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Nara Kim

Assistant Professor

Soft Electronics group, Laboratory of Organic Electronics (LOE)

Presentation

Nara received a B.Sc. degree in Physics from Korea University in 2009. Later the same year, Nara started an integrated M.Sc. & Ph.D. program in Materials Science and Engineering at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST). Under the supervision of Prof. Kwanghee Lee, she was trained to investigate charge dynamics in conducting polymers and developed highly conducting polymers for flexible and transparent electronics, including solar cells, LEDs, transistors, and neural interfaces. In 2016, Nara received her Ph.D. degree and worked as a postdoc in the Heeger Center for Advanced Materials at GIST. In 2017, Nara joined the Soft Electronics group in LOE as a postdoc and continued to work in the group as a principal research engineer from 2019. Under the supervision of Prof. Xavier Crispin and Assoc. Prof. Klas Tybrandt, Nara developed multi-functional elastic conducting polymer composites for thermoelectric and battery applications. During 2019 and 2020, she was also involved in the project with Ligna Energy AB, a spin-out company from LOE. Nara became an Assistant Professor in 2021 after receiving the Swedish Research Council (VR) Starting Grant. Nara is PI within the Wallenberg Initiative Material Science for Sustainability (WISE) and the Advanced Functional Materials (AFM) center at LiU.

Publications

2024

Aiman Rahmanudin, Mohsen Mohammadi, Patrik Isacsson, Yuyang Li, Laura Seufert, Nara Kim, Saeed Mardi, Isak Engquist, Xavier Crispin, Klas Tybrandt (2024) Stretchable and biodegradable plant-based redox-diffusion batteries Materials Horizons (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Samuel Lienemann, Ulrika Boda, Mohsen Mohammadi, Tunhe Zhou, Ioannis Petsagkourakis, Nara Kim, Klas Tybrandt (2024) Exploring the Elastomer Influence on the Electromechanical Performance of Stretchable Conductors ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 16, p. 38365-38376 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2023

Aiman Rahmanudin, Ziyauddin Khan, Klas Tybrandt, Nara Kim (2023) Sustainable stretchable batteries for next-generation wearables Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 11, p. 22718-22736 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Taehyun Park, Byeonggwan Kim, Seunggun Yu, Youjin Park, Jin Woo Oh, Taebin Kim, Nara Kim, Yeonji Kim, Dan Zhao, Zia Khan, Samuel Lienemann, Xavier Crispin, Klas Tybrandt, Cheolmin Park, Seong Chan Jun (2023) Ionoelastomer electrolytes for stretchable ionic thermoelectric supercapacitors Nano Energy, Vol. 114, Article 108643 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Taeyoon Ki, Chelim Jang, Jong Sung Jin, Jehan Kim, Nara Kim, Heehun Moon, Soo-Young Jang, Sooncheol Kwon, Jubin Jang, Hongkyu Kang, Kwanghee Lee (2023) In Situ Doping of the PEDOT Top Electrode for All-Solution-Processed Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 15, p. 47317-47326 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

Research

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Soft Electronics

The Soft Electronics group develops composite materials, design concepts and devices, moving electronics into the realm of soft and deforming systems.

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Women in materials science contribute to equality in research

Advanced Functional Materials (AFM) has developed a strategic initiative to support outstanding female researchers through co-funding
Nara Kim, in the background Xavier Crispin and Klas Tybrandt

Creating stretchable thermoelectric generators

For the first time, a soft and stretchable organic thermoelectric module has been created that can harvest energy from body heat. The breakthrough was enabled by a new composite material that may have widespread use.

Organisation

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Laboratory of Organic Electronics

At Laboratory of Organic Electronics, LOE, we explore electronic and optical properties of organic materials and organic-inorganic hybrid systems.
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Department of Science and Technology (ITN)

We research and teach in several technical and scientific disciplines in which our main areas are organic electronics, media, communications and logistics.

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