Young-Bum Kim
Hanyang University · 材料科学
研究室紹介
Professor Young-Bum Kim's research lab specializes in advanced materials and nanostructured devices for clean energy applications, with a primary focus on low-temperature solid oxide fuel cells (LT-SOFCs). The lab investigates novel thin-film architectures, epitaxial oxide interlayers (such as YDC and GDC), and advanced deposition techniques like atomic layer deposition (ALD) and pulsed laser deposition (PLD) to enhance electrochemical performance. Key research directions include minimizing noble metal usage, engineering triple-phase boundaries, and optimizing oxygen reduction kinetics through nanostructuring and surface engineering. The lab also explores extracellular vesicle isolation and characterization using advanced separation and detection techniques, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach bridging energy materials and biointerfaces.
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Selected Papers
15Obtaining high power density at low operating temperatures has been an ongoing challenge in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC), which are efficient engines to generate electrical energy from fuels. Here we report successful demonstration of a thin-film three-dimensional (3-D) SOFC architecture achieving a peak power density of 1.3 W/cm(2) obtained at 450 °C. This is made possible by nanostructuring of the ultrathin (60 nm) electrolyte interposed with a nanogranular catalytic interlayer at the cathode
Abstract This paper reports both experimental and theoretical results of the role of surface modification on the oxygen reduction reaction in low‐temperature solid oxide fuel cells (LT‐SOFC). Epitaxial ultrathin films of yttria‐doped ceria (YDC) cathode interlayers (<10–130 nm) are grown by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) on single‐crystalline YSZ(100). Fuel cell current–voltage measurements and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy are performed in the temperature range of 350 °C ≈ 450 °C. Qu
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are cell-derived membrane-bound particles, including exosomes and microvesicles that differ in cellular origin, content, and lipid composition. This study reports that exosomes and microvesicles can be simultaneously separated by size using flow field-flow fractionation (FlFFF) employed with field programming and that the detection of low-concentration EV species can be significantly improved using multiangle light scattering (MALS). The efficiency of ultracentrifuga
This paper describes the fabrication and investigation of morphologically stable model electrode structures with well-defined and sharp platinum/yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) interfaces to study geometric effects at triple phase boundaries (TPBs). A nanosphere patterning technique using monodispersed silica nanoparticles, which are applied to the YSZ surface by the Langmuir-Blodgett method, is employed to deposit nonporous platinum electrodes containing close-packed arrays of circular opening
Because noble metal catalysts (e.g. Pt) are one of the main contributors to low-temperature (<500 °C) fuel cell costs, significant efforts have been made to lower the noble metal loading in constructing fuel cell electrodes. In this work, ultra-thin (∼10 nm) platinum (Pt) cathode/catalyst layers were patterned by atomic layer deposition (ALD) and tested as catalytic electrodes (cathode) for low-temperature solid oxide fuel cells. We found that 180 cycles or approximately 10 nm of ALD Pt, with a