Overview

   

Chemical materials control every physiological function of living creatures. Many biologically active molecules in cancer treatment and physiological functions control are synthesized by the rational design and efficient synthetic tools, based on the fundamental understanding of chemical reactions. Also, the development of new concepts in chemistry allows us to solve problems raised due to the overpopulation of the world. New fertilizers and medicines could protect human beings from food deficiency and a myriad of diseases. The fast development of electronics is related to the advances of new electronic chemical materials.

Current state-of-the-art technologies owe to advances in nanoscience, especially with the appearance of novel nanomaterials that are synthesized from the understanding of chemistry. Green chemistry, also known as sustainable chemistry, refers to environmentally friendly chemicals and processes, which draw everyone’s attention. All in all, we believe chemistry is at the center of science and technology.

In order to live up to societal needs for quality education and valuable research outcomes, the Department of Chemistry at SKKU's College of Science strives to establish an education and research program that focuses on the fundamental understandings, as well as the applications of chemistry. From such a point of view, we educate students to achieve these goals through an innovative educational program and contribute to the increase of international competitiveness, by building various scientific platforms. We aim to become one of the highly competitive world-class research and education institutions via such efforts. Our graduates will take a leading role in many areas of chemistry and we will keep focusing on education and research to become the world’s leading institution.

Course Offerings

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Course description [download]

Understanding SKKU's Course Code

The first digit of the four numbers preceeded by three or four- alphabetic characters in course codes, denotes the expected cohort of attendees of the course, as demonstrated by the table below. Course codes consist of 7 digits with three or four letters and numbers.

Understanding SKKU's Course Code

Code	Level of Study	Example
CED◯2***	Undergraduate: Liberal Arts/ Elective Course	GEDG001
◯◯◯2***	Undergraduate: 2nd-3rd year	BIO2014
◯◯◯3***	Undergraduate: 3rd-4th year	NAT3001
◯◯◯4***	Undergraduates & Master	MTH4019
◯◯◯5***	Graduate: Master & PhD	PHY5043
◯◯◯6***	Graduate: Master & PhD	CHY6003
◯◯◯7***	Undergraduate & Graduate (Master & PhD)	TRP7001

List of Course Offerings (AY 2017)

List of Course Offerings (AY 2017)

