Department of Polymer Nano Science & Technology
- Department of Polymer Nano Science & Technology was recently founded in March, 1993 by the request of the Government to meet the demand for highly educated manpower in the field of organic materials.
- The Department with hybrid fields has allowed students to select their majors differently based on aptitude and taste since its founding with professors from diverse.
- It helps all graduates find their dream job by encouraging them to achieve at least a master's degree at a Korean or overseas graduate school.
- The professors at the Department publish the most papers at the SCI level all over the countries(5~10 papers per professor per year on average, accounting for 2.5% of all papers published by the professors at Chonbuk National University).
Project & Evaluation
- Both the WCU (World Class Univeristy) projects were selected as the first and third types from Ministry of Education, Science and Technology for the first type (Department of BIN Fusion Technology) of WCU project under Prof. Seung Hee Lee and for the third type of WCU project under Prof. Nah, Chang-woon and Prof. Alen N. Gent.
- The Department was established with a Government-appointed research institute for the field of aerospace composites (NT), Stem Cell Research (BT), and materials and components like LCD (IT,ET) from 2005 to the present.
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Prof. Khang, Gilson)
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Prof. Lee, Seung Hee
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- The professors publish academic papers in World-class journals such as Progress in Polymer SCI (the most famous academic periodical in high polymer engineering), Nano Letters (the world's most renowned periodical in nano-material engineering), and Nature (one of the world's three top journals): Prof. Gil-son Khang, Chang-woon Nah, Dong-won Lee, and Seung-hee Lee.
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Prof. Gilson Khang
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Prof. Seung Hee Lee
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Prof. Chang-woon Nah
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Prof. Kwang-Un Jeong
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Prof. Dong-won Lee
Scholarships
- Scholarships are supported for all graduate students (approximately 70) and a quarter of junior and senior undergraduate students are provided with the tuition fee for the semester and living expenses(0.6.~1.2million won for a graduate student and grants as the full tuition scholarship for an undergraduate student)
- World Class University projects (April 2009 ~ August 2013)
- BK-21 project (March 2006 ~ February 2013)
- Research grants
- Coupling project by Jeollabuk-do
- Incentives related to patents by the individual professors
- incentives regarding SCI-level research papers
- Prize money in accordance with the department evaluations
- Industrial-educational scholarships from Samsung, BOE-HYDIS, and others
- Venture: KCR practice expenditure and practice fee related to Coupling project
- Business funding for cooperative research projects: Korea Chemical
Technology Research Institute, KIST, Catholic University of Korea School of Medicine
- Funding for being selected as a specialized department
Award
- The department was awarded first prize in the Watch 21 Conference of Academic Papers operated by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy.
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Participants in 2004 Watch 21
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2006 Watch 21: awarded minister's prize
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2008 Watch 21:awarded chairman's prize
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Jeonbuk WISE: awarded first prize
Dispatch to other universities or institutions
- The Department sends students and postdoctoral researchers to Akron University, Purdue University, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), IOWA University, Kyoto University, Seoul National University, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Harvard University, Standford University, and the University of Science and Technology.
- Akron University: Su-jeong Park (Ph.D., currently at Samsung Electronics Research Institute), Gwang-su Seo (in Ph.D. program, 2007)
- JAIST: Hun Hyeon (in Ph.D. program, 2007),Dae-hyuk Yang (in Ph.D. program, 2006)
- Kyoto University: Seon-mi Kim (Ph.D., 2006, currently at Mitsubishi Research Institute, Japan)
- Seoul National University: Seong-yong An (LG Chem, Ltd.) Chang-yeon Kim (2007), and several others
- IOWA University: Jin-cheol Jo (Ph.D., 2005, a chief researcher at Youl Chon Chemical., Ltd.)
- Harvard University: Yong-hyo Ryu (Post-Doc., professor at Zhejiang University, China), Hak-su Choi (researcher and assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School hospital, Israel) - Standford University, University of Pennsylvania: Ha-yeong Lee (Post-Doc., currently at CJ Pharmaceutical Research Institute)
- Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology: Min Gang (LG), Seong-hyun Jeon (DONGWOO FINE-CHEM), and several others
- University of Science and Technology: Byeong-ju Kim (Ph.D., 2007, currently at Jeonju Institute of Machinery and Carbon Composites)
- Purdue University: Jae-gyo Jeong (Post-Doc., 2006, at a pharmaceutical research institute)
- We cultivate talented-professors at the most prestigious colleges in China.
