We are delighted to welcome Professor Ho Bum Park (Hanyang University, Republic of Korea) to the Editorial Board of RSC Applied Polymers as a new Associate Editor. He will be handling papers in the journal related to applications of polymeric membranes.
Meet Professor Ho Bum Park
Ho Bum Park is a full professor of Energy Engineering at Hanyang University, Republic of Korea, where he currently serves as Chair of the department. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from HYU in 2002 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin from 2005 to 2008. Since 2008, he has established a state-of-the-art research laboratory for advanced membrane research. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed SCI papers, contributed 10 book chapters, and filed more than 110 patents. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Membrane Society of Korea for 17 years. He has organized many international and national conferences and served as an editorial board member of five scientific journals related to chemical engineering and materials science and engineering.
He currently leads a multidisciplinary research group focusing on the rapid and selective transport of small molecules and ions in a variety of novel membrane materials including polymers, nanomaterials and inorganic materials for carbon dioxide separation, desalination, fuel cell and battery applications. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the HYU Distinguished Research Fellow Award (2016), MSIP National Excellent Research Award (Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning) (2014), HYU Outstanding Teachers Award (2013), MOST National Outstanding Research Award (Ministry of Science and Technology) (2007), and Outstanding Young Scientist Award (North American Membrane Society) (2007).
Discover some of Ho Bum Park’s membrane-related research published in RSC journals:
Advances in high permeability polymeric membrane materials for CO2 separations
Ho Bum Park et al.
Energy Environ. Sci., 2012, DOI: 10.1039/C1EE02668B
High-performance CO2-philic graphene oxide membranes under wet-conditions
Ho Bum Park et al.
ChemComm, 2014. DOI: 10.1039/C4CC06207H
Metal–organic frameworks grown on a porous planar template with an exceptionally high surface area: promising nanofiller platforms for CO2 separation
Ho Bum Park et al.
J. Mater. Chem. A., 2017. DOI: 10.1039/C7TA06049A