Staff

After completing his PhD from University of Connecticut in 2005 and postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University, Dr. Jeunghoon Lee joined Boise State University as Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry in 2008. He was promoted to Associate Professor and has been holding a joint appointment between the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Micron School or Materials Science & Engineering since 2014. Since his arrival at Boise State University in 2008, Dr. Lee has been a member of NanoMaterials and Devices Group (NMDG). His research interest and expertise includes functional nanomaterials via DNA nanotechnology, biosensing using dynamic DNA networks, and DNA-assisted assembly of quantum coherent dye systems.  

• Postdoc | Northwestern University, 2005-2008
• Ph.D. | University of Connecticut, 2005
• M.S. | Seoul National University, 1996
• B.S. | Seoul National University, 1994

Publications (Journal Articles, * denotes undergraduate author)

• M. S. Barclay, S. K. Roy, J. S. Huff, O. A. Mass, D. B. Turner, C. K. Wilson, D. L. Kellis, E. Terpetschnig, J. Lee, P. H. Davis, B. Yurke, W. B. Knowlton, and R. D. Pensack, Rotaxane Rings Promote Oblique Packing and Extended Excited-State Lifetimes in DNA-Templated Squaraine Dye Aggregates, Communications Chemistry, 4 (19), 1–11 (2021)
• A. Biaggne, W. B. Knowlton, B. Yurke, J. Lee, and L. Li, Substituent Effects on the Solubility and Electronic Properties of Cy5: Density Functional and Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory Calculations, Molecules, 26(3), 524 (2021)
• Olga A. Mass, Christopher K. Wilson, Simon K. Roy, Lance K. Patten, Matthew S. Barclay, Ewald A. Terpetschnig, Jeunghoon Lee, Ryan D. Pensack, Bernard Yurke, and William B. Knowlton, Exciton Delocalization in Indolenine Squaraine Aggregates Templated by DNA Holliday Junction Scaffolds, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 124 (43), 9636–9647 (2020)
• D. Lysne, K. R. Jones*, A. Stosius*, T. Hachigian, J. Lee, and Elton Graugnard, Availability-Driven Design of Hairpin Fuels and Small Interfering Strands for Leakage Reduction in Autocatalytic Networks, J. Phys. Chem. B, 124 (16), 3326-3335 (2020)
• D. L. Kellis, C. Sarter, B. L. Cannon, P. H. Davis, E. Graugnard, J. Lee, R. Pensack, T. Kolmar, A. Jäschke, B. Yurke, and W. B. Knowlton, “An All-Optical Excitonic Switch Operated in the Liquid and Solid Phases”, ACS Nano, 13 (3), 2986–2994 (2019).
• B. L. Cannon, L. K. Patten, D. L. Kellis, P. H. Davis, J. Lee, E. Graugnard, B. Yurke, W. B. Knowlton, “Large Davydov Splitting and Strong Fluorescence Suppression: An Investigation of Exciton Delocalization and in DNA-Templated Holliday Junction Dye Aggregates”, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 122 (8), 2086-2095 (2018).
• B. L. Cannon, D. L. Kellis*, L. K. Patten, P. H. Davis, J. Lee, E. Graugnard, B. Yurke, and W. B. Knowlton, “Coherent Exciton Delocalization in a Two-State DNA-Template Dye Aggregation System”, J. Phys. Chem. A, 121 (37) 6905-6916 (2017)
• Olson, S. Kotani, J. Padilla, N. Hallstrom, S. Goltry, J. Lee, B. Yurke, W. L. Hughes, E. Graugnard, “Availability: A Metric for Nucleic Acid Strand Displacement Systems”, ACS Synthetic Biology, 6 (1) 84-93 (2017)
