45. Lee, S., Gudyka, J., Skinner, M., Ceja-Vega, J., Rabadi, A., Poust, C., Scott, C., Panella, M., Andersen, E. and Said, J., 2025., Project symphony: Composing a masterpiece in a science laboratory, iScience 28, no. 2 (2025). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225001464
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Publications
(undergraduate co-authors are underlined)
45. Caroline Scott, Riley Porteus, Shoji Takeuchi, Toshihisa Osaki, and Sunghee Lee, Electrophysiological Characterization of Monoolein-Fatty Acid Bilayers, Langmuir, 2025, 41, 4, 2293–2299 . https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c03814
44. Jamie Gudyka, Jasmin Ceja-Vega, Michael Krmic, Riley Porteus, and Sunghee Lee, The Role of Lipid Intrinsic Curvature in the Droplet Interface Bilayer, Langmuir, 2024, 40, 22, 11428–11435. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c00270
43. Jamie Gudyka, Jasmin Ceja-Vega, Katherine Ivanchenko, Zachary Morocho, Micaela Panella, Alondra Gamez Hernandez, Colleen Clarke, Escarlin Perez, Shakinah Silverberg and Sunghee Lee, Concentration-Dependent Effects of Curcumin on Membrane Permeability and Structure, ACS Pharmacol. Transl. Sci., 2024, 7, 5, 1546-1556. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsptsci.4c00093
42. Jamie Gudyka, Jasmin Ceja-Vega, Katherine Ivanchenko, Wilber Perla, Christopher Poust, Alondra Gamez Hernandez, Colleen Clarke, Shakinah Silverberg, Escarlin Perez, and Sunghee Lee, Differential Effects of Soy Isoflavones on the Biophysical Properties of Model Membranes, J.Phys.Chem.B, 2024, 128 (10), 2412–2424. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c08390
41. Michael Krmic, Escarlin Perez, Patrick Scollan, Katherine Ivanchenko, Alondra Gamez Hernandez, Joseph Giancaspro, Juan Rosario, Jasmin Ceja-Vega, Jamie Gudyka, Riley Porteus, and Sunghee Lee, Aspirin Interacts with Cholesterol-Containing Membranes in a pH-Dependent Manner, Langmuir, 2023, 39, 46, 16444–16456. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c02242
40. Jasmin Ceja-Vega, Escarlin Perez, Patrick Scollan, Juan Rosario, Alondra Gamez Hernandez, Katherine Ivanchenko, Jamie Gudyka, and Sunghee Lee, Resveratrol decreases membrane water permeability: a study of cholesterol-dependent interactions, The Journal of Membrane Biology, 1-16, 2022. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00232-022-00250-0
39. Escarlin Perez, Jasmin Ceja-Vega, Krmic, Michael, Alondra Gamez Hernandez, Jamie Gudyka, Riley Porteus, Sunghee Lee, Differential Interaction of Cannabidiol with Biomembranes Dependent on Cholesterol Concentration, ACS Chem. Neuroscience, 2022, 13 (7), 1046-1054 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acschemneuro.2c00040
38. Giancaspro J, Scollan P, Rosario J, Miller E, Braziel S, Lee S. Structural determination of model phospholipid membranes by Raman spectroscopy: Laboratory experiment. Biochem Mol Biol Educ. 2022; 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1002/bmb.21603
37. Megan Wood, Michael Morales, Elizabeth Miller, Samuel Braziel, Joseph Giancaspro, Patrick Scollan, Juan Rosario, Alyssa Gayapa, Michael Krmic, and Sunghee Lee, "Ibuprofen and the Phosphatidylcholine Bilayer: Membrane Water Permeability in the Presence and Absence of Cholesterol" Langmuir, 2021, 37 (15), 4468–4480 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c03638
36. Wright, B.M., Lee, S., Zaromatidis, K. and Huk, O., 2021. Increasing Retention of STEM Students with Financial Need via the NSF S-STEM DESIRE Scholarship Program. Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 22(4).
35. Marcus Aldredge, Sunghee Lee, Joshua Klein, "Science, Society & Self: An Undergraduate Course for Imparting Social Context to STEM", Journal of College Science Teaching, 2022, 51 (6). https://www.nsta.org/journal-college-science-teaching/journal-college-science-teaching-julyaugust-2022/science-society
34. Michelle Muzzio, Sue Ellen Evangelista, Jacqueline Denver, Maria Lopez, and Sunghee Lee, "Project Symphony: A Biophysics Research Experience at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution." The Biophysicist. 2021, 2(1), 1-5.
