Kang, SeungYeon

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Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering

Email seung_yeon.kang@uconn.edu
Mailing Address School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Connecticut, 191 Auditorium Rd. U-3139, Storrs, CT 06269
Campus Storrs
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Brief Bio

SeungYeon Kang joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2021 as an Assistant Professor. She earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University where she developed novel 2D/3D nanofabrication methods using femtosecond lasers. Prior to joining as a faculty, she was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and then served as the UCONN site program manager for NSF’s SHAP3D additive manufacturing center.

She also has industry experience working at Samsung SDI Battery Materials R&D Center as a Senior Research Engineer. Her diverse research experience led to establishment of a highly interdisciplinary research lab that focuses on advanced laser processing techniques and energy storage technology. Her current research interests include nanofabrication with ultrafast lasers, fundamental principles and application of light-matter interaction, 3D printing, additive manufacturing and energy harvesting through unconventional phenomenon such as piezoelectrochemistry.

  • nanofabrication with ultrafast lasers,
  • fundamental principles and application of light-matter interaction,
  • 3D printing,
  • additive manufacturing and energy harvesting
Structural studies of electrospun cellulose nanofibers
CW Kim, DS Kim, SY Kang, M Marquez, YL Joo
Polymer 47 (14), 5097-5107
Variable optical elements for fast focus control
SY Kang, M Duocastella, CB Arnold
Nature Photonics 14 (9), 533-542
Fabrication of disconnected three‐dimensional silver nanostructures in a polymer matrix
K Vora, SY Kang, S Shukla, E Mazur
Applied Physics Letters 100 (6)
One-step direct-laser metal writing of sub-100 nm 3D silver nanostructures in a gelatin matrix
SY Kang, K Vora, E Mazur
Nanotechnology 26 (12), 121001
Synthesis and patterning of graphene: strategies and prospects
S Shukla, SY Kang, S Saxena
Applied Physics Reviews 6 (2)
Synthesis and characterization of magnetically active carbon nanofiber/iron oxidecomposites with hierarchical pore structures
J Lee, KY Park, SY Kang, M Marquez, U Wiesner, YL Joo
Nanotechnology 19 (45), 455612
Figures of merit for piezoelectrochemical energy-harvesting systems
JI Preimesberger, SY Kang, CB Arnold
Joule 4 (9), 1893-1906
Ultra-high-speed variable focus optics for novel applications in advanced imaging
S Kang, E Dotsenko, D Amrhein, C Theriault, CB Arnold
Proc. SPIE 10539, 1053902
Patterning and reduction of graphene oxide using femtosecond-laser irradiation
SY Kang, C Evans, S Shukla, O Reshef, E Mazur
Optics & Laser Technology 103, 340-345
Laser-induced forward transfer from healing silver paste films
E Turkoz, M Morales, SY Kang, A Perazzo, HA Stone, C Molpeceres, ...
Applied Physics Letters 113 (22)
Optimization of ultrafast axial scanning parameters for efficient pulsed laser micro-machining
X Du, SY Kang, CB Arnold
Journal of Materials Processing Technology 288, 116850
Subthreshold laser jetting via flow-focusing in laser-induced forward transfer
E Turkoz, SY Kang, L Deike, CB Arnold
Phys. Rev. Fluids 3 (8), 082201(R)
A method to fabricate disconnected silver nanostructures in 3D
K Vora, SY Kang, E Mazur
Journal of visualized experiments: JoVE, 4399
Reduction of transfer threshold energy for laser-induced jetting of liquids using faraday waves
E Turkoz, SY Kang, X Du, L Deike, CB Arnold
Physical Review Applied 11 (5), 054022
Additive Manufacturing of Embedded Carbon Nanocomposite Structures with Multi- Material Digital Light Processing (MMDLP)
SY Kang, SY Chang, A Costa, K Kowsari, AWK Ma
Journal of Materials Research, https://doi.org/10.1557/s43578-021-00224
Varying Power Generation in Ultra Low-Frequency Mechanical Energy Harvesting of Piezoelectrochemical Materials
S Kang, J Preimesberger, CB Arnold
Journal of electrochemical society 166 (8), A1704-A1708
Femtosecond laser direct writing of monocrystalline hexagonal silver prisms
K Vora, SY Kang, M Moebius, E Mazur
Applied Physics Letters 105 (14)
Investigating mechano-electrochemical coupling phenomenon in lithium-ion pouch cells using in-situ neutron diffraction
JI Preimesberger, SY Kang, Y Chen, K An, CB Arnold
ECS Transactions 104 (1), 75
Direct laser writing of 3D gratings and diffraction optics
M Moebius, K Vora, SY Kang, P Munoz, G Deng, E Mazur
2015 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 1-2
Revolutionizing 3D electronics: Single-step femtosecond laser fabrication of conductive embedded structures and circuitry
S Awasthi, SY Kang
Materials Today Advances 25, 100544