February 2025

Chaired the Pressure Sensitive Adhesives session at 2025 Adhesion Society Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Elected as Soft Adhesives Division Chair for the 2027 Adhesion Society Annual Meeting.

November 2024

Promoted to Associate Research Scientist.

Review article on Peel Mechanics at Soft-Soft Interfaces published in Journal of Applied Mechanics.

October 2024

Hierarchical Metamaterial Adhesive published in Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A.

June 2024

Participated as a speaker in the Future Careers Panel Discussion organized by the Georgia Tech MSE Research Faculty and Postdocs Association.

February 2024

Material and Structural Interplay in Disordered Network Fracture published in Cell Report Physical Science.

Chaired the Reversible, Smart, and Switchable Adhesives session at 2024 Adhesion Society Annual Meeting in Savannah, Georgia.

July 2023

Co-chaired the Science of Adhesion Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

June 2023

Programmable Metamaterial Adhesive through Reverse Crack Propagation published in Nature Materials. See the story on Behind the Paper, American Physical Society, and VT News. See the research video.

Electrically Conductive Liquid Metal Composite Adhesive published in Advanced Functional Materials.

February 2023

Co-chaired the Reversible, Smart, and Switchable Adhesives session and served as a poster session judge at 2023 Adhesion Society Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida.

October 2022

Presented Dow's R&D capabilities and sustainability efforts at Pusan National University, South Korea.

August 2022

Tough Bonding of Liquid Metal-Based Soft Composite published in Small.

​Peeling of Finite-Length Elastica on Winkler Foundation published in International Journal of Solids and Structures.

March 2022

Started working as a Senior Research Specialist at Dow in Midland, Michigan.

February 2022

Presented work on Kirigami Structures for Programmable Adhesion and served as a poster session judge at 2022 Adhesion Society Annual Meeting in San Diego, California.

Received the Distinguished Paper Award from the Adhesion Society, sponsored by Henkel.

January 2022

Shape Morphing Metamaterial published in Science Robotics. See the story on BBC Science Focus, VT News, IEEE Spectrum, and more. See the research video.

December 2021

Passed the PhD defense!

Graded Kirigami Composite published in Advanced Materials Technologies.

September 2021

Co-chaired the Virtual Adhesion Science Gathering 2021, sponsored by Dow and 3M.

July 2021

Presented work on Programmable Kirigami-Inspired Adhesion at the 2021 National Graduate Research Polymer Conference (NGRPC 2021).

Received 1st Place Poster Presentation Award at the 2021 NGRPC.

June 2021

Attended the 3M RISE (Raising Influence in Science and Engineering) symposium.

Cancer cell migration on collagen published in Acta Biomaterialia.

February 2021

Presented work on Programmable Kirigami-inspired Adhesion and co-chaired the PSAs and Viscoelasticity session at 2021 Adhesion Society Virtual Annual Meeting.

January 2021

Jamming-Based Switchable Adhesives published in Soft Matter.

December 2020

Received the Peebles Award for Graduate Student Research in Adhesion Science from the Adhesion Society, sponsored by Henkel.

October 2020

​Graphene-Based Open Fluidics with Laser-Controlled Wettability, a collaboration with Dr. Gomez and Dr. Claussen, published in Nanoscale Horizons.

​Controlling Adhesion on Hydrophobic Hydrogels, a collaboration with Dr. Jiang and Dr. Bratlie, published in Biochemical Engineering Journal.

September 2020

​Controlling Adhesion Using Active Membrane published in Advanced Materials Technologies.

August 2020

Transferred to the department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering (MACR) at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.

July 2020

Passed the Master's defense on A Kirigami Approach for Controlling Mechanical and Sensing Properties of Films at Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University.

March 2020

Received the Research Excellence Award from Iowa State University.

Acting as Entrepreneurial Lead to explore the commercial potential of lab-scale research innovations for ISU's Innovation-Corps (I-Corps) Site program funded by National Science Foundation (NSF).

​Presented work on Programmable Adhesion Using Nonlinear Kirigami Structures at 2020 Midwest Graduate Student SEM Symposium in Ames, Iowa.

February 2020

Presented work on Programmable Adhesion Using Kirigami Structures at 2020 Adhesion Society Annual Meeting in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Selected as a 2020-2021 Brown Graduate Fellowship recipient from Iowa State University.

January 2020

Attended a Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) Chair's training session in Orlando, Florida for the 2021 Science of Adhesion GRS.

August 2019

Presented work on Kirigami-Inspired materials for Adhesion Control at 2019 Nano@IAState conference in Ames, Iowa.

Received the Best Poster Presentation Award at 2019 Nano@IAState.

July 2019

Presented work on Kirigami-Inspired Materials for Adhesion Control at the Science of Adhesion Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

Elected as Chair for the 2021 Science of Adhesion Gordon Research Seminar (GRS).

June 2019

Presented work on Tunable Kirigami Metamaterials for Films and Adhesives at 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award (NTFA) event in Maplewood, Minnesota.

April 2019

Presented work on Kirigami-Inspired Materials for Adhesion Control at 2019 Iowa State GPSS conference in Ames, Iowa.

March 2019

​Factors for Regulating Cancer Cell Migration, a collaboration with Dr. Schneider, published in Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces.

February 2019

​Kirigami-Inspired Passive Resonant Sensors, a collaboration with Dr. Reuel, published in Advanced Materials Technologies.

Presented work on kirigami membranes at 2019 Adhesion Society Annual Meeting in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

Elected as a senator of Iowa State Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS).

January 2019

Elected as founding member of Iowa State International Student Council's (ISC) Outreach and Advocacy Committee.

Participated as a Team Helper in the FIRST LEGO League (FLL).
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Recipient of the Melba and Karl Gschneidner’s Go for the Gold Award.​

October 2018

Dohgyuhwang.com was established.