Full Publication List

Jinhyung Kim, Jinwon Park, Jingyu Kang, Yegyeong Kim, Ji‐Hyun Kim, and Jaeyoung Sung. “Chemical dynamics of intracellular biomolecules with non‐exponential lifetime distribution.” Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society (2026).

Jingyu Kang, Donghee Kim, Sanggeun Song, Ji-Hyun Kim, Jaeyoung Sung*,et al., “Supersaturation, Nucleation, and Phase Separation of Mesoscopic Systems”, Journal of the American Chemical Society 147, 46976–46985 (2025).

Gyunam Park, Ji‐Hyun Kim, Hunki Lee, Chungwon Park, Sidong Chen, Luke Bates, Jaeyoung Sung*, and Hyokeun Park*. “Initial Distance‐Dependent Mean Force Drives Synaptic Vesicle Motion Toward Fusion Sites in Stimulated Hippocampal Neurons.” Advanced Science (2025): e13823.

Ji-Hyun Kim, Joodeok Kim, Byung Hyo Kim, Sanggeun Song, Jingyu Kang, Jaeyoung Sung*,et al., “Multiphasic Size-Dependent Growth Dynamics of Nanoparticle Ensembles”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 122, e2424950122 (2025)

Yeonsoo Lim, Gyunam Park, Hojin An, Jonghwa Han, Joonhyun Bae, Ji‐Hyun Kim, Yan Lee, Kyungtae Kang, Jaeyoung Sung*, and Sunbum Kwon*. “Metabolism‐inspired chemical reaction networks for chemically driven dissipative oligoesterification.” Angewandte Chemie International Edition 64, no. 14 (2025): e202425407.

Eunsang Lee, Donghee Kim, Yo Han Song, Kyujin Shin, Sanggeun Song, Minho Lee, Yeongchang Goh, Mi Hee Lim, Ji-Hyun Kim, Jaeyoung Sung* and Kang Taek Lee* et al. “Real-time tracking of vesicles in living cells reveals that tau-hyperphosphorylation suppresses unidirectional transport by motor proteins.” Chemical & Biomedical Imaging 2, no. 5 (2024): 362-373.

Minho Lee, Euihyun Lee, Ji-Hyun Kim, Hyonseok Hwang, Minhaeng Cho, and Jaeyoung Sung. “Transport Dynamics of Water Molecules Confined between Lipid Membranes.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 15, no. 16 (2024): 4437-4443.

Chae Won Kang, Hyun Gyu Lim, Jaehyuk Won, Sanghak Cha, Giyoung Shin, Jae-Seong Yang, Jaeyoung Sung, and Gyoo Yeol Jung. “Circuit-guided population acclimation of a synthetic microbial consortium for improved biochemical production.” Nature communications 13, no. 1 (2022): 6506.

Sungsu Kang, Ji-Hyun Kim, Jaeyoung Sung*, Jungwon Park*, et al., “Real-space imaging of nanoparticle transport and interaction dynamics by graphene liquid cell TEM” Science Advances 7, 49 (2021).

Jingyu Kang, Seong Jun Park, Ji-Hyun Kim, Peng Chen*, and Jaeyoung Sung*, “Stochastic Kinetics of Nanocatalytic Systems”, Phys. Rev. Letters 126, 126001 (2021).

Seungsoo Hahn, Sanggeun Song, Gil-Suk Yang, Jingyu Kang, Kang Tech Lee*, and Jaeyoung Sung*, “Super-Gaussian, Superdiffusive Transport of Multimode Active Matter”, Phys. Rev. E 102, 042612 (2020).

Kang-Kyun Wang, Sanggeun Song, Seung-Jin Jung, Jung-Wook Hwang, Min-Goo Kim, Ji-Hyun Kim, Jaeyoung Sung*, Jink-Kyu Lee* and Yong-Rok Kim*, “Lifetime and diffusion distance of singlet oxygen in air under everyday atmospheric conditions”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 22, 21664 (2020).

Ji-Hyun Kim, Hunki Lee, Sanggeun Song, Hye Ran Koh* and Jaeyoung Sung*, “Observation Time Dependent mean first passage time of diffusion and subdiffusive processes”, J. Stat. Mech.: Theory and Experiment 033204 (2020).

