Konkuk University announced on May 2, 2016, that Professor Changhyun Jin of the Department of Mechanical Design & Production identified the cause of gourd-like SiOx nanotubes growing from Si substrates through precontaminated SnO2 film surroundings and maintaining a one-to-one correspondent relationship between ternary alloy spheres and the Sn-embedded SiOx nanotubes. His joint research with his joint research with Dr. Han Gil Na of Hanyang University, Dr. Sun-Woo Choi of Korea Institute of Science and Technology found out that initially the growth rate of Sn-embedded SiOx structures was based on lateral growth, but later Sn-embedded SiOx nanotubes maintained the growth rate by diffusion.
Professor Jin’s research enables application of gourd-like nanotubes to a new biomolecule delivery system. It also has a promising application as an optical source from the quantum confine effect given the impact of Sn particles embedded in SiOx. There has been an emphasis on the importance of applicable elements in the field of nanotechnology recently, and the research highlights the possibility in the synthesis stage.
The results the research was published in the most recent issue of the American Chemical Society’s Crystal Growth & Design in an article titled “One-to-one Correspondence Growth Mechanism of Gourd-like SiOx Nanotubes.” Since being appointed as a research professor at KU in September 2014, Professor Jin has published 18 articles in SCI journals in the highest quartile (Q1).