EDUCATION
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering (2/00)
Postech, Korea
| The Effect of Microstructure of Porous Electrodes on the Frequency Dispersion of Impedances
Prof. Kun-Hong Lee, Advisor
M.S., Chemical Engineering (2/96)
Postech, Korea
| Preparation and Adsorption Characteristics of Base-site-containing Adsorbents for CO2 High-temperature Separation
Prof. Kun-Hong Lee, Advisor
B.S., Chemical Engineering (2/94)
Postech, Korea
| Simultaneous Degradation of Phenol and Cyanide by Two-stage Continuous Bioreactor
Prof. Jong Moon Park, Advisor
EXPERIENCE
Professor (09/18 - present)
Associate Professor (09/12 - 08/18)
Assistant Professor (09/08 - 08/12)
UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology)
Senior Research Scientist (07/06 – 08/08)
Battery R&D, LG Chem, Ltd. / Research Park, Daejeon, Korea
| Research on Lithium ion rechargeable batteries
| Quantification of wetting of electrolyte to porous electrodes
| Prediction of long-term performance from short-term performance
Postdoctoral Research Associate (11/03-07/06)
Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
| Research on biomaterials for nerve regeneration.
| Synthesis of conducting polymers coupled with growth promoting cues to control cell Adhesion and axonal outgrowth of neurons.
Postdoctoral Research Associate (02/03-10/03)
School of Chemical and Biological engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
| Deconvolution of distribution functions using Fourier transforms
| Electrochromism of conducting polymers
Postdoctoral Research Associate (09/01-01/03)
Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
| Research on biofuel cells
| Synthesis of conducting polymers doped with a mediator for biofuel cells
| Mediated enzymatic polymerization
| Development of batteries consisting of two different redox-active conducting polymers.
Postdoctoral Research Associate (03/00-08/01)
Department of Chemical Engineering, Postech, Pohang, Korea
| Developed ¡°Electrochemical Porosimetry¡± software based on TLM-PSD
| Development of ultracapacitors using carbon nanotubes
Research Assistant (03/96-02/00)
Department of Chemical Engineering, Postech, Pohang, Korea
| Developed a theory relating electrochemical impedance data with geometrical structure of porous electrodes
| Development of adsorption heat pump systems
Teaching Assistant (03/94-02/96)
Department of Chemical Engineering, Postech, Pohang, Korea
| Sol-gel synthesis
| Study on adsorption of carbon dioxide on the chemically modified silica and carbon adsorbents
| Manufacture of biodegradable packaging foams from agar by freeze-drying
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Electrochemistry
| Cyclic voltammetry, chronoamperometry, chronopotentiometry, chronocoulometry
| Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS)
| Conducting polymers
Microelectronic Fabrication
| Electron beam evaporation technique
| Photolithography
| Soft lithography using micro-contact printing.
Materials Characterization
| Structural characterization technique: scanning electron microscope (SEM), surface profiler, adsorption porosimetry, mercury porosimetry
| Spectroscopic technique: UV/visible spectroscopy, fourier-transfomed infrared spectroscopy
Mammal Cell Culture
| Dissociation of cells from organs
| Immunocytochemistry
| Fluorescent labeling