Sanggeun Song, Seong Jun Park, Minjung Kim, Jun Soo Kim, Bong June Sung, Sangyoub Lee, Ji-Hyun Kim*, and Jaeyoung Sung*, “Transport Dynamics of Complex Fluids”, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 116, 12733 (2019).

Sanggeun Song, Gil-Suk Yang, Seong Jun Park, Sungguan Hong, Ji-Hyun Kim, Jaeyoung Sung*, “Frequency spectrum of chemical fluctuation: a probe of reaction mechanism and dynamics”, PLoS Computational Biology, 15, e1007356 (2019).

Kyujin Shin, Snggeun Song, Yo Han Song, Youngeun Han, Seungsoo Hahn, Ji-Hyun Kim, Gibok Lee, In-Chun Jeon, Jaeyoung Sung*, and Kang Taek Lee*, “Anomalous Dynamics of in vivo Cargo Delivery by Motor Protein Multiplexes”, J. Phys. Chem. Letters, 10, 3071 (2019).

Seong Jun Park, Sanggeun Song, Gil-Suk Yang, Philip M. Kim, Sangwoon Yoon*, Ji-Hyun Kim*, and Jaeyoung Sung*, “The Chemical Fluctuation Theorem governing gene expression”, Nat. Commun. 9, 297 (2018).

Sung Hyun Kim, Takkyoon Ahn, Tao Ju Cui, Sweeny Cauhan, Jaeyoung Sung, Chirlmin Joo, Doseok Kim*, “RecA filament maintains structural integrity using ATP-driven internal dynamics”, Science Advances, e1700676 (2017).

In-Chun Jeong, Sanggeun Song, Daehyun Kim, Seong Jun Park, Ji-Hyun Kim, and Jaeyoung Sung*, Comments on “Nonrenewal statistics in the catalytic activity of enzyme molecules at mesoscopic concentrations”, Physical Review Letters, 119, 099801 (2017).

Seong Jun Park, Sanggeun Song, In-Chun Jeong, Hye Ran Koh, Ji-Hyun Kim*, and Jaeyoung Sung*, “Nonclassical kinetics of clonal yet heterogeneous enzymes”, J. Phys. Chem. Letters 8, 3152 (2017).

Yu Rim Lim, Ji-Hyun Kim, Seong Jun Park, Gil-Suk Yang, Sanggeun Song, Suk-Kyu Chang, Nam Ki Lee, and Jaeyoung Sung*, “Quantitative understanding of probabilistic behavior of living cells operated by vibrant reaction networks”, Phys. Rev. X 5, 031014 (2015).

Ji-Hyun Kim, Gil-Suk Yang, Sanggeun Song, and Jaeyoung Sung*, “Statistical distribution of laser-induced growth of nanoparticles: Effects of laser-intensity and medium-nanoparticles interactions”, Bull. Kor. Chem. Soc. 36, 914 (2015).

Sora Yang, Seunghyeon Kim, Yu Rim Lim, Cheolhee Kim, Hyeong Jeon Ah, Ji-Hyun Kim, Jaeyoung Sung*, and Nam Ki Lee*, “Contribution of RNA polymerase concentration variation to protein expression noise”, Nat. Commun. 5, 4761 (2014).

Yu Rim Lim, Seong Jun Park, Sanggeun Song, Gil-Suk Yang, Young-Gui Yoon Ji-Hyun Kim and Jaeyoung Sung*, “Exchange symmetry, fluctuation-compressibility relation, and thermodynamic potentials of quantum liquids”, Phys. Rev. E89, 062131 (2014).

Yu Rim Lim, Seong Jun Park, Bo Jung Park, Jianshu Cao*, Robert J. Silbey, and Jaeyoung Sung*, “Reaction event counting statistics of Biopolymer reaction system with dynamic heterogeneity”, J. Chem. Theor. Comp. 8, 1415 (2012).

Seongeun Yang, Jianshu Cao, Robert J. Silbey, Jaeyoung Sung*, “Quantitative interpretation of the randomness in single enzyme turnover times”, Biophysical Journal 101, 519 (2011).

Bo Jung Park, Won Jung, and Jaeyoung Sung*, “Unified theory for a receptor system with a distributed binding affinity to substrates”, Chem. Phys. 384, 36 (2011).

Sangyoub Lee*, Chang Yun Son, Jaeyoung Sung, and Song-Ho Chong, (Communication) “Propagator for diffusive dynamics of an interacting molecular pair”, J. Chem. Phys. 134, 121102 (2011).

