SeungYeon Kang

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Education

• Ph.D. Harvard University
• B.S. Cornell University

Research Focus

• Nanofabrication with ultrafast lasers
• Fundamental principles and application of light-matter interaction
• 3D printing, additive manufacturing
• Energy harvesting through unconventional phenomenon such as piezoelectrochemistry.

Awards and Honors

• Recipient of Samsung SDI Scholarship
• Recipient of Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) research Fellowship
• Recipient of Princeton Postdoctoral Fellowship in scientific writing.

Publications

Preimesberger, J.I., Kang, S., Chen, Y., An, K., Arnold, C.B., Investigating Mechano-Electrochemical Coupling Phenomenon in Lithium-Ion Pouch Cells Using In-situ Neutron Diffraction, ECS Trans. 104 75 (2021)

Kang, S., Chang, S.Y., Costa, A., Kowasari, K., Ma, A., Additive Manufacturing of Embedded Carbon Nanocomposite Structures with Multi-Material Digital Light Processing (MMDLP), Journal of Materials Research (2021)

Du, X., Kang, S., Arnold, C.B., Optimization of ultrafast axial scanning parameters for efficient pulsed laser micro-machining, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 288, 116850 (2021)

Preimesberger, J.I., Kang, S., Arnold, C.B., Figures of Merit for Piezoelectrochemical Energy-Harvesting Systems, Joule. 4 (9), 1893-1906 (2020)

Kang, S., Duocastella, M., Arnold, C. B., Variable Optical Elements for Fast Focus Control, Nature Photonics. 14, 533–542 (2020)

Kang, S., Preimesberger, J.I., Arnold, C.B., Varying Power Generation in Ultra Low-Frequency Mechanical Energy Harvesting of Piezoelectrochemical Materials, Journal of electrochemical society. 166 (8), A1704-A1708 (2019)

Turkoz, E., Kang, S., Du, X., Deike, L., C., Arnold, C.B., Reduction of transfer threshold energy for laser-induced jetting of liquids using Faraday waves, Physical Review Applied. 11 (5), 054022 (2019)

Shoba, S., Kang, S., Sumit. S, Synthesis & Direct Patterning of Graphene: Strategies and prospects, Applied Physics Reviews. 6 (2), 021311 (2019)

Turkoz, E., Morales, M., Kang, S., Perazzo, A., Stone, H., Molpeceres, C., Arnold, C.B., Laser-induced forward transfer from healing silver paste films, Applied Physics Letters. 113, 221601 (2018)

Turkoz, E., Kang, S., Deike, L., Arnold, C.B., Subthreshold laser jetting via flow-focusing in laser-induced forward transfer, Phys. Rev. Fluids. 3, 082201 (2018)