Sung Chul Bae received B.S. magna cum laude and Ph.D. from the Department of Chemistry in Pohang University of Science and Technology(POSTECH), Korea in 1991 and 1997 respectively. He joined this group as a postdoctoral fellow in 1999 following postdoctoral fellow and senior research scientist in Center for Superfunctional Molecules at POSTECH. Currently he is a Research Scientist in Department of Materials Science and Engineering and working with Prof. Steve Granick. He is married to Eun Kyung Song and has two boys, Jung Myung and Jung Hyo.

He majored hardcore laser spectroscopy in physical chemistry in Korea and involved in building a variety of optical setups including laser-induced fluorescence, transient absorption, fluorescence up-conversion, femtosecond multi-pass amplifier laser, optical parametric amplifier, and so on. After he joined this group, he also involved in designing and building most of the optical measurements in the lab, for example confocal Raman, time-correlated single photon counting(TCSPC), fluorescence correlation spectroscopy(FCS), sum-frequency generation(SFG) vibrational spectroscopy, surface plasmon resonance(SPR) spectroscopy, fluorescence resonance energy transfer(FRET), and so on.

His research interests include various kinds of solid-liquid interfacial phenomena ranging from confined simple liquid between solid surfaces to complex fluids at interfaces. Currently he is involved in 1) molecular conformation and dynamics in confined liquid, 2) polymer conformation and dynamics at solid-liquid interfaces, 3) boundary behavior of fluids.

Selected Publications (Total 38 papers)

1. Bae, S. C. and Granick, S., “Molecular motion at soft and hard interfaces: from phospholipid bilayers to polymers and lubricants”, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, to be published in May 2007.

2. Bae, S. C., Lin, Z., and Granick, S., "Conjugated polymers confined and sheared: Photoluminescence and absorption dichroism in a surface forces apparatus", Macromolecules, Vol. 38, No. 22, pp. 9275-9279, Nov. 2005.

3. Bae, S. C., Lee, H., Lin, Z., and Granick, S., "Chemical imaging in a surface forces apparatus: Confocal Raman spectroscopy of confined poly(dimethylsiloxane)", Langmuir, Vol. 21, No. 13, pp. 5685-5688, Jun. 2005.

4. Mukhophadyay, A., Bae, S. C., Zhao, J., and Granick, S., "How confined lubricants diffuse during shear", Physical Review Letters, Vol. 93, No. 23, Article No. 236105, Dec. 2004.

5. Mukhophadyay, A., Zhao, J., Bae, S. C., and Granick, S., "Contrasting friction and diffusion in molecularly thin liquid films", Physical Review Letters, Vol. 89, No. 13, Article No. 136103, Sep. 2002.

6. Hong, B. H., Bae, S. C., Lee, C-. W., Jeong, S., and Kim, K. S., "Ultrathin single-crystalline silver nanowire arrays formed in an ambient solution phase"(cover story), Science, Vol. 294, No. 5541, pp. 348-351, Oct. 2001.

7. Bae, S. C., Son, H. S., Kim, G. H., and Ku, J. K., "Vibronic relaxation among the Clements bands of SO2 from the E-band excitation", Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol. 103, No. 37, pp. 7432-7436, Sep. 1999.

.8. Bae, S. C., Lee, K., Kim, G. H., and Ku, J. K., "Vibrational relaxation in the 3B1 state of SO2", Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 102, No. 4, pp. 1665-1672, Jan. 1995.

9. Lee, S. H., Bae, S. C., Ku, J. K., and Shin, H. J., "Oxygen diffusion in epitaxial YBa2Cu3O7-x thin films", Physical Review B, Vol. 46, No. 14, pp. 9142-9146, Oct. 1992.

10. Lee, S. H., Bae, S. C., Kang, J. G., Lee, H. J., Shin, H. J., and Ku, J. K., "Substrate temperature effects on the preparation of YBa2Cu3O7-x superconducting films on (100) SrTiO3 by laser ablation", Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 70, No. 10, pp. 5661-5666, Nov. 1991.