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2022

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49

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Korea Leader Award
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  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Korea Leader Award

Overview

Haeshin Lee is affiliated with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea. Their research primarily spans materials science, medicine, and engineering, with a total of 59 publications in materials science, 50 in medicine, and 42 in engineering.

The subfields of study represented in their work include surfaces, coatings and films, molecular biology, biomedical engineering, biomaterials, and hematology. These areas highlight a cross-disciplinary approach connecting material properties with biological and medical applications.

Main topics of investigation focus on polymer surface interaction studies, hemostasis and retained surgical items, hydrogel synthesis and applications, 3D printing in biomedical research, electrospun nanofibers in biomedical applications, surface modification and superhydrophobicity, and surgical sutures and adhesives.

Haeshin Lee has contributed papers including:

  • Polydopamine and Its Derivative Surface Chemistry in Material Science: A Focused Review for Studies at KAIST, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Stretchable and self-healable catechol-chitosan-diatom hydrogel for triboelectric generator and self-powered tremor sensor targeting at Parkinson disease, 2020, Nano Energy
  • Skin-attachable and biofriendly chitosan-diatom triboelectric nanogenerator, 2020, Nano Energy
  • VATA: A Poly(vinyl alcohol)- and Tannic Acid-Based Nontoxic Underwater Adhesive, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Coagulopathy-independent, bioinspired hemostatic materials: A full research story from preclinical models to a human clinical trial, 2021, Science Advances

Their work appears frequently in journals such as ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Advanced Materials, Acta Biomaterialia, Chemistry of Materials, and Small, with the highest number of publications in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

Haeshin Lee collaborates regularly with several researchers, including Jeehee Lee, Mikyung Shin, Yu Ri Nam, Won Ho Park, and Jingxian Wu.

Best Publications

  • Mussel-Inspired Surface Chemistry for Multifunctional Coatings

    Haeshin Lee;Shara M. Dellatore;William M. Miller;Phillip B. Messersmith

  • Single-molecule mechanics of mussel adhesion

    Haeshin Lee;Norbert F. Scherer;Phillip B. Messersmith

  • A reversible wet/dry adhesive inspired by mussels and geckos

    Haeshin Lee;Bruce P. Lee;Phillip B. Messersmith

  • Polydopamine Surface Chemistry: A Decade of Discovery.

    Ji Hyun Ryu;Phillip B. Messersmith;Phillip B. Messersmith;Haeshin Lee

  • Facile Conjugation of Biomolecules onto Surfaces via Mussel Adhesive Protein Inspired Coatings

    Haeshin Lee;Junsung Rho;Phillip B. Messersmith

  • Non-Covalent Self-Assembly and Covalent Polymerization Co-Contribute to Polydopamine Formation

    Seonki Hong;Yun Suk Na;Sunghwan Choi;In Taek Song

  • Mussel-Inspired Polydopamine Coating as a Universal Route to Hydroxyapatite Crystallization

    Jungki Ryu;Sook Hee Ku;Haeshin Lee;Chan Beum Park

  • General functionalization route for cell adhesion on non-wetting surfaces.

    Sook Hee Ku;Jungki Ryu;Seon Ki Hong;Haeshin Lee

  • Catechol-functionalized chitosan/pluronic hydrogels for tissue adhesives and hemostatic materials.

    Ji Hyun Ryu;Yuhan Lee;Won Ho Kong;Taek Gyoung Kim

  • Mussel‐Inspired Adhesive Binders for High‐Performance Silicon Nanoparticle Anodes in Lithium‐Ion Batteries

    Myung-Hyun Ryou;Jangbae Kim;Inhwa Lee;Sunjin Kim

  • One‐Step Multipurpose Surface Functionalization by Adhesive Catecholamine

    Sung Min Kang;Nathaniel S. Hwang;Jihyeon Yeom;Sung Young Park

  • Substrate-Independent Layer-by-Layer Assembly by Using Mussel-Adhesive-Inspired Polymers†

    Haeshin Lee;Yuhan Lee;Andrea R. Statz;Junsung Rho

  • Simultaneous Reduction and Surface Functionalization of Graphene Oxide by Mussel‐Inspired Chemistry

    Sung Min Kang;Sungjin Park;Daewon Kim;Sung Young Park

  • One-step modification of superhydrophobic surfaces by a mussel-inspired polymer coating.

    Sung Min Kang;Inseong You;Woo Kyung Cho;Hyun Kyong Shon

  • Mussel-inspired encapsulation and functionalization of individual yeast cells.

    Sung Ho Yang;Sung Min Kang;Kyung-Bok Lee;Taek Dong Chung

  • Bio-inspired adhesive catechol-conjugated chitosan for biomedical applications: A mini review

    Ji Hyun Ryu;Seonki Hong;Haeshin Lee

  • Tissue Adhesive Catechol-Modified Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogel for Effective, Minimally Invasive Cell Therapy

    Jisoo Shin;Jung Seung Lee;Changhyun Lee;Hyun Ji Park

  • Thermo-sensitive, injectable, and tissue adhesive sol–gel transition hyaluronic acid/pluronic composite hydrogels prepared from bio-inspired catechol-thiol reaction

    Yuhan Lee;Hyun Jung Chung;Sangho Yeo;Cheol-Hee Ahn

  • Material-Independent Surface Chemistry beyond Polydopamine Coating.

    Haesung A Lee;Yanfei Ma;Feng Zhou;Feng Zhou;Seonki Hong

  • Polydopamine-mediated surface modification of scaffold materials for human neural stem cell engineering.

    Kisuk Yang;Jung Seung Lee;Jin Kim;Yu Bin Lee

  • Polydopamine and Its Derivative Surface Chemistry in Material Science: A Focused Review for Studies at KAIST.

    Haesung A. Lee;Eunsook Park;Haeshin Lee

  • Bioinspired Surface Immobilization of Hyaluronic Acid on Monodisperse Magnetite Nanocrystals for Targeted Cancer Imaging

    Yuhan Lee;Haeshin Lee;Young Beom Kim;Jaeyoon Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

Tae Gwan Park
Tae Gwan Park Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Phillip B. Messersmith
Phillip B. Messersmith University of California, Berkeley
Seung Woo Cho
Seung Woo Cho Yonsei University
Sung Young Park
Sung Young Park Korea National University of Transportation
Ji Hoon Jeong
Ji Hoon Jeong Chung-Ang University
Soon Hyung Hong
Soon Hyung Hong Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Jang Wook Choi
Jang Wook Choi Seoul National University
Myung-Hyun Ryou
Myung-Hyun Ryou Hanbat National University
Insik In
Insik In Korea National University of Transportation
Insung S. Choi
Insung S. Choi Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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