33. Shea Foley, Elizabeth Miller, Samuel Braziel, and Sunghee Lee, “Molecular Organization in Mixed SOPC and SDPC Model Membranes: Water Permeability Studies of Polyunsaturated Lipid Bilayers”, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)- Biomembranes, 1862 (2020) 183365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbamem.2020.183365
32. Lee, Sunghee, "Good to the Last Drop: Interfacial Droplet Chemistry, from Crystals to Biological Membranes", Acc. Chem. Res., 2018, 51 (10), 2524–2534. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00277
31. Lopez, Maria; Denver, Jacqueline; Evangelista, Sue Ellen; Armetta, Alessandra; Di Domizio, Gabriella; Lee, Sunghee “Effects of Acyl Chain Unsaturation on Activation Energy of Water Permeability Across Droplet Bilayers of Homologous Monoglycerides: Role of Cholesterol” Langmuir, 2018, 34 (5), 2147-2157. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b03590
30. Samuel Braziel, Kalen Sullivan, and Sunghee Lee. “Quantitative Raman microspectroscopy for water permeability parameters at a droplet interface bilayer.” Analyst, 2018, 143 (3), 747-755. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c7an01349c
29. M. McGlone, A. Armetta, T. Osaki, S. Takeuchi, S. Lee. “Characterization of Monoolein Bilayer Thickness Using Specific Membrane Capacitance,” The 21st International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2017.
28. Maria Lopez, Sue Ellen Evangelista, Melissa Morales, and Sunghee Lee, “Enthalpic Effects of Chain Length and Unsaturation on Water Permeability across Droplet Bilayers of Homologous Monoglycerides”, Langmuir, 2017, 33 (4), 900–912. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b03932
27. Milianta, P. J., Muzzio, M., Denver, J., Cawley, G., Lee, S. “Water Permeability Across Symmetric and Asymmetric Droplet Interface Bilayers: Interaction of Cholesterol Sulfate with DPhPC.”, Langmuir, 31 (44), 12187–12196, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b02748
26. O. Tisor, M. Muzzio, D. Lopez, S. Lee, “Adaptability of monoglyceride-induced crystallization of K2SO4: Effect of various anions and lipid chain splay”, Langmuir, 31 (7), 2112–2119, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la5049419
25. Z.Michalak, M.Muzzio, P.J.Milianta, R.Giacomini, S. Lee, “Effect of Monoglyceride Structure and Cholesterol Content on Water Permeability of the Droplet Bilayer”, Langmuir, 29 (51), 15919-15925, 2013. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/la4040535
24. Z. Michalak, D.Fartash, N.Haque, and S. Lee, “Tunable Crystallization via Osmosis-Driven Transport Across a Droplet Interface Bilayer”, CrystEngComm. 2012, 14, 7865-7868. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C2CE26249E
23. P. Sanstead, N.Florio, K.Giusto, C.Morris, and S. Lee, “Sensitivity of Cationic Surfactant Templates to Specific Anions in Liquid Interface Crystallization”, J. Colloid Interf Sci., 2012, 376, 152-159. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2012.02.067
22. Loreta Geneviciute, Nick Florio, and S. Lee, “Towards Polymorph Control in an Inorganic Crystal System By Templated Nucleation at a Microdroplet Liquid Interface: Potassium Hexacyanoferrate(II) Trihydrate”, Crystal Growth & Design, 11 (10), 4440-4448, 2011. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cg200628a
21. Sunghee Lee and Joseph Wiener, "Visualizing Microdroplet Fluidic Reactions One Droplet at a Time", J. Chem. Educ., 88 (2), 151-157, 2011. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ed100518k
20. Sunghee Lee, Paul Sanstead, Joseph Wiener, Remon Bebawee, and Aileen Hilario, "Effect of Specific Anion on Templated Crystal Nucleation at the Liquid-Liquid Interface", Langmuir, 26 (12), 9556-9564, 2010. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/la1001557
19. Kristin Allain, Remon Bebawee, and Sunghee Lee, "Controlled Nucleation of K3Fe(CN)6 In Isolated Microdroplets at Liquid-Liquid Interface", Crystal Growth and Design, 9 (7), 3183–3190, 2009. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cg801199e
18. Building Strong Bonds: Chem. Club in the Classroom. Sunghee Lee, The Chemical Educator, 14, 146-149, 2009. http://chemeducator.org/bibs/0014003/14090145sl.htm
17. Motivating Students Through Career Exploration: Career Information in Science at Iona College (“CSI”). Sunghee Lee, Jerome S. Levkov, The Chemical Educator, 14, 41-44, 2009. http://chemeducator.org/bibs/0014001/14090041sl.htm
16. Equilibrium and Dynamic Interfacial Tension Measurements at Microscopic Interfaces Using a Micropipet Technique:1. A New Method for Determination of Interfacial Tension. Sunghee Lee, Dennis Kim, and D.Needham, Langmuir, 5537-5543, 17, 2001.
