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Dr. Jaehyuk Kim joined Dr. Kim’s group as a post doctoral researcher in October 2010. He obtained both B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Seoul National University in South Korea and also worked as a post doctoral researcher at the same university prior to join Dr. Kim's group. He is currently exploring a highly innovative approach of employing organic upconversion phosphors that shift the frequency of incident light through sensitized triplet-triplet annihilation. He incorporate these phosphors into polymers that serve as host materials for enable sub-bandgap sensitization of semiconductor photocatalysts. |
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Seungjin Lee is a Ph.D student currently performing a Water Research Foundation Project on elucidating the mechanisms of ceramic membrane fouling during surface water treatment. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. in Seoul National University in 1995 and 1997, respectively. Then he worked at GS Contruction & Engineering in Korea before he joined Georgia Tech in 2003. After he obtained M.S. degree in 2007, he worked at Georgia Environmental Protection Division in Atlanta before he started Ph.D. study. |
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Ezra Cates is a Ph.D. student student who is pioneering lanthanide-doped silicate-based upconversion phosphors that convert visible light to germicidal UV light to effect disinfection. He developed a synthetic route for the first-generation material tailored to antimicrobial surface application and has been optimizing the material via various dopants, hosts, and synthetic approaches. He earned a B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of North Carolina at Asheville in 2007, where he focused on aquatic ecology and stormwater pollution. |
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Samuel Snow is a Ph.D. student interested in understanding quantitative structure-activity relationship between C60 functionalization and its physicochemical properties, particularly its photochemical properties, aqueous phase behavior and toxicological effects on microorganisms. His fundamental research helps elucidating environmental impact of functionalized fullerenes as well as ways to apply them as water remediation technology. He is a graduate from School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology. |
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Stephanie Chinnapongse
is a PhD student focusing on the development of UV upconversion
phosphors. Her research specifically aims at developing ceramics doped
with lanthanide for antimicrobial/biocidal surface materials. Stephanie received a B.S. in
Materials Science and Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2010.
She is the recipient of 2009 Georgia Tech Presidential Fellowship for
her Ph.D. study.
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Kyoung Eun (Lydia) Park is a Ph.D. student who is interested in sustainable technologies for the developing world. Particularly, she plans to further develop upconversion phosphor incorporated polymers coupled with semiconductor photocatalysts for enhanced visible light utilization. These materials will be ultimately used for solar disinfection. Kyoung Eun graduated from School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech in 2010. |
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Kyle Moor is a Ph.D. student who is interested in the application of nanomaterials to promote sustainable technology. Currently, he is working on incorporating fullerene onto polymer beads and polymer films to create materials that can be used in solar disinfection processes. He earned a B.S. in Chemistry from Virginia Tech in 2010, where he focused on the preparation of nanomaterials via novel techniques. |
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Tyler Cromey is a M.S. student and recipient of the Georgia Power Fellowship currently studying coal-fired power plant waste water treatment processes. He is researching ways of improving the waste water treatment process and utilizing waste heat in ceramic membrane filtration of flue gas desulfurization waste water. Tyler has earned a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. |
Past Members
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