Faculty

Ya-Sen Sun (Professor)

Contact:

Office: 93C15
Phone: (06)-2757575 ext. 62669
Fax: (06)-2344496
Email: yssun@gs.ncku.edu.tw
Research Expertise:
Physics of Block Copolymers; Synchrotron X-ray/Neutron Scattering and Diffraction, Nanomaterials for Molecular Sensing; Soft Matters.

Personal CV :

Education

Ph.D., Dept. Chemical Engineering, National Cheng-Kung University (ROC Taiwan)
M.S., Dept. Chemical Engineering, National Cheng-Kung University (ROC Taiwan)
B.S., Dept. Chemical Engineering, Tung-Hai University (ROC Taiwan)
 

Experience

Professor, National Cheng Kung University (20220801-now)
Professor, National Central University (20160801-20220701)
Associate Professor, National Central University (20110801-20160731)
Assistant Professor, National Central University (20080801-20110731)
Visiting Scholar, Stanford University (20070601-20080531)
Assistant Scientist, National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, (20061015-20070531)
Project Associate Scientist, National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, (20021015-20061014)
 

Teaching

Unit Operation I

Publications

2023:

  1. Sun, Y. S*.; Liao, Y. P.; Hung, H. H.; Chiang, P. H.; C. J. Su. Molecular-weight Effects of a Homopolymer on the AB- and ABC-stacks of Perforations in Block Copolymer/Homopolymer Films. Soft Matter, 2023 (in press; DOI:10.1039/d3sm01249b).
  2. Sun, Y. S*.; Jian, Y. Q.; Yang, S. T.; Chen, C. Y.; Lin, J. M. Morphologies of Surface Perforations and Parallel Cylinders Coexisting in Terraced Films of Block Copolymer/Homopolymer   Blends with Oxygen Plasma Etching. Langmuir, 2023, 39,  16284–16293.
  3. Junisu, B. A. and Sun, Y. S*. Hierarchical Surface Instability in Polymer Films. Langmuir, 202339, 15249–15259.
  4. Rahmayanti, W.; Nagarajan, S.; Sun, Y. S*.; Woo, E. M.*. Iridescent Features Correlating with Periodic Assemblies in Custom-Crystallized Arylate Polyesters. Int. J. Mol. Sci., 2023, 24, 15538.

2022:

  1. Septani, C. M.; Shih, Orion; Yeh, Yi-Qi; Sun, Y. S.* Structural Evolution of a Polystyrene-block-Poly(ethylene oxide) Block Copolymer in Tetrahydrofuran/Water Cosolvents. Langmuir, 2022, 38, 5987-5995. (IF:3.882)
  2. Hong, J. W.; Chang, J. H.; Hung, H. H.; Liao, Y. P.; Jian, Y. Q.; Chang, I. C. Y.; Huang, T. Y.; Nelson, A.; Lin, I. M.; Chiang, Y. W. and Sun, Y. S*. Chain Length Effects of Added Homopolymers on Phase Behavior in Blend Films of a Symmetric, Weakly-Segregated Polystyrene-block-Poly(methyl methacrylate). Macromolecules, 2022, 6, 2130-2147. (IF:5.985)
  3. Junisu, B. A.; Chang, I. C. Y.; Lin, C. C.; Sun, Y. S*. Surface Wrinkling on Polymer Films. Langmuir, 2022, 38, 3907-3916. (IF:3.882)
  4. Septani, C. M.; Wang, C. C.; Sun, Y. S.* Morphological Dependence of Oxygen Reduction Reaction of Porous Carbon Catalyst. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2022, 5, 897-914. (IF:6.02)
  5. Chen, Y. F.; Wang, C. H.; Chang, W. R.; Li, J. W.; Hsu, M.F.; Sun, Y. S.*; Liu, T. Y.*; Chiu, C. W*. Hydrophilic-Hydrophobic Nanohybrids of AuNPs-Immobilized Two-Dimensional Nano Mica Platelets as Flexible Substrates for High-Efficiency and High-Selectivity SERS Microbe Detection ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2022, 5, 1073-1083.
  6. Septani, C. M.; Ku, M. F.; Chen, C. Y.; Lin, J. M.; Sun, Y. S.* Micellication, Aggregation, and Gelation of Polystyrene-block-poly(ethylene oxide) in Cosolvents Added with Hydrochloric Acid. Colloids and Science A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 2022, 652, 129857. 
  7. Junisu, B. A.; Chang, I. C. Y.; Sun, Y. S.* Film Instability Induced by Swelling and Drying. Langmuir, 2022, 38, 13009-13020. 

