Professor Taeghwan Hyeon Visits Peiyang Lecture Hall

On April 16, professor Taeghwan Hyeon, an Associate Editor of JACS, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Materials Research Society, an Academician of South Korea, and Professor of Seoul national university, visited Peiyang lecture hall to start a seminar titled "Chemistry for the Nano, and Nano for Medicine & Energy"

In the 21st century, nanotechnology and nanomaterials will play an important role in the field of science and technology. Nanotechnology is one of the most promising technologies in the world today. Taeghwanis committed to designing the chemical synthesis of uniform nanocrystals, its assembly and application, especially developing a new general technique known as the "heat - up process", which can be used for direct synthesis of many metals, oxides and chalcogenide uniform nanocrystals.

In the report, Taeghwan introduced a green new method to produce large amount of synthetic nanoparticles, which has been well applied in biomedicine. In addition, he spoke about the development of ultra-flexible and stretchable functional nanomaterials, optoelectronic devices and their applications in wearable and implantable medical devices. Taeghwan then outlined the application of nano materials in lithium ion batteries, fuel cells, solar cells, thermoelectric materials. Finally, he discussed the role of metal oxide in them and the successful preparation of all kinds of hollow metal oxide nanocrystals, which have been applied in a variety of electric catalytic process.

In interactive link, Taeghwan made a detailed explanation around nanoparticles synthesis, mechanism and application in the field of medical problems, and stressed that in the process of scientific research, to pay attention to the development of solid foundation and innovative ability, pointing out the importance of team work.

So far,Taeghwan has published more than 350 papers in journals such as Science, Nature Materials, Nature Science, Nature Reviews Materials and other journals. The total number of citations are more than 41,000 times, and h-index is greater than 110. Besides, professor Taeghwan Hyeon is selected by UNESCO & IUPAC's top 100 international chemists and materials scientists (37 in chemistry, 19 in the world of materials).