* indicates corresponding authorship & # denotes equal contribution, Sim lab members in bold

2023

• Elastic network of droplets for underwater adhesives
  H. Jo & S. Sim,* Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023, 145, 27022–27029.

• Catalytic materials enabled by a programmable assembly of synthetic polymers and engineered bacterial spores
  M. Kawada, H. Jo, A. M. Medina, S. Sim,* Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023, 145, 16210–16217. Featured in JACS Spotlights

• Professor Takuzo Aida – A visionary leader in polymer science
  S. Sim,* N. Hosono, Z. Wei, D. Jiang, Y. Yamamoto, Journal of Polymer Science, 2023, 61, 859–860.

• Sugar-fueled dissipative living materials
  H. Jo, S. Selmani, Z. Guan, S. Sim,* Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023, 145, 1811–1817.

2022

• Stress-tolerant, recyclable, and renewable biocatalyst platform enabled by engineered bacterial spores
  Y. Hui, Z. Cui, S. Sim,* ACS Synthetic Biology, 2022, 11, 2857–2868.

• Programmable living materials constructed with dynamic covalent interface between synthetic polymers and engineered B. subtilis
  H. Jo & S. Sim,* ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2022, 14, 20729–20738.

• Network formation of engineered proteins and their bioactive properties
  S. Sim,* In Srubar III W.V. (eds) Engineered Living Materials, pp. 1-26. Springer, Cham, 2022.

Before UC Irvine

• 3D-printable cellular composites for production of recombinant proteins
  S. Sim,# Y. Hui,# D. A. Tirrell,* Biomacromolecules, 2022, 23, 4687–4695.

• Molecularly engineered “Janus GroEL”: Application to supramolecular copolymerization with a higher level of sequence control
  D. Kashiwagi,# H. Shen,# S. Sim, K. Sano, Y. Ishida, A. Kimura, T. Niwa, H. Taguchi, T. Aida,* Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020, 142, 13310–13315

• Protein nanotube selectively cleavable with DNA: Supramolecular polymerization of “DNA-appended molecular chaperones”
  D. Kashiwagi, S. Sim,* T. Niwa, H. Taguchi, T. Aida,* Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018, 140, 26−29. Featured in JACS Spotlights, “DNA, proteins Combine to Yield Highly Stable Nanotubes”

• Swallowing a surgeon: Toward clinical nanorobots
  S. Sim, T. Aida,* Accounts of Chemical Research, 2017, 50, 492–497.

• Supramolecular nanotube of chaperonin GroEL: Length control for cellular uptake using single-ring GroEL mutant as End-Capper
  S. Sim, T. Niwa, H. Taguchi, T. Aida,* Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2016, 138, 11152−11155.

• Tailoring micrometer-long high-integrity 1D array of superparamagnetic nanoparticles in a nanotubular protein jacket and its lateral magnetic assembling behavior
  S. Sim, D. Miyajima,* T. Niwa, H. Taguchi, T. Aida,* Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015, 137, 4658–4661.

• Directional assembly of α-helical peptides induced by cyclization
  S. Sim, Y. Kim, T. Kim, S. Lim, M. Lee,* Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012, 134, 20270-20272.

Patents

• Nanoparticle, Contrast agent for magnetic resonance imaging containing same, and ligand compound
  D. Miyajima, T. Takeuchi, S. Sim, T. Aida, I. Aoki, U.S. Patent 11,389,550, issued July 19, 2022.