Gunn Kim   (I'm working as assistant professor at Sejong University in Korea.)
 
Mail Address : Department of Physics, Sejong University
Gunja-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul,
143-747, Korea
TEL : +82-2-3408-3968
E-mail :
 
Research Interest
Electronic Transport in Nanostructures (nanotubes, organic molecules, etc.) 
Electronic Structure of Carbon Materials (nanopeapods, fullerenes, etc.) and Biomolecules 
Fusion Mechanism of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes and Fullerens 
 
Education
1992 - 1998 B.S. School of Electrical Engineering 
Seoul National University
1999 - 2001 M.S. School of Physics 
Seoul National University
2001 - 2005 Ph.D. School of Physics
Seoul National University
 
 
Publications
  1. Jinhwan Lee, Hajin Kim, Se-Jong Kahng, Gunn Kim, Young-Woo Son, Jisoon Ihm, Haruhito Kato, Zhog Weng Wang, Toshiya Okazaki, Hisanori Shinohara, and Young Kuk, "Bandgap modulation of carbon nanotubes by encapsulated metallofullerenes," Nature v.415 [6875], pp.1005-1008 (2002,Feb,28) (IF:28.751) (JCR ranking: 1/50). PDF

  2. Gunn Kim, Young-Woo Son, Youngmi Cho, Seungwu Han, and Jisoon Ihm, "Field emission of carbon nanotubes and electronic structure of carbon nanopeapods," Current Applied Physics v.2 [1], pp.57-60 (2002,Feb.) (IF:1.291) (JCR ranking: 152/310). PDF

  3. Youngmi Cho, Seungwu Han, Gunn Kim, Hosik Lee, and Jisoon Ihm, "Orbital hydridization and charge transfer in carbon nanopeapods," Physical Review Letters v.90 [10], p.106402 (2003,Mar.14) (IF:6.944) (JCR ranking: 12/310) PDF Physics and High Technology (2003, April) article PDF

  4. Mina Yoon, Seungwu Han, Gunn Kim, Sang Bong Lee, Savas Berber, Eiji Osawa, Jisoon Ihm, Mauricio Terrones, Florian Banhart, Jean-Christophe Charlier, Nicole Grobert, Humberto Terrones, Publickel M. Ajayan, and David Tomanek, "The zipper mechanism of nanotube fusion: Theory and Experiment," Physical Review Letters v.92 [7], p.75504 (2004,Feb.20) (IF:6.944) (JCR ranking: 12/310). PDF Physics and High Technology (2004, April) article PDF

  5. Gunn Kim, Sang Bong Lee, Tae-Suk Kim, and Jisoon Ihm, "Fano resonance and orbital filtering in multiply-connected carbon nanotubes," Phys. Rev. B v.71 [20], p.205415 (2005,May) (IF:3.172) (JCR ranking: 44/310). PDF

  6. Sungjun Lee, Gunn Kim, Hajin Kim, Byoung-Young Choi, Jhinhwan Lee, Byoung Wook Jeong, Jisoon Ihm, Young Kuk, and Se-Jong Kahng, "Paired gap states in a semiconducting carbon nanotube: deep and shallow levels," Physical Review Letters v.95 [16], p.166402 (2005,Oct.14) (IF:6.944) (JCR ranking: 12/310). PDF

  7. Gunn Kim, Yeonju Kim, and Jisoon Ihm, "Encapsulation and polymerization of acetylene molecules inside a carbon nanotube," Chemical Physics Letters v.415 [4-6], p.279 (2005,Nov.11) (IF:2.207). PDF

  8. Hwansung Choe, Mun-Heon. Hong, Yongho Seo, Kyuho Lee, Gunn Kim, Youngmi Cho, Jisoon Ihm, and Wonho Jhe, "Formation, manipulation, and elasticity measurement of a nanometric column of water molecules," Physical Review Letters v.95 [18], p.187801 (2005,Oct.28) (IF:6.944) (JCR ranking: 12/310). PDF Physcial Review Focus (11 Nov. 2005) HTML

