Chul Hoon Kim
Northwestern University
2190 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-3113
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: (847) 467-4947
Office: Ryan Hall 1032
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Current Employment
2010-present
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Northwestern University
Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research Center (ANSER)
Previous Employment
2009-2010
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Chemistry and Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Pohang, South Korea
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Education
2003.3. - 2008.4. Ph.D. in Physical chemistry, POSTECH, South Korea
Supervisor: Prof. Taiha Joo
Thesis: Ultrafast chemical reaction dynamics in condensed phases by timeresolved fluorescence
2001.3. - 2003.2. M.S. in Physical chemistry, POSTECH, South Korea
1996.3. - 2000.2. B.S. in Chemistry, Pusan National University, South Korea
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Research description
I am primarily interested in the characterization of functional materials utilizing various
femtosecond spectroscopies. My research is focused on energy and electron transfer dynamics
in variety of bio-inspired systems.
Publications
1.
“Detection of Lipid Rafts in Plasma Membrane with a Two-Photon Turn-On Probe”, C.
S. Lim, H. J. Kim, J. H. Lee, Y. S. Tian, C. H. Kim, H. M. Kim, T. Joo, and B. R. Cho,
submitted to J. Am. Chem. Soc.
2.
“Remarkably Efficient Photocurrent Generation Based on a [60]Fullerene Metal
Cluster-Zn Porphyrin-Boron Dipyrrin Triad SAM on an ITO Electrode”, C. Y. Lee, C.
H. Kim, T. Joo, and Joon T. Park, Chem. Eur. J. 16, 5586, 2010.
3.
“Excited state intramolecular proton transfer and subsequent charge transfer dynamics
of 2-(2’-hydroxyphenyl)benzoxazole derivative in condensed phase”, C. H. Kim, J.
Park, J. Seo, S. Kim, S. Y. Park, and T. Joo, J. Phys. Chem. A, 114, 5618, 2010.
4.
“Coherent excited state intramolecular proton transfer probed by time-resolved
fluorescence”, C. H. Kim, and T. Joo, Phys.Chem.Chem.Phys. 11, 10266, 2009. (Cover
Article).
5.
“Ultrafast time-resolved fluorescence by two photon absorption excitation” C. H. Kim,
and T. Joo, Opt. Express 16, 20742, 2008.
6.
“Two-photon fluorescent probes for lipid raft imaging: Effect of chain length”, H. M.
Kim, B. R. Kim, H.-J. Choo, Y.-G. Ko, S.-J. Jeon, C. H. Kim, T. Joo, and B. R. Cho,
ChemBioChem 9, 2830, 2008.
7.
“Two-Photon Fluorescence Turn-On Probe for Lipid Rafts in Live Cell and Tissue”, H.
M. Kim, B. H. Jeong, J.-Y. Hyon, M. J. An, M. S. Seo, J. H. Hong, K. J. Lee, C. H.
Kim, T. Joo, S.-C. Hong, and B. R. Cho, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 4246-4247 2008.
8.
“Excited state intramolecular proton transfer dynamics of semi-rigid polyquinoline in
solution and polymer film”, C. H. Kim, D. W. Chang, S. Kim, S. Y. Park, and T. Joo,
Chem. Phys. Lett. 450, 302, 2008.
9.
“Ultrafast
time-resolved
laser
spectroscopic
carboxylato)*tetraphenyl-porphyrinato)tin(IV):
studies
of
Intramolecular
trans-bis(ferroceneelectron-transfer
dynamics”, J. H. Jang, H. J. Kim, H.-J. Kim, C. H. Kim, T. Joo, D. W. Cho, and M.
Yoon, Bull. Korean Chem. Soc. 28, 1967, 2008.
10. “Perturbation of electronic states and energy relaxation dynamics in a series of
phenylene bridged ZnII porphyrin dimers”, S. Cho, M.-C. Yoon, C. H. Kim, N. Aratani,
G. Mori, T. Joo, A. Osuka, and D. Kim, J. Phys. Chem. C 111, 14881, 2007.
11. “A Two-Photon Fluorescence Probe for Lipid Raft Imaging: C-Laurdan”, H. M. Kim,
H.-J. Choo, S.-Y. Jung, Y.-G. Ko, W.-H. Park, S.-J. Jeon, C. H. Kim, T. Joo, and B. R.
Cho, ChemBioChem 8, 553, 2007.