan Kim, Sungmo Ahn, Jeongkug Lee, and Heonsu Jeon*
Optics Express 19, 1 (2011)
Over 1 hour continuous-wave operation of photonic crystal lasers
By Sunghwan Kim, Jeongkug Lee, and Heonsu Jeon*
Optics Express 18, 7685 (2010)
Band-edge lasers based on randomly mixed photonic crystals
By Sunghwan Kim, Sungjoon Yoon, Hyojun Seok, Jeongkug Lee, and Heonsu Jeon*
Journal of the Optical Society of America B 26, 1330 (2009)
High power and large alignment tolerance fiber coupling of honeycomb-lattice photonic crystal Γ-point band-edge laser
By Sunghwan Kim, Yeonsang Park, Kyungwook Hwang, Jeongkug Lee, Heonsu Jeon*, and Hyo Jin Kim
Applied Physics Letters 94, 133503 (2009)
Fiber-coupled surface-emitting photonic crystal band edge laser for biochemical sensor applications
By Sunghwan Kim, Jeongkug Lee, Heonsu Jeon*, and Hyo Jin Kim
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 55, 523 (2008)
GaN light-emitting diode with deep-angled mesa sidewalls for enhanced light emission in the surface-normal direction
By Jae-Soong Lee, Joonhee Lee, Sunghwan Kim, and Heonsu Jeon*
Physica Status Solidi C 4, 2625 (2007)
Fabrication of reflective GaN mesa sidewalls for the application to high extraction efficiency LEDs
By Jae-Soong Lee, Joonhee Lee, Sunghwan Kim, and Heonsu Jeon*
Applied Physics Letters 90, 171115 (2007)
Butt-end fiber coupling to a surface-emitting Γ-point photonic crystal band edge laser
By Yeonsang Park, Sunghwan Kim, Chaeyoung Moon, Heonsu Jeon*, and Hyo Jin Kim
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 124, 147 (2007)
Fluorescence amplification using colloidal photonic crystal platform in sensing dye-labeled deoxyribonucleic acids
By Hee Jin Kim, Sunghwan Kim, Heonsu Jeon*, Jangseok Ma, Soo Hyung Choi, Soosuk Lee, Christopher Ko, and Wounjhang Park
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 18, 1588 (2006)
GaN-based light-emitting diode structure with monolithically integrated sidewall deflectors for enhanced surface emission
By Jae-Soong Lee, Joonhee Lee, Sunghwan Kim, and Heonsu Jeon*
Applied Physics Letters 83, 231 (2003)
Photonic crystal waveguides with multiple 90 degrees bends
By Young-Geun Roh, Sungjoon Yoon, Sunghwan Kim, Heonsu Jeon*, Seung-Ho Park, Q-Han Park, and Inkyu Park