Principal Investigator

Personal Information

• Name: Young Joon Hong / 홍영준 / 洪暎晙 (SCOPUS; Reserach ID; Google Scholar; Mendeley)

• Position: Professor & Associate Provost

• Email: yjhong@sejong.ac.kr 

  • Phone: +82-2-3408-4382 

  • Faculty: 

    1. Department of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Engineering (Link)

    2. Graphene Research Institute (GRI, Link)

    3. GRI-TPC (Texas Photonics Center) International Research Center (between Sejong U & The University of Texas at Dallas) 

    4. MCMRC (Metal-organic Compounds Materials Research Center, 금속유기화합물 첨단소재응용 핵심연구지원센터, Link) 

• Office: Choongmu-gwan Bld. Rm 406D

• Mailing address: Dept. of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Engineering, Sejong University, Neungdong-Ro 209, Gwangjin-Gu, Seoul, 05006 Republic of Korea

Educations 

• 2004-2011: Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH), Korea / Ph.D (Materials Science & Engineering)
  Thesis title: Position-controlled selective growth of wide bandgap semiconductor nano- and microstructures for light-emitting device applications (Advisors: Gyu-Chul Yi & Moon-Ho Jo)

• 1998-2004: Korea University, Korea / B.S. (Materials Science & Engineering) 

Professional/Academic/Administrative Experiences

• 2021.9- present: Associate Provost, Office of Planning and Budgeting, Sejong University, Korea (기획처 부처장)

• 2020.9 - 2021.8: Associate Provost, Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation, Sejong University, Korea (연구처 산학협력단 부단장) 

• 2020.8 - present: Academician Member & Board Member, the Korean Physical Society, Korea 

• 2020.1 - present: Board Member, Materials Research Society of Korea, Korea 

• 2019.3 - 2020.2: Visiting Professor, Dept. of Advanced Materials Science & Engineering, Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH), Korea 

• 2019.1 - present: Vice Executive Editor, Current Applied Physics (Elsevier, an official journal of the Korean Physical Society) 

• 2017.2 - 2019.2: Department Chair, Dept. of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Engineering, Sejong University, Korea  

• 2015.2 - 2017.1: Program Director in Accreditation Board for Engineering Education of Korea (ABEEK), Sejong University, Korea  

• 2012.9 - present: Assistant/Associate/Tenured Full Professor, Dept. of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Engineering, Sejong University, Korea 

• 2011.3 - 2012.8: JSPS Research Associate, Research Center for Integrated Quantum Electronics, Hokkaido University, Japan 

10 Selected Publications

• "Remote epitaxial interaction through graphene" Sci. Adv. 9(42), adj5379 (2023) (Link) 

• "Exceptional thermochemical stability of graphene on N-polar GaN for remote epitaxy" ACS Nano 17(21), 21678–21689  (2023) (Link)

• "Vertical full-colour micro-LEDs via 2D materials-based layer transfer" Nature 614, 81–87 (2023) (Link) 

• "Remote epitaxy" Nat. Rev. Methods Primers 2, 40 (2022) (Link)

• "Remote heteroepitaxy of GaN microrod heterostructures for deformable light-emitting diodes and wafer recycle" Sci. Adv. 6 (23), eaaz5180 (2020) (Link) 

• "Remote homoepitaxy of ZnO microrods across graphene layers" Nanoscale 10, 22970 (2018) (Link) 

• "Phytic Acid-Doped Polyaniline Nanofibers for Enhanced Aqueous Copper(II) Adsorption Capability" ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 5, 6654 (2017) (Link)

• "Van der Waals Epitaxial Double Heterostructure: InAs/Single-Layer Graphene/InAs" Adv. Mater. 25, 6847 (2013) (Link)

• "van der Waals Epitaxy of InAs Nanowires Vertically Aligned on Single-Layer Graphene" Nano Lett. 12, 1431 (2012) (Link)

• "Visible-Color-Tunable Light-Emitting Diodes" Adv. Mater. 23, 3284 (2011) (Link) 

Honors & Awards

• Gold Medal, Best Invention Prize & Best Invertor Prize (2008 Salon International des Invention, Geneve, Switzerland)

• Young Scientist Award (2007 E-MRS Spring Meeting, Strassburg, France) 

Research Interest

• Micro-LED Display Fabrications & Applications

• Semiconductor 3-D Nanoarchitecture Optoelectronics & Electronics 

• Semiconductor van der Waals and Remote Heteroepitaxy

• Quantum-Dot-based Optoelectronics 

• Conducting Polymer Nanostructures for Environmental and Energy Storage Applications