Hojin was born in Korea. He received his BS degree in chemical engineering in Hanyang University in Korea. He moved to the US and received his PhD degree in Chemical Engineering in University of Delaware. In 2021, he joined the Rowan group and the Jaeger group as a postdoctoral researcher.
Hojin is currently working on designing programmable suspensions with dynamics bonding.
Structure–property relationships of responsive doubly-threaded slide-ring polycatenane networks
Liu, G.; Oh, J; Tian, Y.; Hertzog, J.E.; Liang, H.; Rawe, B.W.; Nitta, N.; Lindberg, C.A.; Kim, H.; de Pablo, J.J. and Rowan, S.J. Structure–property relationships of responsive doubly-threaded slide-ring polycatenane networks Chem. Sci. 2025, 16, 19192-19204. DOI: 10.1039/D5SC05459A
Short-Time Relaxation and Anomalous Diffusion in Dynamic Covalent Networks
Kim, H.; Li, K.; Crolais, A.E., Rowan, S.J. Short-Time Relaxation and Anomalous Diffusion in Dynamic Covalent Networks ACS Macro Lett. 2025 14, 1375-1381. DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.5c00456
Dense suspensions as trainable rheological metafluids
Kim, H.; Livermore, S.M.; Rowan, S.J.; Jaeger, H.M. Dense suspensions as trainable rheological metafluids Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2025 122, e2509525122. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2509525122
Exploring the Impact of Ring Mobility on the Macroscopic Properties of Doubly Threaded Slide-Ring Gel Networks
Oh, J.; Liu, G.; Kim, H.; Hertzog, J. E.; Nitta, N.; Rowan, S. J. Exploring the Impact of Ring Mobility on the Macroscopic Properties of Doubly Threaded Slide-Ring Gel Networks. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202411172. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202411172.
Bioinspired mechanical mineralization of organogels
J. Ayarza, J. Wang, H. Kim, P.-R. Huang, B. Cassaidy, G. Yan, C. Liu, H. M. Jaeger, S. J. Rowan & A. P. Esser-Kahn, Nature Communications 14, 8319 (2023)
Stress-activated friction in sheared suspensions probed with piezoelectric nanoparticles
Hojin Kim, Aaron P Esser-Kahn, Stuart J Rowan, Heinrich M Jaeger. PNAS 2023, 120, 49, e2310088120
Dynamic-bond-induced sticky friction tailors non-Newtonian rheology
Hojin Kim, Mike van der Naald, Neil D Dolinski, Stuart J Rowan, Heinrich M Jaeger. Soft Matter 2023,19, 35, 6797-6804
Designing Stress-Adaptive Dense Suspensions using Dynamic Covalent Chemistry
Grayson L Jackson, Joseph M Dennis, Neil D Dolinski, Michael van der Naald, Hojin Kim, Christopher Eom, Stuart J Rowan, Heinrich M Jaeger. Macromolecules 2022, 55, 15, 6453–6461