• D. L. Kellis*, S. Rehn*, B. Cannon, P. H. Davis, E. Graugnard, J. Lee, B. Yurke, W. B. Knowlton,“DNA-Mediated Excitonic Upconversion FRET Switching,” New Journal of Physics, 17 (2015) 115007.
• S. Goltry, N. Hallstrom, T. Clark*, W. Kuang, J. Lee, C. Jorcyk, W. B. Knowlton, B. Yurke, W. L. Hughes, E. Graugnard,“DNA topology influences molecular machine lifetime in human serum,” Nanoscale, 7, 10382-10390 (2015); DOI: 10.1039/C5NR02283E
• B. L. Cannon, D. L. Kellis*, P. H. Davis, J. Lee, W. Kuang, W. L. Hughes, E. Graugnard, B. Yurke, W. B. Knowlton, “DNA Nanobreadboard-Based Excitonic AND Logic Gates,” ACS Photonics 2, 398-404 (2015); DOI: 10.1021/ph500444d.
• S. Takabayashi, W. P. Klein, C. Onodera, B. Rapp, E. Lindau, L. Snowball*, J. Flores-Estrada*, J. T. Sam*, J. Lee, William B. Knowlton, Elton Graugnard, Bernard Yurke, Wan Kuang, and William L. Hughes,“High Precision, High Yield Fabrication of Nanoparticle Arrays via DNA Origami Nanotube Directed Self-Assembly,” Nanoscale, 6, 13928–13938 (2014)
• W. P. Klein, C. N. Schmidt*, B. Rapp, S. Takabayashi, W. B. Knowlton, J. Lee, B. Yurke, W. L. Hughes, E. Graugnard, and W. Kuang, “Multi-Scaffold DNA Origami Nanoparticle Waveguides”, (2013) Nano Lett., 13(8), 3850-3856
• H. Huttanus, E. Graugnard, B. Yurke, W. B. Knowlton, W. Kuang, W. L. Hughes, and J. Lee, “Enhanced Colorimetric Sensing of DNA via Catalytic Nanoparticle Aggregation”, Biosens. Bioelectron., (2013) 50, 382-386.
• E. Graugnard, D. L. Kellis*, H. Bui, S. Barnes*, W. Kuang, J. Lee, W. L. Hughes, W. B. Knowlton, and B. Yurke, “DNA-Controlled Excitonic Switches”, Nano Lett., (2012), 12(3), 2117-2122.
• H. Bui, C. Onodera, C. Kidwell*, Y.P. Tan, E. Graugnard, W. Kuang, J. Lee, W. B. Knowlton, B. Yurke, and W. L. Hughes, “Programmable Periodicity of Quantum Dot Arrays with DNA Origami Nanotubes”, Nano Lett., (2010), 10(9), 3367-3372.
• E. Graugnard, A. Cox*, J. Lee, C. Jorcyk, B. Yurke, and W. L. Hughes, “Kinetics of DNA and RNA Hybridization in Serum and Serum-SDS”, IEEE Trans. Nanotechnol., (2010), 9(5), 603-609.
• J. Lee, W. Hasan, and T. W. Odom, “Tuning the Thickness and Orientation of Single Au Pyramids for Improved Refractive Index Sensitivities”, J. Phys. Chem. C, (2009), 113(6), 2205-2207.
• W. Hasan, C. L. Stender, M.-H. Lee, C. L. Nehl, J. Lee, and T. W. Odom, “Tailoring the Structure of Nanopyramids for Optimal Heat Generation”, Nano Lett., (2009), 9(4), 1555-1558.
• J. Henzie, J. Lee, M.-H. Lee, W. Hasan, and T. W. Odom, “Nanofabrication of Plasmonic Structures”, Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem. (2009), 60, 147-165.
• J. Lee, W. Hasan, C. Stender, and T. W. Odom, “Pyramids: A Platform for Designing Multifunctional Plasmonic Particles”, Acc. Chem. Res. (2008), 41(12), 1762-1771.
• K. Shuford, J. Lee, T. W. Odom, and G. C. Schatz, “The Optical Properties of Pyramidal Shell Nanoparticles”, J. Phys. Chem. C (2008), 112(17), 6662-6666.
• J. Lee, W. Hasan, M.-H. Lee, T. W. Odom, “Optical Properties and Magnetic Manipulation of Bi-Material Nanopyramids”, Advanced Materials (2007), 19(24), 4387-4391.
• W. Hasan†, J. Lee†, J. Henzie, T. W. Odom, “Selective Functionalization and Spectra Identification of Gold Nanopyramids”, Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2007), 111(46), 17176-17179. († co-first author).