- Hyang-dan Lee at South-central University for Nationality, China (Ph.D. in Polymer Nano-engineering)
- Yong-hyo Ryu and two others at Zhejiang University, China (Ph.D. in Polymer Nano-engineering)
- We help graduate students grow in order to work in various fields including public service.
- Jin-hun Bae (6th-ranking public official), Hyun-min Hwang (7th-ranking, 2005), Min-woo Jeong (Nonghyup), Song-eun Kwon (Nonghyup)
- Seung-heun Jeong (elementary teacher, freshman in 1993), Seung-gu Yeo (public police officer in Gyeonggi-do), An-soon Yun (Jinan-eup)
- Yu-mi Seon (public police officer in Suwon), Chung-su Park (public police officer in Seoul), Seul-bi Lee (Gochang-gun Office), Jeong-eun Kim (public police officer in Jeonbuk) - Seok-gyu Choi (Christian Broadcasting System announcer in Gyeongbuk district), Eun-hae Cho i (specially selected textile design, Seoul), and several others
English Class
- All of the professors give more than 20 lectures in English including graduate programs (The rate accounts for approximately one-third in all courses at Chonbuk National University)
Activities
- Professors are actively involved in international organizations like ISO Joong-hee Lee (ISO member, editor at World Society of Composite Materials); Gil-son Khang (ISO member, chief editor at World Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials, recorded in Who's Who in the World); Chang-woon Na (ISO member, joint research by inviting a scholar from the U.S. National Academy of Engineering for WCU programs, recorded in Marquis Who's Who in the World); Seung-hee Lee (research fund for wide-vision LCD-related patient from BOE-Hydis, chosen as a SID Fellow scholar from the World LCD Society); Kwang-un Jeong (joint research with Akron University and MIT in the U.S.); Dong-won Lee (joint research with Georgia Tech.); and Myong-hoon Lee (editor at World Metal Synthesis Society)
- Travel expenses are supported for all graduate students and research participants among undergraduates more than once per year (maximum of 4 times) when participating in the international conferences or symposiums held in the U.S., Portugal, Sydney, China, Japan, Sweden, and all over the world to publish academic papers involved in research projects (4 times per professor and more than 25 times per year on average)
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MCCEC (Portugal, June 4~8, 2007)
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ISSCR Society (the U.S., June 11~14, 2008)
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AAPS (U.S.A., Nov.11~15, 2007)
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IDRC (the U.S., Sept.17~24, 2006)
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CLC (Poland, Sept.17~22, 2007)
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SID (U.S.A., May 18~23, 2008)
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ICAMP (China, Sept.2~6, 2008)
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MFMS (Hong Kong, July 28~31, 2008)
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TERMIS (Singapore, April.03~05, 2011)
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TERMIS (Australia Sep. 15~17, 2010)
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Euro Display, France, Sep. 19~22, 2011)
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SID (U.S.A, May 23~28, 2010
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SPIE, March. 8~10, 2010
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- The winner of the second and third prizes in the National Hydrogen Car Racing Competition (2007)
- The Department was chosen for the best research performance at Chonbuk National University (prize money 10 million won in 2007 and 20 million won in 2008)
- The first prize academic paper (Prof. Seung-hee Lee, prize money 10 million won) and the second (Prof. Gil-son Khang, prize money 3 million won, 2007) along with first prize academic performance for Chonbuk National University (Prof. Seung-hee Lee, prize money 5 million won, 2008)
- We were selected as a specialized department (grant of 50-million won a year)
- SID (Society for Information Display) fellow scholar, SID's highest honor: Prof. Seung-hee Lee was named a fellow scholar, less than 0.1% of 6,000 SID members throughout the world.
- There are only three scholars including Prof. Seung-hee Lee as the only one in the LCD field in Korea.