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Kyung-Wan Nam

Kyung-Wan Nam

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Chemistry
Korea
2025

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Materials Science

D-Index
71
Citations
18355
World Ranking
4245
National Ranking
155

Chemistry

D-Index
70
Citations
18038
World Ranking
5833
National Ranking
90

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Kyung-Wan Nam is affiliated with Dongguk University in South Korea and has contributed extensively to the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Mechanical Engineering, and Automotive Engineering.

The scientist's research primarily centers around advanced battery materials and technologies, including topics such as advancements in battery materials, advanced battery materials and technologies, supercapacitor materials and fabrication, advanced battery technologies research, extraction and separation processes, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, and thermal expansion and ionic conductivity.

Recent research papers authored by Kyung-Wan Nam include:

  • New Cost-Effective Halide Solid Electrolytes for All-Solid-State Batteries: Mechanochemically Prepared Fe3+-Substituted Li2ZrCl6, 2021, Advanced Energy Materials
  • Unleashing the Potential of Sodium-Ion Batteries: Current State and Future Directions for Sustainable Energy Storage, 2023, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Selective Conversion of Carbon Dioxide into Liquid Hydrocarbons and Long-Chain α-Olefins over Fe-Amorphous AlOx Bifunctional Catalysts, 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • Lithium Argyrodite Sulfide Electrolytes with High Ionic Conductivity and Air Stability for All-Solid-State Li-Ion Batteries, 2021, ACS Energy Letters
  • Boosting the interfacial superionic conduction of halide solid electrolytes for all-solid-state batteries, 2023, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kyung-Wan Nam include:

  • Daseul Han
  • Mobinul Islam
  • Basit Ali
  • Aditya Narayan Singh
  • Kyung Yoon Chung

Publication venues where the scientist frequently publishes comprise:

  • Gels
  • Nanomaterials
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Preprints.org

Best Publications

  • Role of Surface Structure on Li-Ion Energy Storage Capacity of Two-Dimensional Transition-Metal Carbides

    Yu Xie;Michael Naguib;Vadym N. Mochalin;Michel W. Barsoum

  • Structural changes and thermal stability of charged LiNixMnyCozO2 cathode materials studied by combined in situ time-resolved XRD and mass spectroscopy

    Seong Min Bak;Enyuan Hu;Yongning Zhou;Xiqian Yu

  • Evolution of redox couples in Li- and Mn-rich cathode materials and mitigation of voltage fade by reducing oxygen release

    Enyuan Hu;Xiqian Yu;Xiqian Yu;Ruoqian Lin;Ruoqian Lin;Xuanxuan Bi

  • Origin of additional capacities in metal oxide lithium-ion battery electrodes

    Yan-Yan Hu;Zigeng Liu;Kyung-Wan Nam;Olaf J Borkiewicz

  • Combining In Situ Synchrotron X‐Ray Diffraction and Absorption Techniques with Transmission Electron Microscopy to Study the Origin of Thermal Instability in Overcharged Cathode Materials for Lithium‐Ion Batteries

    Kyung-Wan Nam;Seong-Min Bak;Seong-Min Bak;Enyuan Hu;Xiqian Yu

  • Understanding the Rate Capability of High-Energy-Density Li-Rich Layered Li1.2Ni0.15Co0.1Mn0.55O2 Cathode Materials

    Xiqian Yu;Yingchun Lyu;Lin Gu;Huiming Wu

  • A Study of the Preparation of NiO x Electrode via Electrochemical Route for Supercapacitor Applications and Their Charge Storage Mechanism

    Kyung Wan Nam;Kwang Bum Kim

  • Correlating Structural Changes and Gas Evolution during the Thermal Decomposition of Charged LixNi0.8Co0.15Al0.05O2 Cathode Materials

    Seong Min Bak;Seong Min Bak;Seong Min Bak;Kyung Wan Nam;Wonyoung Chang;Xiqian Yu

  • Sodium iron hexacyanoferrate with high Na content as a Na-rich cathode material for Na-ion batteries

