Jae-Woo Kim
Work Address: MS 226, NASA LaRC, 6a West Taylor Street, Hampton, VA 23681
Tel: 757-864-1383
Fax: 757-864-8312
Email: jkim@nianet.org, jae-woo.kim-1@nasa.gov, sidewalkim@gmail.com
Research Interests
• Nano-Materials for energy related applications (Fuel Cell, Bio-fuel Cell, Bionanobattery)
• Surface Electrochemistry and in-situ Electrochemical Scanning Probe Microscopy
• Characterization tool development using in-situ TEM-AFM & in-situ Microtester-SEM
• Nanotube-Polymer Composites
• Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials
Current Research
• Fundamental Aeronautics: Subsonic Fixed Wing Program, NASA
• Diployable Polymer Nanocomposite Solar Power Panel, NASA LaRC
• Nanotechnology for Commercial Air Transport Applications, Airbus
• Multifunctional Boron Nitride Nanotube Polymer Composites, DOE
• Large Scale Fabrication of Thin Polymer Nanocomposite Films, NSF
Publications
• J.-W. Kim, A. E. Posey, G. D. Watt, S.-H. Choi, and P. T. Lillehei, “Gold Nanoshells Assembly on a Ferritin Protein Employed as a Bio-template”, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 10, 1771-1777 (2010).
• M. W. Smith, K. C. Jordan, C. Park, J.-W. Kim, P. T. Lillehei, R. Crooks, and J. S. Harrison, “A New Class of Boron Nitride Nanotubes via the Pressurized Vapor/Condenser Method”, Nanotechnology 20, 505604 (2009).
• P. T. Lillehei, J.-W. Kim, L. J. Gibbons, and C. Park, “Quantitative Assessment of Carbon Nanotube Dispersion in Polymer Matrices”, Nanotechnology 20, 325708 (2009).
• C. Lovell, K. E. Wise, J.-W. Kim, P. T. Lillehei, and C. Park, “Physical Property Enhancement of a Single Wall Carbon Nanotube/Synthetic Polypeptide Nanocomposite”, Polymer 50, 1925-1932 (2009).
• P. T. Lillehei, J-W. Kim, C. Park, R. E. Crooks, and E. J. Siochi, “Optical, Electron, and Scanned Probe Microscopy”, NIST Practice Guide: Measurement Issues in Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes, Special Publication 960-19, Mar. (2008).
• J.-W. Kim, S.-H. Choi, P. T. Lillehei, S.-H. Chu, G. C. King, and G. D. Watt, “Electrochemically Controlled Reconstitution of Immobilized Ferritins for Bioelectronics Applications”, J. Electroanal. Chem., 601, (1-2) 8-16 (2007).
• D.-H. Han, J.-W. Kim and S.-M. Park, “Electrochemistry of Conductive Polymers: 39. Electrodeposited Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) Studied by Current Sensing AFM”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 110, (30) 14874-14880 (2006).
• B. Zhang, J. N. Harb, R. C. Davis, S. Choi, J.-W. Kim, T. Miller, S.-H. Chu, and G. D. Watt, “Electron Exchange Between Fe(II)-Horse Spleen Ferritin and Co(III)/Mn(III) Reconstituted Horse Spleen and Azotobacter Vinelandii Ferritins”, Biochemistry, 45, (18) 5766-5774 (2006).
• G. Yang, J. Tang, S. Kato, Q. Zhang, L. C. Qin, M. Woodson, J. Liu, J.-W. Kim, P. T. Lillehei, C. Park, and O. Zhou, “Magnetic Nanowire Based High-Resolution Magnetic Force Microscope Probes”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 87, (12) 123507 (2005).
• J.-W. Kim, S.-H. Choi, P. T. Lillehei, S.-H. Chu, G. C. King, and G. D. Watt, “Cobalt Oxide Hollow Nanoparticles Derived by Biotemplating”, Chem. Commun., (32), 4101-4103 (2005).