EDUCATION BACKGROUND

2000.3 ~ 2003.8 (Ph.D.): Department of Chemical Engineering, POSTECH
Thesis : Control of the Self-assembled Nanostructures of Block Copolymer Thin Films

1998.3 ~ 2000.2 (M.S.): Department of Chemical Engineering, POSTECH
Thesis : Interfacial Tension Measurement of Reactive Polymer Blends by the Neumann Triangle Method

1992.3 ~ 1998.2 (B.S.): Department of Chemical Engineering, POSTECH
Thesis: Surface Modification of Polyimides by Ion Beam Irradiation

PROFESSIONAL ​CAREER

2020. 02 ~ present :

Associate Editor, Materials Advances

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2019. 02 ~ present :

Associate Editor, Journal of Materials Chemistry C

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2019. 01 ~ present :

Member of Samsung Future Technology Meeting Committee (삼성미래기술연구회)

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2016.03 ~ present :
Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea

2015.03 ~ 2016.02:

Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea

2010.03 ~ 2015.02 :

Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

2006.03 ~ 2010.02 :

Assistant professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

2003.11 ~ 2005.12 :

Post Doctoral fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, USA (Advisor : Younan Xia)

AWARDS

2020.07 : Nano Korea Revolutionary Research Award (Korean Minister Award) 

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2016.03 -: Member of Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST)

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2015.05 -: Associate Member of Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST)

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2015.05: Se-ah Young Distinguished Professor

2013.03: Asia Outstanding Lectureship Award by Japanese Chemical Society 

2011.12: Young Scientist Award by the Korean President

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2010.10: Yonsei Engineering the Best Young Faculty Award

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

Member of the Material Research Society, 2004 - present

Member of the American Chemical Society, 2006 - present

Member of the American Physcial Society, 2000 - present

Member of the Korean Society of Polymer, 1998 - present

Member of the Korean Society of Chemical Engineering, 2000 - present 

Member of the Korean Society of Chemistry, 2000 - present 

RESEARCH INTEREST

1. Inorganic Nanostructured Materials

      Synthesis of Inorganic Nanostructured Materials: Nanoparticles, Nanowires, Nanotubes

      Fabrication of Nanostructured Magnetoresistant Materials and the Device Fabrication

      Application of Inorganic Nanostructured Materials: Optoelectronics, Thermoelectronics, 

      Biomedical Sensing, Gas sensing, Nano transistors, Nano actuators

      Nanowire alignment for Nanoelectronics

 

2. Organic Nanostructured Materials

      Production of Organic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Use (Cosmetics)

      Biomedical Use of Biodegradable Nanoparticles (Drug Delivery, Biomedical Sensing)

      Mass Production of Functional Colloids for Cosmetics (Self-Curable Cosmetics)
 

3. Hybrids of Organic/Inorganic Nanostructured Materials

      Synthesis of Hybrid Materials

      Flexible, Stretchable Electronic Devices

      Patterning of Functional Hybrid Materials