2021:

  1. Sun, C. H.; Septani, C. M.; Sun, Y. S.* Direct Access to Bowl-Like Nanostructures with Block Copolymer Anisotropic Truncated Microspheres. Langmuir 2021, 37, 636−645. (IF:3.882)
  2. Hong, J. W.; Jian, Y. Q.; Liao, Y. P.; Hung, H. H.; Huang, T. Y.; Nelson, A.; Taso, U. Y.; Wu, C. M.*; Sun, Y. S.* Distributions of Deuterated Polystyrene Chains in Perforated Layers of Blend Films of a Symmetric Polystyrene-block-poly(methyl methacrylate). Langmuir, 2021, 37, 13046-13058. (IF:3.882)
  3. Hong, J. W.; Chang, J. H.; Chang, I. C. Y.; Sun, Y. S.* Phase behavior in thin films of weakly segregated block copolymer/homopolymer blends. Soft Matter, 2021, 17, 9189-9197. (IF:3.679)  
  4. Chen, Y. F.; Hong, J. W.; Chang, J. H.; Junisu, B. A.; Sun, Y. S.* Influence of Osmotic Pressure on Nanostructures in Thin Films of a Weakly-Segregated Block Copolymer and Its Blends with a Homopolymer. Polymers 2021, 13, 2480. (IF:4.329)
  5. Tsao, C. W.*; Zheng, Y. S.; Sun, Y. S.*; Cheng, Y. C. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy on localized silver nanoparticles decorated porous silicon substrate. Analyst, 2021, 146, 7645-7652. (IF:4.616)

2020:

  1. Yang, W. C.; Hong, J. W.; Chang, J. H.; Chen, Y. F.; Nelson, A.; Wang, Y. M.; Chiang, Y. W.; Wu, C. M.*; Sun, Y. S.* Dispersity effects on phase behavior and structural evolution in ultrathin films of a deuterated polystyrene-block-poly (methyl methacrylate) diblock copolymer. Polymer 2020, 210, 123027. (IF:4.430)
  2. Septani, C. M.; Wang, C. A.; Jeng, U. S.; Su, Y. C.; Ko, B. T.; Sun, Y. S.* Hierarchically Porous Carbon Materials from Self-Assembled Block Copolymer/Dopamine Mixtures. Langmuir 2020, 36, 1175411764. (IF:3.882)
  3. Junisu, B. A.; Sun, Y. S.* Three-Dimensional Interconnected Network of Gold Nanostructures for Molecular Sensing via Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Spectroscopy. ACS Applied Nano Materials 2020, 3, 79507962. (IF:5.097)
  4. Chang, I. C. Y.; Sun, Y. S.*; Yang, Y. W.; Wang, C. H.; Cheng, S. L.; Hu, W. W. Effects of Graphitization and Bonding Configuration in Iron–Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanostructures on Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering. ACS Applied Nano Materials 2020, 3, 858–868. (IF:5.097)

 

 

2019:

    1. Yang, W. C.; Wu, S. H.; Chen, Y. F.; Nelson, A.; Wu, C. M.; Sun, Y. S.* Effects of the Density of Chemical Cross-links and Physical Entanglements of Ultraviolet-Irradiated Polystyrene Chains on Domain Orientation and Spatial Order of Polystyrene-block-Poly(methyl methacrylate) Nano-Domains. Langmuir 201935, 14017–14030. (IF=3.557)
    2. Chiu, P. T.; Chien, Y. C.; Georgopanos, P.; Sun, Y. S.; Avgeropoulos, A.; Ho, R. M.*, Examination of well ordered nanonetwork materials by real-and reciprocal-space imaging. IUCrJ 2019, 6, 259266. (IF=5.401)

2018:

  1. Liou, J. Y.; Sun, Y. S.* Lateral Order and Self-Organized Morphology of Diblock Copolymer Micellar Films. Polymers 2018, 10, 597. (IF=3.164)

2017:

  1. Sun, Y. S.*; Lin, C. F.; Luo, S. T. Two-dimensional nitrogen-enriched carbon nanosheets with surface-enhanced Raman scattering. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2017, 121, 1479514802. (IF=4.484)
  2. Sun, Y. S.*; Lin, C. F.; Luo, S. T.; Su, C. Y. Block-copolymer-templated hierarchical porous carbon nanostructures with nitrogen-rich functional groups for molecular sensing. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2017, 9, 3123531244. (IF=8.097).
  3. Sun, Y. S.*; Huang, W. H.; Lin, C. F.; Cheng, S. L. Tailoring carbon nanostructure with diverse and tunable morphology by the pyrolysis of self-assembled lamellar nanodomains of a block copolymer. Langmuir 2017, 33, 20032010. (IF=3.789)