2026
A Fingertip-Inspired, Mechanically Tunable Ridge Architecture Enables Self-Powered Electrostatic Sensing for Material Recognition and Depth Perception
Seonmin Yu†, Jeongmin Lee†, Hyeonyeong Choi†, Dongik Kam, Donghan Lee, Seonghun Hwang, Sangeun Lee, Joonmin Chae, Yoonsang Ra, Younghoon Lee, Dongwhi Choi*
Under revision at Advanced Functional Materials
Sensorimotor-Inspired Intelligent Soft Robotics Enabled by Triboelectric Mechanotransducers: From Distributed Perception to Closed-Loop Control
Sumin Cho†, Sunmin Jang†, Hyungyun Cho, Donghan Lee, Yusang Jun, Yu-Seop Kim, Dongwhi Choi*, Younghoon Lee*
Under revision at Advanced Materials
Mechanical-System Monitoring based on Triboelectric Sensors: Health-Information Depth and Direct versus AI-Assisted Interpretation
Jeongseok Oh†, Hayoung Kim†, Gibeom Lee, Hyeonyeong Choi, Qijun Sun, Younghoon Lee*, Dongwhi Choi*
Under revision at Engineering
A Dimensional Perspective on Triboelectric Tactile Sensors for Seamless and Dexterous Human-Machine Interfaces: From Tactile Inputs to Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Perception
Seonmin Yu†, Sangeun Lee†, Minjun Song, Guangsen Ren, Muhammad Awais, Younghoon Lee*, Dongwhi Choi*
Under revision at Nano-Micro Letters
Bioadhesive Optics
Runze Li†, Won Jun Song†, Chung-En Huang, Honghao Cao, Fengyi Zhang, Lidek Chou, Shu Wang, Chen Gong, Xiaoyu Chen, Hyunmin Moon, Yun Hyeok Lee, Younghoon Lee, George Barbastathis, Sixian You, Zhongping Chen, Xuanhe Zhao
Under revision at Nature
Self-Noncontact Electrification Enables High output and Durable Non-Contact Triboelectric Nanogenerators
Minjun Song†, Jiwon Jang, Gibeom Lee, Kyongtae Choi, Joonmin Chae, Sumin Cho, Sunmin Jang, Daegyu Lee, Dongwhi Choi, Chengkuo Lee, Younghoon Lee*
Under revision at Advanced materials
Cucumber-derived exosome-like nanovesicles promote diabetic wound healing via AKT-HO-1 signaling
Suhyeon An†, Kyongtae Choi, Mina Boo, Hyunyoung Choi, HyunSoo Yang, Jae Heon Sim, Seungha Yoo, Soohyun Um, Kyuho Moon, Dong Jun Park, Dong-Hyun Youn, Hye-Lin Kim, Yohan Han, Ji Hoon Jung, Woojin Kim, Jae-Young Um, Seong-Gyu Ko, Younghoon Lee, Hyo In Kim*, Leo E. Otterbein*, Jinbong Park*
Under revision at Phytomedicine
Ionic transparent triboelectric charge pump and charge reservoir for skin-mountable touch-driven direct-current generation
Gibeom Lee†, Jongseok Lee, Jiwon Jang, Minjun Song, Kyongtae Choi, Won Jun Song*, Younghoon Lee*
Advanced Functional Materials (Accepted)
IF 19.9, JCR 4.2%
An All-Soft Octopus-Inspired Ionic Patch Featuring Foldable 3D Suction Cups for Wet-Skin-Conformal Triboelectric Nanogenerators
Kyongtae Choi†, Jayoung Choi†, Yonghyun Cho†, Jihyeon Kim, Gibeom Lee, Sunghyun Min, Minjun Song, Jiwon Jang, Hyojae Ha, Hosub Lim*, Younghoon Lee*, Sangyul Baik*
Nano-Micro Letters (Accepted)
