Prof. Ko Young-gun Team from School of Materials Science and Engineering, international acceptance of “creative research” in metallic surface treatment area

Six research theses were inserted in world-best journals, etc. for recent three years

High industrial value of usability for next-generation cars and smart electronic components, etc.

[October 14, 2021]

<Prof. Ko Young-gun Team from School of Materials Science and Engineering, YU> 

Prof. Ko Young-gun Team from School of Materials Science and Engineering, YU attracts interest of the academy with continuous report of world-level research performances.

  Prof. Ko is recognized by the world for creative research performances in metallic surface treatment area. Talents from the world including Indonesia, Syria, Turkey, China, and Morocco gather in Prof. Ko’s office. Research performances shown by Prof. Ko’s students are also amazing. Prof. Ko’s research team inserted six pieces of research theses on concurrent improvement of corrosion-resistance and functionality of materials in famous international journals for recent three months.

Three pieces of theses were continuously reported through (Journal of Magnesium and Alloys, impact factor 10.08) which is a world top journal belong to top 0.6% in metallurgy area and it is evaluated as an extraordinary matter in the engineering society that theses were inserted in top level journals having about 10 of impact factors such as (Applied Materials Today, impact factor 10.04), (Chemical Engineering Journal, impact factor 13.27), and (ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, impact factor 9.22), etc. Also, sum of impact factors of the theses reported by Prof. Ko’s research team for recent one year are as large as 230 in rough and the team leads the research area of metallic surface treatment technology in the world.

  Prof. Ko is glad saying, “All the main paper authors are the researchers who got master and doctorate degrees in YU. Research power of YU is found to be at the world level,” and “The research team show continuously very meaningful research performances with functionalization of metallic surface as well as corrosion-resistance of materials. The technology may be used in next-generation cars, smart electronic components, energy, and recycling areas and is expected to generate high added values. We intend to concentrate endeavors in acquisition of material stability in extreme conditions, in development of creative materials having multi-functional properties including catalyst and conversion, and in technology commercialization through successive researches.”

  Meanwhile, Prof. Ko’s research team conducts researches with the support of the Ministry of Science and ICT, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, and Ministry of SMEs and Startups.