Full-Time Researchers

Biplab K. Deka

Dr. Biplab K. Deka

Postdoctoral Fellow

 

Office: EB5(Bldg 112) Room 601-12

Lab: EB5(Bldg 112) Room 608

Phone: +82-10-5910-9407

Email: bkdeka@unist.ac.kr and bkdeka@gmail.com

 

Research Areas


– Carbon nanomaterials and metal oxide based hybrid nanocomposites

– Wood polymer nanocomposite

– Biopolymers

 

Education


B.S. in Chemistry, Gauhati University, India, 2005

M.S. in Polymer Science, Tezpur University, India, 2007

Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Technology, Tezpur University, India, 2012

 

Award


Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) sponsored by CSIR-India, 2012

 

Experience


2012 Assistant Professor, GIMT-Tezpur, India

2007-2008 Project Assistant-II, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India

 

Technical Skills


Acquainted with commonly used techniques like extruder, TGA, DSC, DMA, SEM, Instron, GPC etc. Well familiar with materials characterization techniques like rheometer, TGA, DSC, FTIR, SEM, Impact tester. Well known with softwares like Chem draw, Sci-Finder and MS-Office.

 

 

Ankita Hazarika

Dr. Ankita Hazarika

Postdoctoral Fellow

 

Office: EB5(Bldg 112) Room 601-12

Lab: EB5(Bldg 112) Room 608

Phone: +82-10-5610-9407

Email: ankita@unist.ac.kr and ahazarika125@gmail.com

 

Research Areas


– Fiber reinforced polymer composite

– Carbon nanomaterials

– Metal oxide based composites

– Wood polymer nanocomposite

 

Education


B.S. in Chemistry, Gauhati University, India, 2008

M.S. in Applied Chemistry, Tezpur University, India, 2010

Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Technology, Tezpur University, India, 2014

 

Technical Skills


Familiar with materials characterization techniques like rheometer, TGA, DSC, FTIR, SEM, Impact tester. Well known with softwares like Chem draw, Sci-Finder and MS-Office.

 

 

강구혁2

Dr. Gu-Hyeok Kang

Postdoctoral Fellow

 

Office: EB5(Bldg 112) Room 605

Lab: EB5(Bldg 112) Room 606

Phone: +82-52-217-2389

Cell Phone: +82 10 4577 6150

Email: souego@naver.com

 

Research Areas


– Extrude thin film with carbon materials; polymer extruding, coagulation, CNT dispersion, surface treatment, manufacturing process.

– Thermo-electric material with CNT; CNT segregated network, mechanical manufacturing, glass-bubble.

– Smart sensing; self-powered, self-sensing, piezoresistivity, thermoelectric.

– Sandwich composite recycling; heat press method, holed mold, PET-all sandwich composite.

 

Education


B.S. in mechanics and electronics, UNIST

M.S. – Ph.D Combined program currently, UNIST, since 2013

 

Award


Best Oral Presentation Award, Korean Society for Composites Materials Fall meeting, Dec 5, 2019

Best Poster Award, Korean Carbon Society Spring Meeting, May 19, 2017

 

Experience


2015-2016 Visiting researcher in General motors(GM), Warren R&D center, USA.

2010-2012 Undergraduate internship program, FIM Lab (Prof. Young-Bin Park), UNIST

2010 Visiting researcher in Composite manufacturing laboratory (Prof. Jonathan S. Colton), Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

 

Technical Skills


Manufacturing : VARTM, RTM, RIM, Polymer-melt processing (Extrusion), Compression molding, FDM, Lathe & milling, Coagulation, Electrospinning

Material characterization: UTM (Instron), Resistance measurement (Keithley), SEM, OM, DSC, Laser flash analysis (LFA)

Design and simulation: CATIA, SolidWorks, Orcad, ABAQUS, COMSOL, LabVIEW

Data analysis: Origin, MATLAB, OrCAD, Minitab

 

Personal Interests


Basketball, American drama, Music, Electric bass guitar

 

정찬우2

Dr. Chanwoo Joung

Postdoctoral Fellow

Office: EB5(Bldg 112) Room 605
Lab: EB5(Bldg 112) Room 606
Phone: +82-52-217-2389
Phone: +82-10-2648-5034
Email: uni0511@unist.ac.kr

Research Areas

Composite structure design

Education

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, UNIST, 2016

M.S. – Ph.D Combined program currently, UNIST, since 2016

Technical Skills

Manufacturing: Compression molding, Extrusion

Material characterization: UTM (instron)

Design and simulation: Solid work Minitab, CATIA, ANSYS, ABAQUS, Altair/Optistruct

Data analysis: MS Office, MATLAB

Personal Interests

Gym, Climbing

 


이성환

Dr. Seonghwan Lee

Postdoctoral Fellow

Office: EB5(Bldg 112) Room 605
Lab: EB5(Bldg 112) Room 606
Phone: +82-52-217-2389
Cell Phone: +82-10-4843-7162
Email: lswh7161@unist.ac.kr

Research Areas

– Structural composites based energy harvesting; Triboelectric Nanogenerator (TENG)

– Smart sensing; Triboelectric mechanical sensor (TMS)

– Hybrid composites

Education

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, UNIST, 2017

M.S. – Ph.D Combined program currently, UNIST, since 2017

Award

Best Oral Presentation Award, Korea Society for Composites Materials Fall Meeting, 2020

Best Oral Presentation Award, Korea Society for Composites Materials Fall Meeting, 2019

Best Poster Award Nominee, Materials Research Society (MRS), 2018

Experience

2020 Visiting researcher in Polymer Engineering (Dr. Frank Henning), Fraunhofer ICT, Germany

2016 Undergraduate internship program, FIM Lab (Prof. Young-Bin Park), UNIST

Technical Skills

Manufacturing: VARTM, Compression molding, Solution Casting

Material characterization: Drop weight machine (Instron), UTM (Instron), Piezoelectric measurement system, Bending system, Electrical performance measurement (Keithley, Oscilloscope), DMA, SEM

Experimental equipment: Atmospheric plasma irradiation, Bath type sonication, Horn type sonication

Design and simulation: COMSOL, ABAQUS, CATIA, SolidWorks, Keyshot, Adobe illustrator

Data analysis: Origin, MATLAB, MS Office

Personal Interests

Fitness training, Photo, Movie, Music, Dance