Sem.	Code	Degree	Major	Subject	Requirement	Credit	Type
1	CHY2001	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Physical Chemistry Ⅰ	Major	3	Theory
	CHY2002	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Organic Chemistry Ⅰ	Major	3	Theory
	CHY2003	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Inorganic Chemistry Ⅰ	Major	3	Theory
	CHY2004	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Analytical Chemistry Ⅰ	Major	3	Theory
	CHY2010	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Organic Chemistry Ⅲ	Major	3	Theory
	CHY2011	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Physical Chemistry Laboratory Ⅰ	Major	1	Experiment
	CHY2012	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Organic Chemistry Laboratory Ⅰ	Major	1	Experiment
	CHY2013	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory Ⅰ	Major	1	Experiment
	CHY3001	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Special Lecture in Physical Chemistry	Major	3	Theory
	CHY3005	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Spectroscopy	Major	3	Theory
	CHY3010	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Biochemistry Ⅰ	Major	3	Theory
	CHY3013	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Basic Organometallic Chemistry	Major	3	Theory
	CHY3016	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Special Lectures in Analytical Chemistry	Major	3	Theory
	CHY3020	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Undergraduate Thesis Research Ⅰ	Major	2	Independent Research
	CHY3022	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Instrumental Analysis 1	Major	3	Theory
	CHY3029	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Organic Electronic Materials and Its Applications	Major	3	Theory
	CHY3030	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Bio-materials Applied Chemistry	Major	3	Theory
	CHY4001	Grad.	Chemistry	Advanced Physical Chemistry Ⅰ	Major	3	Theory
	CHY4002	Grad.	Chemistry	Advanced Organic Chemistry Ⅰ	Major	3	Theory
	CHY5017	Grad.	Chemistry	Surface and Interface Chemistry	Major	3	Theory
	CHY5036	Grad.	Chemistry	Studies in Bioorganic Chemistry Ⅰ	Major	3	Theory
	CHY5048	Grad.	Chemistry	Organic Reaction Mechanism	Major	3	Theory
	CHY5053	Grad.	Chemistry	Organometallic Chemistry Ⅰ	Major	3	Theory
	CHY5063	Grad.	Chemistry	Advanced Electrochemistry	Major	3	Theory
	CHY5067	Grad.	Chemistry	Special Topics in Polymer Chemistry Ι	Major	3	Theory
	CHY5077	Grad.	Chemistry	Thesis Research I	Major	3	Independent Research
	CHY5083	Grad.	Chemistry	Current Topics in Biological Chemistry 1	Major	3	Theory
	CHY5091	Grad.	Chemistry	Modern Physical Chemistry	Major	3	Theory
	CHY5094	Grad.	Chemistry	Plasmonics	Major	3	Theory
	CHY6001	Grad.	Chemistry	Thesis Research III	Major	3	Independent Research
	CHY6003	Grad.	Chemistry	Thesis Research V	Major	3	Independent Research
	IPC5001	Grad.	ICPC	Special Topics on Nano Physics and Chemistry 1	Major	3	Theory
	IPC5007	Grad.	ICPC	Thesis Research 3	Major	3	Independent Research
2	CHY2005	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Physical Chemistry Ⅱ	Major	3	Theory
	CHY2006	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Organic Chemistry Ⅱ	Major	3	Theory
	CHY2007	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Inorganic Chemistry Ⅱ	Major	3	Theory
	CHY2008	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Analytical Chemistry Ⅱ	Major	3	Theory
	CHY2009	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Physical Chemistry Ⅲ	Major	3	Theory
	CHY2015	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Physical Chemistry Laboratory Ⅱ	Major	1	Experiment
	CHY2016	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Organic Chemistry Laboratory Ⅱ	Major	1	Experiment
	CHY2017	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory Ⅱ	Major	1	Experiment
	CHY3003	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Computational Chemistry	Major	3	Theory
	CHY3008	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Organic Synthesis	Major	3	Theory
	CHY3011	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Biochemistry Ⅱ	Major	3	Theory
	CHY3012	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Organic Spectroscopy	Major	3	Theory
	CHY3015	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Materials Chemistry	Major	3	Theory
	CHY3021	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Undergraduate Thesis Research Ⅱ	Major	2	Independent Research
	CHY3023	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Instrumental Analysis 2	Major	3	Theory
	CHY3025	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Polymer Chemistry	Major	3	Theory
	CHY3027	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Biological Chemistry Laboratory	Major	1	Experiment
	CHY3028	Undergrad.	Chemistry	Analytical Chemistry Laboratory	Major	1	Experiment
	CHY4003	Grad.	Chemistry	Advanced Inorganic Chemistry	Major	3	Theory
	CHY4004	Grad.	Chemistry	Advanced Analytical Chemistry Ι	Major	3	Theory
	CHY4006	Grad.	Chemistry	Field Studies in Chemistry II	Major	2	Internship
	CHY4007	Grad.	Chemistry	Field Studies in Chemistry III	Major	3	Internship
	CHY5029	Grad.	Chemistry	Organic Reactions Ⅱ	Major	3	Theory
	CHY5031	Grad.	Chemistry	Studies in Organic Reactions Ⅱ	Major	3	Theory
	CHY5035	Grad.	Chemistry	Methods in Organic Synthesis Ⅱ	Major	3	Theory
	CHY5041	Grad.	Chemistry	Transition Metal-Catalyzed Organic Reactions	Major	3	Theory
	CHY5057	Grad.	Chemistry	Materials Chemistry I	Major	3	Theory
	CHY5078	Grad.	Chemistry	Thesis Research II	Major	3	Independent Research
	CHY5086	Grad.	Chemistry	Polymer Physical Chemistry	Major	3	Theory
	CHY5092	Grad.	Chemistry	Convergence Physical Chemistry	Major	3	Theory
	CHY5098	Grad.	Chemistry	Green Chemistry	Major	3	Theory
	CHY5099	Grad.	Chemistry	Physical Chemistry for Optical Materials	Major	3	Theory
	CHY6002	Grad.	Chemistry	Thesis Research IV	Major	3	Independent Research
	CHY6004	Grad.	Chemistry	Thesis Research VI	Major	3	Independent Research
	IPC5002	Grad.	ICPC	Special Topics on Nano Physics and Chemistry 2	Major	3	Theory
	IPC5008	Grad.	ICPC	Thesis Research 4	Major	3	Independent Research

Research Areas

Research Areas

Energy / Environmental Chemistry	Catalysts and Absorbents to Remove Environmental Hazards Inorganic Mesoporous Materials Nano Chemistry for Solar Cells Electronic / Nano-Materials Nanomaterial Growth and Characterization Plasma Polymerization and Plasma Surface Modification Organic Light Emitting Devices (OLED)
Catalyst / Medicinal Chemistry	Design of Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis Cooperative Enantioselective Organocatalysis Transition Metal-catalyzed Organic Synthesis
Life Science / Biochemistry	Chemical Biology Based on Natural Product RNA-based Molecular Tools for Genomics, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics DNA Nanotechnology
Electronic / Nano-Materials	Solar Cells Surface & Plasma Chemistry Soft Matter Physics and Chemistry Functional Polymer Synthesis Electrochemistry Organic Electronic Materials
Theoretical Chemistry	Computational Design of Functional Materials Theoretical and Computational Chemistry