  9. Woon Ih Choi, Gunn Kim, Seungwu Han and Jisoon Ihm, "Reduction of activation energy barrier of Stone-Wales transformation in endohedral metallofullerenes," Physical Review B v.73 [11], p.113406 (2006,Mar.28) (IF:3.172) (JCR ranking: 44/310). PDF

  10. Gunn Kim, Byoung Wook Jeong and Jisoon Ihm, "Deep levels in the band gap of the carbon nanotube with vacancy-related defects," Applied Physcis Letters v.88 [19], p.193107 (2006,May,8) (IF:3.596) (JCR ranking: 29/310). PDF

  11. Gunn Kim, Sang Bong Lee, Hoonkyung Lee and Jisoon Ihm, "Electron orbital valves made of multiply connected carbon nanotubes with mirror-reflection symmetry: tight-binding study," Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter v.19 [2], p.26217 (2007,Jan.17) (IF:1.886) (JCR ranking: 93/310). PDF

  12. Sungjun Lee, Gunn Kim, Hajin Kim, Byoung-Young Choi, Jhinhwan Lee, Byoung Wook Jeong, Jisoon Ihm, Young Kuk, and Se-Jong Kahng, Reply to Comment on "Paired gap states in a semiconducting carbon nanotube: deep and shallow levels," Physical Review Letters v.99 [17], p.179704 (2007,Oct.26) (IF:6.944) (JCR ranking: 12/310). PDF

  13. S. H. Kim, W. I. Choi, G. Kim, Y. J. Song, G.-H. Jeong, R. Hatakeyama, J. Ihm, and Y. Kuk, "Cesium-Filled Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes as Conducting Nanowires: Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy Study," Physical Review Letters v.99 [25], p.256407 (2007, Dec. 21) (IF:6.944) (JCR ranking: 12/310). PDF

  14. Gunn Kim, Wenchang Lu, Shuchun Wang, Marco Bongiorno Nardelli, and Jerzy Bernholc, "Effects of end group functionalization and level alignment on electron transport in molecular devices," Journal of Chemical Physics, v.28 [2], p.024708 (2008, Jan. 14) (IF:3.044) (JCR ranking: 47/310). PDF

  15. Seon-Mi Yoon, Sung Jin Kim, Hyeon-Jin Shin, Anass Benayad, Seong Jae Choi, Ki Kang Kim, Soo Min Kim, Yong Jin Park, Gunn Kim, Jae-Young Choi, and Young Hee Lee, "Selective Oxidation on Metallic Carbon Nanotubes by Halogen Oxoanions," Journal of the American Chemical Society v.130 [8], p.2610 (2008, Feb. 27) (IF:7.885) (JCR ranking: 13/446). PDF

  16. Yongjin Park, Gunn Kim, and Young Hee Lee, "Adsorption and dissociation of hydrogen molecules on a Pt atom on defective carbon nanotubes," Applied Physics Letters v.92 [8], p.083108 (2008, Feb. 25) (IF:3.596) (JCR ranking: 29/310). PDF

  17. Sangkook Choi, Byoung Wook Jeong, Seungchul Kim and Gunn Kim, "Monovacancy-induced magnetism in graphene bilayers," Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter v.20 [23] p.235220 (2008, June 11) (IF:1.886) (JCR ranking: 93/310). PDF

  18. Woon Ih Choi, Jisoon Ihm and Gunn Kim, "Modification of the electronic structure in a carbon nanotube with the charge dopant encapsulation," Applied Physics Letters v.92 [19], p.193110 (2008, May 15 online publication) (IF:3.596) (JCR ranking: 29/310). PDF

