YOUNJIN MIN, Ph.D. Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering University of California, Riverside Riverside, CA 92507 Cell: (805) 636-2299 │Office: (951) 827-2408 │Email: [email protected] Research Website: https://yminlab.engr.ucr.edu/ EDUCATION AND TRAINING: 1996-2000 B.S. degree: Environmental Sci. & Engr., Ewha Womans University, South Korea. 2001-2003 M.S. degree: Chemical & Biomolecular Engr., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea with Professor Jung-Ki Park. 2004-2009 Ph.D. degree: Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), CA with Professors Jacob N. Israelachvili and Joseph A. Zasadzinski. 2010-2012 Postdoctoral Associate: Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MA with Professor Paula Hammond. RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 2019-present Associate Professor: Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside (UCR), Riverside, CA. 2018-present Editorial Board: Coatings, MDPI AG. http://www.mdpi.com/journal/coatings/editors 2016-present Editorial Board: Colloids and Interfaces, MDPI AG. http://www.mdpi.com/journal/colloids/editors 2013-2019 Assistant Professor: Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron (UA), Akron, OH. 2010-2012 Postdoctoral Associate: Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MA. 2004-2009 Research Assistant: Surface and Interfacial Forces Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. 2003-2004 Researcher: Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Biomedical Center, South Korea. ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS: 2018 Acta Biomaterialia Reviewer Award 2017 KIChE President Young Investigator Award 2016 PPS Early Career Award 2015 ACS-PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award 2009 The Schlinger Scholarship for Excellence in Chemical Engineering Research 2007 Chair’s fellowship, Gordon Research Conference on the Chemistry of Supramolecules and Assemblies 2007 Graduate Student Travel Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara 2004-2005 Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) Scholarship 2000 Outstanding Graduating Student (Magma Cum Laude), Ewha Womans University, Korea 1999-2000 Honor Scholarships in Dean’s list, Ewha Womans University, Korea RESEARCH INTERESTS: • Colloidal Interactions and Stability • Complex Fluids • Rheology and Nanorheology 1 • Polymers • Biomembranes • Bioinspired Materials • Biomechanics • Biophysics • Adhesion • Friction and Tribology • Nano-Bio Interactions • Neuroscience FUNDING: *Single-PI Grant, #Multi-PI Grant with PI’s Share: $1,506,329 (Total funded amount: $ 1,608,203) • * Surface-Force Apparatus Studies of Mineral Pressure Dissolution, UC LAWRENCE BERKELEY LABORATORY, PI: Y. Min, 10/10/2019 - 09/30/2020, Total Award Amount: $51,047. • * Mechanobiology of Asymmetric Myelin Membranes at Multiple Length Scales, NSF-CMMI, PI: Y. Min, 08/15/2018 – 07/31/2021, Total Award Amount: $254,893. • * Influence of Nanoconfinement and Elevated Temperatures on Geocolloid-Facilitated Transport of Energy-related Contaminants, DOE, PI: Y. Min, 07/01/2018 – 06/30/2021, Total Award Amount: $447,456. • * Quantitative Measurement and Analysis of Friction (Lubrication) and Adhesion of nonwoven based Materials with Biomimetic Polymer Surfaces in presence of liquids and semisolid, P&G, PI: Y. Min, 07/01/2018 – 04/30/2019, Total Award Amount: $124,709. • # Tribological Investigation of Complex Fluids, P&G, PI/Co-PI: Y. Min, PI/Co-PI: A. Dhinojwala, 07/01/2018 – 05/31/2019, Total Award Amount: $115,000 (Y. Min’s share: $57,500). • * Interfacial Properties of Nanoconfined Ionic Liquid, NSF-CBET, PI: Y. Min, 06/01/2015 – 05/31/2020, Total Award Amount: $237,566. • * Interfacial Phenomena of Versatile Janus Particles at Fluid-Adjoining Interfaces and their Potential Applications in Petroleum Industry, ACS-PRF (DNI), PI: Y. Min, 07/01/2015 – 08/31/2020, Total Award Amount: $110,000. • * Friction of Films and Nonwoven Fibers with Tooling Surfaces under High Speeds, P&G, PI: Y. Min, 07/01/2016 – 06/30/2017, Total Award Amount: $89,522. • * Friction of Nonwoven Fibers and Fabrics with Themselves and Tooling Surfaces, P&G, PI: Y. Min, 06/15/2015 – 06/15/2016, Total Award Amount: $70,506. • * Fabrication and Evaluation of Microneedle (MN) Devices for the Transcutaneous Delivery of Inactivated Polio Virus (IPV), Vaxess, PI: Y. Min, 09/15/2015 – 12/31/2015, Total Award Amount: $38,283. • # STTR Phase I: Digital eWriter for the Classroom, NSF; PI: K. Cavicchi, Co-PI: Y. Min, 07/01/2013 – 06/30/2014, Total Award Amount: $69,221 (Y. Min’s share: $24,847). PUBLICATIONS: 1. Sung, S.; Min, S.; Cho, K.Y.; Lee, S.; Min, Y.; Park, J.K.; “Effect of polyethylene glycol on gene delivery of polyethylenimine”, Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 26(4), 492-500, 2003, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1248/bpb.26.492 (Impact Factor: 1.828). 