Tea Yon Kim

Background

About Tea Yon Kim

I have worked in the development of innovative materials and finding solutions to basic physicochemical problems in photoelectrochemical devices for over 8 years. For my doctoral research, I conducted (1) the development of materials for highly efficient solid-state photoelectrochemical devices utilizing polymers with advanced doping technology, and (2) characterization for the charge transport/transfer in such devices by in-depth electrochemical analyses. As a postdoctoral researcher, I have been focusing on the fundamental study of the charge transport mechanism of metal complex solids and the development of efficient metal complex solids for solid-state mesoscopic solar cells and the molecular (photo)dynamics at the electrode/electrolyte interfaces. Through the above study, I have published 20 strong peer-reviewed papers, of which 9 papers were published as a first author (including JACS, ACS Energy Lett, and Nano Energy). My involvement would utilize my expertise in in-depth electrochemical analyses of charge transfer/transport reactions at various electrode/electrolyte interfaces, doping and analytic technologies for organic/inorganic thin films (such as conductive polymer and metal complex solid), and synthesis and analysis of transition metal chalcogenide QDs, metal complexes, and polymer QDs for photoelectrochemical cells. This will enable me to accomplish the proposed research programs. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (20 PUBLICATIONS, 9 FIRST) • Tea-Yon Kim and Thomas W. Hamann et al, “Metal complex molecular solids showing band-like transport driven by in-situ ligand exchange”, Chemistry of Materials (2023) • Tea-Yon Kim and Thomas W. Hamann et al, “Interfacial Engineering at Quantum Dot-Sensitized TiO2 Photoelectrodes for Ultrahigh Photocurrent Generation”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 13, 6208−6218 (2021) • Tea-Yon Kim and Thomas W. Hamann et al, “Real-time observation for diffusion mechanism progression from liquid to solid state of transition metal complexes”, ACS Energy Letters, 5, 583−588 (2020). • Tea-Yon Kim and Juan Bisquert et al, “Origin of high open-circuit voltage in solid state dye-sensitized solar cells employing polymer electrolyte”, Nano Energy, 28, 455−461 (2016).