Education :

• Ph.D. in Materials Science (Mar. 2005 – Feb. 2010)

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea

• M.S. in Materials Science (Mar. 1999 – Feb. 2001)

    Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

• B.S. in Materials Science (Mar. 1991 – Feb. 1999)

     Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Korea

Research Experience :

• Assistant Professor (Jan. 2016 – Feb. 2020)

     Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea

• Visiting Scientist (Dec. 2012 – Nov. 2013)

     Materials Science & Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), USA

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Nov. 2010 – Nov. 2012)

     Materials Science & Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), USA

• Researcher (Feb. 2002), Senior Researcher (Mar. 2005), Principal Researcher (Mar. 2014 – Dec. 2015)

     Division of Electron Microscopic Research, Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI), Korea

Selected Publications :

• Young-Hoon Kim†, Seong-Gon Kim†, Seunghun Lee†, Miyeon Cheon, Su Jae Kim, Kideuk Nam, Bipin Lamichhane, Sung Heum Park, Min-Hyoung Jung, Ji-Soo Kim, Yu-Seong Seo, Taewoo Ha, Jungseek Hwang, Hu Young Jeong, Yusil Lee, Young Hee Lee, Young-Min Kim*, Se-Young Jeong*, “Self-oxidation resistance of the curved surface of achromatic copper”, Advanced Materials 35(42), 2210564 (2023). (†equal contribution)

• Taewoo Ha†, Yu-Seong Seo†, Teun–Teun Kim†, Bipin Lamichhane, Young-Hoon Kim, Su Jae Kim, Yousil Lee, Jong Chan Kim, Sang Eon Park, Kyung Ik Sim, Jae Hoon Kim, Yong In Kim, Seon Je Kim, Hu Young Jeong, Young Hee Lee, Seong-Gon Kim*, Young-Min Kim*, Jungseek Hwang*, Se-Young Jeong*, “Coherent consolidation of trillions of nucleations for mono-atom step-level flat surfaces”, Nature Communications 14, 685 (2023). (†equal contribution)  

• Woo-Sung Jang†, Vy Ngoc Pham†, Sang-Hyeok Yang, Jaeyoon Baik, Hangil Lee*, Young-Min Kim*, “Enhanced selective photocatalytic oxidation of a bio-derived platform chemical with vacancy-induced core-shell anatase TiO2 nanoparticles”, Applied Catalysis B-Environmental 322, 122140 (2023). (†equal contribution) 

• Seunghun Kang†, Woo-Sung Jang†, Anna N. Morozovska†, Owoong Kwon, Yeongrok Jin, Young-Hoon Kim, Hagyoul Bae, Chenxi Wang, Sang-Hyeok Yang, Alex Belianinov, Steven Randolph, Eugene A. Eliseev, Liam Collins, Yeehyun Park, Sanghyun Jo, Min-Hyoung Jung, Kyoung-June Go, Hae Won Cho, Si-Young Choi, Jae Hyuck Jang, Sunkook Kim, Hu Young Jeong, Jaekwang Lee, Olga S. Ovchinnikova, Jinseong Heo*, Sergei V. Kalinin*, Young-Min Kim*, Yunseok Kim*, “Highly enhanced ferroelectricity in HfO2-based ferroelectric thin film by light ion bombardment”, Science 376(6594), 731-738 (2022). (†equal contribution)

• Young-Hoon Kim†, Sang-Hyeok Yang†, Myoungho Jeong†, Min-Hyoung Jung, Daehee Yang, Hyangsook Lee, Taehwan Moon, Jinseong Heo, Hu Young Jeong, Eunha Lee*, Young-Min Kim*, “Hybrid deep learning crystallographic mapping of polymorphic phases in polycrystalline Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 thin films”, Small 18(18), 2107620 (2022). (†equal contribution) 

• Su Jae Kim†, Yong In Kim†, Bipin Lamichhane†, Young-Hoon Kim, Yousil Lee, Chae Ryong Cho, Miyeon Cheon, Jong Chan Kim, Hu Young Jeong, Taewoo Ha, Young Hee Lee, Seong-Gon Kim*, Young-Min Kim*, Se-Young Jeong*, “Flat-surface-assisted and self-regulated oxidation resistance of Cu(111)”, Nature 603(7901), 434-438 (2022). (†equal contribution) 

• Woo-Sung Jang†, Yeongrok Jin†, Young-Hoon Kim†, Sang-Hyeok Yang, Seon Je Kim, Jung A. Hong, Jaeyoon Baik, Jaekwang Lee*, Hangil Lee*, Young-Min Kim*, “Site-selective doping mechanisms for the enhanced photocatalytic activity of tin oxide nanoparticles”, Applied Catalysis B-Environmental 305, 121083 (2022). (†equal contribution) 

• Sang-Hyeok Yang, Wooseon Choi, Byeong Wook Cho, Frederick Osei-Tutu Agyapong-Fordjour, Sehwan Park, Seok Joon Yun, Hyung-Jin Kim, Young-Kyu Han, Young Hee Lee, Ki Kang Kim, Young-Min Kim*, “Deep learning-assisted quantification of atomic dopants and defects in 2D materials”, Advanced Science 8(16), 2101099 (2021). 

