Taeghwan Hyeon (born 9 December 1964) is a South Korean scientist in researching chemical synthesis and applications of nanocrystals. He joined the faculty of the School of Chemical and Biological Engineering of Seoul National University in 1997. His research group actively studies synthesis of uniformly sized nanocrystals and their various applications. He directed the National Creative Research Initiative Center for Oxide Nanocrystalline Materials (2001-2011). In June 2012, he was appointed as a Director of Center for Nanoparticle Research of Institute for Basic Science (IBS). He was appointed as University Distinguished Professor in 2010. Since 2010, he has been serving as an associate editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
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Biography
Hyeon was born in Dalseong County, Daegu, South Korea. Hyeon studied chemistry and received his B.A. in 1987 and M.S. in 1989 at Seoul National University, and Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry in 1996 at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of Kenneth S. Suslick. At Illinois Hyeon studied sonochemical synthesis of nanostructured catalytic and magnetic materials. From June 1996 to July 1997, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Wolfgang M. H. Sachtler group at Northwestern University.
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Career
Hyeon is a leading scientist in the area of synthesis, assembly, and biomedical applications of uniform-sized nanoparticles. In particular, his research group developed a new generalized synthetic procedure, called as "heat-up process", to produce uniform-sized nanoparticles of many transition metals and oxides without a size selection process. Recently his group has been focused on designed fabrication of multifunctional nanostructured materials based on uniform-sized nanoparticles and their bio-medical applications. Hyeon developed a new T1 MRI contrast agent using biocompatible manganese oxide (MnO) nanoparticles, exhibiting detailed anatomic structures of mouse brain. His group reported on the fabrication of monodisperse magnetite nanoparticles immobilized with uniform pore-sized mesoporous silica spheres for simultaneous MRI, fluorescence imaging, and drug delivery.
He has delivered more than 30 invited lectures in prominent international conferences sponsored by the Materials Research Society, American Chemical Society, and Gordon Research Conferences, and more than 20 invited lectures at UC-Berkeley, Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Cornell, and Columbia. He is currently serving as editorial (advisory) board member of Advanced Materials (Wiley-VCH), Chemistry of Materials (ACS), Nanoscale (RSC), Nano Today (Elsevier), and Small (Wiley-VCH). In 2011, he was selected among "Top 100 Chemists" of the decade (2000-2010) by UNESCO&IUPAC (ranked at 37; 19 in Materials Science).
Honors and awards
- Fellow of Materials Research Society, 2013
- Ho-am Prize in Engineering (2012, Samsung Hoam Foundation)
- SNU Distinguished Fellow, February 2010
- POSCO-T J Park Award, POSCO-ChungAm Foundation, March 2008
- Shinyang Science Award, Shinyang Foundation, December 2007,
- Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, UK,since September 2006.
- Excellent Researcher Award, Division of Inorganic Chemistry of the Korean Chemical Society, April 2005
- The 4th DuPont Science and Technology Award, DuPont Korea, April 2005
- Scientist of the Month Award, Ministry of Science and Technology,Korea, August 2002
- 5th Korean Young Scientist Award, Awarded to one researcher in a given field per every other year by the President of South Korea, March 2002
- The first Korean Chemical Society-Wiley Young Chemist Award, Korean Chemical Society, October 2001
- T. S. Piper Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Inorganic Chemistry, 1996 (Best thesis award in the Inorganic Chemistry Division of UIUC).
- University of Illinois Chemistry Department Fellowship,1993-1996
- Korean Government Oversea Fellowship,1991-1996
References
External links
- Hyeon group
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