D130, Nano Materials & System Lab Engineering Building-4, Jeju National University,Ara-1-dong, Jeju-si, Jeju-do,Republic of Korea, 690-756
Education
Ph.D. Electrical and Communication Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan, 1997
M.E., Mechanical Engineering, Pukyong National University, Korea, Korea, 1993
B.E., Mechanical Engineering, Pukyong National University, Korea, Korea, 1988
Professional Experiences
2021 - Fellow, The Korea Academy of Science and Tehnology(KAST)
2002 - Professor, Jeju National University, KOREA
2014 - Visiting Scholar, Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech.,), USA
2005 - Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge, UK
2002 - Senior Researcher, Nanomaterial Laboratory, National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS), JAPAN
2001 - Guest Associate Professor, New Industry Creation Hatchery Center (NICHe), Tohoku University, JAPAN
1999 - Research Fellow, Japan Science and Technology (JST) Corporation, JAPAN
1997 - Lecturer, Research Institute of Electrical Communication (RIEC), Tohoku University, JAPAN
1988 - Officer in ROK Army (ROTC)
Research Interests
Nanomaterials and systems
Triboelectric/Piezoelectric nanogenerators and Hybrid energy systems
Piezotronics and Piezophototronics
Self-powered sensors and Systems
Supercapacitors and self-charging power cell
Hybrid Fuel cells
Professional Activities
Reviewer for Scientific Journals
(Nature Communications, Advanced materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Energy & Environmental Sciences, ACS Nano, Advanced
Functional Materials, Nano Energy, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B & C, Small, ACS Applied materials and Interfaces, etc.)
President, Division of Reliability Engineering, The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (KSME)
Academic director, Division of Micro-Nano Engineering, KSME
Editorial director, The Korean Society of Power System Engineering (KSPSE)
Regional Director,The Society of Micro and Nano Systems (Life-time member)
Member of The Korean Physical Society
Life-time member of The Korean Sensor Society
Member of The Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP)
Honors and Awards
Prime Minister's Commendation on Teacher's Day, (2021)
Annual Academic Awards of Reliability, The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (KSME), (2021)
Ministerial Citation, Ministry of Science and ICT (2019)
Annual Academic Awards of Experimental Mechanics, The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (KSME), (2019)
Annual Academic Awards of The Society of Micro and Nano Systems
Excellence Prof. Award for Ph.D. thesis direction, JNU, for 7 times (2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)
Excellence Prof. Award for Research Achievement, JNU, for 3 times (2007, 2013, 2017)
Excellence Prof. Award for Capstone Design Direction (Grand Prize), JNU for 7 times (2007, 2008(2 times), 2009 (2 times) and 2010)
Academic Award of Micro Systems Corporation (2018.12.)
Outstanding thesis advisor award, Jeju National University, (2015.02)
Outstanding thesis advisor award, Jeju National University, (2013.02)
WISET Presidential Award & Domestic Competetion Award_Shin So Yoon et al_2013.
Excellent reviewer award(2013)_Korea Research Foundation.
Excellent Research Professor Award, Jeju National University, (2012.02).
The best poster award in the 2009 spring meeting, The Korean Society of Physics, (2009.04)
The 5th Award of Superconducting Science and Technology,The society of Non-Traditional Technology (2001.04)
JSPS short-term visiting research award (503727),JSPS (2003. 06)
Excellent presentation awards in annual meeting, Japan Electronic Materials Society (2001.10)
Ogasawara Science and Technique Promotion Foundation Research Award (2001.04)
Marubun Research Foundation Research Award (2000.03)
Sinseidai Research Foundation Research Award (2000.09)
Publications
Above 300 SCI papers & 30 patents (Int. Pat. 9) in the following areas: Nanomaterials and the devices. Energy harvesting materials and the devices, Self-charging supercapacitor power cell, Carbon materials and the devices, Josephson devices, Self-powered storage & nanobio sensors, THz devices, Single electron tunneling devices etc.
