International joint researchers with researchers from US, Japan and China, publishing over 10 SCI papers every year
Jointly authored global material engineering books with domestic and foreign professors
[April 18, 2016]
YU School of Materials Science and Engineering Professor Han Young-hwan (59) received the 2016 'Scholastic Award' by the Korean Ceramic Society.
The Korean Ceramic Society (Chairman Oh Young-jae), which was founded in 1957, is the most authoritative academic organization in the domestic ceramics sector. The scholastic award is given to one person every year who made significant contributions to the academic development of ceramics through books and papers on ceramics for at least ten years. If nobody is qualified, no winner is selected, and other measures are also taken to strictly limit eligibility of winners.
Professor Han is an expert in the spark plasma sintering (SPS) field of nano-ceramic materials. For many years, Professor Han has been conducting research on evaluating the features of compounds adding carbon nano-tubes (CNT) and graphene within nano-ceramic materials through SPS, producing transparent hydroxyapatite for bio nano-sensors using materials of artificial bones, and on inoculating silicon carbides used for atomic materials. Professor Han conducted international joint research with the world's top researchers from UC Davis NIMS (National Institute for Materials Science) of Japan, and NIMTE (Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science) and has been highly active publishing over ten SCI level papers every year. Recently, he has applied for a patent related to 'stealth jet radar blocking powder materials' by conducting joint researchers with domestic and foreign researchers.
In September of last year, he made news by joint authoring the fourth edition of the 'CRC (Chemical Rubber Company) [Materials Science and Engineering Handbook, co-authored by UC Davis College of Engineering Professor James Shackelford, YU School of Materials Science and Engineering Professors Kim Seok-young and Han Young-hwan, and Pusan National University College of Materials Engineering Professor Kwon Sae-hoon], which is known as the 'bible' among global materials engineering researchers.
Professor Han said, "We made great achievements through international joint research with various researchers at home and abroad. I am receiving this award on behalf of them." He also added, "I will work hard so that undergraduate and graduate students can participate in various international joint research so that the research capacities of Korea and YU in the ceramics sector can reach world-class levels."
Professor Han earned his PhD at the University of Nevada in the US and served as a researcher at UC Davis and UC Berkeley, and has been serving as a professor at YU since 2010. He is currently active as a guest editor of 'Scripta Materialia' and 'Advances in Applied Ceramics', which are globally acclaimed academic journals in the materials engineering sector.
The awarding ceremony is scheduled to be held at the Busan Centum Hotel at 6:30 on the 21st. Professor Han is scheduled to give a lecture on 'R&D on substitute materials for next-generation nuclear power plant parts in relation to the Fukushima nuclear power plant explosion in Japan' at the '2016 Korean Ceramics Society' that will be held at BEXCO prior to the awarding ceremony.