  19. Hoonkyung Lee, Jia Li, Gang Zhou, Wenhui Duan, Gunn Kim and Jisoon Ihm, "Room-temperature dissociative hydrogen chemisorption on boron-doped fullerenes," Physical Review B v.77 [23], p.235101 (2008, June 2 online publication) (IF:3.172) (JCR ranking: 44/310). PDF

  20. Junga Ryou, Suklyun Hong and Gunn Kim, "Hydrogen adsorption on hexagonal silicon nanotubes," Solid State Communications v.148 [9-10] pp.469-471 (2008, Oct. 23 online publication) (IF:1.535). PDF

  21. Soo Min Kim, Jin Ho Jang, Ki Kang Kim, Hyeon Ki Park, Jung Jun Bae, Woo Jong Yu, Il Ha Lee, Gunn Kim, Duong Dinh Loc, Un Jeong Kim, Eun Hong Lee, Hyeon-Jin Shin, Jae Young Choi, and Young Hee Lee, "Reduction-Controlled Viologen in Bisolvent as an Environmentally Stable n-Type Dopant for Carbon Nanotubes," Journal of the American Chemical Society, v.131 [1], pp.327-331 (Jan.,2009). PDF supporting material PDF

  22. Nguyen Thi Xuyen, Hae Kyung Jeong, Gunn Kim, Kang Pyo So, Kay Hyeok An and Young Hee Lee, "Hydrolysis-induced immobilization of Pt(acac)2 on polyimide-based carbon nanofiber mat and formation of Pt nanoparticles," Journal of Materials Chemistry, v.19 [9-10], pp.1283-1288 (March,2009). PDF

  23. Gunn Kim and Suklyun Hong, "Monovacancy and substitutional defects in hexagonal silicon nanotubes," Solid State Communications, v.149 [9-10], pp.408-411 (March,2009). PDF

  24. Misun Cha, Seungwon Jung, Moon-Hyun Cha, Gunn Kim, Jisoon Ihm and Junghoon Lee, "Reversible Metal-Semiconductor Transition of ssDNA-Decorated Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes," Nano Letters, v.9 [4], pp.1345-1349 (April,2009). PDF supporting information PDF

  25. Bo Ram Kang, Woo Jong Yu, Ki Kang Kim, Hyeon Ki Park, Soo Min Kim, Yongjin Park, Gunn Kim, Hyeon-Jin Shin, Un Jeong Kim, Eun-Hong Lee, Jae-Young Choi, and Young Hee Lee "Restorable type conversion of carbon nanotube transistor using pyrolytically controlled antioxidizing photosynthesis coenzyme," Advanced Functional Materials, v.19 [16], pp.2553-2559 (24,Aug., 2009). PDF

  26. Myung Joon Han, Gunn Kim, Jae Il Lee and Jaejun Yu, "Competition between structural distortion and magnetic moment formation in fullerene C20," Journal of Chemical Physics, v.130 [18], p.184107 (14,May,2009). PDF

  27. Gunn Kim, Yongjin Park, Myung Joon Han, Jaejun Yu, Chaejeong Heo, Young Hee Lee, "Structure and magnetism of small Gd and Fe nanoclusters: LDA + U calculations," Solid State Communications v.149 [45-46], p.2058-2060 (Dec.,2009). PDF

  28. Junga Ryou, Sukyun Hong and Gunn Kim, "Ab initio study of hydrogen binding on Ca-inserted porphyrin," Vacuum v.84 [5], pp.537-539 (10,Dec.,2009). PDF

  29. Bing Huang, Young-Woo Son, Wenhui Duan, Jisoon Ihm and Gunn Kim, "Electronic and magnetic properties of partially open carbon nanotubes," Journal of the American Chemical Society, v.131 [49], p.17919 (16,Dec.,2009). PDF Supporting Information PDF

  30. Dinh Loc Duong, Gunn Kim, Hae-Kyung Jeong and Young Hee Lee, "Breaking AB stacking order in graphite oxide: ab initio approach," Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, v.12 [7], p.1595 (2010). PDF

