Young‐Ki Kim

6.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
84 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Young‐Ki Kim is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Young‐Ki Kim has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 24 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 22 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Young‐Ki Kim's work include Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (41 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (20 papers) and Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (12 papers). Young‐Ki Kim is often cited by papers focused on Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (41 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (20 papers) and Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (12 papers). Young‐Ki Kim collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, United States and United Kingdom. Young‐Ki Kim's co-authors include Jangwon Seo, Moungi G. Bawendi, Jason J. Yoo, Vladimir Bulović, Chan Su Moon, Juan‐Pablo Correa‐Baena, Fabıan Rotermund, Nam Joong Jeon, Matthew R. Chua and Seong Sik Shin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Young‐Ki Kim

76 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit Papers

Efficient perovskite sola... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 2021 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Efficient perovskite solar cells via improved carrier management
    2021 2.5k citations Jason J. Yoo, Matthew R. Chua et al. Nature profile →
  2. Holographic metasurface gas sensors for instantaneous visual alarms
    2021 222 citations Inki Kim, Kwan Kim et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Young‐Ki Kim South Korea 28 3.2k 2.1k 1.7k 1.4k 650 84 5.2k
Dehui Li China 49 5.6k 1.7× 5.9k 2.8× 1.8k 1.0× 851 0.6× 1.0k 1.6× 195 8.6k
Jeffrey E. Shield United States 27 1.7k 0.5× 2.0k 0.9× 1.2k 0.7× 693 0.5× 736 1.1× 174 4.0k
Weiguo Chu China 37 2.4k 0.8× 1.9k 0.9× 2.5k 1.4× 282 0.2× 737 1.1× 149 5.3k
John Ballato United States 48 6.1k 1.9× 3.4k 1.6× 1.0k 0.6× 1.0k 0.8× 2.8k 4.3× 402 9.6k
Jin‐Cheng Zheng China 49 3.3k 1.0× 5.6k 2.6× 1.4k 0.8× 475 0.3× 593 0.9× 215 8.1k
Alberto Piqué United States 49 5.0k 1.5× 3.6k 1.7× 1.4k 0.8× 1.2k 0.9× 654 1.0× 212 9.1k
Krzysztof Kempa United States 42 3.2k 1.0× 2.7k 1.3× 1.4k 0.8× 713 0.5× 2.3k 3.6× 217 7.1k
Zhiming M. Wang China 52 4.2k 1.3× 4.6k 2.2× 1.7k 1.0× 525 0.4× 1.6k 2.4× 266 8.1k
Peijun Guo United States 46 5.8k 1.8× 4.3k 2.0× 1.1k 0.6× 2.1k 1.5× 667 1.0× 121 7.4k
Robert A. Norwood United States 43 4.8k 1.5× 1.9k 0.9× 1.2k 0.7× 1.4k 1.0× 3.9k 6.0× 331 8.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Young‐Ki Kim

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Fields of papers citing papers by Young‐Ki Kim

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Young‐Ki Kim

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Young‐Ki Kim. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Young‐Ki Kim based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Young‐Ki Kim. Young‐Ki Kim is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Muthukutty, Balamurugan, et al.. (2025). Aerogels as next-generation electrocatalysts for water electrolysis and beyond. Nano Today. 66. 102901–102901.
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Singh, Dharmendra Pratap, et al.. (2023). Stimuli-Responsive Materials from Liquid Crystals. ACS Applied Optical Materials. 1(12). 1879–1897. 15 indexed citations
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Badloe, Trevon, Yeseul Kim, Joohoon Kim, et al.. (2023). Bright-Field and Edge-Enhanced Imaging Using an Electrically Tunable Dual-Mode Metalens. ACS Nano. 17(15). 14678–14685. 87 indexed citations
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Kim, Inki, Kwan Kim, Muhammad Afnan Ansari, et al.. (2021). Holographic metasurface gas sensors for instantaneous visual alarms. Science Advances. 7(15). 222 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yoo, Jason J., Matthew R. Chua, Tae Gwan Park, et al.. (2021). Efficient perovskite solar cells via improved carrier management. Nature. 590(7847). 587–593. 2473 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tsuei, Michael, et al.. (2020). Optical “Blinking” Triggered by Collisions of Single Supramolecular Assemblies of Amphiphilic Molecules with Interfaces of Liquid Crystals. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(13). 6139–6148. 25 indexed citations
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Wang, Xin, Ye Zhou, Young‐Ki Kim, et al.. (2019). Thermally reconfigurable Janus droplets with nematic liquid crystalline and isotropic perfluorocarbon oil compartments. Soft Matter. 15(12). 2580–2590. 20 indexed citations
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Wang, Xin, Ye Zhou, Young‐Ki Kim, et al.. (2019). Reconfigurable Multicompartment Emulsion Drops Formed by Nematic Liquid Crystals and Immiscible Perfluorocarbon Oils. Langmuir. 35(49). 16312–16323. 12 indexed citations
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Ramezani‐Dakhel, Hadi, Mohammad Rahimi, Young‐Ki Kim, et al.. (2018). Amphiphile-Induced Phase Transition of Liquid Crystals at Aqueous Interfaces. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10(43). 37618–37624. 24 indexed citations
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Kim, Young‐Ki, Krishna R. Raghupathi, Piyachai Khomein, et al.. (2018). Oligomers as Triggers for Responsive Liquid Crystals. Langmuir. 34(34). 10092–10101. 20 indexed citations
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Kim, Young‐Ki, Yuran Huang, Michael Tsuei, et al.. (2018). Multi‐Scale Responses of Liquid Crystals Triggered by Interfacial Assemblies of Cleavable Homopolymers. ChemPhysChem. 19(16). 2037–2045. 19 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiaoguang, Young‐Ki Kim, Emre Büküşoğlu, et al.. (2016). Experimental Insights into the Nanostructure of the Cores of Topological Defects in Liquid Crystals. Physical Review Letters. 116(14). 147801–147801. 67 indexed citations
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Gwag, Jin Seog, Young‐Ki Kim, Chang Hoon Lee, & Jae‐Hoon Kim. (2015). Realization of Multi-Stable Ground States in a Nematic Liquid Crystal by Surface and Electric Field Modification. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 11368–11368. 10 indexed citations
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Kim, Young‐Ki, Sergij V. Shiyanovskii, & Oleg D. Lavrentovich. (2013). Morphogenesis of defects and tactoids during isotropic–nematic phase transition in self-assembled lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 25(40). 404202–404202. 97 indexed citations
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Lee, You‐Jin, et al.. (2011). Direct image of a molecular orientation of a liquid crystal using directional polymerization of photoreactive mesogen. Applied Physics Letters. 98(3). 13 indexed citations
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Kim, Young‐Ki, et al.. (2009). A Novel Transmission Scheme with Spatial Modulation for Coded OFDM Systems. The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences. 34(7). 515–522. 1 indexed citations
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Kim, Young‐Ki, et al.. (2009). Jindo dog's ethogram revealed by behavioral test.. Journal of Veterinary Clinics. 26(3). 238–245. 3 indexed citations

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