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Seung-Wuk Lee is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines including engineering, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a total of 20 publications in engineering and 10 in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist has contributed significantly to various subfields such as mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, biomaterials, molecular biology, and genetics. These encompass areas with 10, 8, 6, 6, and 3 publications respectively.

Main topics of Seung-Wuk Lee's work include advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, extraction and separation processes, advanced materials and mechanics, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, connective tissue disorders research, electrospun nanofibers in biomedical applications, and advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques. The number of publications in these topics range from 12 in advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials down to 4 in several other specialized areas.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Lee include Han Kim, Inseok Chae, Oleg Gang, Patrick Huber, and Alamgir Karim, with between 5 to 6 shared publications each.

Lee's publication record contains several recent papers notable for their focus on biomaterials and hydrogels. These include:

  • Biomolecular Piezoelectric Materials: From Amino Acids to Living Tissues (2020, Advanced Materials)
  • Elastin-Based Thermoresponsive Shape-Memory Hydrogels (2020, Biomacromolecules)
  • Moisture-induced autonomous surface potential oscillations for energy harvesting (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Catechol-Functionalized Elastin-like Polypeptides as Tissue Adhesives (2020, Biomacromolecules)
  • Design of functional hydrogels using smart polymer based on elastin-like polypeptides (2022, Chemical Engineering Journal)

Seung-Wuk Lee frequently publishes in venues such as Nano Letters, Advanced Materials, Biomacromolecules, Nature Communications, and the Chemical Engineering Journal. The publication counts in these venues are 4, 3, 3, 1, and 1 respectively.

The scientist also has authored a series of books published by World Scientific, all titled Soft Matter and Biomaterials on the Nanoscale from the year 2020, with varying citation counts.

Best Publications

  • Ordering of Quantum Dots Using Genetically Engineered Viruses

    Seung Wuk Lee;Chuanbin Mao;Christine E. Flynn;Angela M. Belcher

  • A comprehensive review on piezoelectric energy harvesting technology: Materials, mechanisms, and applications

    Huicong Liu;Huicong Liu;Junwen Zhong;Chengkuo Lee;Seung-Wuk Lee

  • Light-Controlled Graphene-Elastin Composite Hydrogel Actuators

    Eddie Wang;Malav S. Desai;Malav S. Desai;Seung-Wuk Lee;Seung-Wuk Lee

  • Biomimetic self-templating supramolecular structures

    Woo Jae Chung;Jin Woo Oh;Jin Woo Oh;Kyungwon Kwak;Kyungwon Kwak;Byung Yang Lee;Byung Yang Lee

  • Virus-based piezoelectric energy generation

    Byung Yang Lee;Jinxing Zhang;Jinxing Zhang;Chris Zueger;Chris Zueger;Woo Jae Chung;Woo Jae Chung

  • Fluorine-free preparation of titanium carbide MXene quantum dots with high near-infrared photothermal performances for cancer therapy.

    Xinghua Yu;Xingke Cai;Haodong Cui;Seung-Wuk Lee

  • Viruses as vehicles for growth, organization and assembly of materials

    Christine E. Flynn;Seung-Wuk Lee;Beau R. Peelle;Angela M. Belcher

  • Biomolecular Piezoelectric Materials: From Amino Acids to Living Tissues.

    Daeyeong Kim;Sang A Han;Sang A Han;Jung Ho Kim;Ju-Hyuck Lee

  • Biomimetic virus-based colorimetric sensors

    Seung-Wuk Lee;Woo-Jae Chung;Jin-woo Oh

  • Virus-Based Fabrication of Micro- and Nanofibers Using Electrospinning

    Seung-Wuk Lee;Angela M. Belcher

  • Genetically engineered nanofiber-like viruses for tissue regenerating materials.

    Anna Merzlyak;Shyam Indrakanti;Seung-Wuk Lee

  • Diphenylalanine Peptide Nanotube Energy Harvesters

    Ju-Hyuck Lee;Ju-Hyuck Lee;Kwang Heo;Kwang Heo;Konstantin Schulz-Schönhagen;Konstantin Schulz-Schönhagen;Ju Hun Lee;Ju Hun Lee

  • Virus‐Based Alignment of Inorganic, Organic, and Biological Nanosized Materials

    Seung-Wuk Lee;Soo Kwan Lee;Angela M. Belcher

  • Evolutionary Screening of Biomimetic Coatings for Selective Detection of Explosives

    Justyn W. Jaworski;Digvijay Raorane;Jin H. Huh;Arunava Majumdar

  • Highly Efficient Light‐Emitting Diodes Based on an Organic‐Soluble Poly(p‐phenylenevinylene) Derivative Carrying the Electron‐Transporting PBD Moiety

    Sung Jae Chung;Ki Young Kwon;Seung Wuk Lee;Jung Il Jin

  • Selective and Sensitive TNT Sensors Using Biomimetic Polydiacetylene- Coated CNT-FETs

    Tae Hyun Kim;Byung Yang Lee;Byung Yang Lee;Justyn Jaworski;Justyn Jaworski;Keisuke Yokoyama

  • The incidence and clinical characteristics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection among systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis patients in Korea.

    Yun Je;Lee Sw;Kim Th;Jun Jb

  • Genetically Driven Assembly of Nanorings Based on the M13 Virus

    Ki Tae Nam;Beau R. Peelle;Seung-Wuk Lee,‡,⊥ and;Angela M. Belcher

  • Phage as templates for hybrid materials and mediators for nanomaterial synthesis.

    Anna Merzlyak;Seung-Wuk Lee

  • Phage-Based Structural Color Sensors and Their Pattern Recognition Sensing System

    Ju Hun Lee;Ju Hun Lee;Benson Fan;Tuan D. Samdin;David A. Monteiro;David A. Monteiro

  • Chiral smectic C structures of virus-based films

    Seung-Wuk Lee;Bryant M. Wood;Angela M. Belcher

  • Assembly of bacteriophage into functional materials.

    Sung Ho Yang;Sung Ho Yang;Woo-Jae Chung;Woo-Jae Chung;Sean McFarland;Sean McFarland;Seung-Wuk Lee;Seung-Wuk Lee

  • Evolutionary Screening of Collagen-like Peptides That Nucleate Hydroxyapatite Crystals

    Woo-Jae Chung;Ki-Young Kwon;Jie Song;Seung-Wuk Lee

  • Polymer-oligopeptide composite coating for selective detection of explosives in water.

    Marta Cerruti;Justyn Jaworski;Digvijay Raorane;Chris Zueger

  • Early Osteogenic Differentiation of Mouse Preosteoblasts Induced by Collagen-Derived DGEA-Peptide on Nanofibrous Phage Tissue Matrices

    So Young Yoo;Masae Kobayashi;Phin Peng Lee;Seung-Wuk Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Arun Majumdar
Arun Majumdar Stanford University
Liwei Lin
Liwei Lin University of California, Berkeley
Oleg Gang
Oleg Gang Columbia University
Alamgir Karim
Alamgir Karim University of Houston
Deborah Dean
Deborah Dean University of California, San Francisco
Seunghun Hong
Seunghun Hong Seoul National University
Jiang Chang
Jiang Chang University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Haimei Zheng
Haimei Zheng Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ramamoorthy Ramesh
Ramamoorthy Ramesh Rice University

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