Jiwoong Park BW

Jiwoong Park

  • Title: Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
  • Education: BS, Seoul National University; PhD, University of California, Berkeley
  • Joined UChicago faculty: 2016
  • jwpark@uchicago.edu

Jiwoong Park

Departmental website:
https://chemistry.uchicago.edu/faculty/jiwoong-park
Lab website:
http://park-lab.uchicago.edu/

Jiwoong Park is an expert in the emerging field of two-dimensional layered materials. These materials, only a few atoms thick, have potential in the development of novel electrical, optical, biological, and mechanical devices, including flexible electronics and energy conversion. His research holds great promise for the development of atomic-scale devices, such as two-dimensional semiconductors and nanotransistors.

The Park Lab research focuses on the science and technology of nanomaterials. Prof. Park and his team are conducting research on the synthesis, assembly and characterization of nanoscale materials and devices using a variety of advanced tools. Their research is multidisciplinary and includes researchers with diverse backgrounds, including chemistry, physics, material science and electrical engineering.

Prof. Park has received the NSF CAREER award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.

Park Stories

University of Chicago scientists invent smallest known way to guide light Closeup of a rectangular block of plastic with a thin line visible in the center. It is held by a scientist wearing purple gloves who is not in focus

University of Chicago scientists invent smallest known way to guide light

Scientists found that a sheet of glass crystal just a few atoms thick could trap and carry light. Not only that, but it was surprisingly efficient and could travel relatively long distances—up to a centimeter, which is very far in the world of light-based computing.

Three UChicago scientists named 2022 fellows of American Physical Society Scholars Autumn on The Quad

Three UChicago scientists named 2022 fellows of American Physical Society Scholars

Scholars recognized for contributions to atomically-thin materials, electron structure methods

Robot-aided assembly could help scientists speed pace of discovery for new technologies Robotic 4D pixel stacking mockup

Robot-aided assembly could help scientists speed pace of discovery for new technologies

Technique by UChicago scientists creates ‘assembly line’ for integrating new materials

UChicago scientists create material that can both move and block heat Crystalline sheets

UChicago scientists create material that can both move and block heat

Unusual material could improve the reliability of electronics and other devices

Invention of teeny-tiny organic films could enable new electronics Method to join organic molecules

Invention of teeny-tiny organic films could enable new electronics

Electron microscope detector achieves record resolution Electron photography

Electron microscope detector achieves record resolution

Researchers sew atomic lattices seamlessly together Lattice of blue and red atoms connected by thread

Researchers sew atomic lattices seamlessly together

Scientists make atoms-thick Post-It notes for solar cells and circuits Diagram of stacked material showing "height of 12 hydrogen atoms stacked"

Scientists make atoms-thick Post-It notes for solar cells and circuits

Prof. David Awschalom awarded defense department grant for high-risk, high-payoff research Thumbnail

Prof. David Awschalom awarded defense department grant for high-risk, high-payoff research

Award boosts development of solar cells with atomically thin semiconductors Jiwoong Park and You Zhong standing in laboratory

Award boosts development of solar cells with atomically thin semiconductors

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