Kim Laboratory 

Specializations

Ion movements on electrodes, electrolysis, electrolytes, synthesis of salts, electrochemistry, batteries, capacitors

Current research subjects

Self-discharge reactions in supercapacitors

Hydrogen and ammonia

Solid and semi-solid electrolytes

Conducting additives (CNTs) for Li-ion batteries

Zn secondary batteries

Work experience

Sangmyung University, Dept of Chem. & Energy Engineering, 2011-  Professor. 

Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, Battery Research Center, Senior Researcher, 2005-2011

Georgia Institute of Technology, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2002-2005

Education

University at Buffalo, Ph.D. 2002

Contact

Department of Chemistry & Energy Engineering, Sangmyung University, Seoul 03016, Republic of Korea

Email) ketack.kim@smu.ac.kr or ketack.kim@gmail.com

Phone) 02-781-7508

Recent publications

1. Kyung Min Lee, Ketack Kim, "Electrode potentials in electrochemical double-layer capacitors with asymmetric electrode thickness" Electrochimica Acta 435(2022)141364

2. Youna Jung, Sooyeon Lee, Ketack Kim, "Rate-controlling element in the self-discharge process in electrochemical double-layer capacitors" Electrochimica Acta 412(2022)140137

3. Junup Yang, Hyun Ook Seo, Ketack Kim, "Neutral red paired with metal sulfates for redox flow batteries" Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 893(2021)115333

4. Junup Yang, Jeehoon Hong, Synhye Yang, Ick-Jun Kim, Ketack Kim, "Observation of electrode potential in electrochemical double layer capacitors with variations in temperature, scan rate, and ion size" Electrochimica Acta 322(2019)134748

5. Jeehoon Hong, Ketack Kim, " Neural red and ferroin as reversible and rapid redox materials for redox flow batteries, ChemSusChem, 2018, 11, 1866.

6. Sieun Park, Ketack Kim, "Tetramethylammonim tetrafluoroborate: The smallest quaternary ammonium tetrafluoroborte salt for use in electrochemical double layer capacitors" Journal of Power Sources, 2017, 338, 129.

7. Boyeong Hwang, Eun-Suok Oh, Ketack Kim, " Observation of electrochemical reactions at Zn electrodes in Zn-air secondary batteries" Electrochimica Acta 2016, 216, 484

8. Junghye Lee, Boyeong Hwang, Min-sik Park, Ketack Kim, "Improved reversibility of Zn anodes for rechargeable Zn-air battereis by using alkoxide and acetate ions" Electrochimica Acta 2016, 199, 164

9. Taihee han, Min-Sik Park, Jeonghun Kim, Jung Ho Kim, Ketack Kim, "The Smallest Quaternary Ammonium Salts with Ether Group for High-performance Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors" Chemical Science 2016, 7, 1791

10. Byunghyun Hwang, Min-Sik Park, Ketack Kim, "Ferrocene and Cobaltocene Derivatives for Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Battries" ChemSusChem 2015, 8, 310