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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Korea
2026

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
66
Citations
13782
World Ranking
497
National Ranking
5

Materials Science

D-Index
70
Citations
15558
World Ranking
4489
National Ranking
162

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Korea Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Korea Leader Award

Overview

Il-Kwon Oh is affiliated with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea, with a research focus in Engineering and Materials Science. Their work spans several subfields including Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Polymers and Plastics.

The scientist's research primarily covers topics related to advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, conducting polymers and their applications, supercapacitor materials and fabrication, dielectric materials and actuators, MXene and MAX phase materials, advanced materials and mechanics, and advanced battery materials and technologies.

Frequent publication venues for Il-Kwon Oh include:

  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Advanced Materials
  • Nano Energy
  • Small
  • Advanced Energy Materials

Recent publications by Il-Kwon Oh demonstrate their focus on areas such as triboelectric nanogenerators and stimuli-responsive materials. Some notable papers are:

  • "Recent Advances in Triboelectric Nanogenerators: From Technological Progress to Commercial Applications," 2023, ACS Nano
  • "Stimuli-Responsive MXene-Based Actuators," 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • "Stretchable and self-healable catechol-chitosan-diatom hydrogel for triboelectric generator and self-powered tremor sensor targeting at Parkinson disease," 2020, Nano Energy
  • "Skin-attachable and biofriendly chitosan-diatom triboelectric nanogenerator," 2020, Nano Energy
  • "Auxetic graphene oxide-porous foam for acoustic wave and shock energy dissipation," 2020, Composites Part B Engineering

Il-Kwon Oh has collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors, including Manmatha Mahato, Saewoong Oh, Hyunjoon Yoo, Van Hiep Nguyen, and Sanghee Nam. These collaborations appear in many of the scientist's publications, indicating sustained research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • A biomimetic jellyfish robot based on ionic polymer metal composite actuators

    Sung-Weon Yeom;Il-Kwon Oh

  • Graphene oxide-polyethylenimine nanoconstruct as a gene delivery vector and bioimaging tool.

    Hyunwoo Kim;Ran Namgung;Kaushik Singha;Il-Kwon Oh

  • Recent advances in ionic polymer–metal composite actuators and their modeling and applications

    Choonghee Jo;David Pugal;Il-Kwon Oh;Kwang J. Kim

  • Seamlessly Conductive 3D Nanoarchitecture of Core–Shell Ni-Co Nanowire Network for Highly Efficient Oxygen Evolution

    Seok-Hu Bae;Ji-Eun Kim;Hyacinthe Randriamahazaka;Song Yi Moon

  • Silk Nanofiber-Networked Bio-Triboelectric Generator: Silk Bio-TEG

    Hyun-Jun Kim;Jae-Hwan Kim;Ki-Woo Jun;Jong-Hun Kim

  • Bacterial Nano‐Cellulose Triboelectric Nanogenerator

    Hyun-Jun Kim;Eun-Chae Yim;Jong-Hun Kim;Seong-Jun Kim

  • Arsenic Removal from Contaminated Water Using Three-Dimensional Graphene-Carbon Nanotube-Iron Oxide Nanostructures

    Sridhar Vadahanambi;Sang-Heon Lee;Won-Jong Kim;Il-Kwon Oh

  • Electro-active graphene–Nafion actuators

    Jung-Hwan Jung;Jin-Han Jeon;Vadahanambi Sridhar;Il-Kwon Oh

  • Piezoelectric thin films: an integrated review of transducers and energy harvesting

    Asif Khan;Zafar Abas;Heung Soo Kim;Il-Kwon Oh

  • Multilayered graphene-carbon nanotube-iron oxide three-dimensional heterostructure for flexible electromagnetic interference shielding film

    Si Hwa Lee;Dong-Hoon Kang;Il-Kwon Oh

  • Durable and Water-Floatable Ionic Polymer Actuator with Hydrophobic and Asymmetrically Laser-Scribed Reduced Graphene Oxide Paper Electrodes

    Jaehwan Kim;Jin Han Jeon;Hyun Jun Kim;Hyuneui Lim

  • MXene artificial muscles based on ionically cross-linked Ti3C2Tx electrode for kinetic soft robotics

    Sima Umrao;Rassoul Tabassian;Jaehwan Kim;Van Hiep Nguyen

  • Graphene--nanotube--iron hierarchical nanostructure as lithium ion battery anode.

    Si-Hwa Lee;Vadahanambi Sridhar;Jung-Hwan Jung;Jung-Hwan Jung;Kaliyappan Karthikeyan

  • Graphene-wrapped and cobalt oxide-intercalated hybrid for extremely durable super-capacitor with ultrahigh energy and power densities

    Rajesh Kumar;Hyun-Jun Kim;Sungjin Park;Anchal Srivastava

  • Sulfur and Nitrogen Co-Doped Graphene Electrodes for High-Performance Ionic Artificial Muscles.

    Moumita Kotal;Jaehwan Kim;Kwang J. Kim;Il-Kwon Oh

  • Stimuli-Responsive MXene-Based Actuators

    Van Hiep Nguyen;Rassoul Tabassian;Saewoong Oh;Sanghee Nam

  • Stretchable and self-healable catechol-chitosan-diatom hydrogel for triboelectric generator and self-powered tremor sensor targeting at Parkinson disease

    Jong-Nam Kim;Jeehee Lee;Haeshin Lee;Il-Kwon Oh

  • Skin-attachable and biofriendly chitosan-diatom triboelectric nanogenerator

    Jong-Nam Kim;Jeehee Lee;Tae Won Go;Araz Rajabi-Abhari

  • A Biomimetic Actuator Based on an Ionic Networking Membrane of Poly(styrene-alt-maleimide)-Incorporated Poly(vinylidene fluoride)†

    Jun Lu;Sang-Gyun Kim;Sunwoo Lee;Il-Kwon Oh

  • POSTBUCKLING AND VIBRATION CHARACTERISTICS OF PIEZOLAMINATED COMPOSITE PLATE SUBJECT TO THERMO-PIEZOELECTRIC LOADS

    Il-Kwon Oh;Jae-Hung Han;In Lee

  • Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Boron and Nitrogen co-doped Reduced Graphene Oxide for the Protection of Electromagnetic Radiation in Ku-Band.

    Sima Umrao;Tejendra K. Gupta;Shiv Kumar;Vijay K. Singh

  • Defect-Engineered Three-Dimensional Graphene–Nanotube–Palladium Nanostructures with Ultrahigh Capacitance

    Vadahanambi Sridhar;Hyun-Jun Kim;Jung-Hwan Jung;Changgu Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Sunwoo Lee
Sunwoo Lee Chonnam National University
In Lee
In Lee Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Kwang J. Kim
Kwang J. Kim University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Jae-Hung Han
Jae-Hung Han Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Jeong Young Park
Jeong Young Park Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Nikhil Koratkar
Nikhil Koratkar Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rajesh Kumar
Rajesh Kumar Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Dong-Hyun Kim
Dong-Hyun Kim Kyung Hee University
Yun-Sung Lee
Yun-Sung Lee Chonnam National University
Haeshin Lee
Haeshin Lee Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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