Jong Hyun Choi

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Location: West Lafayette

School of Mechanical Engineering
Purdue University
585 Purdue Mall
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2088
jchoi@purdue.edu

Office: ME 2198

Phone: 765-496-3562

Websites

Degrees

  • B.S., Yonsei University, '99
  • M.S., Yonsei University, '01
  • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, '05

Research Interests

  • Advanced materials
  • Programmable metastructures
  • Bioinspired design and manufacturing
  • DNA nanotechnology
  • Nanomachines

Fundamental Research Area(s)

Application Area(s)

Awards and Recognitions

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2023
  • Guest Professorship, Technical University of Munich, Germany, 2022
  • ASME Fellow, 2018
  • Perry Academic Excellence Scholar, 2016
  • NAE German-American Frontiers of Engineering, 2015
  • ASEE Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2013
  • Discovery in Mechanical Engineering Award, 2012
  • NAE Frontiers of Engineering Education, 2012
  • NSF CAREER Award, 2011
  • Shen Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2006
  • Clyde Sanfred Johnson Memorial Fellowship, 2005
  • AWMA Scholarship, 2004

Selected Publications

S. Seo, A.A. Swett, M.R. Kesama, A.S. Madhvacharyula, R. Li, Y. Du, M. Eder, F.C. Simmel, and J.H. Choi, ”A Nanoscale Jitterbug Transformer from DNA,” Nature Communications, 17, 7244 (2026).

A.S. Madhvacharyula, R. Li, A.A. Swett, Y. Du, S. Seo, F.C. Simmel, and J.H. Choi, ”Realizing Mechanical Frustration at the Nanoscale Using DNA Origami,” Nature Communications, 16, 5164 (2025).

R. Li, H. Chen, and J.H. Choi, "Auxetic Two-Dimensional Nanostructures from DNA," Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 60, 7165-7173 (2021).

J. Ji, C.M. Delehey, D.N. Houpt, M.K. Heighway, T. Lee, and J.H. Choi, "Selective Chemical Modulation of Interlayer Excitons in Atomically Thin Heterostructures," Nano Letters, 20, 2500-2506 (2020).

J. Pan, Y. Du, H. Qiu, L.R. Upton, F. Li, and J.H. Choi, "Mimicking Chemotactic Cell Migration with DNA Programmable Synthetic Vesicles," Nano Letters, 19, 9138-9144 (2019).

J. Pan, T.G. Cha, F. Li, H. Chen, N.A. Bragg, and J.H. Choi, "Visible/Near-Infrared Subdiffraction Imaging Reveals the Stochastic Nature of DNA Walkers," Science Advances, 3, e1601600 (2017).

H. Chen, H. Zhang, J. Pan, T.G. Cha, S. Li, J. Andreasson, and J.H. Choi, "Dynamic and Progressive Control of DNA Origami Conformation by Modulating DNA Helicity with Chemical Adducts," ACS Nano, 10, 4989-4996 (2016).

J. Choi, H. Zhang, and J.H. Choi, "Modulating Optoelectronic Properties of 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides by Photo-induced Charge Transfer," ACS Nano, 10, 1671-1680 (2016).

T.G. Cha, J. Pan, H. Chen, H.N. Robinson, X. Li, C. Mao, and J.H. Choi, "Design Principles of DNA Enzyme-based Walkers: Translocation Kinetics and Photoregulation," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137, 9429-9437 (2015).

T.G. Cha, J. Pan, H. Chen, J. Salgado, X. Li, C. Mao, and J.H. Choi, "A Synthetic DNA Motor That Transports Nanoparticles along Carbon Nanotubes," Nature Nanotechnology, 9, 39-43 (2014).

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