Current Members

Focus area : Soft material mechanics and polymer network synthesis

Hobby and interest : Singing, Tennis, Climbing

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Cornell University, MS in Mechanical Engineering

Co-advised with Sinan Keten

Focus area: Polymer physics and mechanics

Hobbies and interests: tennis, hiking, skiing, movies, cats…

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Chung-Ang University, BS/MS in Nanomaterials Science and Engineering

Focus Area: Viscoelasticity of Hydrogel

Hobbies and interests: traveling, golf, cooking, and watching netflix

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Zhejiang University, MS in Polymer Science and Engineering

Focus area: Hydrogel mechanics

Hobbies and interests: traveling, photography and table tennis 

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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, BS in Mechanical Engineering

Focus Area: Nanocomposite Polymers
Hobbies: crocheting, baking, pickleball, Netflix

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Ph.D. Student in Chemistry, Seoul National University

Focus: Soft Material Synthesis and Mechanics

Hobbies: Tennis, Traveling, Watching Sports

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Northwestern University, BS in Chemical Engineering, BA in Music

Focus area: Fracture mechanics of polymer entanglements 

Extracurriculars: Music composition, comedy art, eating all the lab snacks

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Northwestern University, BS in Mechanical Engineering 

Focus area: Viscoelasticity of Hydrogel 

Hobbies and Interests: Design, Art and Entrepreneurship

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Yao-Hsuan Lin is a master student in mechanical engineering at Northwestern University. Currently working with Taewon on polymer networks and the synthesis of stiff hydrogels for Zn-ion battery applications. 

Hobbies and Interests: Cooking and Traveling.

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Northwestern University, BS in Mechanical Engineering. 

Focus area: Hydrogel biomedical applications

Hobbies/interests: Tennis, cello, and guitar

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Northwestern University

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