• J. Lee, B. Yang, R. Li, T. Seery, F. Papadimitrakopoulos, “Poly(Allyl amine) Encapsulated CdSe Nanocrystals”, Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2007), 111(1), 81-87.
• C. Srinivasan, J. Lee, F. Papadimitrakopoulos, L. Silbart, D. Burgess, “Intracellular Trafficking of Plasmid DNA using Semiconductor Quantum Dot Probe”, Molecular Therapy (2006), 14(2), 192-201.
• S. Kim, B. Yang, S. Hou, J. Lee, F. Papadimitrakopoulos, “DNA-assisted monolayer immobilization of 2D opaline arrays”, Advanced Functional Materials (2006), 16(12), 1590-1598.
• R. Li, J. Lee, D. Kang, Z. Luo, M. Aindow and F. Papadimitrakopoulos, “Band-Edge Photoluminescence Recovery from Room-Temperature Synthesized Zinc Blende CdSe Nanocrystals”, Advanced Functional Materials (2006), 16(3), 345-350.
• R. Li, J. Lee, F. Papadimitrakopoulos, M. Aindow, D. Horspool, “Thermally-Assisted Bottleneck Etching of CdSe Nanocrystal by Amines”, Journal of the American Chemical Society (2005), 127(8), 2524-2532.
• D. Kang, J. Lee, F. Papadimitrakopoulos, M. Aindow, “Cd2P2Se6 Nanolens formed at a Water-Air Interface”, Journal of Materials Science Letters (2005), 40(15), 4097-4100.
• D. Kang, J. Lee, F. Papadimitrakopoulos, M. Aindow, “Assembly of CdSe Nanocrystals into Well-Ordered Monolayers with Strong Crystallographic Texture”, Philosophical Magazine Letters (2003), 83(9), 569-574.
• R. G. Ispasoiu, Y. Jin, J. Lee, F. Papadimitrakopoulos, T. Goodson, III. “Two-photon Absorption and Photon-number Squeezing with CdSe Nanocrystals”, Nano Letters (2002), 2(2), 127-130.
• J. Lee, M. Mathai, F. Jain, F. Papadimitrakopoulos, “Layer-by-layer growth of CdSe-based nanocrystal light-emitting diodes”, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2001), 1(1), 59-64 (invited for inaugural issue).
• R. G. Ispasoiu, J. Lee, F. Papadimitrakopoulos, T. Goodson III, “Surface effects in the fluorescence ultra-fast dynamics from CdSe nano-crystals”, Chemical Physics Letters (2001), 340(1,2), 7-12
• J. Jang and J. Lee, “Effect of Imidization Temperature on the Adhesion of Polyimide to Aluminum”, Journal of Applied Polymer Science (1996), 62(2), 199-205

PUBLICATIONS (book chapters and proceedings)

• E. Graugnard, A. Cox*, J. Lee, C. Jorcyk, B. Yurke, and W. L. Hughes, “Operation of DNA-
  based Autocatalytic Network in Serum”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LCNS), (2011),
  6518, 83-88.
• J. Lee, J. Henzie, T. W. Odom, “Manipulating the Optical Properties of Individual and Arrays
  of Gold Nanopyramids“ in Nanostructures in Electronics and Photonics, Ed. F. Rahman,
  World Scientific Publising Co., Singapore (2009)
• A. Vasiliev, M. Aindow, J. Lee, F. Papadimitrakopoulos, F. Jain, “Crystallographic
  description for nanoparticle assemblies – application to cadmium selenide clusters”,
  Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings (2001), 635 (Anisotropic
  Nanoparticles), C4.37/1-C4.37/4.

PATENTS

• J. Lee, E. Graugnard, B. Yurke, W. L. Hughes, and H. Huttanus, “Enhanced DNA Sensing via
  Catalytic Aggregation of Gold Nanoparticles by DNA Reaction Networks”, preliminary patent
  filed (083956-0029).