IF 38.5, JCR Top 1.0%
Challenges and Opportunities in Hydrogel-Based Iontronics
Kyongtae Choi†, Hyungyun Cho†, Younghoon Lee*
Iontronics (2026)
Yoonsang Ra†, Yu-seop Kim†, Yusang Jun†, Seonghun Hwang, Joonmin Chae, Seonmin Yu, Hayoung Kim, Sunmin Jang, Sumin Cho, Younghoon Lee*, Hee Jae Hwang*, and Dongwhi Choi*
Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science (2026)
IF 14.1, JCR Top 6.3%
Nanoparticle-enabled tuning of cell density for enhanced adhesion and tissue repair
Hyun Su Park†, Gwang-Bum Im†, So Yun Jeong, Jongseok Lee, Amélie Ferran, Jihyun Lee, Sung-Won Kim, Jiyu Hyun, Young-Ju Jang, Eun-Cheol Lee, Younghoon Lee, Jongwook Bae,*, Sukho Bhang*
Nature Communications (2026)
IF: 15.7, JCR Top 7.4%
Jiwon Jang†, Kyongtae Choi†, Gibeom Lee, Sumin Cho, Min-Gyu Lee, Dongwhi Choi, Kyungwho Choi*, Dukhyun Choi*, and Younghoon Lee*
EcoMat (2026)
IF: 12.6, JCR Top 6.3%
Yun Hyeok Lee†, Seung Won Moon†, Min-Gyu Lee†, Won Jun Song, Seong-Yu Choi, Gimin Sung, Yong Eun Cho, Junhyun Choi, Byung Ik Park, Younghoon Lee, Ho-Young Kim*, Jeong-Yun Sun*
Science Advances (2026)
IF 12.5, JCR Top 8.5%
Kyongtae Choi†, Jimin Park†, Won Jun Song, Soohwan An, Seonggyu Choe, Byeong-Rak Keum, Min Young Kim, Dae Hee Hwang, Young-Geun Park, Sangyul Baik*, Gwang-Bum Im*, and Younghoon Lee*
Advanced Materials (2026)
IF 26.8, JCR Top 2.1%
Selected as a Back Cover article
Gibeom Lee†, Eunbyeol Kim, Kyongtae Choi, Minjun Song, Sunmin Jang, Dongwhi Choi, Donghyun Seo, Min-Gyu Lee*, Younghoon Lee*
Advanced Materials (2026)
IF 26.8, JCR Top 2.1%
Selected as a Front Cover article
2025
Won Jun Song†, Yong-Woo Kang†, Junhyung Kim, Bastien F.G. Aymon, Yun Hyeok Lee, Seong-Yu Choi, Yong Eun Cho, Xiao-Yun Yan, Shucong Li, Younghoon Lee, Xuanhe Zhao, Yong-Lae Park*, Jeong-Yun Sun*
Advanced Materials (2025)
IF 26.8, JCR Top 2.1%
Min-Gyu Lee†, Seong-Yu Choi†, HyunJae Yoo†, Jae-Man Park, Younghoon Lee, Yun Hyeok Lee, Yong Eun Cho, Sungsoo Lim, Hakjun Lee, Jeong-Yun Sun*
Science Advances (2025)
IF 12.5, JCR Top 8.5%
Kosmotropic Ions Embedded Hydrogel for Significantly Enhancing Deformability and Performance of Iontronic Triboelectric Nanogenerators
Thien Trung Luu, Minyong Shim, Yong Jun Choi, Quang Minh Bui, Miso Kim, Yong Tae Park, Kyungwho Choi*, Younghoon Lee*, Dukhyun Choi*
Chemical Engineering Journal (2025)
IF 13.2, JCR Top 3.0%
Sumin Cho†, Muhammad Ramzan Khawar†, Yoonsang Ra, Sunmin Jang, Donghan Lee, Dongik Kam, Soban Ali Shah, Donghyeon Yoo, Yasir Javed, Awais ahmad, Younghoon Lee, Hee Jae Hwang, Chengkuo Lee*, Dongwhi Choi*
Materials Today (2025)
IF 22.0, JCR Top 3.8%
Bio-inspired Ionic Sensors: Transforming Natural Mechanisms into Sensory Technologies
Kyongtae Choi†, Gibeom Lee, Mingyu Lee, Heejae Hwang, Kibeom Lee*, Younghoon Lee*
Nano-Micro Letters (2025)
IF 36.3, JCR Top 1.2%
