College of Engineering - Nano Engineering

  • Associate Professor
  • KANG, BOSEOK
    Lab Organic Semiconductor Laboratory
  • +82-31-299-4175
  • Research Center 2 2F 83276

Research Interest

 Organic transistors and device physics (charge transport, trap, and injection) 
 Synthesis of functional polymers and chemically derived 2D materials 
 Low-temperature spectroscopic analysis of organic semiconductors 
 Thermoelectric application of highly doped organic semiconductors 
 Solution printing methods of organic materials and optimisation of film microstructures 
 Growth dynamics of vacuum-deposited small-molecular semiconductors 
 Transistor-based gas and light sensors 

Education

  • 2010 – 2015 Ph.D. in Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) (Advisor: Prof. Kilwon Cho)
  • 2006 – 2010 Dual B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Department of Mathematics, POSTECH

Experience

  • 2019 – present SKKU Advanced Institute of Nano Technology (SAINT) & Department of Nano Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
  • 2018 – 2019 Academic Visitor, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (Advisor: Prof. Henning Sirringhaus)
  • 2016 – 2019 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Advanced Soft Electronics (CASE)
  • 2015 – 2016 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Polymer Research Institute, POSTECH

Journal Articles

  • (2023)  Aza-pentacyclic acenedithiophene based conjugated polymers for organic thin film transistors.  SYNTHETIC METALS.  299, 
  • (2023)  Soft Rubbery Small Molecule for Gate-Dielectric Surface Engineering of Organic Thin-Film Transistors.  ACS APPLIED ELECTRONIC MATERIALS.  5,  11
  • (2023)  Fluorination-Induced Conversion of the Quasi- to the Normal Interchain Packing in Push-Pull Conjugated Polymer Aggregates.  MACROMOLECULES.  56,  18
  • (2023)  Latent and controllable doping of stimuli-activated molecular dopants for flexible and printable organic thermoelectric generators.  CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL.  470,  15
  • (2023)  Dual-Supporter and Dual-Salt Strategy for Solid Polymer Electrolyte with High Ionic Conductivity and Elastic Toughness.  ADVANCED ELECTRONIC MATERIALS.  9,  8
  • (2023)  Optimized charge transport in N-substituted isatin-based acceptor-donor-acceptor small molecules by regulating the side chain length for solution-processable organic thin-film transistors.  MATERIALS ADVANCES.  4,  15
  • (2023)  Boosting thermoelectric performance of conjugated polymers via interchain molecular docking: Significance of highly crystalline and percolated morphology.  CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL.  468,  15
  • (2023)  Aza-anthradithiophene-based conjugated polymers: Synthesis and field-effect transistor application.  SYNTHETIC METALS.  296,  1
  • (2023)  Low-Temperature Alignment of Conjugated Polymers by Plasticizer-aided Physical Rubbing.  SMALL METHODS.  7,  10
  • (2023)  Achieving ideal transistor characteristics in conjugated polymer semiconductors.  SCIENCE ADVANCES.  9,  22
  • (2023)  Designing a Length-Modulated Azide Photocrosslinker to Improve the Stretchability of Semiconducting Polymers.  ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS.  33,  23
  • (2023)  Disordered Phase-Assisted Growth of Organic Semiconductor Crystals on Self-Assembled Monolayer Templates.  ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES.  15,  14
  • (2023)  Observation of Weak Counterion Size Dependence of Thermoelectric Transport in Ion Exchange Doped Conducting Polymers Across a Wide Range of Conductivities.  ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS.  13,  9
  • (2023)  수분산 공액고분자 나노입자의 합성 방법론.  접착 및 계면.  24,  1
  • (2023)  Data-Driven Design of Electrically Conductive Nanocomposite Materials: A Case Study of Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene/Carbon Nanotube Binary Composites.  ADVANCED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS.  5,  2
  • (2023)  A comparative study on binary polymer blends comprising rigid planar low-bandgap semiconductor and flexible coil-type insulator.  DYES AND PIGMENTS.  209,  Part A
  • (2022)  Elucidating the Chain-Extension Effect on the Exciton-Dissociation Mechanism through an Intra- or Interchain Polaron-Pair State in Push-Pull Conjugated Polymers.  CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS.  34,  24
  • (2022)  Review of Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles: From Formulation to Applications.  ACS APPLIED NANO MATERIALS.  5,  12
  • (2022)  Pulsed gate voltage measurement for charge mobility extraction of organic transistors.  ORGANIC ELECTRONICS.  110,  -
  • (2022)  Hydrophenazine-linked two-dimensional ladder-type crystalline fused aromatic network with high charge transport.  CHEM.  8,  11