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Sang Bong Lee

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · Engineering

About the Lab

Professor Sang Bong Lee's research lab specializes in the development of advanced nanomaterials for biomedical applications, with a strong focus on theranostics—integrating diagnostics and therapy. The lab pioneers innovative radiolabeling strategies and functional nanoplatforms, particularly gold and mesoporous silica nanoparticles, for highly sensitive imaging and targeted cancer therapy. Key research directions include multimodal imaging (e.g., PET/CLI), photothermal therapy, and immune cell tracking using radionuclide-embedded nanoparticles, all aimed at improving cancer diagnosis and treatment outcomes. The lab also explores smart hydrogels and solid-state electrolytes, reflecting a broader interest in stimuli-responsive materials and energy applications.

nanomedicinetheranosticsradiolabelinggold nanoparticlesimaging agents

Research Overview

Papers
65
Total Citations
830
Papers (5y)
18
Primary Field
Engineering

Research Output Trend

Figures are computed from collected data and may differ slightly.

Publications per year (5y)
18total
2020
2021
2022
2023
2025
Citations per year (5y)
90total
20202021202220232025

Selected Papers

15
1
Article|165 citations·2013
Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticle Pretargeting for PET Imaging Based on a Rapid Bioorthogonal Reaction in a Living Body
Sang Bong Lee, Hye Lan Kim, Hwan‐Jeong Jeong, Seok Tae Lim, Myung‐Hee Sohn, Dong Wook Kim
SJR Q1Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Last-minute labeling: Mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) were modified with a very short half-life fluorine-18-labeled azide radiotracer by a cycloaddition reaction after the MSNs had reached the tumor site in mice. The tumor could then be visualized successfully with positron emission tomography.

Biomedical EngineeringEngineering
2
Article|68 citations·2013
Compliant polymer network-mediated fabrication of a bendable plastic crystal polymer electrolyte for flexible lithium-ion batteries
Keun-Ho Choi, Se Hee Kim, Hyo-Jeong Ha, Eun-Hye Kil, Chang Kee Lee, Sang Bong Lee, Sang Bong Lee, Jin Kie Shim, Sang‐Young Lee, Sang‐Young Lee
SJR Q1Journal of Materials Chemistry A

We demonstrate a bendable plastic crystal polymer electrolyte (referred to as “B-PCPE”) for use in flexible lithium-ion batteries. The B-PCPE proposed herein is composed of a plastic crystal electrolyte (PCE, 1 M lithium bis-trifluoromethanesulphonimide (LiTFSI) in succinonitrile (SN)) and a UV (ultraviolet)-cured polymer network bearing long linear hydrocarbon chains (here, trimethylolpropane propoxylate triacrylate (TPPTA) polymer is exploited). The solid electrolyte characteristics of the B-P

Electrical and Electronic EngineeringEngineering
3
Article|54 citations·2017
Practical design of a diffusion-type time-temperature indicator with intrinsic low temperature dependency
Panuwat Suppakul, Dong Youl Kim, Jung Hwa Yang, Sang Bong Lee, Seung Ju Lee, Seung Ju Lee, Seung Ju Lee
SJR Q1Journal of Food Engineering
Organic ChemistryChemistry
4
Article|24 citations·2008
Organized Self-Sustained Oscillations of Turbulent Flows over an Open Cavity
Sang Bong Lee, Woong Kang, Hyung Jin Sung
SJR Q1AIAA Journal

Q2 was employed to turbulent flows over an open cavity to investigate the spatial characteristics of coherent structures responsible for self-sustained oscillations. The distributions of pressure fluctuations were analyzed by using snapshot-based proper orthogonal decomposition. When self-sustained oscillations took place for ReD 12;000 in the cavity geometry of L=D 2, three pairs of alternative patterns were shown in the first and second modes of pressure fluctuations. By examining both tempora

Computational MechanicsEngineering
5
Article|22 citations·2020
Internal audience strikes back from the outside: emotionally exhausted employees’ negative word-of-mouth as the active brand-oriented deviance
Sang Bong Lee, Taewon Suh
SJR Q1Journal of Product & Brand Management

Purpose Reflecting on the importance of negative word-of-mouth (NWOM) executed by internal audience of brand management, this study aims to explore the mechanism of employees’ NWOM in the emotional exhaustion context. Design/methodology/approach Focusing on employees’ active brand-oriented deviances, this study used a surveyed data set ( n = 150) collected from negatively aroused employees experiencing a negative event within their organization. Structural equation modeling was adopted to test t

Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
6
Article|22 citations·2016
A study on temporal accuracy of OpenFOAM
Sang Bong Lee
SJR Q1International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean EngineeringOA

Crank–Nicolson scheme in native OpenFOAM source libraries was not able to provide 2nd order temporal accuracy of velocity and pressure since the volume flux of convective nonlinear terms was 1st accurate in time. In the present study the simplest way of getting the volume flux with 2nd order accuracy was proposed by using old fluxes. A possible numerical instability originated from an explicit estimation of volume fluxes could be handled by introducing a weighting factor which was determined by

