Education

• 2005.03 – 2011.02Ph. D, Postech, Mechanical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Woonbong Hwang)
  Thesis: Design and Applications of Nanohoneycomb and Superhydrophobic nanostructures
• 1998.03 – 2005.02B.S. Chung-Ang University, School of Mechanical Engineering

Work experience

• 2022.09 – presentProfessor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Korea
• 2018.03 – 2022.08Associate Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Korea
• 2014.03 – 2018.02Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Korea
• 2013.12 – 2014.02Post Doc., Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Postech, Korea
• 2011.11 – 2013.12Post Doc., School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• 2011.03 – 2011.08Post Doc., Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Postech, Korea
• 2005.03 – 2011.02Graduate Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Postech, Korea

Research interests

Selected Publications

• 1) Energy-loss Return Gate via Liquid Dielectric Polarization
  Nature Communications, 9, 1437 (2018)

• 2) Ultrahigh performance, serially stackable, breeze driven triboelectric generator via ambient air ionizing channel
  Advanced Materials 35(24), 2300283 (2023)

• 3) Synchronous generation of electrical and cellular energies via body-mediated energy transfer: inevitable electric field concentration
  ACS Energy Letters8(7), 2954-2961 (2023) (Supplementary Cover)

• 4) Charge Accumulating Flutter based Triboelectric Nanogenerator via Discharge Gateway
  Advanced Energy Materials 13(14), 2204239 (2023)

• 5) Inhalation-driven vertical flutter triboelectric nanogenerator with amplified output as a gas-mask-integrated self-powered multifunctional system
  Advanced Energy Materials 12(31), 2201001 (2022)(front cover)

• 6) Body-Mediated Bioelectronics for Zero-Powered Ion Release and Electrical Stimulation
  ACS Energy Letters 7(11), 3997-4004 (2022)

• 7) Stress Dissipation Encoded Silk Fibroin Electrode for the Athlete-beneficial Silk Bioelectronics,
  Advanced Science 2105420 (2022) (Inside Front Cover)

• 8) Non-polar liquid lubricant submerged triboelectric nanogenerator for current amplification via direct electron flow
  Advanced Energy Materials 11(25), 2100936 (2021) (Front Cover)

• 9) Ion-enhanced field emission triboelectric nanogenerator
  Advanced Energy Materials 9, 1901731 (2019) (Front Cover)

• 10) Capacitor‐Integrated Triboelectric Nanogenerator Based on Metal–Metal Contact for Current Amplification
  Advanced Energy Materials 8, 1703024 (2018) (Frontispiece)

• 11) Hand-driven gyroscopic hybrid nanogenerator for recharging portable devices
  Advanced Science 5, 1801054 (2018) (Front Cover)

• 12) Design and optimization of rotating triboelectric nanogenerator by water electrification and inertia
  Nano Energy 27, 340-351 (2016) (Front Cover)

Academic Activities

• Editorial Board, Scientific Reports

• Editorial Board, Nanoenergy Advances

Awards & Honors

• 2022한국전기전자재료학회, 우수발표상 수상
• 2021한국전기전자재료학회, 최우수발표상 수상
• 2021AISM, The Eight Asia Best Academic Award
• 2020과학기술정보통신부장관, 2020 국가연구개발 우수성과 100선
• 2019한국복합재료학회, 신진학술상 수상