2. Kim, S.; Nam, Y.S.; Min, Y.; Kim, J.H.; Kim, K.; Cho, K.W.; Noh, I.; Kwon, I.C.; “Release profile of a model protein drug depending on the stability of microspheres based on polyelectrolyte complex”, Key Engineering Materials, vols. 342-343, 505-508, 2007, doi: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.342- 343.505 (Impact Factor: 0.19). 3. Min, Y.; Cho, K.Y.; Sung, S.; Lee, S.; Park, J.K.; “Effect of Composition and Synthetic Route on the Microstructure of Biodegradable Diblock Copolymer, Poly(ε-Caprolactone-co-L-lactide)-b- Poly(ethylene glycol)”, Macromolecular Research, 16, 231-237, 2007, doi: 10.1007/BF03218858 (Impact Factor: 1.597). 2 4. Akbulut, M.; Alig, A.; Min, Y.; Belman, N.; Reynolds, M.; Golan, Y.: Israelachvili, J.: “Forces between Surfaces across Nanoparticle Solutions: Role of Size, Shape, and Concentration”, Langmuir, 23 (7), 3961-3969, 2007, doi: 10.1021/la062613g (Impact Factor: 4.457). 5. Min, Y.; Akbulut, M.; Belman, N.; Golan, Y.; Zasadzinski, J.; Israelachvili, J.; “Normal and shear forces generated during the ordering (directed assembly) of confined straight and curved nanowires”, Nano Letters, 8 (1), 246 -252, 2008: doi: 10.1021/nl072553e6 (Impact Factor: 13.592). 6. Min, Y.; Akbulut, M.; Golan, Y.; Israelachvili, J.; “Frictional properties of surfactant-coated rod-shaped nanoparticles in dry and humid dodecane”, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 112 (46), 14395-14401, 2008, doi: 10.1021/jp802535j (Impact Factor: 3.302). 7. Min, Y.; Akbulut, M.; Kristiansen, K.; Golan, Y.; Israelachvili, J.; “Role of interparticle and external forces on the assembly and properties of nanoparticle materials”, Nature Materials, 7, 527-538, 2008, doi:10.1038/nmat2206 (Impact Factor: 36.503). “Selected to be included in a collection of review articles, provisionally entitled − Nanoscience: the best of NATURE publications” 8. Min, Y.; Kristiansen, K.; Boggs, J.M.; Husted, C.; Zasadzinski, J.; Israelachvili, J.; “Interaction forces and adhesion of supported myelin lipid bilayers modulated by myelin basic protein”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Biophysics), 106(9), 3154-3159, 2009, doi: 10.1073/pnas.08131101069 (Impact Factor: 9.674). 9. Anderson, T.; Min, Y.; Weirich, K.; Zeng, H.; Fygenson, D.; Israelachvili, J.; “Formation of supported bilayers on silica substrates”, Langmuir, 25 (12), 6997-7005, 2009, doi: 10.1021/la900181c (Impact Factor: 4.457). 10. Min, Y.; Akbulut, M.; Prud’homme, R.: Israelachvili, J.: “Measurements of forces across room temperature ionic liquids between mica surfaces”, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 113 (37), 16445- 16449, 2009, doi: 10.1021/jp904629b (Impact Factor: 4.772). 11. Israelachvili, J.; Min, Y. #; Akbulut, M.; Alig, A.; Carver, G.; Greene, W.; Kristiansen, K.; Meyer, E.; Pesika, N.; Rosenberg, K.; Zeng, H.; “Recent advances in the Surface Forces Apparatus (SFA) technique”, Reports on Progress in Physics, 73, 036601, 1-16, 2010, (# Corresponding author) doi:10.1088/0034-4885/73/3/036601 (Impact Factor: 15.633). 12. Min, Y.; Pesika, N.; Zasadzinski, J.; Israelachvili, J.; “Studies of bilayers and vesicle adsorption to solid substrates: Development of a miniaturized streaming potential apparatus”, Langmuir, 26(11), 8684-8689, 2010, doi: 10.1021/la904842v (Impact Factor: 4.457). 13. Lowrey, D.D.; Tasaka, K.; Kindt, J.H.; Banquy, X.; Belman, N.; Min, Y.; Pesika, N.S.; Mordukhovich, G.; Israelachvili, J.; “High speed friction measurements using a modified surface forces apparatus”, Tribology Letters, 42, 117-127, 2011, doi: 10.1007/s11249-011-9746-1 (Impact Factor: 1.739). 14. Banquy, X.; Lowrey, D.D.; Belman, N.; Min, Y.; Mordukhovich, G.; Israelachvili, J.; “Measurement and characterization of “resonance friction” at high sliding speeds in a model automotive wet clutch”, Tribology Letters, 43, 185-195, 2011, doi:10.1007/s11249-011-9793-7 (Impact Factor: 1.739). 15. Min, Y.; Alig, T.F.; Lee, D.W.; Boggs, J.M.; Israelachvili, J.; Zasadzinski, J.; “Critical and Off-Critical Mixing-Demixing Transitions in Model Extracellular and Cytoplasmic Myelin Lipid Monolayers”, Biophysical Journal, 100(6), 1490-1498, 2011, doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.02.009 (Impact Factor: 3.972). 16. Lee, D.W.*; Min, Y.*; Dhar, P.; Ramachandran, A.; Israelachvili, J.; Zasadzinski, J.; “Relating Domain Size Distribution to Line Tension and Dipole Density in Model Cytoplasmic Myelin Monolayers”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (Biophysics), 108(23), 9425-9430, 2011, (*Equal contribution and co-1st author) doi: 10.1073/pnas.1106368108 (Impact Factor: 9.674). 3 17. Schmidt, D.; Min, Y.; Hammond,