Computational MechanicsEngineering
7
Article|22 citations·2018
The sensitivity of ship resistance to wall-adjacent grids and near-wall treatments
Dong Woo Park, Sang Bong Lee
SJR Q1International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean EngineeringOA

Numerical simulations of turbulent flows around KCS have been performed to study the sensitivity of ship resistance to wall-adjacent grids and disclose the influence of near-wall treatment on the sensitivity of ship resistance. The resistance coefficients of viscous and pressure forces were compared when using realizable k-ε and SST k-ω turbulence models in structured and unstructured grids, respectively. The calculation of friction velocity was found to be mainly responsible for the reduction o

Ocean EngineeringEngineering
8
Article|21 citations·2022
The relative impact of employees’ discrete emotions on employees’ negative word-of-mouth (NWOM) and counterproductive workplace behavior (CWB)
Sang Bong Lee, Shih-Hao Liu, Carl P. Maertz
SJR Q1Journal of Product & Brand Management

Purpose With the emergence of a variety of communication channels on social media, employees have more opportunities to engage with external stakeholders for or against their organizational brand. In such a context, focusing on negative word-of-mouth (NWOM) as an employee’s negative discretionary brand-oriented behavior, the current study aimed to identify negative emotions that can serve as drivers for NWOM more strongly than for counterproductive workplace behavior (CWB), relying on the discre

MarketingBusiness, Management and Accounting
9
Article|21 citations·2010
Self-Sustained Oscillations of Turbulent Flow in an Open Cavity
Sang Bong Lee, Abu Seena, Hyung Jin Sung
SJR Q1Journal of Aircraft

Direct numerical and large eddy simulations of incompressible turbulent flows over deep and shallow cavities were performed in the range of 600 ReD 12; 000 to investigate the influence of the incoming turbulent boundary layer on self-sustained oscillations of the shear layer. When the turbulent boundary layer approached the open cavity with ReD 3000, the energy spectra of the pressure fluctuations showed spectral peaks in the range of 0:15! 0:3. Conditionally averaged flowfields disclosed that t

Computational MechanicsEngineering
10
Article|18 citations·2019
Air-activation of printed time–temperature integrator: A sandwich package case study
Sang Bong Lee, Sang Bong Lee, Do Hyeon Kim, Seung Won Jung, Seung Ju Lee, Seung Ju Lee
SJR Q1Food Control
Biomedical EngineeringEngineering
11
Article|11 citations·2020
NIR dye-loaded mesoporous silica nanoparticles for a multifunctional theranostic platform: Visualization of tumor and ischemic lesions, and performance of photothermal therapy
Sang Bong Lee, Ho‐Won Lee, Bobby Aditya Darmawan, In‐Kyu Lee, Sung Jin Cho, Jungwook Chin, Sang Kyoon Kim, Jong‐Oh Park, Kil‐Soo Kim, Sang‐Woo Lee, Jaetae Lee, Yong Hyun Jeon
SJR Q1Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
Biomedical EngineeringEngineering
12
Article|11 citations·2014
Statistical Reliability Analysis of Numerical Simulation for Prediction of Model-Ship Resistance
Sang Bong Lee, Youn Mo Lee
Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of KoreaOA

A wide scope of numerical simulations was performed to predict model-ship resistances by using STAR-CCM+ and OpenFOAM. The numerical results were compared with experimental measurements in towing tank to analyze statistical reliability of the present simulations. Based on the normal distribution of resistance errors in 113 cases of container carriers, tankers and very large crude-oil carriers, the confidence intervals of numerical error were estimated as [-2.64%,+2.32%] and [-1.82%, +1.87%] with

Ocean EngineeringEngineering
13
Article|10 citations·2021
An improved partially-averaged Navier-Stokes model for secondary flows
Woochan Seok, Sang Bong Lee, Shin Hyung Rhee
SJR Q1International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
Environmental EngineeringEnvironmental Science
14
Article|7 citations·2019
Computational simulation of turbulent flows around a marine propeller by solving the partially averaged Navier–Stokes equation
Woochan Seok, Sang Bong Lee, Shin Hyung Rhee
SJR Q2Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part C Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science

This study concerns the characteristics of the partially averaged Navier–Stokes method for local flow analysis around a rotating propeller. Partially averaged Navier–Stokes, resolving crucial large-scale structures of turbulent flow at a given computational grid resolution, is a bridging turbulence closure model between the Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equation and the direct numerical simulation. A detailed comparison between partially averaged Navier–Stokes and Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stok

Mechanics of MaterialsEngineering
15
Article|6 citations·2018
In vivo detection of sentinel lymph nodes with PEGylated crushed gold shell @ radioactive core nanoballs
Sang Bong Lee, Yinghua Li, In‐Kyu Lee, Sung Jin Cho, Sang Kyoon Kim, Sang‐Woo Lee, Jaetae Lee, Yong Hyun Jeon
SJR Q1Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
Biomedical EngineeringEngineering

Research Areas

Computational MechanicsOcean EngineeringMechanics of MaterialsBiomedical EngineeringElectrical and Electronic EngineeringMarketing

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