Research Interests
Dr. Kyongok Kang

Equilibrium Phases: I-isotropic, N+I –nematic-isotropic coexistence, N*-chiral-nematic, and chiral-hierarchical mesophases: X-pattern, helical domains, and planar- nematic and homeotopic-nematic, and structural glass.

Non-equilibrium: Shear-induced deformations of the orientation textures (in flow-vorticity plane)

Soft-mode of charged chiral fibrous viruses (fd)

Synchronized oscillations of dimers in biphasic phase of charged fibrous virus (fd) suspensions

Flow-driven Mass Transports – Flow instability due to coupling of shear-gradients with concentration – Local interfacial migration of small particles in big droplets

Protein Misfolding and Aggregations in the Low-frequency Electric-fields ALS-targeted protein-protein aggregation, ion-channel receptors, and the misfolding states of protein-receptor interactions are classified in terms of the conformational changes of polypeptides, and can be explored by means of image-time correlation and the relaxation times in the electro-optic modulation light scattering (EOM-LS). Statistical modeling of diffusion processes far out of equilibrium in crowded networks of cellular fibers and neuronal signaling as an active process.