Faculty

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY, SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY.

Professor

Nam, Jwa-Min

Chemical Plasmonics & Nanobiotechnology Lab
LAB Website
OFFICE 503-425 / +82-2-880-6816
LAB 503-406,429 / +82-2-880-4370

Research Topic

Our goal is to develop a new generation of biosensors, therapeutic agents, or cell-based assays created from highly functional nanomaterials/structures and biomolecules important in human disease and health. Major application areas of developed constructs/methods include in vitro bioassay and in vivo imaging-based disease diagnostics, interfacing biologically functional surface with cells of interest, drug delivery, and synthetic cell biology.

Education

  • Ph.D. Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, 2004
  • B.S. and M.S. Chemistry, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea

Career

  • Consultant, Nanosphere, Inc., Northbrook, IL, USA, 2004
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley and Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA (Advisor: Prof. Jay T. Groves): 2004-2005
  • Associate Professor, School of Chemistry, Seoul National University: 2006-Current
  • Scientific Advisory Board Member, Medifron DBT: 2006-Current

Papers

  1. Nanogap-Engineerable, Raman-Active Nanodumbbells for Single-Molecule Detection, Nature Materials, 9, 50 (2010).
  2. Highly Uniform and Reproducible Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering from DNA-Tailorable Nanoparticles with 1-nm Interior Gap, Nature Nanotechnology, 6, 452 (2011).
  3. Plasmonic Nanogap-Enhanced Raman Scattering with Nanoparticles, Accounts of Chemical Research, 49, 2746 (2016).
  4. Nano-Bio Computing Lipid Nanotablet, Science Advances, 5, eaau2124 (2019).
  5. One-Pot Heterointerfacial Metamorphosis for Synthesis and Control of Widely Varying Heterostructured Nanoparticles, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 143, 3383 (2021).
  6. Mechanically Interlocked Gold Nanocatenanes, Nature Synthesis, 1, 649 (2022)

Search Papers

Jingrui Wu, Da Eun Oh, Hyunju Cho, Jiwoong Son, Hua Mi, Hong-seog Park, Yung-Kang Peng, Jwa-Min Nam, Tae Hyun Kim, Jung-Hoon Lee
Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2026, 312, (2026-11-15) Link
Yoonhee Kim, Soohyun Ji, Mihye Lim, Yoonjae Jung, Yeonhee Lee, Minho Kim, Young Mo Sung, Junho Lee, Tae-Gon Kim, Shinae Jun, Jwa-Min Nam
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2026, 148, 35, (2026-09-09) Link
Yoonhee Kim, Soohyun Ji, Donghyun Choi, Jwa-Min Nam
Advanced Materials, 2026, 38, 30, (2026-05-01) Link
Shine K. Albert, Gyeong-Hwan Kim, Gourab Bhattacharjee, Jiwoong Son, Ji-eun Park, Yeonhee Lee, Jwa-Min Nam, So-Jung Park
ACS Nano, 2026, 20, 14, (2026-04-14) Link
Byeong-Gyu Chae, Mihye Lim, Junho Lee, Nayoun Won, Soo Kyung Kwon, Ara Jo, Dong Jin Yun, Sangjun Lee, Jwa-Min Nam, Soohwan Su, Tae-Gon Kim
Nature Communications, 2026, 17, 1, (2026-04-03) Link
Soyoung CHoi, Jieun Kim, Eunho Song, Eunhye Park, Jingrui Wu, Juyeon Yoo, Jwa-min Nam
Small Methods, 2026, 10, 2, (2026-01-22) Link
Jun Yi, En-Ming You, Ren Hu, De-Yin Wu, Guo-Kun Liu, Zhi-Lin Yang, Hua Zhang, Yu Gu, Yao-Hui Wang, Xiang Wang, Hao Ma, Yang Yang, Jun-Yang Liu, Feng Ru Fan, Chao Zhan, Jing-Hua Tian, Yu Qiao, Hailong Wang, Si-Heng Luo, Zhao-Dong Meng, Bing-Wei Mao, Jian-Feng Li, Bin Ren, Javier Aizpurua, Vartkess Ara Apkarian, Philip N. Bartlett, Jeremy Baumberg, Steven E. J. Bell, Alexandre G. Brolo, Louis E. Brus, Jaebum Choo, Li Cui, Volker Deckert, Katrin F. Domke, Zhen-Chao Dong, Sai Duan, Karen Faulds, Renee Frontiera, Naomi Halas, Christy Haynes, Tamitake Itoh, Janina Kneipp, Katrin Kneipp, Eric C. Le Ru, Zhi-Peng Li, Xing Yi Ling, Jacek Lipkowski, Luis M. Liz-Marzán, Jwa-Min Nam, Shuming Nie, Peter Nordlander, Yukihiro Ozaki, Rajapandiyan Panneerselvam, Jürgen Popp, Andrea E. Russell, Sebastian Schlücker, Yang Tian, Lianming Tong, Hongxing Xu, Yikai Xu, Liangbao Yang, Jianlin Yao, Jin Zhang, Yang Zhang, Yao Zhang, Bing Zhao, Renato Zenobi, George C. Schatz, Duncan Graham, Zhong-Qun Tian
CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS, 2026, 54, 3, (2025-02-07) Link
Hyeon-Jeong Shin, Kyungin Choi, Jiwoong Son, Munjeong Kim, Sarah S. Park, Jwa-Min Nam
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025, 147, 33, (2025-08-20) Link
Yoonhee Kim, Yuna Kwak, Jihyeon Choi, Jwa-Min Nam
Accounts of Materials Research, 2025, 6, 6, (2025-04-25) Link