Hyuk Yu

Emeritus Professor, Born 1933

B.S. 1955, Seoul National University, Korea

M.S. 1958, University of Southern California

M.A. 1960, Princeton University

Ph.D. 1962, Princeton University

Room: 4227a
Phone: 608-262-3082
Email: yu@chem.wisc.edu
Position: Emeritus Professor

Research Description

Since my formal retirement in 2004, I have been engaged in scholarly activity in a limited scope, with no postdoctoral associate or graduate student. It entails writing up the unpublished work, engaging in writing a textbook, reviewing manuscripts for journals and proposals for granting agencies, consulting industrial companies, participating in various advisory boards of research institutes and centers, attending technical conferences and making some contributions to activities of scientific societies. In addition, I have also been active in the Korean Studies Initiatives of the Center for East Asian Studies of the University of Wisconsin.

My interest in research however remains at the same level as before the retirement. It consists of: 1) transport and dynamics of macromolecules in bulk, solution and gels; 2) interfacial equilibrium and dynamic phenomena of amphiphiles including polymeric amphiphiles ; 3) biomedical applications of surface functionalized polymeric materials; 4) organic-inorganic composites for biocompatible uses.

Last updated April 24, 2008.

Publications

• Chanjoong Kim, Marc C. Gurau, Paul S. Cremer and Hyuk Yu, Chain Conformation of Poly(dimethyl siloxane) at the Air/Water Interface by Sum Frequency Generation, Langmuir 24, 10155(2008).

• Alan R. Esker, Chanjoong Kim and Hyuk Yu, Polymer Monolayer Dynamics, Adv. Polym. Sci. 209, 50-110(2007).

• Chanjoong Kim, Alan R. Esker, Frank E. Runge and Hyuk Yu, Surface rheology of Monolayers of Poly(a-alkylene-co-maleic acid) at the air/water interface:Surface Light Scattering Studies, Macromolecules 39, 4889-4893(2006).

• Junwei Li, Kyunghui Oh and Hyuk Yu, Surface Rearrangements of Oxygen Plasma Treated Polystyrene:Surface Dynbamics and Humidity Effect, Ch. J. Polym. Sci. 23, 187(2005).

• Chanjoong Kim and Hyuk Yu, Surface Rheology of Monolayers of Triblock Coplymers of PEO and PPO: Surface Light Scattering Studies at the Air/Water Interface, Langmuir 19, 4460-4464(2003).

• Danny G. Miles, Jr., Zhihao Yang and Hyuk Yu, Surface Light Scattering Adopted to the Advanced Undergraduate Laboratory, J. Chem. Edu. 79, 1007-1012 (2002)

• Keiji Tanaka and Hyuk Yu, Lipase Activity on Lipid/Polymer Binary Monolayers: Lateral Diffusion-Controlled Enzyme Kinetics, Langmuir 18, 797-804 (2002)

• Thorsteinn Adalsteinsson and Hyuk Yu, Lipid Lateral Diffusion in Multyi-Bilayers, and in Monolayers at the Air/Water and Heptane/Water Interfaces, Langmuir 16, 9410-9413 (2000)

• Alan R. Esker, Lanhui Zhang, Bryan B. Sauer, Woongki Lee and Hyuk Yu, Dilational viscoelastic Behaviors of Homopolymer Monolayers: Surface Light Scattering Analysis, Colloids Surf. A 171, 131-148 (2000)

• Zhihao Yang, Jeffrey A. Galloway and Hyuk Yu, Protein Interactions with Poly(ethylene glycol) Self-Assembled Monolayers on Glass Substrates: Diffusion and Adsorption, Langmuir 15, 8405 (1999)

Awards

• Langmuir Award, Colloid and Surface Chemistry Division of ACS, 1999

• Kobunshi Koseki Sho Distinguished Services to Polymer Science Award, Society of Polymer Science-Japan (SPSJ), 1999

• Pharmacia Upjohn Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Chemistry, 1998-99

• Walter H. Stockmayer Professor of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998

• Fellow, Korean Academy of Science & Technology, Seoul, Korea, 1998

• Ho-Am Basic Science Award, Samsung Corporation, 1997

• Maurice L. Huggins Memorial Award, Gordon Research Conference-Polymers, (West), 1997

• M. E. K. Mees Medal, Eastman Kodak Company, 1996

• J. T. Majors Lecturer, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 1994

• High Polymer Physics Prize of the American Physical Society, 1994