Yongjin Lee

Assistant Professor, PI
Physical Science and Technology
Shanghai Tech University
China

Professor Materials Science
Biography

2006 B.S. in Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea. 2008 M.S. in Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea (with Prof. Hwayong Kim). 2014 Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, the University of Texas at Austin, USA, (with Prof. Gyeong S. Hwang). 2014 Visiting Scholar, California Institute of Technology, USA, (with Prof. William A. Goddard ΙΙΙ). 2014-2015 Postdoc, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, USA, (with Prof. Berend Smit). 2015-2017 Postdoc, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, (with Prof. Berend Smit). 2017.6- Assistant Professor, PI, School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, China.

Research Intrest

1. In-silico discovery of novel nanoporous materials for gas storage and separation using big-data analysis techniques 2. Rational design and discovery of novel ionic liquids for carbon capture 3. Computation study of heat transport in complex carbon-based materials 4. Development of novel thermoelectric materials for waste heat recovery

List of Publications
Yongjin Lee, Alexander J. Pak, Eunsu Paek, and Gyeong S. Hwang, “Principal Role of Contact-Force Distribution in Determining the Thermal Conductivity of Supported Graphene,” Physical Review Applied 4, 014006 (2015).
Rocio Mercado, Bess Vlaisavljevich, Li-Chiang Lin, Kyuho Lee, Yongjin Lee, Jarad A. Mason, Dianne J. Xiao, Miguel Gonzalez, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Jeffrey R. Long, and Berend Smit, “Force-Field Development from Periodic Density Functional Theory Calculations for Gas Separation Applications Using Metal-Organic Frameworks”, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 120, 12590 (2016).
Yongjin Lee, Alexander J. Pak and Gyeong S. Hwang, “What is the Thermal Conductivity Limit of Silicon Germanium Alloys?”, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18, 19544 (2016).
Yongjin Lee, Senja D. Barthel, Pawel Dlotko, S. Mohamad Moosavi, Kathryn B. Hess, and Berend Smit, “Quantifying Similarity of Pore-geometry in nanoporous materials,” Nature Communications 8, 15396 (2017).
Peter G. Boyd, Yongjin Lee, and Berend Smit, “Computational Development of the Nanoporous Materials Genome”, Nature Reviews Materials, accepted, 2017.