News
Recent papers, awards, talks, member milestones, and lab events.
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Sang-Hyeok Yang received the Silver Prize in the Young Scientist Award at NANO KOREA 2026, held at KINTEX, for his presentation "Crystallographic Mapping of Polymorphic Phase Distributions in Doped Hafnia Thin Films using Deep Learning-Embedded 4D-STEM CBED," originally presented at NANO KOREA 2025.
Event
Eun-Byeol Park and Yerin Jeon represent the lab at the European EELS & EFTEM School at TU Graz, Austria — a week of hands-on training in electron energy-loss spectroscopy.
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Yerin Jeon received the Excellence Award (oral) and Eun-Byeol Park received the Encouragement Award (poster) at the 11th BK Department of Energy Science Thesis Competition in Suwon.
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Sang-Hyeok Yang, Min-Hyoung Jung, Eun-Byeol Park, and Yerin Jeon spent two weeks at Oak Ridge National Laboratory through the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) user program.
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Prof. Young-Min Kim was named a 2024 SKKU Fellowship recipient — a university-level recognition of research excellence at Sungkyunkwan University.
Member
Sang-Hyeok Yang, Hee-Beom Lee, and Hyeon-Ah Ju completed their doctoral studies in early 2025 — best wishes for the next chapter at KRISS, Lam Research, and KAIST.
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Min-Hyoung Jung, Sang-Hyeak Yang received the Excellence Award(oral) and Yerin Jeon received Excellence Award(poster) at the 2024 Korean Society of Microscopy Spring Conference held in Hongcheon.
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Hyeon-Ah Ju received the KCerS Excellence Award(oral) at the Korean Ceramic Society Spring Conference held in Busan.
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Hyeon-Ah Ju and Eun-Byeol Park received the Encouragement Prize at the 30th Samsung Humantech Paper Award for the paper titled “Oxygen Vacancy-Induced Directional Ordering of Li-Ion Pathways for Superior Ion-Conducting Solid Electrolytes.”
Member
Woo-seon choi and Young-Hoon Kim completed their doctoral studies in early 2025 — best wishes for the next chapter at Samsung Electronics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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Young-Hoon Kim received the Grand Prize (oral) and Min-Hyoung Jung received the Excellence Award (poster) at the 9th BK Department of Energy Science Thesis Competition in Suwon.
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Sang-Hyeok and Daehee took part in the EELS & EFTEM Analysis Training School in Pleasanton, California, gaining practical experience in electron energy-loss spectroscopy through an intensive week-long program.
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Young-Hoon Kim received the Silver Prize at the 29th Samsung Humantech Paper Award for the paper titled “Self-Oxidation Resistance of the Curved Surface of Achromatic Copper.”