Won Jung, seongeun Yang, and Jaeyoung Sung*, “Novel Chemical Kinetics for a Single Enzyme Reaction: Relationship between Substrate Concentration and the Second Moment of Enzyme Reaction Time”, J. Phys. Chem. B 114, 9840 (2010).

Yu Rim Lim, Won Jung, Je Hyun Bae, Bo Jung Park, Joonkyung Jang, and Jaeyoung Sung*, “Excess Grand Potential for a System under an External Field: Effects of External Field Driven Nonextensivity”, J. Phys. Chem. B113 (Letter) 7982 (2009).

S. Kim, W. Shim, H. Seo, J.H. Bae, J. Sung, S.H. Choi, WK Moon, G. Lee, B. Lee, and S.W. Kim*, “Bandgap engineered reverse type-I CdTe/InP/ZnS core-shell nanocrystals for the near-Infrared”, Chem. Comm. 1267 (2009).

Je Hyun Bae, Yu Rim Lim, Won Jung, Robert J. Silbey, and Jaeyoung Sung*, “Practical Model for Imperfect Conductometric Molecular Wire Sensors”, Anal. Chem. 81, 578 (2009).

Ji-Hyun Kim, Woojin Lee, Jaeyoung Sung*, and Sangyoub Lee*, “Excluded Volume Effects on the Intrachain Reaction Kinetics”, J. Phys. Chem. B112, 6250 (2008).

Je Hyun Bae, Yu Rim Lim, and Jaeyoung Sung*, “Statistical Mechanics of Molecular Adsorption: Effects of Adsorbate Interaction on Isotherm”, Langmuir 24, 2569 (2008).

Kang Min Ok, Jaeyoung Sung, Robert M. J. Jacobs, and Dermot O’Hare, “TOF-2: A Large 1D Channel Thorium Organic Framework”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 3762 (2008).

Jaeyoung Sung, “Validity condition of Jarzynski’s equality for a boundary switching processes”, Phys. Rev. E77, 042101 (2008).

Changsung Eun, Ji-Hyun Kim, Jinuk Lee, Je Hyun Bae, Yu Rim Lim, Sangyoub Lee, and Jaeyoung Sung*, “Mean First Passage Time for the Contact between the Ends of a Chain Polymer”, J. Phys. Chem. B 111, 10468 (2007).

Ji-Hyun Kim, Dahn Huh, Jinuk Lee, Sangyoub Lee*, Jaeyoung Sung, Kazuhiko Seki, and Masao Tachiya*, “Subdiffusion-assisted reaction kinetics in disordered media”, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 19, 065116 (2007).

Joonkyung Jang, Jaeyoung Sung, and George C. Schatz, “Influence of Surface Roughness on the Pull-Off Force in Atomic Force Microscopy”, J. Phys. Chem. C 111, 4648 (2007).

Jaeyoung Sung, “Theoretical test of Jarzynski’s equality for reversible volume-switching processes of an ideal gas system”, Phys. Rev. E76, 012101 (2007).

J. Lee; J. Uhm; W. Lee; S. Lee; J. Sung*, “Reversible excited-state proton transfer: Effect of the switching of interaction potential by reaction”, Bull. Korean Chem. Soc. 27, 197 (2006).

Jaeyoung Sung and Robert J. Silbey, “Quantitative Relationship between analyte concentration and amplified signal intensity of a molecular wire sensor”, Anal. Chem. 77, 6169 (2005).

Jaeyoung Sung and Robert J. Silbey, “Counting statistics of single molecule reaction events and reaction dynamics of a single molecule”, Chem. Phys. Lett. 415, 10 (2005).

J. Lee; J. Uhm; W. Lee; S. Lee; J. Sung*, “Nonequilibrium distribution function theory of many-particle effects in the reversible reactions of the Type A+B <-> C+B”, Bull. Korean Chem. Soc. 26, 1986 (2005).

Jaeyoung Sung and Robert J. Silbey, “Exact dynamics of continuous time random walker in the presence of boundary: beyond phenomenological boundary condition approach”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 160601 (2003).

Jaeyoung Sung and Robert J. Silbey, “Optical Four wave mixing spectroscopy for a multi level system coupled to Brownian oscillators”, J. Chem. Phys. 118, 2443 (2003).

