{"id":2718,"date":"2026-02-13T21:10:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/?page_id=2718"},"modified":"2026-02-13T21:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:10:49","slug":"byeunggon-kim","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/members\/byeunggon-kim\/","title":{"rendered":"Byeunggon Kim"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%\"><a href=\"mailto:bkim26@ncsu.edu\">bkim26@ncsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/byeunggonkim\">LinkedIn<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=ko&amp;user=lMhMnEUAAAAJ\">Google Scholar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>M.S., Chemical Engineering, 2023<br \/>\nKyungpook National University<br \/>\nDaegu, South Korea<\/p>\n<p>B.S., Chemical Engineering, 2021<br \/>\nKyungpook National University<br \/>\nDaegu, South Korea<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2820\" src=\"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/02\/IMG_0356-2-400x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/02\/IMG_0356-2-400x600.png 400w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/02\/IMG_0356-2-534x800.png 534w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/02\/IMG_0356-2-768x1151.png 768w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/02\/IMG_0356-2-1025x1536.png 1025w, https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/02\/IMG_0356-2.png 1321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Research focus: Shear-driven fabrication of architected polymer particles for sustainable materials<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My research focuses on developing architected polymer particles through an energy-efficient shear-driven fabrication method and integrating them into sustainable material systems. This technique uses nonsolvent-induced phase separation under shear to create complex particle morphologies at low energy cost, and it is compatible with a wide range of polymers, including biodegradable biopolymers such as chitosan, alginate, and ethyl cellulose.<\/p>\n<p>A major direction is to employ these architected biopolymer particles as reinforcing materials in thin films. Embedding complex particles can significantly improve tensile properties, reduce moisture transmission, and enhance hydrophobicity, providing a pathway toward biodegradable films that can replace conventional fossil-fuel-based substrates in packaging applications.<\/p>\n<p>Another goal is to design hydrophobic particles suited for forming low-density aerogels through a more energy-efficient process. Architected particles produced via shear-driven methods enable the formation of aerogels with reduced energy input while maintaining desirable thermal insulation and energy-absorbing characteristics.<\/p>\n<p>Together, this work establishes a versatile and scalable strategy for transforming diverse polymers into functional architected particles, enabling the creation of high-performance films and aerogels with a markedly smaller environmental and energy\u00a0footprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bkim26@ncsu.edu LinkedIn \/ Google Scholar M.S., Chemical Engineering, 2023 Kyungpook National University Daegu, South Korea B.S., Chemical Engineering, 2021 Kyungpook National University Daegu, South Korea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":992,"featured_media":0,"parent":36,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"first_name":[],"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2718","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2821,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2718\/revisions\/2821"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbe.ncsu.edu\/velevgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}