Eunkyoung Kim | |
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Born | |
Alma mater |
Yonsei University (
BS) Seoul National University ( MS) University of Houston ( PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions |
Yonsei University Korea Institute of Science and Technology Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology |
Thesis | Charge transfer complexes of the nitrosonium cation with arenes (1990) |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 김은경 |
Revised Romanization | Kim Eungyeong |
McCune–Reischauer | Kim Ŭnkyŏng |
Eunkyoung Kim is a South Korean materials chemist who is a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Yonsei University. Her research considers functional polymers, including electro- and photo-chromic materials and bioelectronic materials. She was made a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea in 2016.
Kim studied chemistry at Yonsei University graduating with a BS in 1982. [1] After earning her undergraduate degree, she moved to the Korea Institute of Science and Technology as a research scientist. She went to Seoul National University obtaining her master's degree in 1984, and the University of Houston for her doctorate which she completed in 1990. [1] Her doctoral research considered the development of arene-based charge transfer complexes. [2] Kim then spent two years as an assistant professor at the University of Houston. [3]
Kim joined the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology in 1992, were she worked as a Principal Research Scientist and Chair of Advanced Materials. [3] She moved to Yonsei University in 2004. Her research considers the development of polymer materials for electro- and photo-chromic materials. [1] In 2006, she was one of the first to report an example of an electrofluorochromic (EFC) window. [4] EFC materials enhance electrochromic (EC) displays' applications in dark conditions and increase their potential for security, encryption, and analytical uses. She and her research group have improved EC/EFC materials by designing substituents to optimize EC bistability in order to prevent charge leakage and introducing TiO2 nanoparticles (TNP) as a transparent ion storage layer to lower power consumption. [4] In 2018 Kim was made Chair of the American Chemical Society Korean chapter. [1]
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