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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Korea Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Korea Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Korea Leader Award

Overview

Kookheon Char is affiliated with Seoul National University in South Korea and has an extensive research portfolio primarily focused on engineering and materials science. Their work addresses several subfields, including electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, polymers and plastics, biomedical engineering, and organic chemistry.

The research contributions of Kookheon Char span multiple main topics. These include advancements in battery materials, advanced battery materials and technologies, synthesis and properties of polymers, silicone and siloxane chemistry, conducting polymers and applications, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, and organic electronics and photovoltaics.

They have published in a variety of scientific venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Advanced Materials
  • Advanced Energy Materials
  • Macromolecules
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

A selection of recent papers includes:

  • Issues and Advances in Scaling up Sulfide-Based All-Solid-State Batteries, 2021, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • New High Donor Electrolyte for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Recent Progress in High Donor Electrolytes for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries, 2020, Advanced Energy Materials
  • 100th Anniversary of Macromolecular Science Viewpoint: High Refractive Index Polymers from Elemental Sulfur for Infrared Thermal Imaging and Optics, 2020, ACS Macro Letters
  • One-step vapor-phase synthesis of transparent high refractive index sulfur-containing polymers, 2020, Science Advances

Kookheon Char has collaborated frequently with a group of coauthors, including:

  • Jang Wook Choi
  • Jeewoo Lim
  • Hyuksoo Shin
  • Hyunsik Yoon
  • Jin Yoo

Best Publications

  • The use of elemental sulfur as an alternative feedstock for polymeric materials

    Woo Jin Chung;Jared J. Griebel;Eui Tae Kim;Hyunsik Yoon

  • Bright and Efficient Full-Color Colloidal Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diodes Using an Inverted Device Structure

    Jeonghun Kwak;Wan Ki Bae;Donggu Lee;Insun Park

  • Single-Step Synthesis of Quantum Dots with Chemical Composition Gradients

    Wan Ki Bae;Kookheon Char;Hyuck Hur;Seonghoon Lee

  • Fabrication of Highly Ordered Multilayer Films Using a Spin Self‐Assembly Method

    Jinhan Cho;Kookheon Char;Jong-Dal Hong;Ki-Bong Lee

  • Polymerizations with elemental sulfur: A novel route to high sulfur content polymers for sustainability, energy and defense

    Jared J. Griebel;Richard S. Glass;Kookheon Char;Jeffrey Pyun;Jeffrey Pyun

  • New Infrared Transmitting Material via Inverse Vulcanization of Elemental Sulfur to Prepare High Refractive Index Polymers

    Jared J. Griebel;Soha Namnabat;Eui Tae Kim;Roland Himmelhuber

  • Highly Efficient Cadmium-Free Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diodes Enabled by the Direct Formation of Excitons within InP@ZnSeS Quantum Dots

    Jaehoon Lim;Myeongjin Park;Wan Ki Bae;Donggu Lee

  • Inverse Vulcanization of Elemental Sulfur to Prepare Polymeric Electrode Materials for Li–S Batteries

    Adam G. Simmonds;Jared J. Griebel;Jungjin Park;Kwi Ryong Kim

  • InP@ZnSeS, Core@Composition Gradient Shell Quantum Dots with Enhanced Stability

    Jaehoon Lim;Wan Ki Bae;Donggu Lee;Min Ki Nam

  • Highly Efficient Green‐Light‐Emitting Diodes Based on CdSe@ZnS Quantum Dots with a Chemical‐Composition Gradient

    Wan Ki Bae;Jeonghun Kwak;Ji Won Park;Kookheon Char

  • Recent approaches for the direct use of elemental sulfur in the synthesis and processing of advanced materials.

    Jeewoo Lim;Jeffrey Pyun;Jeffrey Pyun;Kookheon Char

  • Effects of a diblock copolymer on adhesion between immiscible polymers. 1. Polystyrene (PS)-PMMA copolymer between PS and PMMA

    H. R. Brown;K. Char;V. R. Deline;P. F. Green

  • Critical thickness of ultrathin ferroelectric BaTiO3 films

    Y. S. Kim;D. H. Kim;J. D. Kim;Y. J. Chang

  • Multicolored Light-Emitting Diodes Based on All-Quantum-Dot Multilayer Films Using Layer-by-Layer Assembly Method

    Wan Ki Bae;Jeonghun Kwak;Jaehoon Lim;Donggu Lee

  • Recent advances in the polymerization of elemental sulphur, inverse vulcanization and methods to obtain functional Chalcogenide Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Polymers (CHIPs)

    Yueyan Zhang;Richard S. Glass;Kookheon Char;Jeffrey Pyun;Jeffrey Pyun

  • Dynamic Covalent Polymers via Inverse Vulcanization of Elemental Sulfur for Healable Infrared Optical Materials

    Jared J. Griebel;Ngoc A. Nguyen;Soha Namnabat;Laura E. Anderson

  • Nanoporous Block Copolymer Micelle/Micelle Multilayer Films with Dual Optical Properties

    Jinhan Cho;Jinkee Hong;Kookheon Char;Frank Caruso

  • R/G/B/natural white light thin colloidal quantum dot-based light-emitting devices.

    Wan Ki Bae;Jaehoon Lim;Donggu Lee;Myeongjin Park

  • Delivery of a Therapeutic Protein for Bone Regeneration from a Substrate Coated with Graphene Oxide

    Wan Geun La;Saibom Park;Hee Hun Yoon;Gun Jae Jeong

  • Gram-Scale One-Pot Synthesis of Highly Luminescent Blue Emitting Cd1-xZnxS/ZnS Nanocrystals

    Wan Ki Bae;Min Ki Nam;Kookheon Char;Seonghoon Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey Pyun
Jeffrey Pyun University of Arizona
Changhee Lee
Changhee Lee Seoul National University
Wan Ki Bae
Wan Ki Bae Sungkyunkwan University
Jinhan Cho
Jinhan Cho Korea University
Richard S. Glass
Richard S. Glass University of Arizona
Yong Soo Kang
Yong Soo Kang Hanyang University
Rudolf Zentel
Rudolf Zentel Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Moon Jeong Park
Moon Jeong Park Pohang University of Science and Technology
Patrick Theato
Patrick Theato Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Michael E. Mackay
Michael E. Mackay University of Delaware

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