YongTae Kim
tanatos@skku.edu
 
Mar. 2011 - Present 
 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, SKKU Advanced Institute of      Nanotechnology (SAINT), Korea
Sep. 2005 - Feb. 2011
 M.S. & Ph.D. Inorganic Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan Univ., Suwon, Korea
Mar. 1994 - Feb.2001
 B.S. Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan Univ., Suwon, Korea


Publication
1. Yong-Tae Kim, Ji-Hun Kim, Sung Yeol Kim, Paula T. Hammond, Wan Soo Yun, Jaeyoung Lee, Young-Uk Kwon and Yong Ho Kim, “Engineering of Templated Protein Assembly for Elucidation of High-Performance Oxygen Reduction Reaction: Surfactant-Free Gold-Platinum Bimetallic Nanoclusters on SWNT-Protein Assembly”, Manuscript in preparation to Nature Materials.

2. Yong-Tae Kim, Hyun-Ok Jung, Woo-Hwang Lee, Tae-Hoon Kim, Joo-Yull Lee, Cheol-Woong Yang, Je-Geun Park and Young-Uk Kwon, “Ordered fcc-CoPt Magnetic Nanoparticle Array for Ultrahigh Memory Density of 5 Tbit/in2”, Manuscript in preparation to Nature Nanotechnology.

3. Jingling Liu, Eunjik Lee, Yong-Tae Kim and Young-Uk Kwon, “Investigation of porosity and heterojunction effects of a mesoporous hematite electrode on photo-electrochemical water splitting”, Submitted to J. Phys. Chem. C.

4. Yong-Tae Kim, Seoung-Ki Lee, Kwang-Seop Kim, Jong-Hyun Ahn and Young-Uk Kwon, “Uniform Growth of High-Quality Oxide Thin Films on Graphene Using a CdSe Quantum Dot Array Seeding Layer”, Submitted to Advanced Materials.

5. Yong-Tae Kim, Md. Abdul Matin and Young-Uk Kwon, “Graphene as electronic structure modifier of nanostructured Pt film for enhanced methanol oxidation reaction electrocatalysis”, Carbon 2014, 66, 691-698.

6. Yong-Tae Kim, Hee-Won Shin, Young-Seon Ko, Tae Kyu Ahn and Young-Uk Kwon, “Synthesis of a CdSe-Graphene Hybrid Composed of CdSe Quantum Dot Arrays Directly Grown on CVD-Graphene and its Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics”, Nanoscale 2013, 5, 1483-1488.

7. Yong-Tae Kim, Jung Hee Han, Byung Hee Hong, and Young-Uk Kwon, “Electrochemical Synthesis of CdSe Quantum-Dot Arrays on a Graphene Basal Plane Using Mesoporous Silica Thin-Film Templates”, Advanced Materials 2010, 22, 515-518.

8. Yong-Tae Kim, Yoon-Hyun Kim, Kyungsoo Park, and Young-Uk Kwon and Victor G. Young, “Cd(VO2)4(SeO3)3 H2O: A New Bimetallic Vanadium Selenite Compound with Heptacoordinated Cadmium Ion”, J. Solid State Chem. 2001, 161, 23-30. 


Patent
1. “CoPt Nano Dot Manufacturing Methods and The Magnetic Storage Media Property”
     Korea Patent Application No. 10-2009-0016552.

2. “CoPt Nano Dot Manufacturing Methods and The Magnetic Storage Media Property”
     PCT Patent Application No. PTC/KR 2010/001255.

3. “Nano Structured Film on The Graphene by Electrochemistry”
     Korea Patent Application No. 10-2010-0029909.


