Gyu Leem
State University of New York, USA
Biography
Gyu Leem earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Houston, Houston, TX in 2008. After completing his Ph.D., he spent three years working as a principal scientist at LG R&D in South Korea. He was responsible for the design and synthesis of high-performance water-absorbing polymer materials for personal hygiene products. In 2012, he moved to the University of Florida and performed postdoctoral research with Professor Kirk S. Schanze as a part of University of North Carolina Energy Frontier Research Center: Center for Solar Fuels, an Energy Frontier Research Center. In 2016, he then moved to the Department of Chemistry at the University of Texas at San Antonio as an assistant professor of research. Now he is appointed to assistant professor at the State University of New York - College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF), Syracuse, NY in 2018. His research interests are
1) Polymeric metal chromosphere-catalyst assemblies for solar energy conversion
2) polymer-coated magnetic hydrogels for heavy metal removal from wastewater
3) Photoinduced electron transfer initiation of free radical polymerization for 3-D network polymers
Abstract
Abstract : Molecular and polymer chromosphere: Catalyst assemblies for solar fuels production