15. Equilibrium and Dynamic Interfacial Tension Measurements at Microscopic Interfaces Using a Micropipet Technique: 2. Dynamics of Phospholipid Monolayer Formation and Equilibrium Tensions at the Water-Air Interface. Sunghee Lee, Dennis Kim, and D.Needham, Langmuir, 5544-5550, 17, 2001.
14. Vanadium oxides thin films grown on rutile TiO2(110)-(1×1) and (1×2) surfaces. Q. Guo, Sunghee Lee, D.W.Goodman, Surf. Sci. 38-48, 437, 1999.
13. The Reaction of H8Si8O12 with a chromium oxide surface: A model for stainless steel surface modification. J.N.Greeley, Sunghee Lee and M.M.Banaszak Holl, Appl. Organometallic Chem. 13, 279, 1999.
12. An inquiry concerning the principles of Si 2p core-level photoemission shift assignments at the Si/SiO2 interface. F.R.McFeely, K.Z.Zhang, M.M.Banaszak Holl, Sunghee Lee, and J.Bender, J. Vac. Sci. Tech. B 14, 2824, 1996.
11. Si 2p core level shifts at the Si(100)-SiO2 interface: an experimental study. K.Z.Zhang, J.Bender, Sunghee Lee, F.R.McFeely and M.M.Banaszak Holl, Phys. Rev. B 54, 7686, 1996.
10. Photoemission assignments of H2SiO4 fragments in the Si/SiO2 interface region. Sunghee Lee, M.M.Banaszak Holl, W.H.Hung, F.R.McFeely, Appl.phys.lett. 68, 1081, 1996.
9. Synthetic control of solid/solid interfaces: Analysis of three new silicon/silicon oxide interfaces by soft X-ray photoemission. Sunghee Lee, S. Makan, M.M.Banaszak Holl, F.R.McFeely, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 116, 11819, 1994.
8. Core level photoemission and the structure of the Si/SiO2 interface: A reappraisal. M.M.Banaszak Holl, Sunghee Lee, F.R.McFeely, Appl. Phys. Lett. 65, 1097, 1994.
7. Oxygen diffusion in epitaxial YBa2Cu3O7-x thin films. Sunghee Lee, S.C.Bae, J.K.Ku, H.J.Shin, Phys. Rev. B. 46, 9142, 1992.
6. Enhancement of the noise spectral densities near the resistive transition region of YBCO microbridge. K.H.Han, Sung Ik Lee, S.H.S.Salk, H.J.Shin, Sunghee Lee, J.K.Ku. Solid State Comm. 81, 269, 1992.
5. 1/f noise in the resistive transition region of high temperature superconductor YBCO microbridged thin films. K.H.Han, S.I.Lee, Sunghee Lee, J.K.Ku, H.J.Shin. Supercond. Sci. Technol. 4, 677, 1991.
4. Jc measurement of YBa2Cu3O7-x with a Hall sensor. Z.S.Lim, B.W.Lee, Sunghee Lee, J.K.Ku, H.J.Shin. Physica C, 185, 2301, 1991.
3. Jc determination of HTS samples with Hall sensor. Z.S.Lim, B.W.Lee, S.I.Lee, Sunghee Lee, J.K.Ku, and H.J.Shin. The 15th workshop on High Tc Superconductivity, Taedok Science Town, March, 1991.
2. Anomalously enhanced noise spectral densities of YBCO microbridge near the resistive transition region. K.H.Han, S.I.Lee, Sunghee Lee, S.H.S.Salk, J.K.Ku, H.J.Shin. Physica C, 185, 1841, 1991.
1. Substrate temperature effects on the preparation of YBa2Cu3O7-x superconducting films on (100) SrTiO3 by laser ablation. Sunghee Lee, S.C.Bae, J.G.Kang, H.J.Lee, H.J.Shin, J.K.Ku. J. Appl. Phys. 70, 5661, 1991.
Book Chapters
1. Construction of solid/solid interface models using modular chemistry: the Si/SiO2 interface in modular chemistry. Edited by J. Michl (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1997), p. 451, Sunghee Lee, M.M.Banaszak Holl, W.H.Hung and F.R.McFeely.
2. “It always seems impossible until it’s done” in Mom the Chemistry Professor. Edited by Woznack, K., Charlebois, A., Cole, R., Marzabadi, C., Webster, G. (Springer, 2nd ed. 2018)
Patents and Patent Applications
1. Mark Banaszak-Holl, Clyde Briant and Sunghee Lee, “Spherosiloxane Coatings” U.S. Patent No. 5,858,544, 1999: The invention relates to coating compositions, systems and methods for coating substrates and more particularly, metallic substrates with spherosiloxane based coating compositions.
2. Sunghee Lee, "Methods and systems for nanomembrane crystallization" U.S. Patent No. 20140023697A1, 2014: The invention relates to the formation of a crystal and/or precipitate in a droplet through solvent transfer from the droplet across a thin film and into an osmotic body.
