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Materials Science

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55
Citations
11373
World Ranking
8567
National Ranking
363

Chemistry

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Hyun-Kon Song publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hyun-Kon Song sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 168 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Hyun-Kon Song D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hyun-Kon Song sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

Hyun-Kon Song is affiliated with the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a significant emphasis on electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, automotive engineering, materials chemistry, and polymers and plastics.

The main topics covered in their work include advanced battery materials and technologies, advancements in battery materials, advanced battery technologies research, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, fuel cells and related materials, and supercapacitor materials and fabrication.

Hyun-Kon Song has published extensively in various scientific journals and conferences. Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Small
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Advanced Energy Materials
  • Journal of Power Sources

Some of the recent papers authored by or associated with Hyun-Kon Song are:

  • Copper with an atomic-scale spacing for efficient electrocatalytic co-reduction of carbon dioxide and nitrate to urea, 2023, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Molecularly Engineered Carbon Platform To Anchor Edge-Hosted Single-Atomic M-N/C (M = Fe, Co, Ni, Cu) Electrocatalysts of Outstanding Durability, 2022, ACS Catalysis
  • An Antiaging Electrolyte Additive for High-Energy-Density Lithium-Ion Batteries, 2020, Advanced Energy Materials
  • Fire-Inhibiting Nonflammable Gel Polymer Electrolyte for Lithium-Ion Batteries, 2023, ACS Energy Letters
  • Support structure-catalyst electroactivity relation for oxygen reduction reaction on platinum supported by two-dimensional titanium carbide, 2020, Nano Energy

Hyun-Kon Song collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Chihyun Hwang
  • Jonghak Kim
  • Yeongdae Lee
  • Jeongin Lee
  • Jihong Jeong

Best Publications

  • The Current Move of Lithium Ion Batteries Towards the Next Phase

    Tae-Hee Kim;Jeong-Seok Park;Sung Kyun Chang;Seungdon Choi

  • Who will drive electric vehicles, olivine or spinel?

    Ok Kyung Park;Yonghyun Cho;Sanghan Lee;Ho-Chun Yoo

  • Facile Route to an Efficient NiO Supercapacitor with a Three-Dimensional Nanonetwork Morphology

    Sun-I Kim;Jung-Soo Lee;Hyo-Jin Ahn;Hyun-Kon Song

  • Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy of porous electrodes: the effect of pore size distribution

    Hyun-Kon Song;Yong-Ho Jung;Kun-Hong Lee;Le H. Dao

  • Carbon-coated single-crystal LiMn2O4 nanoparticle clusters as cathode material for high-energy and high-power lithium-ion batteries.

    Sanghan Lee;Yonghyun Cho;Hyun-Kon Song;Kyu Tae Lee

  • The effect of pore size distribution on the frequency dispersion of porous electrodes

    Hyun-Kon Song;Hee-Young Hwang;Kun-Hong Lee;Le H. Dao

  • Recent Progress in Nanostructured Cathode Materials for Lithium Secondary Batteries

    Hyun-Kon Song;Kyu Tae Lee;Min Gyu Kim;Linda F. Nazar

  • Gel/Solid Polymer Electrolytes Characterized by In Situ Gelation or Polymerization for Electrochemical Energy Systems.

    Yoon-Gyo Cho;Chihyun Hwang;Do Sol Cheong;Young-Soo Kim

  • Redox-Active Polypyrrole: Toward Polymer-Based Batteries

    H.-K. Song;G. T. R. Palmore

  • A polymer electrolyte-skinned active material strategy toward high-voltage lithium ion batteries: a polyimide-coated LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 spinel cathode material case

    Ju Hyun Cho;Jang Hoon Park;Myeong Hee Lee;Hyun Kon Song

  • Scalable approach to multi-dimensional bulk Si anodes via metal-assisted chemical etching

    Byoung Man Bang;Hyunjung Kim;Hyun-Kon Song;Jaephil Cho

  • Ionic liquid modified graphene nanosheets anchoring manganese oxide nanoparticles as efficient electrocatalysts for Zn–air batteries

    Jang Soo Lee;Taemin Lee;Hyun Kon Song;Jaephil Cho

  • Hybrid multilayer thin film supercapacitor of graphene nanosheets with polyaniline: importance of establishing intimate electronic contact through nanoscale blending

    Taemin Lee;Taeyeong Yun;Byeongho Park;Bhawana Sharma

  • Electronegativity-induced enhancement of thermal stability by succinonitrile as an additive for Li ion batteries

    Young-Soo Kim;Tae-Hee Kim;Hochun Lee;Hyun-Kon Song

  • High-performance silicon-based multicomponent battery anodes produced via synergistic coupling of multifunctional coating layers

    Jung-In Lee;Younghoon Ko;Myoungsoo Shin;Hyun-Kon Song

  • Micropatterns of positive guidance cues anchored to polypyrrole doped with polyglutamic acid: A new platform for characterizing neurite extension in complex environments

    H.-K. Song;B. Toste;K. Ahmann;D. Hoffman-Kim

  • A hollow sphere secondary structure of LiFePO4 nanoparticles

    Myeong-Hee Lee;Jin-Young Kim;Hyun-Kon Song

  • Enlarging the d-spacing of graphite and polarizing its surface charge for driving lithium ions fast

    Tae Hee Kim;Eun Kyung Jeon;Younghoon Ko;Bo Yun Jang

  • Mechanical mismatch-driven rippling in carbon-coated silicon sheets for stress-resilient battery anodes

    Jaegeon Ryu;Tianwu Chen;Taesoo Bok;Gyujin Song

  • Enhancing Interfacial Bonding between Anisotropically Oriented Grains Using a Glue-Nanofiller for Advanced Li-Ion Battery Cathode.

    Hyejung Kim;Sanghan Lee;Hyeon Cho;Junhyeok Kim

  • Enhancement of heat and mass transfer in silica-expanded graphite composite blocks for adsorption heat pumps: Part I. Characterization of the composite blocks

    Tai-Hee Eun;Hyun-Kon Song;Jong Hun Han;Kun-Hong Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Jaephil Cho
Jaephil Cho Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Soojin Park
Soojin Park Pohang University of Science and Technology
Sang Kyu Kwak
Sang Kyu Kwak Korea University
Nam-Soon Choi
Nam-Soon Choi Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Byeong-Su Kim
Byeong-Su Kim Yonsei University
Seok Ju Kang
Seok Ju Kang Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Kun-Hong Lee
Kun-Hong Lee Pohang University of Science and Technology
Jin Young Kim
Jin Young Kim Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Hu Young Jeong
Hu Young Jeong Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Changduk Yang
Changduk Yang Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

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