Joona Bang

7.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
180 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Joona Bang is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Joona Bang has authored 180 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 103 papers in Materials Chemistry, 72 papers in Organic Chemistry and 45 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Joona Bang's work include Block Copolymer Self-Assembly (71 papers), Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization (60 papers) and Polymer Surface Interaction Studies (39 papers). Joona Bang is often cited by papers focused on Block Copolymer Self-Assembly (71 papers), Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization (60 papers) and Polymer Surface Interaction Studies (39 papers). Joona Bang collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, United States and Japan. Joona Bang's co-authors include Craig J. Hawker, Bumjoon J. Kim, Thomas P. Russell, Edward J. Krämer, Timothy P. Lodge, Du Yeol Ryu, Wansuk Choi, Jung‐Hyun Lee, Unyong Jeong and Jungkyu Choi and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Joona Bang

177 papers receiving 6.6k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Block Copolymer Nanolithography: Translation of Molecular Level Control to Nanoscale Patterns

2009 626 citations Joona Bang, Du Yeol Ryu et al. profile →
Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Graphene Oxide Nanosheets on Polyamide Membranes for Durable Reverse-Osmosis Applications

2013 452 citations Joona Bang et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joona Bang South Korea	43	4.0k	2.7k	1.8k	1.4k	1.3k	180	6.7k
Mingjiang Zhong United States	42	2.2k 0.5×	3.6k 1.3×	1.1k 0.6×	997 0.7×	967 0.8×	93	6.2k
Markus Gallei Germany	42	2.0k 0.5×	1.9k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	673 0.5×	199	5.1k
Guojie Wang China	47	2.7k 0.7×	1.4k 0.5×	2.1k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	1.5k 1.2×	164	6.6k
Yiyong Mai China	52	5.9k 1.5×	4.2k 1.6×	1.8k 1.0×	3.2k 2.3×	1.4k 1.1×	166	11.5k
Xinchang Pang China	41	3.0k 0.8×	1.5k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	1.8k 1.3×	478 0.4×	216	5.7k
Hongkun He United States	29	2.6k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	931 0.7×	391 0.3×	55	4.9k
Byeong‐Hyeok Sohn South Korea	33	2.3k 0.6×	946 0.4×	940 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	557 0.4×	116	3.8k
Yoshinobu Tsujii Japan	46	2.2k 0.6×	4.5k 1.7×	1.5k 0.9×	991 0.7×	3.6k 2.8×	196	8.6k
Michael R. Bockstaller United States	47	3.6k 0.9×	2.8k 1.1×	1.9k 1.1×	912 0.7×	1.9k 1.5×	152	7.4k
Fengwei Huo Singapore	34	3.4k 0.8×	764 0.3×	2.0k 1.1×	1.7k 1.3×	256 0.2×	60	6.4k

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Kim, Yoonjin, et al.. (2025). Recycling of unsorted post-consumer polyethylene and polyethylene terephthalate via mechanochemical compatibilization for food packaging. Sustainable materials and technologies. 45. e01562–e01562.

Jung, Jae Hyun, et al.. (2025). Advanced Silica Networks in Rubber Composites for Optimizing Energy Efficiency and Performance in Electric Vehicle Tires. ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 7(4). 2731–2742. 1 indexed citations

Kim, Jaeyun, et al.. (2024). All-dry chemical engineering for high-performance packaging materials based on biodegradable polymer composites. Sustainable materials and technologies. 41. e01118–e01118. 6 indexed citations

Jeong, Daun, et al.. (2024). Toward Sustainable Polymer Materials for Rechargeable Batteries: Utilizing Natural Feedstocks and Recycling/Upcycling of Polymer Waste. ChemSusChem. 17(22). e202401010–e202401010. 8 indexed citations

Bang, Joona, et al.. (2023). High efficiency upcycling of post-consumer acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene via plasma-assisted mechanochemistry. Chemical Engineering Journal. 480. 147960–147960. 9 indexed citations

