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2025

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Materials Science

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124
Citations
92550
World Ranking
417
National Ranking
11

Chemistry

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124
Citations
92570
World Ranking
409
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Korea Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Korea Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Korea Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Korea Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Korea Leader Award

Overview

Kwang S. Kim is affiliated with the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea. Their research spans multiple disciplines primarily within engineering and materials science, with notable contributions to electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

Their main research topics include:

  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials
  • Advanced battery technologies research

Kim has published extensively across a range of journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Advanced Energy Materials
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Kim are:

  • Perovskite solar cells with atomically coherent interlayers on SnO2 electrodes (2021, Nature)
  • Graphene-nanoplatelets-supported NiFe-MOF: high-efficiency and ultra-stable oxygen electrodes for sustained alkaline anion exchange membrane water electrolysis (2020, Energy & Environmental Science)
  • Tuning metal single atoms embedded in NxCy moieties toward high-performance electrocatalysis (2021, Energy & Environmental Science)
  • Multi-heteroatom-doped carbon from waste-yeast biomass for sustained water splitting (2020, Nature Sustainability)
  • Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Pollutants over MFe2O4 (M = Co, Ni, Cu, Zn) Nanoparticles at Neutral pH (2020, Scientific Reports)

Kim frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Miran Ha
  • Amir Hajibabaei
  • Chang Woo Myung
  • Dong Yeon Kim
  • Geunsik Lee

Best Publications

  • Large-scale pattern growth of graphene films for stretchable transparent electrodes

    Keun Soo Kim;Yue Zhao;Houk Jang;Sang Yoon Lee

  • Roll-to-roll production of 30-inch graphene films for transparent electrodes

    Sukang Bae;Hyeongkeun Kim;Youngbin Lee;Xiangfan Xu

  • Functionalization of Graphene: Covalent and Non-Covalent Approaches, Derivatives and Applications

    Vasilios Georgakilas;Michal Otyepka;Athanasios B. Bourlinos;Vimlesh Chandra

  • Perovskite solar cells with atomically coherent interlayers on SnO2 electrodes.

    Hanul Min;Do Yoon Lee;Junu Kim;Gwisu Kim

  • Noncovalent Functionalization of Graphene and Graphene Oxide for Energy Materials, Biosensing, Catalytic, and Biomedical Applications

    Vasilios Georgakilas;Jitendra N. Tiwari;K. Christian Kemp;Jason A. Perman

  • Water-Dispersible Magnetite-Reduced Graphene Oxide Composites for Arsenic Removal

    Vimlesh Chandra;Jaesung Park;Young Chun;Jung Woo Lee

  • Tuning the graphene work function by electric field effect.

    Young-Jun Yu;Yue Zhao;Sunmin Ryu;Louis E Brus

  • Zero-dimensional, one-dimensional, two-dimensional and three-dimensional nanostructured materials for advanced electrochemical energy devices

    Jitendra N. Tiwari;Rajanish N. Tiwari;Kwang S. Kim

  • Molecular Clusters of π-Systems: Theoretical Studies of Structures, Spectra, and Origin of Interaction Energies

    Kwang S. Kim;P. Tarakeshwar;Jin Yong Lee

  • Nickel-Based Electrocatalysts for Energy-Related Applications: Oxygen Reduction, Oxygen Evolution, and Hydrogen Evolution Reactions

    Varun Vij;Siraj Sultan;Ahmad M. Harzandi;Abhishek Meena

  • Theory and applications of computational chemistry : the first forty years

    Clifford E. Dykstra;Gernot Frenking;Kwang S. Kim;Gustavo E. Scuseria

  • Imidazolium receptors for the recognition of anions.

    Juyoung Yoon;Sook Kyung Kim;N. Jiten Singh;Kwang S. Kim

  • Ultrathin Single-Crystalline Silver Nanowire Arrays Formed in an Ambient Solution Phase

    Byung Hee Hong;Sung Chul Bae;Chi-Wan Lee;Sukmin Jeong

  • Highly selective adsorption of Hg2+ by a polypyrrole–reduced graphene oxide composite

    Vimlesh Chandra;Kwang S. Kim

  • Enhanced Differentiation of Human Neural Stem Cells into Neurons on Graphene

    Sung Young Park;Jaesung Park;Sung Hyun Sim;Moon Gyu Sung

  • Prediction of very large values of magnetoresistance in a graphene nanoribbon device.

    Woo Youn Kim;Kwang S. Kim

  • Single Atoms and Clusters Based Nanomaterials for Hydrogen Evolution, Oxygen Evolution Reactions, and Full Water Splitting

    Siraj Sultan;Jitendra N. Tiwari;Aditya Narayan Singh;Shynggys Zhumagali

  • Understanding of assembly phenomena by aromatic-aromatic interactions: benzene dimer and the substituted systems.

    Eun Cheol Lee;Dongwook Kim;Petr Jurečka;P. Tarakeshwar

  • Multicomponent electrocatalyst with ultralow Pt loading and high hydrogen evolution activity

    Jitendra N. Tiwari;Siraj Sultan;Chang Woo Myung;Taeseung Yoon

  • Fast DNA sequencing with a graphene-based nanochannel device

    Seung Kyu Min;Woo Youn Kim;Woo Youn Kim;Yeonchoo Cho;Kwang S. Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

Jin Yong Lee
Jin Yong Lee Sungkyunkwan University
Byung Hee Hong
Byung Hee Hong Seoul National University
Jaesung Park
Jaesung Park Pohang University of Science and Technology
Wi Hyoung Lee
Wi Hyoung Lee Konkuk University
Philip Kim
Philip Kim Harvard University
Henry F. Schaefer
Henry F. Schaefer University of Georgia
Enrico Clementi
Enrico Clementi International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
Kilwon Cho
Kilwon Cho Pohang University of Science and Technology
Zonghoon Lee
Zonghoon Lee Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Robert A. Taylor
Robert A. Taylor University of New South Wales

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