Recent progress of triboelectric platform: Engineering materials to industrial applications
Yoonsang Ra†, Minjun Song†, Donghan Lee†, Sunmin Jang, Sumin Cho, Yu-seop Kim, Joonmin Chae, Dongik Kam, Donghyun Lee, Gibeom Lee, Younghoon Lee*, Dongwhi Choi*
International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing (2025)
IF 21.3, JCR Top 0.7%
2024
Hydrogel-based Droplet Electricity Generators: Intrinsically Stretchable and Transparent for Seamless Integration in Diverse Environments
Sunmin Jang, Sangeun Lee, Soban Ali Shah, Sumin Cho, Yoonsang Ra, Gibeom Lee, Younghoon Lee*, Dongwhi Choi*
Advanced Functional Materials (2024)
IF 18.5, JCR Top 4.1%
Selected as a Front Cover article
A Review on Soft Ionic Touch Point Sensors
Gibeom Lee†, Donghyun Lee†, Gwang-Bum Im, Younghoon Lee*
Energy & Environmental Materials (2024)
IF 15.0, JCR Top 7.1%
Liftoff of a Soft-Actuated Micro-Aerial-Robot Powered by Triboelectric Nanogenerators
Younghoon Lee, Zhijian Ren, Yi-Hsuan Hsiao, Suhan Kim, Won Jun Song, Chengkuo Lee, Yufeng Chen*
Nano Energy (2024)
IF 17.6, JCR Top 2.71%
Ionic liquid with hydrogen bonding reducing leakage charge for enhancing triboelectric performance
Hee Jae Hwang†, Kyung Yeun Kim†, Joo Sung Kim, Taeyeon Kim, Do Hwan Kim, Younghoon Lee* & Dukhyun Choi*
Nano Energy (2024)
IF 17.6, JCR Top 2.71%
Subyeong Ku, Byung-Hyun Song, Taejun Park, Younghoon Lee, and Yong-Lae Park*
International Journal of Robotics Research (2024)
IF 9.2, JCR Top 8.33%
2023
Dongwhi Choi†, Younghoon Lee†, Zong-Hong Lin†, Sumin Cho, Miso Kim, Chi Kit Ao, Siowling Soh, Changwan Sohn, Chang Kyu Jeong, Jeongwan Lee, Minbaek Lee, Seungah Lee, Jungho Ryu, Parag Parashar, Yujang Cho, Jaewan Ahn, Il-Doo Kim, Feng Jiang, Pooi See Lee, Gaurav Khandelwal, Sang-Jae Kim, Hyun Soo Kim, Hyun-Cheol Song, Minje Kim, Junghyo Nah, Wook Kim, Habtamu Gebeyehu Menge, Yong Tae Park, Wei Xu, Jianhua Hao, Hyosik Park, Ju-Hyuck Lee, Dong-Min Lee, Sang-Woo Kim, Ji Young Park, Haixia Zhang, Yunlong Zi, Ru Guo, Jia Cheng, Ze Yang, Yannan Xie, Sangmin Lee, Jihoon Chung, Il-Kwon Oh, Ji-Seok Kim, Tinghai Cheng, Qi Gao, Gang Cheng, Guangqin Gu, Minseob Shim, Jeehoon Jung, Changwoo Yun, Chi Zhang, Guoxu Liu, Yufeng Chen, Suhan Kim, Xiangyu Chen, Jun Hu, Xiong Pu, Zi Hao Guo, Xudong Wang, Jun Chen, Xiao Xiao, Xing Xie, Mourin Jarin, Hulin Zhang, Ying-Chih Lai, Tianyiyi He, Hakjeong Kim, Inkyu Park, Junseong Ahn, Nghia Dinh Huynh, Ya Yang, Zhong Lin Wang*, Jeong Min Baik*, Dukhyun Choi*
ACS Nano (2023)
IF 17.1, JCR Top 4.17%
Selected as a Back Cover article
Laser-assisted failure recovery for dielectric elastomer actuators in aerial robots
Suhan Kim†, Yi-Hsuan Hsiao†, Younghoon Lee, Weikun Zhu, Zhijian Ren, Farnaz Niroui, Yufeng Chen*
Science Robotics (2023)
IF 25.0, JCR Top 1.32%
Selected as a Front Cover article
2022