  31. Jae-Hyeon Parq, Jaejun Yu, and Gunn Kim, "First-principles study of ultrathin (2×2) Gd nanowires encapsulated in carbon nanotubes," Journal of Chemical Physics, v.132 [5], p.054701 (7,Feb.,2010). PDF

  32. Jin Ho Jang, Seong Chu Lim, Duong Dinh Loc, Gunn Kim, Woo Jong Yu, Kang Hee Han, Yo-Sep Min and Young Hee Lee "Doping of carbon nanotubes using low energy ion implantation," Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, v.10 [6], pp.3934-3939 (June,2010). PDF

  33. Taekyung Kim, Gunn Kim, Woon Ih Choi, Young-Kyun Kwon, and Jian-Min Zuo "Electrical transport in small bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes: Intertube interaction and effects of tube deformation," Applied Physics Letters v.96 [17], p.173107 (26, April, 2010). PDF

  34. Yang-Hee Lee, Gunn Kim, Minwoong Joe, Ji-Hoon Jang, Juyeong Kim, Kwang-Ryeol Lee and Young-Uk Kwon, "Enhancement of electrocatalytic activity of gold nanoparticles by sonochemical treatment," Chemical Communications v.46 [31], pp.5656-5658 (Aug.,2010). PDF Supporting Information PDF

  35. Gunn Kim, J. Bernholc and Young-Kyun Kwon, "Band gap control of small bundles of carbon nanotubes using applied electric fields: A density functional theory study," Applied Physics Letters v.97 [6], p.063113 (9,Aug.,2010). PDF

  36. Seungwon Jung, Misun Cha, Jiyong Park, Namjo Jeong, Gunn Kim, Changwon Park, Jisoon Ihm and Junghoon Lee, "Dissociation of single-strand DNA:single-walled carbon nanotube hybrids by Watson-Crick base-paring," Journal of the American Chemical Society (communications), v.132 [32], pp. 10964-10966 (18, Aug.,2010). PDF

  37. Bing Huang, Zuanyi Li, Young-Woo Son, Gunn Kim, Wenhui Duan, Jisoon Ihm, "Multiple localized states and magnetic orderings in partially open zigzag carbon nanotube superlattices: An ab initio study," Journal of Chemical Physics, v.133 [8], p.084702 (28,Aug.,2010). PDF

  38. Sung Won Hwang, Dong Hee Shin, Chang Oh Kim, Seung Hui Hong, Min Choul Kim, Jungkil Kim, Keun Yong Lim, Sung Kim, Suk-Ho Choi, Kwang Jun Ahn, Gunn Kim, Sung Hyun Sim, Byung Hee Hong, "Plasmon-enhanced ultraviolet photoluminescence from graphene/ZnO film structures," Physical Review Letters v.105 [12], p.127403 (15, Sep.,2010). PDF

  39. Jae-Hyeon Parq, Jaejun Yu, Young-Kyun Kwon, and Gunn Kim "Tunable charge donation and spin polarization of metal adsorbates on graphene using applied electric field," Physical Review B v.82 [19], p.193406 (12, Nov.,2010). PDF

  40. Mina Park, Byung-Hyun Kim, Sanghak Kim, Do-Suck Han, Gunn Kim and Kwang-Ryeol Lee, "Improved binding between copper and carbon nanotubes in a composite using oxygen-containing functional groups," Carbon v.49, pp.811-818 (2011). PDF

  41. Kyu-Min Lee, Jae-Suk Yang, Gunn Kim, Jaesung Lee, Kwang-Il Goh, In-mook Kim, "Impact of the Topology of Global Macroeconomic Network on the Spreading of Economic Crises," PLoS ONE v.6 [3], p. e18443 (2011). PDF

  42. Junga Ryou, Gunn Kim and Suklyun Hong, "Origins of dihydrogen binding to metal-inserted porphyrins: electric polarization and Kubas interaction," Journal of Chemical Physics v.134, p.234701 (2011). PDF

