Ryoo Ryong
 | This biographical article is written like a résumé. (December 2011) |
Education
Ryoo graduated Suwon High School, then graduated with bachelor's degree in applied chemistry from the Seoul National University. He received his PhD in chemistry from Stanford University in 1985 under supervision of Prof. Michel Boudart. His PhD thesis is ‘Platinum Clusters in Y-Zeolite – Studies by Physical and Chemical Probes’. Prior to the PhD course, Ryoo worked at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute as a researcher.
Work
After obtaining Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 1986, Ryong Ryoo worked at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (U. C. Berkeley) as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Ryoo studied on the solid state NMR under the supervision of Prof. Alex Pines (1986. 01 ∼ 1986. 11). Then, Dr. Ryoo moved to the Department of Chemistry at KAIST as a professor (1986. 12).[1]
During his research at KAIST, Prof. Ryoo laid many scientific cornerstones on nanoporous carbon and hierarchically nanoporous zeolite materials science. Dr. Ryoo developed a hard-templating synthesis strategy toward nanoporous carbon material and its application to the research field of fuel cell, which was published in “The Journal of Physical Chemistry B”(1999) and “Nature”(2001). This synthesis strategy is being evaluated as a creative and innovative approach for synthesis of not only nanoporous carbon, but also other nanoporous materials such as zeolites, polymers and metal oxides. In addition, Prof. Ryoo has been focusing on the synthesis of hierarchically nanoporous zeolite materials and their catalytic applications. In this work, he proposed several innovative synthesis strategies in porous materials preparation. He reported the organosilane-directed synthesis route to the mesoporous zeolites in “Nature Materials” (2006). Ryoo also released an article on the synthesis of single-unit-cell thick nanosheet zeolites in “Nature” (2009). In this approach, a surfactant chemically incorporating a zeolite structure-directing head group was used, which can generate zeolite micropores as well as mesoporous structures simultaneously in a single synthesis step. Thanks to the significant contribution made to the zeolite synthesis, Prof. Ryoo received the Breck Award from the International Zeolite Association in 2010.[2] In 2011, He extended the surfactant-directing synthesis strategy to various nanoporous structures such as hexagonal honeycomb and disordered nanosponge, rather than lamellar-type nanosheet, and reported these results in Science (2011). Since 2007, Dr. Ryoo has been named National Honor Scientist by the Korean Government and has received research funds. In addition, he became a distinguished professor in the Department of Chemistry at KAIST in 2008. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and member of the Editorial Board for both “Chemical Communications”[3] and “ChemCatChem”.
Awards
Best Paper Award from Korean Chemical Society (4/2000)
Best Paper Award from Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies (4/2001)
Research of Future Award at ACS Symposium on Nanotechnology in Catalysis (4/2001)
Best Paper Award from Japan Society of Electron Microscopy (with Prof. O. Terasaki 5/2001)
Scientist of the Month by Ministry of Science and Technology, Korea (8/2001)
Professor of the Year at KAIST (12/2001)
Academic Award by Korean Chemical Society (4/2002)
Grand Academic Award at KAIST (12/2002)
Top Scientist Award by Korean government (4/2005)
Model Scientist for Young People by Korea Science Foundation (8/2006)
Leading Scientist in a Research Front by Thomson Scientific and KOSEF (5/2007)
National Honor Scientist by Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Korea (11/2007)
Distinguished Professor at KAIST (2008)
Creative Knowledge Awards by MOEST (12/2009)
Ho-Am Prize in Science by Ho-Am Foundation (6/2010)[4]
Breck Award by International Zeolite Association (7/2010)[2]
Technical Reports
Ryoo, R., et. al. “Direct imaging of the pores and cages of three-dimensional mesoporous materials”, Nature, 2000.
Ryoo, R., et. al. “Ordered nanoporous arrays of carbon supporting high dispersions of platinum nanoparticles”, Nature, 2001.
Ryoo, R., et. al. “Stable single-unit-cell nanosheets of zeolite MFI as active and long-lived catalysts”, Nature, 2009.
Ryoo, R., et. al. “Directing Zeolite Structures into Hierarchically Nanoporous Architectures”, Science, 2011.