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Energy / Environmental Chemistry

Energy / Environmental Chemistry

Professor	Ph.D.	Research Key Words	E-mail
JUNG Duk-Young	University of Bordeaux 1	Nano-structure Materials Thin Films Transistors Solar Cells Bio-mimic Materials Nanostructured Materials Mesoporous Materials
KIM Ji Man	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	Catalysis Battery Fuel Cell Cosmetics
KIM Seong Kyu	The University of Chicago	Physical Chemist Spectroscopy Computation
KIM Youngdok	Free University	Surface Chemistry Environmental Chemistry Heterogeneous Catalysis Thin Films
KWON Young-Uk	Iowa State University	Inorganic Chemistry Nano Materials Carbon Capture Fuel Cell Catalyst
PARK Sungho	Purdue University at West Lafayette	Analytical Chemistry Complex Nanostructures Anodic Aluminum Oxide (AAO) Electrochemistry Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR)
SON Seunguk	Seoul National University	Organometallics Microporous Organic Polymer Lithiumion Battery Catalyst Drug Delivery
YUN Wan Soo	Seoul National University	Nanobio Sensor Nano Gap Nanomaterials SPM Analytical Chemistry
CHANG Jong-san	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	Nano Catalyst Nanoporous Material Metal-Organic Framework Green Chemistry
Doo-Hyun Ko	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Plasmonics Up&down-conversion material Polymer morphology Bulk-heterojunction photovoltaics Deep learning methodology

Catalyst / Medicinal Chemistry

Catalyst /Medicinal Chemistry

Professor	Ph.D.	Research Key Words	E-mail
RYU Do Hyun	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	Organic Chemistry Synthetic Chemistry Natural Product Synthesis Asymmetric Synthesis
SONG Choongeui	RWTH Aachen University	Organic Chemistry Catalysis Asymmetric Catalysis Organocatalysis
YUN Jaesook	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Organic Chemistry Catalysis Asymmetric Synthesis Transition-Metal
Hanyong Bae	Sungkyunkwan University	Homogeneous catalysis Asymmetric synthesis Organic reaction design Total synthesis Sustainable catalysis
Kwangmin Shin	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST)	Transition metal-catalysis Asymmetric Catalysis Catalyst/ligand design Organometallics

Life Science / Biochemistry

Life Science / Biochemistry

Professor	Ph.D.	Research Key Words	E-mail
KIM Yang-Gyun	Johns Hopkins University	Nucleic Acid Protein Engineering Synthetic Biology Genome Modifying Nuclease Z-DNA
KIM Yongho	University of Pennsylvania	Supramolecular Self-assembly Protein Design Protein-based Materials Synthetic Biology Cell behavior Control via Peptide-based Library
LEE Dong-k	Cornell University	Gene Expression Nucleic Acids RNA Interference Aptamer Diagnostics Therapeutics
Wonhwa Lee	Kyungpook National University	Theragnosics Signal transduction Translational research Drug delivery

Electronic / Nano-Materials

Electronic / Nano-Materials

Professor	Ph.D.	Research Key Words	E-mail
BOO Jin-Hyo	Sungkyunkwan University	Surface & Materials Chemistry Electronic & Energy Materials Plasma Chemistry PVD & CVD
LEE Hyoyoung	The University of Mississippi	Organic Semiconducting Materials and Devices Graphene Flakes Transition Metal Chalcogens
PAENG Keewook	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Heterogeneous Dynamics Super Cooled Liquids and Glasses Polymer and Soft Matter
SONG Changsik	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Molecular Design Conjugated Polymer Sensor Conductive Hydrogel Photo Electrochemical System
YOON Seung Soo	Columbia University	Organic Chemistry Organic Electronic Materials Organic Light-emitting Diodes (OLED) Chemical Sensors Bioorganic Chemistry
HUH Joonsuk	University of Frankfurt	Quantum Computing Quantum Chemistry Quantum Optics Computational Material Science

Theoretical Chemistry

Theoretical Chemistry

Professor	Ph.D.	Research Key Words	E-mail
LEE Jinyong	Pohang University of Science and Technology	Computational Chemistry Theoretical Chemistry Fluorescence Sensor Organic Magnetic Molecules