• Taewon Min†, Wooseon Choi†, Jinsol Seo†, Gyeongtak Han, Kyung Song, Sangwoo Ryu, Hyungwoo Lee, Jungwoo Lee, Kitae Eom, Chang-Beom Eom, Hu Young Jeong, Young-Min Kim*, Jaekwang Lee*, Sang Ho Oh*, “Cooperative evolution of polar distortion and nonpolar rotation of oxygen octahedra in oxide heterostructures”, Science Advances 7(17), eabe9053 (2021). (†equal contribution) 

• Young-Min Kim*,†, Kyu Hyoung Lee†, Liangwei Fu†, Min-Wook Oh, Sang-Hyeok Yang, Shoucong Ning, Gyeongtak Han, Min Young Kim, Ji-Soo Kim, Myoungho Jeong, Jaeduck Jang, Eunha Lee, Okunishi Eiji, Sawada Hidetaka, Sang-il Kim, Stephen J. Pennycook, Young Hee Lee, Sung Wng Kim*, “Atomic-scale chemical mapping of copper dopants in Bi2Te2.7Se0.3 thermoelectric alloy”, Materials Today Physics 17, 100347 (2021). (†equal contribution) 

• Ganesh Ghimire†, Krishna P. Dhakal†, Wooseon Choi†, Yonas Assefa Esthete†, Seon Je Kim, Tran Thu Trang, Hyoyoung Lee, Heejun Yang, Dinh Loc Duong, Young-Min Kim*, Jeongyong Kim*, “Doping-mediated lattice-engineering of monolayer ReS2 for modulating in-plane anisotropy of optical and transport properties”, ACS Nano 15(8), 13770-13780 (2021). 

• Shrawan Roy†, Wooseon Choi†, Sera Jeon†, Do-Hwan Kim, Hyun Kim, Seok Joon Yun, Yongjun Lee, Jaekwang Lee*, Young-Min Kim*, Jeongyong Kim*, ”Atomic Observation of Filling Vacancies in Monolayer Transition Metal Sulfides by Chemically Sourced Sulfur Atoms”, Nano Letters 18(7), 4523-4530 (2018) (†equal contribution) 

• Ki Sung Kim†, Young-Min Kim†, Hyeona Mun†, Jisoo Kim, Jucheol Park, Albina Y. Borisevich, Kyu Hyoung Lee, Sung Wng Kim*, ”Direct observation of inherent atomic-scale defect disorders responsible for high thermoelectric performance of Ti1-xHfxNiSn1-ySby half-Heusler alloys”, Advanced Materials 29, 1702091 (2017). (†equal contribution) 

• Young-Min Kim, Anna N. Morozovska, Eugene A. Eliseev, Mark P. Oxley, Rohan Mishra, Sverre M. Selbach, Tor Grande, Sokrates T. Pantelides, Sergei V. Kalinin, Albina Y. Borisevich, ”Direct observation of ferroelectric field effect and vacancy-controlled screening at the BiFeO3-LaxSr1-xMnO3 interface”, Nature Materials 13, 1019-1025 (2014).

• Rohan Mishra†, Young-Min Kim†, Juan Salafranca, Seongkeun Kim, Seo Hyoung Chang, Anand Bhattacharya, Dillon D. Fong, Stephen J. Pennycook, Sokrates T. Pantelides, Albina Y. Borisevich, ”Oxygen-vacancy-induced polar behavior in (LaFeO3)2/(SrFeO3) superlattices”, Nano Letters 14, 2694-2701 (2014). (†equal contribution)

• Young-Min Kim, Amit Kumar, Alison Hatt, Anna N. Morozovska, Alexander Tselev, Michael D. Biegalski, Ilya Ivanov, Eugene A. Eliseev, Stephen J. Pennycook, James M. Rondinelli, Sergei V. Kalinin, Albina Y. Borisevich, ”Interplay of octahedral tilts and polar order in BiFeO3 films”, Advanced Materials 25(17), 2497-2504 (2013).

• Young-Min Kim, Jun He, Michael D. Biegalski, Hailemariam Ambaye, Valeria Lauter, Hans M. Christen, Sokrates T. Pantelides, Stephen J. Pennycook, Sergei V. Kalinin, Albina Y. Borisevich, “Probing oxygen vacancy concentration and homogeneity in solid-oxide-fuel-cell cathode materials on the subunit-cell level”, Nature Materials 11, 888-894 (2012).