Sang-Jae Park is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Environmental Energy Technology Division in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.  He received his BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering from Seoul National University and his PhD degree in Chemistry from University of Pennsylvania in the study of conducting polymers.  In the graduate works, he studied a novel class of amphiphilic conducting block-copolymers composed of a widely studied conjugated polymer.  His current research in LBNL is focused on the development of conductive polymer binders for lithium ion batteries. By introducing the new functional groups into the polymer structures and tailoring the composition and properties of the synthesized polymer, he is developing the polymeric binder materials to show the better performance than the common polymeric binder.

Seminars

• “Size-dependent shape evolution of silica nanoparticles into hollow structures”, American Chemical Society Meeting, Philadelphia, Fall 2008.

• “Amphiphilic Conjugated Block Copolymers with Highly Tunable Light Emission Properties”, Nanogroup Meeting, University of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Fall 2009.

• “Amphiphilic Conjugated Block Copolymers: Poly(3-octylthiophene)-b-Poly(ethylene oxide)”, Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fall 2010.

• “Amphiphilic Conjugated Block Copolymers: Poly(3-octylthiophene)-b-Poly(ethylene oxide)”, Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fall 2010.

• “Poly(ethylene oxide)-Coated Graphite as an Anode Material for Lithium Ion Batteries”, Beyond Lithium Ion V, Symposium on Scalable Energy Storage, Berkeley, June 2012.

• “Poly(ethylene oxide)-Coated Graphite as an Anode Material for Lithium Ion Batteries”, Electrochemcal Society Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 2012.

• “Poly(ethylene oxide)-Coated Graphite as an Anode Material for Lithium Ion Batteries”, Materials Research Society Meeting, San Francisco, April 2013.