  43. Sangmin An, Gunn Kim, Geol Moon, Manhee Lee, Junghoon Jahng, Kunyoung Lee and Wonho Jhe, "Nanofluidics through a 30-nm aperture nanopipette by applying electrostatic field based on the QTF-AFM system ," Proceedings of 10th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology Joint Symposium with Nano Korea 2010, pp. 1052 - 1055 (2011). PDF

  44. Urszula Dettlaff-Weglikowska, Gunn Kim, Lyubov G. Bulusheva, and Siegmar Roth, "Modification of the electronic structure in single-walled carbon nanotubes with aromatic amines," Physica Status Solidi B v.248 [11], 2458 (2011). PDF

  45. Changwon Park, Heejun Yang, Andrew J. Mayne, Gerald Dujardic, Sunae Seo, Young Kuk, Jisoon Ihm and Gunn Kim, "Formation of unconventional standing waves at graphene edges by valley mixing and pseudospin rotation," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v.108 [46] pp.18622 - 18625 (2011). PDF

  46. Seoung-Hun Kang, Gunn Kim and Young-Kyun Kwon, "Adsorption properties of chalcogen atoms on a golden buckyball Au16- from first principles," Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter v.23 p.505301 (2011). PDF

  47. Gunn Kim, Jinwoo Park and Suklyun Hong, "First-principles study of substitutional carbon pair and Stone-Wales defect complexes in boron nitride nanotubes," Chemical Physics Letters, v.522, pp.79-82 (2012). PDF

  48. Dongchul Sung, Noejung Park, Gunn Kim, and Suklyun Hong, "Enhanced binding strength between metal nanoclusters and carbon nanotubes with an atomic nickel defect," Nanotechnology v.23, p.205204 (2012). PDF

  49. Sangmin An, Kunyoung Lee, Geol Moon, Wan Bak, Gunn Kim, and Wonho Jhe, "Enhanced Formation of a Confined Nano-Water Meniscus Using a 780 nm Laser with a Quartz Tuning Fork-Atomic Force Microscope," Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology v.12, p.5754 (2012). PDF

  50. Gunn Kim, Seoung-Hun Kang, Chan-young Lim, and Young-Kyun Kwon, "Binding properties of a nitrogen atom on the anionic golden fullerene Au16-," Chemical Physics Letters v.545, p.83 (2012). PDF

  51. Sangmin An, Corey Stambaugh, Gunn Kim, Manhee Lee, Younghee Kim, Kunyoung Lee, and Wonho Jhe, "Low-volume liquid delivery and nanolithography using a nanopipette combined with a quartz tuning fork-atomic force microscope," Nanoscale, v.4, pp.6493-6500 (2012). PDF

  52. Jinkyu Kim, Gunn Kim, Sungbae An, Young-Kyun Kwon, Sungroh Yoon, "Entropy-based analysis and bioinformatics-inspired integration of global economic information transfer," PLOS ONE, v.8 [1], e51986 (2013). PDF

  53. Gunn Kim, Hyung-June Lee and Young-Kyun Kwon, "Electronic properties of carbon nanotubes partially unzipped by oxygenation or fluorination," Solid State Communications, v.167, pp.27 - 30 (2013). PDF

  54. Changwon Park, Jisoon Ihm, and Gunn Kim, "Decay behavior of localized states at reconstructed armchair graphene edges," Physical Review B v.88, p.045403 (2013). PDF

  55. Hyung-June Lee, Gunn Kim and Young-Kyun Kwon, "Molecular adsorption study of nicotine and caffeine on single-walled carbon nanotubes from first principles," Chemical Physics Letters v.580, pp. 57-61 (2013). PDF

