Bae Lab advances the frontiers of printing, energy, environmental, and biomedical research by combining principles of chemistry, physics, and materials science with additive manufacturing, fluid mechanics, and photonics to create next-generation structural and functional materials for pressing societal needs.
Our research advances additive manufacturing through the integrated design of functional inks, customized printheads, and AI-assisted printing systems. We engineer material composition, rheology, structure, and processing conditions to overcome manufacturing constraints and enable precise printing of polymers, hydrogels, elastomers, metals, metal oxides, and multifunctional composites.
Our research integrates molecular-level materials design with device-scale engineering for energy and environmental technologies. We develop unconventional energy-harvesting and carbon-capture systems and investigate functional hydrogels and solvogels for environmental sensors and lithium-metal batteries.
Our research integrates functional soft materials with advanced additive manufacturing to create personalized biomedical devices. We engineer in vivo, epidermal, and point-of-care platforms for real-time biosensing, minimally invasive bioelectronics, and remotely controlled soft robotics.
Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyung Hee University
National Research Foundation of Korea
BrainKorea21 Four
Ministry of SMEs and Startups
Kyung Hee University