Jaeyoung Sung, Jinwook Lee, and Sangyoub Lee, “Theory of intrapolymer excimer-formation kinetics”, J. Chem. Phys. 118, 414 (2003).

Jaeyoung Sung, Eli Barkai, Robert J. Silbey, and Sangyoub Lee, “Fractional Dynamics Approach to the Diffusion-Assisted Reaction in Disordered Media”, J. Chem. Phys. 116, 2338 (2002).

Jaeyoung Sung and Robert J. Silbey, “Four Wave Mixing Spectroscopy for a Multi-level System”, J. Chem. Phys. 115, 9266 (2001).

Jaeyoung Sung, Hwangseo Park and Sangyoub Lee, “Green’s Function Approach to the Nonclassical Reaction Kinetics in Fractal Media”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2463 (2001).

Jaeyoung Sung, Robert J. Silbey, and Minhaeng Cho, “Effects of temperature on the nonlinear response function for two-dimensional vibrational spectroscopy”, J. Chem. Phys. 115, 1422 (2001).

Laura J. Kaufman, Jiyoung Heo, Graham R. Fleming, Jaeyoung Sung and Minhaeng Cho, Chem. Phys. 266, 251 (2001).

Jaeyoung Sung and Sangyoub Lee, “Intrachain fluorescence quenching in a flexible polymer: A theory for frequency-domain fluorometric experiments”, J. Chem. Phys. 115, 9050 (2001).

Jaeyoung Sung and Minhaeng Cho, “Calculation of the two-dimensional vibrational response function”, J. Chem. Phys. 113, 7072 (2000).

Minhaeng Cho, David A. Blank, Jaeyoung Sung, Kisam Park, Sangjoon Hahn, and Graham R. Fleming, “Intrinsic cascading contributions to the fifth- and seventh-order electronically off-resonant Raman spectroscopies”, J. Chem. Phys. 112, 2082 (2000).

Juhyeok Lee, Jaeyoung Sung, and Sangyoub Lee, “Excluded volume effects on the diffusion-influenced reaction: The many-particle kernel approach”, J. Chem. Phys. 113, 8686 (2000).

Jaeyoung Sung and Sangyoub Lee, “Relations among the Modern Theories of Diffusion-Influenced Reaction: 2. Reduced distribution Function theory vs. Modified Integral Encounter Theory”, J. Chem. Phys. 112, 2128 (2000).

Jaeyoung Sung and Sangyoub Lee, “Relations among the Modern Theories of Diffusion-Influenced Reaction: 1. Reduced distribution Function theory vs. Memory Function Theory of Yang, Lee, and Shin”, J. Chem. Phys. 111, 10159 (1999).

Jaeyoung Sung, Joonhwa Chi, and Sangyoub Lee, “Nonequilibrium Distribution Function Theory of Diffusion-Influenced Reversible Energy-Transfer Reactions”, J. Chem. Phys. 111, 804 (1999).

Jaeyoung Sung and Sangyoub Lee, “Nonequilibrium Distribution Function Formalism for Diffusion-Influenced Bimolecular Reactions: Beyond the Superposition Approximation”, J. Chem. Phys. 111, 796 (1999).

Jaeyoung Sung, Kook Joe Shin, and Sangyoub Lee, “Relaxation Kinetics of Diffusion-Influenced Reactions of the Type A+ B⇄ C Perturbed by Flash Photolysis”, J. Chem. Phys. 109, 9101 (1998).

Jaeyoung Sung, Kook Joe Shin, and Sangyoub Lee, “Many-Particle Effects on the Relaxation Kinetics of Fast Reversible Reactions of the Type A+ B⇄ C”, J. Chem. Phys. 107, 9418 (1997).

Jaeyoung Sung, Kook Joe Shin, and Sangyoub Lee, “Effect of Light Intensity on the Fluorescence Quenching Kinetics Probed by Frequency-Domain Fluorometry”, J. Chem. Phys. 101, 7241 (1994).

Jaeyoung Sung, Kook Joe Shin, and Sangyoub Lee, “Effects of Static Quenching and Light Pulse Intensity on the Time-Dependent Fluorescence Quenching Kinetics”, Chem. Phys. 179, 23 (1994).

Jaeyoung Sung, Kook Joe Shin, and Sangyoub Lee, “Theory of Diffusion-Influenced Fluorescence Quenching: Effects of Static Quenching On the Stern-Volmer Curve”, Chem. Phys. 167, 17 (1992).