  56. Ji-Hoon Jang, Eunjik Lee, Jinwoo Park, Gunn Kim, Suklyun Hong, and Young-Uk Kwon, "Rational syntheses of core-shell Fex@Pt nanoparticles for the study of electrocatalytic oxygen reduction reaction," Scientific Reports v.3, article no.: 2872 (2013). PDF Supporting Information PDF

  57. Sora Park, Gunn Kim and Young-Kyun Kwon, "First-principles investigation on dimerization of metal-encapsulated gold nanoclusters," RSC Advances, v.4, p.192 (2014). PDF

  58. Jahyun Koo, Bing Huang, Hosik Lee, Gunn Kim, Jaewook Nam, Yongkyung Kwon, and Hoonkyung Lee, "Tailoring the Electronic Band Gap of Graphyne," Journal of Physical Chemistry C, v.118 [5], pp 2463-2468 (2014). PDF

  59. Sohee Park, Changwon Park, and Gunn Kim, "Interlayer coupling enhancement in graphene/hexagonal boron nitride heterostructures by intercalated defects or vacancies," Journal of Chemical Physics, v.140 [14] p.134706 (2014). PDF

  60. Kyung-Ah Min, Dongchul Sung, Junga Ryou, Gunn Kim, and Suklyun Hong, "Spatial variation in the electronic structures of carpetlike graphene nanoribbons and sheets," Current Applied Physics, v.14 [12] pp.1687-1691 (2014). PDF

  61. Junsu Lee, Kyung-Ah Min, Suklyun Hong, and Gunn Kim "Ab initio study of adsorption properties of hazardous organic molecules on graphene: Phenol, phenyl azide, and phenylnitrene," Chemical Physics Letters v.618 pp.57-62 (2015). PDF

  62. Seoung-Hun Kang, Gunn Kim, and Young-Kyun Kwon, "Is hexagonal boron nitride always good as a substrate for carbon nanotube-based devices?" Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics v.17 pp.5072-5077 (2015). PDF

  63. Changwon Park, Junga Ryou, Suklyun Hong, Bobby G. Sumpter, Gunn Kim, and Mina Yoon, "Electronic Properties of Bilayer Graphene Strongly Coupled to Interlayer Stacking and an External Electric Field" Physical Review Letters v.115 p.015502 (2015). PDF Supporting Information PDF

  64. Chang-Hyuk Yoo, Seungwon Jung, Jaehyun Bae, Gunn Kim, Jisoon Ihm and Junghoon Lee, "DNA aptamer release from the DNA-SWNT hybrid by protein recognition" Chemical Communications v.52, pp.2784-2787 (2016). PDF

  65. Dong-Wook Shin, Dongchul Sung, Ji Su Hong, Minwoo Kim, Seung Soo Yoon, Young-Jae Song, Gunn Kim, Suklyun Hong and Ji-Beom Yoo, "Observation of graphene grain boundaries through selective adsorption of rhodamine B using fluorescence microscopy" Carbon v.108, pp.72-78 (2016). PDF

  66. Junsu Lee, Minjung Kim, James R. Chelikowsky, and Gunn Kim, "Computational simulation of subatomic-resolution AFM and STM images for graphene/hexagonal boron nitride heterostructures with intercalated defects" Physical Review B v.94, p.035447 (2016). PDF

  67. Beomyong Hwang, Jeongwoon Hwang, Jong Keon Yoon, Sungjun Lim, Sungmin Kim, Minjun Lee, Jeong Hoon Kwon, Hongwoo Baek, Dongchul Sung, Gunn Kim, Suklyun Hong, Jisoon Ihm, Joseph A. Stroscio, and Young Kuk, "Energy Bandgap and Edge States in an Epitaxially Grown Graphene/h-BN Heterostructure," Scientific Reports v.6, article no.: 31160 (2016). PDF Supporting Information PDF

  68. Changhee Lee, Gunn Kim, Jeil Jung, and Hongki Min, "Zero-line modes at stacking faulted domain walls in multilayer graphene," Physical Review B v.94, p.125438 (2016). PDF

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