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| Hyeon Taeg-hwan Yonhap |
A noted nanochemist and distinguished professor of Seoul National University (SNU), Hyeon Taeg-hwan is expected to win the Nobel Prize, according to a global analytics-based service provider, Thursday.
Clarivate Analytics said Wednesday that it had named Hyeon as one of 24 2020-Citation Laureates in the areas of physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine and economics.
Citation Laureates are scientists that the Philadelphia- and London-based company predicts to win the Nobel Prize. They are chosen based on how frequently their research has been cited by other researchers.
The director of the Center for Nanoparticle Research of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) is among the 24 most-cited researchers who are highly influential figures in their fields for their breakthrough and frontier research work.
Hyeon pioneered the heat-up process to produce uniform-sized nanocrystals of many different kinds of materials, a novel synthetic procedure that enables the direct production of uniform-sized nanocrystals without a size selection process.
Hyeon's heat-up process, which allows synthesis of uniform-sized nanocrystals under mild conditions, was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) in 2011 with its impact attested by 1,660 citations.
Earlier in 2016, Hyeon was named as the first Korean winner of the International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications (IUVSTA) Prize for Technology.
The IUVSTA, an international federation of 33 national vacuum organizations, said at the time that he was selected as the awardee in recognition of his innovative and exceptional research outcomes in the areas of fundamental mechanism of nanocrystal formation, uniform-sized nanoparticle manufacturing and nanoparticle design for medical applications.
The award helped Hyeon become a globally recognized scientist in vacuum, nanoscience and technology.
He earned a B.S. in chemistry at Seoul National University in 1987 before he earned an M.S. in chemistry there in 1989. He earned a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He is the director at Hyeon Research Group whose goal is nanomaterials-based innovation of the present technologies from the aspects of biotechnology, medicine, and green energy, with one of its ultimate goals including revealing the fundamental mechanisms of nucleation and growth to fully understand and control nanoparticle synthesis.
