PiE : Su-Moon Park Institute of Electrochemistry ¡°The Electrochemistry strikes back.¡±   Energy conversion and storage devices have attracted a lot of attentions from academic and industrial societies. Most of the state-of-the-art energy devices such as rechargeable batteries, fuel cells, supercapacitors and dye-sensitized solar cells are working based on ¡°Electrochemistry¡± even if materials science and chemistry related to synthesizing nanostructured materials are emphasized. Importance of Electrochemistry is two-fold: The creative application of electrochemical principles has a possibility to open new-concept energy devices; and the electrochemical analysis contributes to solving problems of current energy devices and suggesting solution to the problems.

Members Su-Moon Park | director | smpark@unist.ac.kr | http://home.unist.ac.kr/~smpark/ Hyun-Kon Song | vice-director | philiphobi@hotmail.com | http://echem.kr Yongseok Jun | yjun@unist.ac.kr | http://www.unist.ac.kr/professor/yjun Sang Hoon Joo | shjoo@unist.ac.kr | http://sites.google.com/site/shjoogroup/ Byeong-Su Kim | bskim19@unist.ac.kr | http://home.unist.ac.kr/professor/bskim19/ Guntae Kim | gtkim@unist.ac.kr | http://gunslab.co.kr Jin Young Kim | jykim@unist.ac.kr | http://ngel.unist.ac.kr Kyoung Taek Kim | ktkim@unist.ac.kr | http://home.unist.ac.kr/professor/ktkim Kyu Tae Lee | ktlee@unist.ac.kr | http://sites.google.com/site/unist75 Hoi Ri Moon | hoirimoon@unist.ac.kr | http://sites.google.com/site/hoirimoon Soojin Park | spark@unist.ac.kr | http://sites.google.com/site/sjpark052 Heungjoo Shin | hjshin@unist.ac.kr | http://www.unist.ac.kr/professor/heungjooshin/kor Changduk Yang | yang@unist.ac.kr | http://yang.unist.ac.kr/

What are we doing? 1. Electroanalysis --------------------------------------------- Fourier Transformed Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Electrochemical Porosimetry Electrochemical wettability measurement Coulometric Titration Micro/nano electrode-based electrochemistry 2. Electroactive Materials ----------------------------------- Redox-active Nanostructures Electroactive polymers 2D/3D-nanopatterned electrodes 3. New-concept energy devices -------------------------- Hybridization of two different devices Non-conventional material based devices Novel concept devices

Infrastructure Electrochemistry-related instruments -------------- Potentiostat/Galvanostat Electrochemical impedance spectroscope Charge/discharge machine Scanning electrochemical microscope Rotating ring-disk electrode system Electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance "The Most Important Infrastructure is NOT the instruments But our brainpower. Join us as a new student or a faculty member. You will be strongly powered by electrochemistry."

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FYI: Info Materials A leaflet in Chem World (2012. 1, Korean)

Activities 2011.12. UNIST International Symposium on Electrochemistry 2011.06. Educational Outreach of Electrochemistry to Samsung Electro-Mechanics

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