Yang-Kook Sun

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2019 Class of Fellows, The Electrochemical Society (U.S.A)
2019 ~ present ECS Fellow, Electrochemical Society
2017 The Battery Division Technology Award, The Electrochemical Society (U.S.A.)
2016 ~ present Member, The National Academy of Engineering of Korea
2016 ~ present Senior Editor of ACS Energy Letters
2016~2019 Highly Cited Researcher(Material Science), Clarivate Analytics
2012 ~ 2016 Editor of Journal of Power Sources
2012 R&D 100 Award, R&D Magazine (U.S.A.)
2011 The Battery Division Research Award, The Electrochemical Society (U.S.A.)
2009 ~ present Distinguished Professor, Department of Energy Engineering, Hanyang University
2008 ~ 2013 Senior Visiting Scientist, Argonne National Lab. (U.S.A.)
2000 ~ 2009 Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Hanyang University
1996 ~ 2000 Principle Research Engineer (Team Leader of Lithium Polymer Battery), Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology
1992 Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Seoul National Universit

Cathode Materials for Lithium-ion Batteries
- Advanced Cathode / Core-Shell & Concentration Gradient Material
- Olivine Phosphate
- Surface Modification
Lithium Air Batteries
- Porous cathode for high efficiency and cyclability with ORR & OER catalytic effect
- Suitable electrolyte for stable and effective Li-O2 battery system
- Suggestion of new mechanism in Li-O2 battery system
Lithium Sulfur Batteries
- High performance Li-S Battery Cathode
- Li-S Battery Electrolyte Application
- LixSi-S Battery system : Full cell
Sodium-ion Batteries
- Novel concept transition metal oxide cathode materials
- Advanced anode materials
- Optimization of full cells fabrication for practical approaches

“Sodium-ion batteries: present and future”, CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS, 2017 https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2017/cs/c6cs00776g

“Aprotic and Aqueous Li-O-2 Batteries”, CHEMICAL REVIEWS, 2014 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cr400573b

“A nanostructured cathode architecture for low charge overpotential in lithium-oxygen batteries”, NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 2013 https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms3383

“Anatase Titania Nanorods as an Intercalation Anode Material for Rechargeable Sodium Batteries”, NANO LETTERS, 2014 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl402747x

“Ruthenium-Based Electrocatalysts Supported on Reduced Graphene Oxide for Lithium-Air Batteries”, ACS NANO, 2013 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn400477d

“Nickel-Rich Layered Cathode Materials for Automotive Lithium-Ion Batteries: Achievements and Perspectives”, ACS ENERGY LETTERS, 2017 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00594

“The Application of Metal Sulfides in Sodium Ion Batteries”, ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS, 2017 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aenm.201601329

“High Electrochemical Performances of Microsphere C-TiO2 Anode for Sodium-Ion Battery”, ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 2014 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/am501772a

“High-energy-density lithium-ion battery using a carbon-nanotube-Si composite anode and a compositionally graded Li[Ni0.85Co0.05Mn0.10]O-2 cathode”, ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, 2016 https://pubs.rsc.org/no/content/articlehtml/2016/ee/c6ee01134a

“Nanostructured metal phosphide-based materials for electrochemical energy storage”, JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A, 2016 https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2016/ta/c6ta06705k