    Ya You;Xi Qian Yu;Ya Xia Yin;Kyung Wan Nam

  • α-MnO2 as a cathode material for rechargeable Mg batteries

    Ruigang Zhang;Xiqian Yu;Kyung-Wan Nam;Chen Ling

  • Electrochemical properties of manganese oxide coated onto carbon nanotubes for energy-storage applications

    Sang Bok Ma;Kyung Wan Nam;Won Sub Yoon;Xiao Qing Yang

  • Anomalous Pseudocapacitive Behavior of a Nanostructured, Mixed-Valent Manganese Oxide Film for Electrical Energy Storage

    Min-Kyu Song;Shuang Cheng;Haiyan Chen;Wentao Qin

  • New Cost-Effective Halide Solid Electrolytes for All-Solid-State Batteries: Mechanochemically Prepared Fe3+-Substituted Li2ZrCl6

    Hiram Kwak;Hiram Kwak;Daseul Han;Jeyne Lyoo;Juhyoun Park;Juhyoun Park

  • A review of challenges and issues concerning interfaces for all-solid-state batteries

    Hee-Dae Lim;Hee-Dae Lim;Jae-Ho Park;Jae-Ho Park;Hyeon-Ji Shin;Hyeon-Ji Shin;Jiwon Jeong;Jiwon Jeong

  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy studies of nickel oxide thin film electrodes for supercapacitors

    Kyung Wan Nam;Won Sub Yoon;Kwang Bum Kim

  • Structural Origin of Overcharge-Induced Thermal Instability of Ni-Containing Layered-Cathodes for High-Energy-Density Lithium Batteries

    Lijun Wu;Kyung-Wan Nam;Xiaojian Wang;Yongning Zhou

  • Electrodeposited manganese oxides on three-dimensional carbon nanotube substrate: Supercapacitive behaviour in aqueous and organic electrolytes

    Kyung Wan Nam;Kyung Wan Nam;Chang Wook Lee;Xiao Qing Yang;Byung Won Cho

  • In Situ Mn K-edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Studies of Electrodeposited Manganese Oxide Films for Electrochemical Capacitors

    Kyung Wan Nam;Kyung Wan Nam;Min Gyu Kim;Kwang Bum Kim

  • Influence of Cation Ordering and Lattice Distortion on the Charge-Discharge Behavior of LiMn1.5Ni0.5O4 Spinel between 5.0 and 2.0 V

    Eun-Sung Lee;Kyung-Wan Nam;Enyuan Hu;Arumugam Manthiram

  • Unleashing the Potential of Sodium‐Ion Batteries: Current State and Future Directions for Sustainable Energy Storage

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  • Tuning charge–discharge induced unit cell breathing in layer-structured cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries

    Yong-Ning Zhou;Jun Ma;Enyuan Hu;Xiqian Yu

  • Pseudocapacitive properties of electrochemically prepared nickel oxides on 3-dimensional carbon nanotube film substrates

    Kyung Wan Nam;Kyung Wan Nam;Kwang Heon Kim;Eun Sung Lee;Won Sub Yoon

  • Fabrication and electrochemical properties of carbon nanotube film electrodes

    Jae Hong Kim;Kyung Wan Nam;Sang Bok Ma;Kwang Bum Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiao-Qing Yang
Xiao-Qing Yang Brookhaven National Laboratory
Kyung Yoon Chung
Kyung Yoon Chung Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Kwang-Bum Kim
Kwang-Bum Kim Yonsei University
Won-Sub Yoon
Won-Sub Yoon Sungkyunkwan University
Yong-Ning Zhou
Yong-Ning Zhou Fudan University
Xiqian Yu
Xiqian Yu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Enyuan Hu
Enyuan Hu Brookhaven National Laboratory
Hun-Gi Jung
Hun-Gi Jung Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Hong Li
Hong Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Clare P. Grey
Clare P. Grey University of Cambridge

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