Liquid-metal micro-networks with strain-induced conductivity for soft electronics and robotic skin
Yeongmin Park†, Jaewoong Jung†, Younghoon Lee, Dongwoo Lee, Joost J Vlassak, Yong-Lae Park*
npj Flexible Electronics (2022)
IF 14.6, JCR Top 5.68%
Younghoon Lee†, Sungsoo Lim†, Won Jun Song, Sudong Lee, Sohee John Yoon, Jae‐Man Park, Min‐Gyu Lee, Yong‐Lae Park, Jeong‐Yun Sun*
Advanced Materials (2022)
IF 29.4, JCR Top 0.68%
Selected as a Frontispiece article
2021
Soft artificial electroreceptors for noncontact spatial perception
Won Jun Song†, Younghoon Lee†, Yeonsu Jung†, Yong-Woo Kang, Junhyung Kim, Jae-Man Park, Yong-Lae Park, Ho-Young Kim*, Jeong-Yun Sun*
Science Advances (2021)
IF 15.0, JCR Top 2.73%
Highlighted at the main page of Science
2020
Accelerated Wound Healing with an Ionic Patch assisted by a Triboelectric Nanogenerator
Seol-Ha Jeong†, Younghoon Lee†, Min-Gyu Lee, Won Jun Song, Ji-Ung Park, Jeong-Yun Sun*
Nano Energy (2020)
IF 17.9, JCR Top 2.47%
Aromatic nonpolar organogels for efficient and stable perovskite green emitters
Jae-Man Park†, Jinwoo Park, Young-Hoon Kim, Huanyu Zhou, Younghoon Lee, Seung Hyeon Jo, Jinwoo Ma, Tae-Woo Lee, Jeong-Yun Sun*
Nature Communications (2020)
IF 14.9, JCR Top 3.52%
Highlighted at Editor's Choice website
Younghoon Lee†, Won Jun Song†, Jeong-Yun Sun*
Materials Today Physics (2020)
IF 9.3, JCR Top 8.46%
2018
Mesoporous Highly-Deformable Composite Polymer for a Gapless Triboelectric Nanogenerator via a One-Step Metal Oxidation Process
Hee Jae Hwang†, Younghoon Lee, Choongyeop Lee, Youngsuk Nam, Jinhyoung Park, Dukhyun Choi*, Dongseob Kim*
Micromachines (2018)
IF 2.4, JCR Top 44.15%
Transparent and attachable ionic communicators based on self-cleanable triboelectric nanogenerators
Younghoon Lee†, Seung Hee Cha, Yong-Woo Kim, Dukhyun Choi, Jeong-Yun Sun*
Nature Communications (2018)
IF 11.9, JCR Top 3.52%
Highlighted at Editor's Choice website
2017
Cam-based sustainable triboelectric nanogenerators with a resolution-free 3D-printed system
Younghoon Lee†, Wook Kim, Divij Bhatia, Hee Jae Hwang, Sangmin Lee*, Dukhyun Choi*
Nano Energy (2017)
IF 13.1, JCR Top 2.47%
Ming Liang Jin†, Sangsik Park†, Younghoon Lee, Ji Hye Lee, Junho Chung, Joo Sung Kim, Jong‐Seon Kim, So Young Kim, Eunsong Jee, Dae Woo Kim, Jae Woo Chung, Seung Geol Lee, Dukhyun Choi, Hee‐Tae Jung*, Do Hwan Kim*
Advanced Materials (2017)
IF 22.0, JCR Top 0.68%
Selected as a Inside Front Cover article
2016
Kinematic design for high performance triboelectric nanogenerators with enhanced working frequency
Wook Kim†, Hee Jae Hwang, Divij Bhatia, Younghoon Lee, Jung Min Baik, Dukhyun Choi*
Nano Energy (2016)
IF 12.3, JCR Top 2.47%
2014
Stitchable organic photovoltaic cells with textile electrodes
Seungwoo Lee†, Younghoon Lee, Jongjin Park, Dukhyun Choi*
Nano Energy (2014)
IF 10.3, JCR Top 2.47%