S. Eileen Seo

Assistant Professor,

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Other ASU affiliations

Biodesign Center for Sustainable Macromolecular Materials and Manufacturing

Biodesign C293 Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287
Mail code: 5001

Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio

Eileen Seo joined the faculty at ASU in 2021 as an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy and the Biodesign Center for Sustainable Macromolecular Materials and Manufacturing. Her research is focused on the design, synthesis and characterization of stimuli-responsive, dynamic soft and composite materials using the tools of polymer chemistry, additive manufacturing and nanotechnology. She obtained a B.S. in Chemical Biology at UC Berkeley (2011) and a Ph.D. in Chemistry at Northwestern University working with Prof. Chad Mirkin (2018). She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at UC Santa Barbara in the Materials Department with Prof. Craig Hawker. Eileen received Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Engineering for One Planet Fellowship, DOE Early Career Award, and ACS PRF DNI Grant.

Education

Postdoctoral Fellow Materials, UC Santa Barbara 2018-2021
Ph.D. Chemistry, Northwestern University 2012-2018
B.S. Chemical Biology, UC Berkeley 2008-2011

Curriculum Vitae

Research Website URL

https://faculty.engineering.asu.edu/eseo/

Google Scholar URL

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HnxCCaIAAAAJ&hl=en

Research Interests

polymers, nanomaterials, polymer nanocomposites, dynamic polymer networks, 3D printing, sustainability

Research Group

Research in the E. Seo group is focused on designing, synthesizing, and characterizing soft polymeric and hybrid materials at the interface of polymer chemistry, additive manufacturing, self-assembly, and nanotechnology. We strive to establish structure-property relationships and develop sustainable polymeric materials from stimuli-responsive macromolecular and nanostructures.

Currently, our projects are split into 3 subgroups:

Polymer networks with stimuli-responsive nanoparticles as crosslinks
3D photopolymerization of chemically reprocessable materials
Advanced, hierarchical materials spanning multi-length scale using self-assembly

Publications

*Selected Publications

Yu, J. -C., Browne, R. A., Seo, S. E.* Mechanically Robust, Self-Healing Polymer Nanocomposites with Tailorable Nanoparticle-Based Bonds. Macromolecules 2024, ASAP [doi: 10.1021/acs.macromol.4c01013]

Gonzalez Calvo, T.,+ Hawkins, K.,+ Seo, S. E.* Rapid, Visible Light-Controlled Cationic Polymerization of Vinyl Ethers for 3D Printing of Chemically Reprocessable Networks under Ambient Conditions. J. Polym. Sci. 2024, 62, 2630 [doi.org/10.1002/pol.20230678]. *featured as a journal cover.

Seo, S. E., Kwon, Y., Dolinski, N. D., Sample, C. S., Self, J., Bates, C. M., Valentine, M. T., Hawker, C. J. Three-Dimensional Photochemical Printing of Thermally Activated Polymer Foams, ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 2021, 3, 4984-4991 [doi:10.1021/acsapm.1c00726].

Seo, S. E., Hawker, C. J. The Beauty of Branching in Polymer Science, Macromolecules 2020, 53, 3257-3261 [doi: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c00286].

Seo, S. E., Discekici, E. H., Zhang, Y., Bates, C. M., Hawker, C. J. Surface-Initiated PET-RAFT Polymerization under Metal-Free and Ambient Conditions using Enzyme Degassing, J. Polym. Sci. 2020, 58, 70-76 [doi: 10.1002/pola.29438].

Jung, K., Corrigan, N., Ciftci, M., Xu, J., Seo, S. E., Hawker, C. J., Boyer, C. Designing with Light: Advanced 2D, 3D, and 4D Materials, Adv. Mater. 2020, 32, 1903850 [doi: 10.1002/adma.201903850].

Seo, S. E., Girard, M., de la Cruz, M. O., Mirkin, C. A. The Importance of Salt-Enhanced Electrostatic Repulsion in Colloidal Crystal Engineering with DNA, ACS Cent. Sci. 2019, 5, 186-191 [doi: 10.1021/acscentsci.8b00826].

Seo, S. E., Girard, M., de la Cruz, M. O., Mirkin, C. A. Non-Equilibrium Anisotropic Colloidal Single Crystal Growth with DNA, Nat. Commun. 2018, 9, 4558 [doi: s41467-018-06982-9].

Seo, S. E.,* Li, T.,* Senesi, A. J., Mirkin, C. A., Lee, B. The Role of Repulsion in Colloidal Crystal Engineering with DNA, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 16528-16535 [doi: 10.1021/jacs.7b06734].

Courses

2025 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
CHE 591	Seminar
CHE 599	Thesis
CHE 792	Research
CHE 799	Dissertation
CHE 593	Applied Project
CHE 592	Research
BDE 792	Research
CHE 598	Special Topics
CHE 494	Special Topics

2024 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
CHE 599	Thesis
CHE 792	Research
CHE 799	Dissertation
CHE 342	Intro Applied Chem Thermodyn
CHE 593	Applied Project
CHE 342	Intro Applied Chem Thermodyn
CHE 342	Intro Applied Chem Thermodyn
CHE 342	Intro Applied Chem Thermodyn

2024 Summer

Course Number	Course Title
CHE 792	Research
CHE 595	Continuing Registration

2024 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
CHE 599	Thesis
CHE 792	Research
CHE 799	Dissertation
CHE 593	Applied Project
CHE 592	Research
BDE 792	Research
CHM 494	Special Topics
CHM 598	Special Topics
CHE 598	Special Topics

2023 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
CHE 543	Thermodynamics of Chemical Sys
CHE 599	Thesis
CHE 792	Research
CHE 593	Applied Project

2023 Summer

Course Number	Course Title
CHE 792	Research
CHE 595	Continuing Registration

2023 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
CHE 599	Thesis
CHE 792	Research
CHE 799	Dissertation
CHE 592	Research
BDE 792	Research
CHE 593	Applied Project
CHM 494	Special Topics
CHM 598	Special Topics
CHE 598	Special Topics
CHE 494	Special Topics
CHE 792	Research

2022 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
CHE 543	Thermodynamics of Chemical Sys
CHE 599	Thesis
CHE 792	Research

2022 Summer

Course Number	Course Title
CHE 792	Research
CHE 595	Continuing Registration

2022 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
CHE 599	Thesis
CHE 792	Research
CHE 799	Dissertation
CHE 592	Research
BDE 792	Research
CHE 792	Research
BDE 792	Research
CHE 593	Applied Project

2021 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
CHE 543	Thermodynamics of Chemical Sys

Expertise Areas

Nanotechnology

Sustainability

Organic Chemistry

Inorganic and Materials Chemistry

Biomaterials

Materials Science and Engineering