Hyeon Taeghwan

This is a Korean name; the family name is Hyeon.
Taeghwan Hyeon
Born 1964 (age 50–51)
Daegu, South Korea
Residence Seoul
Nationality South Korean
Fields Chemistry,Material Science, Nanoscience
Institutions Northwestern University
Seoul National University
Alma mater Seoul National University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Known for nanotechnology
Notable awards 2008 POSCO-T.J. Park Science Award
2010 SNU Distinguished Fellow
2012 Ho-am Prize in Engineering
Hyeon Taeghwan
Hangul 현택환
Hanja 玄澤煥
Revised Romanization Hyeon Taek-hwan
McCune–Reischauer Hyǒn T'aekhwan

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[1] of Seoul National University[2] 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

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.

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).[3][4]

Solution base synthesis
Synthesized nanoparticles
FION(Ferrimagnetic Iron Oxide Nanocubes) MRI image in mouse and pig

Honors and Awards

References

  1. ↑ http://cbe.snu.ac.kr/
  2. ↑ http://en.snu.ac.kr/
  3. ↑ http://www.sciencewatch.com/dr/sci/misc/Top100Chemists2000-10/
  4. ↑ http://www.sciencewatch.com/dr/sci/misc/Top100Chemists2000-10/

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