SKKU Institute for Convergence - Major of Energy Science(Interdisciplinary)

  • Associate Professor Energy Science
  • KIM, KI KANG 홈페이지 바로가기
    Lab Novel Nanomaterial Research Group

Research Interest

Synthesis of single-crystal 2D materials

Education

  • Ph.D. in Physics, SKKU, Suwon, Korea
  • B.S. in Physics, SKKU, Suwon, Korea

Experience

  • [Sep. 2019~Present] Associate Professor, Department of Energy Science, SKKU, Suwon, Korea
  • [Sep. 2018~Aug. 2019] Associate Professor, Department of Energy and Materials Engineering, Dongguk University-Seoul, Korea
  • [Sep. 2012~Aug. 2018] Assistant Professor, Department of Energy and Materials Engineering, Dongguk University-Seoul, Korea
  • [Apr. 2009~Aug. 2012] Postdoctoral Research Associate, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • [Sep. 2008~Mar. 2009] Postdoctoral Research Associate, SKKU, Suwon, Korea

Journal Articles

  • (2024)  Photo-oxidative Crack Propagation in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides.  ACS NANO. 
  • (2024)  Strain-sensitive optical properties of monolayer tungsten diselenide.  APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE.  653, 
  • (2024)  Sapphire substrates for large-area 2D transition metal dichalcogenides synthesis.  CURRENT APPLIED PHYSICS.  59, 
  • (2023)  Universal Platform for Robust Dual-Atom Doped 2D Catalysts with Superior Hydrogen Evolution in Wide pH Media.  SMALL. 
  • (2023)  Platform for surface-enhanced Raman scattering in layered quantum materials.  APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE.  646, 
  • (2023)  Is chemical vapor deposition of monolayer WSe<sub>2</sub> comparable to other synthetic routes?.  APL MATERIALS.  11,  11
  • (2023)  Low Ohmic contact resistance and high on/off ratio in transition metal dichalcogenides field-effect transistors via residue-free transfer.  NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY.  19, 
  • (2023)  Unraveling the surface self-reconstruction of Fe-doped Ni-thiophosphate for efficient oxygen evolution reaction.  CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS.  59,  60
  • (2023)  All-optical control of high-purity trions in nanoscale waveguide.  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS.  14,  1
  • (2023)  Explainable Artificial Intelligence Approach to Identify the Origin of Phonon-Assisted Emission in WSe2 Monolayer.  ADVANCED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS.  5,  7
  • (2023)  Robust Excitonic-Insulating States in Cu-Substituted Ta2NiSe5.  ADVANCED MATERIALS INTERFACES.  10,  12
  • (2023)  Wafer-Scale Epitaxial Growth of an Atomically Thin Single-Crystal Insulator as a Substrate of Two-Dimensional Material Field-Effect Transistors.  NANO LETTERS.  23,  7
  • (2023)  Electrical role of sulfur vacancies in MoS2: Transient current approach.  APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE.  613, 
  • (2023)  Multi-order graph attention network for water solubility prediction and interpretation.  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS.  13,  1
  • (2023)  Facile Synthesis of Wafer-Scale Single-Crystal Graphene Film on Atomic Sawtooth Cu Substrate.  Applied Science and Convergence Technology.  32,  1
  • (2023)  Wafer-Scale Production of Two-Dimensional Tin Monoselenide: Expandable Synthetic Platform for van der Waals Semiconductor-Based Broadband Photodetectors.  ACS NANO.  17,  2
  • (2022)  1T’ RexMo1−xS2–2H MoS2 Lateral Heterojunction for Enhanced Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Performance.  ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS. 
  • (2022)  Internal Thermal Stress-Driven Phase Transformation in Van der Waals Layered Materials.  ACS NANO.  16,  10
  • (2022)  Scalable Synthesis of Pt Nanoflowers on Solution-Processed MoS2 Thin Film for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Reaction.  Small Science.  2,  9
  • (2022)  Atomic and structural modifications of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides for various advanced applications.  CHEMICAL SCIENCE.  13,  26

Patent/Intellectual Property

  • Single crystal transition metal dichalcogenide thin film and method for synthesizing the same (단결정 전이 금속 이유화 물질 얇은 필름과 이를 합성되기 위한 방법).  17153029.  20240102.  UNITED STATES

Honors / Awards

  • 2020.12.10 selected as “34 young researchers to lead the Korean science”, Y-KAST
  • 2016.11.24 selected as “30 Young Scientists to Shine Korea”, Postech/Dong-A Ilbo