Taeghwan Hyeon
Born1964 (age 59–60)
Dalseong County, Daegu, South Korea
NationalitySouth Korean
Alma materSeoul National University (B.S. 1987, M.S. 1989)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Ph.D. 1996)
Known forNanotechnology
Awards2008 POSCO TJ Park Prize
2010 SNU Distinguished Fellow
2012 Ho-am Prize in Engineering
2020 Clarivate Citation Laureate
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry, material science, nanoscience
InstitutionsNorthwestern University
Seoul National University
Institute for Basic Science
ThesisNanostructured Catalytic and Magnetic Materials: Sonochemical Synthesis and Characterization[1]
Doctoral advisorKenneth S. Suslick
Korean name
Hangul
Hanja
Revised RomanizationHyeon Taek-hwan
McCune–ReischauerHyǒn T'aekhwan

Taeghwan Hyeon (born in 1964) is a South Korean chemist. He is SNU distinguished professor in the School of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Seoul National University, director of Center for Nanoparticle Research of Institute for Basic Science (IBS), and an associate editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.[2]

Hyeon is recognized by his pioneering work in chemical synthesis of uniformly sized nanocrystals and various applications of functional nanomaterials. In 2011, he was listed as the 37th most cited chemist and the 19th in materials science among “Top 100 Chemists” of the decade by UNESCO&IUPAC.[3] He has published over 350 papers in prominent international journals with more than 70,000 citations and an h-index of 137. Since 2014, he has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher in chemistry and materials science by Clarivate Analytics[4] and became a Clarivate Citation Laureate in 2020.[5]

Biography

Hyeon was born in Dalseong County, Daegu, South Korea. He received his B.A. degree in 1987 and M.S. in 1989 from Chemistry Department of Seoul National University, and Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996 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.[6] He joined the faculty of the School of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Seoul National University in 1997.

Career

Hyeon is a leading scientist in the area of synthesis, assembly, and biomedical applications of uniformly sized nanoparticles. In particular, his research group developed a new generalized synthetic strategy, called “heat-up process”, for producing uniform-sized nanoparticles of many transition metals and oxides without a size selection process. With this simple and inexpensive method, his group went on to design and fabricate multifunctional nanostructured materials for biomedical 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. The first demonstration of high-resolution in vivo three-photon imaging using biocompatible and bright Mn2+ doped ZnS nanocrystals was published in 2013. Uniformly sized iron oxide nanoclusters could be successfully used as T1 MR contrast agent for high-resolution MR angiography of macaque monkeys.

His research interests also includes engineering the architecture of nanomaterials and utilizing them in lithium ion battery, fuel cell electrocatalysts, solar cells, and thermoelectrics. The group reported in 2013 the first demonstration of galvanic replacement reactions in metal oxide nanocrystals, and were able to synthesize hollow nanocrystals of various multimetallic oxides including Mn3O4/γ-Fe2O3. (Ref)

He has delivered more than 30 invited lectures in 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.

Honors and awards

References

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  2. ↑ "Nanomaterials Lab - Hyeon Research Group". Hyeon Research Group. Seoul National University. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  3. ↑ "Top 100 Chemists, 2000-2010: Special Report on High-impact Chemists". Web Archive. Science Watch. Archived from the original on 19 January 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  4. ↑ "IBS Places First Among Korean Institutions by Featuring 9 Scientists in List of Highly Cited Researchers". Institute for Basic Science. 4 December 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
  5. 1 2 "Seoul National University's HYEON Taeghwan named to Clarivate Analytics's Nobel Prize watch list". Institute for Basic Science. 23 September 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
  6. ↑ "BRIC - 저자 CV". BRIC. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  7. ↑ "IVA gets a boost with 40 new Fellows – here is the list". Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. 7 December 2023. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  8. ↑ "현택환 교수, 스웨덴공학한림원 외국 회원 선출… 한국인 4번째". The Dong-a Ilbo (in Korean). 11 December 2023. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  9. ↑ 이시은 (17 March 2022). "한국공학한림원 대상에 현택환 서울대 석좌교수". 한경 IT 과학 (in Korean). Retrieved 9 June 2022.
  10. ↑ 길애경 (27 December 2020). "연구자 1325명이 선정한 올해 바이오 성과 TOP5". 헬로디디 (in Korean). Retrieved 28 December 2020.
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  12. ↑ 강기헌--> (12 July 2016). "'대한민국 최고과학기술인상' 권오준·현택환". JoongAng Ilbo (in Korean). Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  13. ↑ "Seven IBS Scientists Named World's Most Highly Cited Researchers: Accounting for 13.1% of Korea's scientists on the list". Institute for Basic Science. 20 November 2019. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  14. ↑ Lee, Nohyun; Yoo, Dongwon; Ling, Daishun; Cho, Mi Hyeon; Hyeon, Taeghwan; Cheon, Jinwoo (7 August 2015). "Iron oxide based nanoparticles for multimodal imaging and magnetoresponsive therapy". Chemical Reviews. 115 (19): 10637–10689. doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00112. PMID 26250431.
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  16. ↑ "10년 뒤 한국을 빛낼 100인". The Dong-a Ilbo (in Korean). 2011. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  17. ↑ "Top 100 Chemists, 2000-2010: Special Report on High-impact Chemists". Web Archive. Science Watch. Archived from the original on 19 January 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  18. ↑ "Prof. HYEON Joined World Top 100 Chemists". Seoul National University. 18 February 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  19. ↑ "Science Prize Awardees(2008)". POSCO TJ Park Foundation. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  20. ↑ "과학계 신인상 받은 '젊은과학자상 수상자들'…20년 만에 주역으로 우뚝". Korean Academy of Science and Technology (in Korean). 10 August 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
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