Park Jeong Young (), sometimes written as Park, Jeong Y., is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at

KAIST The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) is a national research university located in Daedeok Innopolis, Daejeon, South Korea. KAIST was established by the Korean government in 1971 as the nation's first public, resear ...

and associate director at the Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions at the

Institute for Basic Science The Institute for Basic Science (IBS; ) is a Korean government-funded research institute that conducts basic science research and relevant pure basic research. IBS was established in November 2011 by the Lee Myung-bak administration as a res ...

. He is a member of the

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and

American Vacuum Society AVS: Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and ProcessingAIP: A Federation of the Physical Sciences

among others, an international committee member of Asian Science Camp, and has served on the editorial boards of '' Scientific Reports'', '' Advanced Materials Interfaces'', ''Journal of the Korean Physical Society'', and ''New Physics''.

Education

Park majored in physics at Seoul National University, where he received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in 1993, 1995, and 1999, respectively.

Career

Park became a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics of

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. In 2002, he worked as a physicist postdoctoral fellow in the Materials Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and then as a staff scientist from 2006. Returning to Korea, he taught and conducted research at

as an associate professor in the Graduate School of EEWS in 2009 before becoming a full professor in the Department of Chemistry in 2017. While researching at KAIST, he joined the

(IBS) Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reaction as a group leader in 2013 and then became associate director in 2016. A collaboration between KAIST's Department of Chemistry and IBS, Park conducts research at Surface science and Catalysis with Atomic Level Engineering Laboratory, also known as SCALE Lab.

Research

There are four primary research topics at SCALE Lab;

surface chemistry Surface science is the study of physical and chemical phenomena that occur at the interface of two phases, including solid–liquid interfaces, solid– gas interfaces, solid–vacuum interfaces, and liquid– gas interfaces. It includes the fi ...

, nanocatalysis,

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, and scanning probe microscopy.

Surface chemistry

Research goals are to discover fundamental principles behind the formation of nanostructures to allow synthesis. Materials include single crystals, oxide–metal interfaces, nanoparticles, and solid–liquid interfaces.

Nanocatalysis

As the size, shape, and composition of nanoparticles affects catalytic activity, the lab synthesizesg multi-functional nanoparticles of different sizes, including yolk–shell, core–shell, and hybrid nanocatalysts with various surface-sensitive techniques.

Hot electron

Electronic excitation created during molecular or atomic processes at the surface has been utilized to demonstrate analogous photocurrent process and potential application in solar energy conversion technologies. The lab has worked on ways to improve the conversion efficiency.

Scanning probe microscopy

Reaction intermediates and surface mobility under catalytic reaction conditions is detectable using surface science techniques. Atomic force microscopy has permitted the investigation of nanomechanical, structural properties, and charge transport.

Memberships

* 2022–present:

Korean Academy of Science and Technology The Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) is South Korea's highest academy of science and serves as an integrated think-tank for the country's science and technology. It contributes to national development by promoting science and techn ...

* 2010–present:

Korean Physical Society The Korean Physical Society is a non-profit scientific society created to provide a forum for academic exchange among scholars and researchers in the field of Physics. The organization, was founded in Busan in 1952 during the Korean War. In 2020, ...

* 2011–present: Korean Vacuum Society * 2005–present: American Chemistry Society * 2001–present: Material Research Society * 1996–present:

American Vacuum Society AVS: Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and ProcessingAIP: A Federation of the Physical Sciences

* 1995–present: American Physical Society

Awards

* 2016: KAIST Top 10 Research Achievements * 2012: Top Government R&D Achievement Award, National Science & Technology Commission () * 2012: Top 50 Basic Research Achievement Award,

National Research Foundation of Korea The National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) was established in 2009 as a merger of Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF), Korea Research Foundation (KRF), and Korea Foundation for International Cooperation of Science and Technolog ...

* 2012: KAIST Top 10 Research Achievements * 2011: Monthly Scientist Award, Daejeon City * 2006: Best Poster Award, Fourth Annual University Symposium on Surface Science and Its Application * 1998: Samsung Humantech Thesis Award, Samsung Electronics Corporation (Gold Medal) * 1995: Young Investigator Research Fund Award,

Korea Research Foundation The National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) was established in 2009 as a merger of Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF), Korea Research Foundation (KRF), and Korea Foundation for International Cooperation of Science and Technolog ...

* 1993: Fellowship of Development Fund, Seoul National University * 1991: Alumni Association Fellowship of Physics Department, Seoul National University

Selected publications

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References

External links

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