Two-dimensional siloxene nanosheets: novel high-performance supercapacitor electrode materials, K Krishnamoorthy, P Pazhamalai, SJ Kim, Energy & Environmental Science 6 (11), 1595-1602 (2018)
Metal-organic Framework: A Novel Material for Triboelectric Nanogenerator based Self-powered Sensor and Systems, G Khandelwal, A Chandrasekhar, NPMJ Raj, SJ Kim, Advanced Energy Materials 9 (14), 1803581 (2019)
Piezoelectric-Driven Self-Charging Supercapacitor Power Cell, Ananthakumar Ramadoss, Balasubramaniam Saravanakumar, Seung Woo Lee,Young-Soo Kim, Sang Jae Kim. Zhong Lin Wang, ACS Nano 9 (4), 4337-4345 (2015)
Two faces under a hood: Unravelling the energy harnessing and storage properties of 1T-MoS2 quantum sheets for next-generation stand-alone energy systems, S Nardekar, K Krishnamoorthy, S Manoharan, P Pazhamalai, S Kim, ACS Nano (2022)
Materials Beyond Conventional Triboelectric Series for Fabrication and Applications of Triboelectric Nanogenerators, Gaurav Khandelwal, Nirmal Prashanth Maria Joseph Raj, Sang-Jae Kim, Advanced Energy Materials (2010)
Probing the energy conversion process in piezoelectric driven electrochemical self-charging supercapacitor power cell using piezoelectrochemical spectroscopy, Karthikeyan Krishnamoorthy, Parthiban Pazhamalai, Vimal Kumar Mariappan, Swapnil Shital Nardekar, Surjit Sahoo, Sang-Jae Kim, Nature Communication, 11:2351 (2020)
Two-dimensional siloxene-graphene heterostructure-based high-performance supercapacitor for capturing regenerative braking energy in electric vehicles, Karthikeyan Krishnamoorthy, Parthiban Pazhamalai, Vimal Kumar Mariappan, Swapnil Shital Nardekar, Dhanasekar Kesavan, Sang -Jae Kim, Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 31, Issue 10, 2008422
Zeolitic Imidazole Framework: A Metal-Organic Framework Subfamily Members for Triboelectric Nanogenerator, Gaurav Khandelwal, Nirmal Prashanth Maria Joseph Raj, Sang‐Jae Kim, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2020, 30(2), 1910162(8)
Triboelectric nanogenerator for healthcare and biomedical applications, Gaurav Khandelwal1, Nirmal Prashanth Maria Joseph Raj1, Sang-Jae Kim, Nano Today 33 (2020) 100882 (20.722)
Electrospun polymer-derived carbyne supercapacitor for AC line filtering, Vimal Kumar Mariappan, Karthikeyan Krishnamoorthy, Sindhuja Manoharan, Parthiban Pazhamalai, and Sang-Jae Kim, Small, 17(34), 2021, 2102971
Self-powered ferroelectric NTC thermistor based on bismuth titanate, NPMJ Raj, NR Alluri, A Chandrasekar, G Khandelwal, SJ Kim, Nano Energy 62, 329-337 (2019)
A Fully Packed Water-Proof, Humidity Resistant Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Transmitting Morse code, A Chandrasekhar, V Vivekananthan, G Khandelwal, SJ Kim, Nano Energy 60, 850 (2019)
Mechanical energy harvesting properties of free-standing carbyne enriched carbon film derived from dehydrohalogenation of polyvinylidene fluoride, K Krishnamoorthy, VK Mariappan, P Pazhamalai, S Sahoo, SJ Kim, Nano Energy 59, 453 (2019)
Nanostructured ternary metal chalcogenide-based binder-free electrodes for high energy density asymmetric supercapacitor, VK Mariappan, K Krishnamoorthy, P Pazhamalai, S Sahoo, SS Nardekar, Nano Energy 57, 307-316 (2018)
Photoactive Piezoelectric Energy Harvester Driven by Antimony Sulfoiodide (SbSI): AA V B VI C VII Class Ferroelectric-Semiconductor Compound, Y Purusothaman, NR Alluri, A Chandrasekhar, SJ Kim, Nano Energy 50, 256-265(2018)
Thermally reduced graphene oxide-coated fabrics for flexible supercapacitors and self-powered systems, A Ramadoss, B Saravanakumar, SJ Kim, Nano Energy 15, 587-597 (2015)
A highly sensitive electrochemical sensor for nitrite detection based on Fe2O3 nanoparticles decorated reduced grapheneoxide nanosheets, S Radhakrishnan, K Krishnamoorthy, C Sekar, J Wilson, SJ Kim, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 148, 22-28 (2014)