PARK Somin
Assistant Professor, NUS Presidential Young Professorship
Postdoc, Northwestern University, 2024; University of Toronto, 2023; Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 2020; B.S. and M.S., Gyeongsang National University, 2013.
Contact Information:
Office: MD1-17-03D
Tel: (65)-6516-2011
Fax: (65)-6779-1691
Email: sompark@nus.edu.sg
Research
Recognition and Achievements
- NUS Presidential Young Professorship, NUS, 2024
- American Chemical Society Physical Chemistry Young Investigator Award, 2023
- Rising Stars in Materials Science and Engineering (Stanford, MIT, CMU), 2023
- MIT Chemical Engineering Rising Stars, 2023
- Polymer Society Korea-INNOX Young Investigator Award, 2023
- Viji Jeganathan Scholarship, Cross-cultural understanding, 2019
- Outstanding Poster Presentation, Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association, 2015
- Capstone Design Portfolio Competition Honorable Mention, Ministry of Education, South Korea, 2010
- Interdisciplinary Research Scholarship Bridging Academia and Industry, 2010
Research Interests
The Park Group aims to develop new strategies to control the surface of organic and hybrid semiconductor materials. Combining innovative functional organic material synthesis and advanced multi-spectroscopic surface characterization, we will focus to investigate underlying fundamental knowledge of surface interaction, carrier dynamics, and holistic energetic landscapes across the interfaces. Leveraging our understanding of surface chemistry, organic modification, and optoelectronic properties, our group will develop practical multi-layered photonic devices. Furthermore, we will harness the new functionalities enabled by surface modification for broad impacts across pressing applications, including flexible electronics, artificial intelligence, efficient lighting, and sensing.
Representative Publications
- Park, S.M.; Wei, M.; Lempesis, N.; Yu, W.; Hossain, T.; Agosta, L.; Carnevali, V.; Atapattu, H. R.; Serles, P.; Eickemeyer, F.T.; Shin, H.; Vafaie, M.; Choi, D.; Darabi, K.; Jung, E.D.; Yang, Y.; Kim, D.B.; Zakeeruddin, S.M.; Chen, B.; Amassian, A.; Filleter, T.; Kanatzidis, M.G.; Graham, K.R.; Xiao, L.; Rothlisberger, U.; Graetzel, M.; Sargent, E.H., Low-Loss Contacts on Textured Substrates for Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells. Nature. 2023, 624,289-294.
- Park, S.M.; Wei, M.; Xu, J.; Atapattu, H.R.; Eickemeyer, F.T.; Darabi, K.; Grater, L.; Teale, S.; Yang, Y.; Liu, C.; Chen, B.; Chen, H.; Wang, T.; Zeng, L.; Maxwell, A.; Wang, Z.; Rao, K.R.; Cai, Z.; Zakeeruddin, S.M.; Pham, J.T.; Risko, C.M.; Amassian, A.; Kanatzidis, M.G.; Graham, K.R.; Graetzel, M.; Sargent, E.H., Engineering Ligand Reactivity Enables High-Temperature-Operating-Stable Perovskite Solar Cells. Science. 2023, 381, 6654, 209-215.
- Park, S.M.; Sargent, E.H., Navigating Pathways to Increase Stability in Perovskite Solar Cells. Matter, 2023, 6, 8, 2488-2490.
- Shen, W.S.; Liu, Y.; Grater, L.; Park, S.M.; Wan, H.; Yu, Y.J.; Pan, J.L.; Kong, F.C.; Tian, Q.S.; Zhou, D.Y.; Liu, Z.; Ma, W.; Sun, B.; Wang, Y.K.; Hoogland, S.; Liao, L.S., Thickness-Variation-Insensitive Near-Infrared Quantum Dot LEDs. Sci. Bull. 2023, 68, 2954-2961.
- Lee, S.; Park, S.M.; Jung, E.D.; Zhu, T.; Pina, J.M.; Anwar, H.; Li, F.; Chen, G.; Dong, Y.; Cui, T.; Wei, M.; Bertens, K.; Wang, Y.; Chen, B.; Filleter, T.; Hung, S.; Won, Y.; Kim, K.H.; Hoogland, S.; Sargent, E.H., Dipole Engineering Through the Orientation of Interface Molecules for Efficient InP Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diodes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 20923-20930.
- Park, S.M.; Abtahi, A.; Boehm, A.; Graham, K.R., Surface Ligands for Methylammonium Lead Iodide Films: Surface Coverage, Energetics, and Photovoltaic Performance. ACS Energy Lett. 2020, 5, 799-806.
- Park, S.M.; Mazza, S.; Liang, Z.; Abtahi, A.; Boehm, A.; Parkin, S.; Anthony, J.; Graham, K.R., Processing Dependent Influence of The Hole Transport Layer Ionization Energy on Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite Photovoltaics. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. 2018, 10, 15548-15557.