Experience
Nov.2013
 Research Fellowship Program at the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)

Mar. 2011 – Oct. 2013
 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT), Korea

Sep.2001. – Jul. 2005 
 Yuhan pharmaceutical  Corporation, experienced the high level of quality control


Research Interests
 Graphene

· Synthesis of CVD based Graphene by Ni and Cu catalysts and transfer of high quality graphene

· Measurement of electromechanical properties of Graphene and application as unique heterostructure

 Semiconductor

· Synthesis of CdSe quantum dots by electrochemistry on conducting substrate

· Research of the ultrafast electron transfer in photocurrent device via Photo-Fluorescence Decay Times and transient absorption spectroscopy

· Tuning the work function of heterostructure

 Fuel Cells

· Research of oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and methanol reduction reaction (MOR)

· Synthesis of new catalytic materials (Arrayed Pt NPs on Graphene, unique nanostructure of assembled peptide-SWNT)

 Magnetic Storage

· Synthesis of arrayed CoPt magnetic nanoparticles

· Research of the perpendicular magnetic properties and the solution of the superparamagnetism effect

 Electrochemistry

· Morphology control of nanocrystals in electrochemically grown

· Synthesis of various nanocrystals (noble metals, semiconductor, magnetic nanocrystals)

 Sol-Gel Synthesis

· Synthesis of Mesoporous Silica Thin Films and Mesoporous Titania Thin Films by sol-gel method

· Research of the mesoporous structure of the cubic, hexagonal, and wormlike


Technical Skills 
 Proficient in inorganic and organic synthesis, especially sol-gel, graphene, quantum dot, CNT, Protein Assembly and electrochemical synthesis

 Analytical measurement and purification

 SEM (scanning electron microscopy), AFM(atomic force microscopy), MFM (magnetic force microscopy), TEM (transmission electron microscopy), Raman, Potentiostat, XRD (X-ray diffraction), XPS (X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy), UPS (Ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy), SQUID(superconducting quantum interference device), ICP-OES(inductively coupled plasma), Particle Analyzer, HPLC, GC, UV spectroscopy, PL spectroscopy


Awards
2008 
 The LOTTE Foundation Fellowship

2013 - 2015 
 Research Fellow Program at the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF)


Research Presentation
1. “Epitaxial Synthesis and Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics of CdSe/Graphene Hybrid Composed of CdSe Quantum Dot Arrays Directly Grown on CVD-Graphene” Yong-Tae Kim, Hee-Won Shin, Young-Seon Ko, Tae Kyu Ahn and Young-Uk Kwon. Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials 2013 (Sorrento, Italy, March 3-7, 2013).

2. “Enhanced Electron Transfer of Controlled Graphene Layer by High-Density-Arrayed CdSe Quantum Dots” Yong-Tae Kim, Young-Seon Ko, Byung Hee Hong and Young-Uk Kwon. Recent Progress in Graphene Research 2011 (Seoul, Korea, October 3-6, 2011).

3. “Ultra-High-Density CoPt Nanoparticle Arrays in Mesoporous Silica Templates” Yong-Tae Kim and Young-Uk Kwon. 2011 International Forum on Functional Materials (Jeju, Korea, July 28-31, 2011)(ORAL).

4. “Photocurrent of Arrayed CdSe Quantum Dots on Graphene by Mesoporous Silica Templates” Yong-Tae Kim, Young-Seon Ko, Byung Hee Hong and Young-Uk Kwon. IMAGINENANO Graphene 2011 (Bilbao, Spain, April 11-14, 2011).

5. “Electrochemical Synthesis of CdSe Quantum Dot Array on Graphene Basal Plane using Mesoporous Silica Thin Film Templates” Yong-Tae Kim, Jung Hee Han, Byung Hee Hong and Young-Uk Kwon. Materials Research Society fall meeting (Boston, USA, November 30-December 4, 2009).

6. "Electrochemical Synthesis of CdSe Quantum Dot Array on Graphene Basal Plane using Mesoporous Silica Thin Film Templates " Yong-Tae Kim, Jung Hee Han, Byung Hee Hong and Young-Uk Kwon. Internatioal Workshop on Recent Progress in Graphene Research 2009 (Seoul, Korea, June 29-July 2, 2009)

7. “Optical Properties of CdSe Nanostructure by Electrochemical on Mesoporous Thin Films” Yong-Tae Kim and Young-Uk Kwon. The 1st Korea-Japan Joint Forum on Sol-Gel Science and Technology (KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, December 4-6, 2008).

8. “Semiconductor Nanostructure Composit by Electrochemical on Mesoporous Titania Thin Films” Yong-Tae Kim and Young-Uk Kwon. 6th Internatioal Mesostructured Materials Symposium (Namur, Belgium, September 8-11, 2008).