RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

STANFORD UNIVERSITY
NANOTECHNOLOGY AND ENERGY LABORATORY WITH
PROFESSOR YI CUI
Graduate Student Researcher
January 2020 - Present
• Developing electrolytes for lithium metal batteries

KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
CENTER FOR ENERGY STORAGE RESEARCH
Research Scientist
(In Lieu of Military Service)
July 2016 - July 2019
• Designed artificial solid-electrolyte interphases for lithium-sulfur batteries [PDF]
• Developed Langmuir-Blodgett artificial solid-electrolyte interphase for metallic lithium anodes [PDF]
•Optimized electrolyte formulations to derive robust solid-electrolyte interphases for battery electrodes [PDF]
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Developed Molybdenum disulfide protected LiAl intermetallic anode for lithium-metal ion batteries [PDF]

Graduate Student Researcher
August 2014 - June 2016
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Developed Langmuir-Blodgett Scooping (layer-by-layer, large-scale, nanoparticulate, binder-free, and multicomponent) techniques for applications in batteries [PDF]
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Developed separator modification strategies with diverse coating configurational and material designs for high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries [PDF]
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Developed an interfacial engineering for battery electrodes [PDF]
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Developed chemical functionalization routes to modify battery materials [PDF]

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
APPLIED MATERIALS & SURFACE SCIENCE LABORATORY WITH
PROFESSOR ROYA MABOUDIAN
Undergraduate Student Researcher
May 2011 - May 2014
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Developed a thin film transfer technique for flexible micro-supercapacitor electrodes [PDF]
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Fabricated bicontinuous 3D graphene networks with controllable geometry for the micro-supercapacitor electrodes [PDF]
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Developed a pyrolysis technique for photoresist-derived porous carbon electrode material for on-chip micro-supercapacitors [PDF]
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Fabricated silicon carbide nanowires for high-voltage materials for the micro-supercapacitor electrode [PDF]
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Fabricated electrochemically activated porous carbon film for high energy density pseudocapacitive micro-supercapacitor electrodes [PDF]

KOREA ELECTROTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
ADVANCED MEDICAL DEVICE RESEARCH DIVISION
Internship
December 2012 - January 2013
• Fabricated electrocardiography (ECG) device with a patented piezoresistive pressure sensor
• Optimized polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) thicknesses for the pressure sensor via simulation using Abaqus
• Calibrated the pressure sensor based on the surrounding and contact temperatures via Lab View

JOURNAL REVIEWER
Science Advances
Advanced Materials
Advanced Energy Materials
Advanced Materials Interfaces
Small
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Carbon
MATERIAL SYNTHESIS & METHOD
Suspension electrolytes
Porous carbon film
Carbonaceous and ceramic thin films via wet or dry process
Langmuir-Blodgett films
Nanowires
Flexible films
Graphenes
Graphene nanoparticles
Functionalized graphenes
Functionalized metal-oxides
Doped nano-carbon
Mxenes
Langmuir-Blodgett Scooping
Low pressure and atmospheric pressure chemical & physical vapor deposition
Spin coating
Air-spray coating
Sulfonation & amino functionalization via wet method
Pyrolysis
Spray pyrolysis
Double thin film transfer
Nanostructured electroplating
LANGUAGE
English
Korean
CHARACTERIZATION
Li & F nuclear magnetic resonance
Potentiostatic Li solvation energy measurement
Density functional theory computation
Molecular dynamic simulation
Potentiostat for various electrochemical measurements
AC Impedance spectroscopy
Cyclic voltammetry
Modified Aurbach's Coulombic efficiency
SEM & TEM
FIB with ion beam milling
Four-point probe station
e-beam evaporator
Raman spectroscopy
Ultraviolet lithography
Atomic force microscopy
Contact angle goniometer
Brunauer-Emmett- Teller porosimeter
Dielectric spectroscopy
Thermogravimetric analysis
Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy
X-Ray Diffractometer
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy
Langmuir-Blodgett trough
SOFTWARE
Maccor
Arbin
Land
Matlab
Adobe Illustrator
Igor pro
Mendeley
Cinema 4D
Autodesk Fusion 360
Simplify 3D
Abaqus 6.7-1
LabView
Polymath
Multisim
Advanced Excel
Adobe Photoshop