Jeong, Daun, et al.. (2023). Tailoring composite gel polymer electrolytes with regularly arranged pores and silica particles for sodium metal batteries via breath-figure self-assembly. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 12(3). 1465–1475. 7 indexed citations

Cho, Junghyun, Jinwoo Oh, Joona Bang, et al.. (2023). Roll-to-plate 0.1-second shear-rolling process at elevated temperature for highly aligned nanopatterns. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8412–8412. 7 indexed citations

Yoon, Subin, Jong Ho Choi, Bong June Sung, Joona Bang, & Tae Ann Kim. (2022). Mechanochromic and thermally reprocessable thermosets for autonomic damage reporting and self-healing coatings. NPG Asia Materials. 14(1). 17 indexed citations

Jeong, Keunsoo, Dojin Kim, Jounghyun Yoo, et al.. (2021). Photoechogenic Inflatable Nanohybrids for Upconversion-Mediated Sonotheranostics. ACS Nano. 15(11). 18394–18402. 9 indexed citations

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Oh, Jinwoo, In Soo Kim, Hyo Seon Suh, et al.. (2021). Shear-Rolling Process for Unidirectionally and Perpendicularly Oriented Sub-10-nm Block Copolymer Patterns on the 4 in Scale. ACS Nano. 15(5). 8549–8558. 23 indexed citations

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Jeong, Byeong Guk, Jun Hyuk Chang, Joonyoung F. Joung, et al.. (2020). Chemically resistant and thermally stable quantum dots prepared by shell encapsulation with cross-linkable block copolymer ligands. NPG Asia Materials. 12(1). 51 indexed citations

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Kim, Minsung, et al.. (2019). Highly improved interfacial affinity in carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composites via oxygen and nitrogen plasma-assisted mechanochemistry. Composites Part B Engineering. 165. 725–732. 74 indexed citations

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Zhu, Zhiyuan, Seung‐Jin Kim, Ikhlas Gadwal, et al.. (2018). Balancing antimicrobial performance with hemocompatibility in amphiphilic homopolymers. Journal of Polymer Science Part A Polymer Chemistry. 56(21). 2391–2396. 10 indexed citations

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Kim, Seyong, et al.. (2018). Interactions between brush-grafted nanoparticles within chemically identical homopolymers: the effect of brush polydispersity. Soft Matter. 14(6). 1026–1042. 16 indexed citations

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Wang, Hyun Suk, Anzar Khan, Youngson Choe, June Huh, & Joona Bang. (2017). Architectural Effects of Organic Nanoparticles on Block Copolymer Orientation. Macromolecules. 50(13). 5025–5032. 21 indexed citations

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Gadwal, Ikhlas, et al.. (2017). Addressing the mid-point of polymer chains for multiple functionalization purposes through sequential thiol–epoxy ‘click’ and esterification reactions. RSC Advances. 7(32). 19439–19447. 11 indexed citations

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Ryu, Du Yeol, Soo‐Hyung Choi, Youngson Choe, et al.. (2017). Molecular Tailoring of Poly(styrene-b-methyl methacrylate) Block Copolymer Toward Perpendicularly Oriented Nanodomains with Sub-10 nm Features. ACS Macro Letters. 6(12). 1386–1391. 39 indexed citations

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Hwang, JiHyeon, Youngson Choe, Joona Bang, & Anzar Khan. (2017). Scalable ambient synthesis of water‐soluble poly(β‐hydroxythio‐ether)s. Journal of Polymer Science Part A Polymer Chemistry. 55(20). 3381–3386. 17 indexed citations

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Shin, Tae Joo, et al.. (2017). Domain swelling in ARB-type triblock copolymers via self-adjusting effective dispersity. Soft Matter. 13(33). 5527–5534. 3 indexed citations

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Lee, Yong-Deok, Jae Hyung Park, Youngson Choe, et al.. (2017). An activatable anticancer polymer–drug conjugate based on the self-immolative azobenzene motif. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 5(24). 4574–4578. 31 indexed citations

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