PKNU ENVIRONMENTAL AND MARINE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY

2019 Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

2013 M.S. in Earth and Environmental Sciences, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

2011 B.S. in Earth and Environmental Sciences, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

2019-2022 Postdoctoral researcher, Chemical Science and Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Mineralogy, Computational mineralogy, Mineral resources science, Density functional theory (DFT) modeling, Synchrotron X-ray imaging

Mineralogy, Optical mineralogy, Determinative methods in mineralogical and incomputational materials, Economic geology, Computational mineralogy

Lee S. Y., Kim Y., Kang S. A., Chang B., Hur H., and Lee Y. J. (2023). Characterization of arsenic (III and V) adsorption on natural schwertmannite formed in acid coal mine drainage: Batch studies and spectroscopic observations. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 11(1), 109170.

Kim Y., Tekawade A., Lee S. S., and Fenter P. (2023). Morphological and crystallographic controls in the replacement of calcite and aragonite by cerussite and otavite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 341, 16-27.

Kim Y. , Konecke B., Simon A., Fiege A., and Becker U. (2022). An ab-initio study on the thermodynamics of disulfide, sulfide, and bisulfide incorporation into apatite and the development of a more comprehensive temperature, pressure, pH, and composition-dependent model for ionic substitution in minerals. American Mineralogist: Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials, 107(11), 1995-2007.

Lee S.Y., Chang B., Kim Y., Jang H. and Lee Y.J. (2022) Characterization of arsenite (As (III)) and arsenate (As (V)) sorption on synthetic siderite spherules under anoxic conditions: Different sorption behaviors with crystal size and arsenic species. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 613, 499-514.

Abdilla B., Minahan D.J., Gleghorn J.P., Kim Y., Lee S.S., Fenter P. and Sturchio N.C. (2022) Emergent Behavior at the Calcite？Water Interface during Reactive Transport in a Simple Microfluidic Channel. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 6(4), 861-870.

Kim Y., Abdilla B., Yuan K., De Andrade V., Sturchio N. C., Lee S. S., and Fenter P. (2021) Replacement of calcium carbonate minerals by cerussite. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 5(9), 2433-2441.

Kim Y., Marcano M.C., Kim S., and Becker U. (2021) Reduction of uranyl and uranyl-organic complexes mediated by magnetite and ilmenite: A combined electrochemical AFM and DFT study. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 293, 127-141.

Lee S.Y., Kim Y., Chang B. and Lee Y.J. (2020) Enhanced arsenic (III and V) removal in anoxic environments by hierarchically structured citrate/FeCO3 nanocomposites. Nanomaterials, 10(9), 1773.

Cook P., Kim Y., Yuan K., Marcano M. C., and Becker U. (2019). Electrochemical, Spectroscopic, and Computational Investigations on Redox Reactions of Selenium Species on Galena Surfaces. Minerals, 9(7), 437.

Kim Y., Wolf A. S., and Becker U. (2019) Thermodynamic mixing properties of alunite supergroup minerals: Quantum-mechanical modeling and thermodynamic analysis of sulfate, chromate, selenate, phosphate and arsenate solid solutions and uranyl incorporation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 248, 138-160.

Kim Y., Marcano M.C., Ellis B. R., and Becker U. (2018) Photocatalytic reduction of uranyl: Effects of organic ligands and UV light wavelengths. American Journal of Science 318, 949-968.

Kim Y., Konecke B., Fiege A., Simon A., and Becker U. (2017) An ab-initio study of the energetics and geometry of sulfide, sulfite, and sulfate incorporation into apatite: The thermodynamic basis for using this system as an oxybarometer. American Mineralogist 102, 1646-1656.

Kim Y., Yuan K., Ellis B. R., and Becker U. (2017) Redox reactions of selenium as catalyzed by magnetite: Lessons learnt from using electrochemistry and spectroscopic methods. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 199, 304-324.

Doan D.H., Kim Y., Nguyen T.M., Yoon H.O., Oh S.G., Jo H.Y. and Lee Y.J. (2015) Characterization of Cr Sorption and Reduction on TiO2: Batch and XPS Studies. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution 226, 1-11.

Kim Y., Seo J., Kang S.-A., Choi S.-G. and Lee Y.J. (2015) Geochemistry and uranium mineralogy of the black slate in the Okcheon Metamorphic Belt, South Korea. Geochemical Journal 49, 443-452.

Kim Y., Lee S.Y., Roh Y., Lee J., Kim J., Lee Y., Bang J. and Lee Y.J. (2015) Optimizing calcium phosphates by the control of pH and temperature via wet precipitation. Journal of nanoscience and nanotechnology 15, 10008-10016.

Kim Y. and Lee Y.J. (2014) Characterization of mercury sorption on hydroxylapatite: batch studies and microscopic evidence for adsorption. Journal of colloid and interface science 430, 193-199.

We are interested in understanding structural, physical, and chemical properties of minerals in geological processes, on the basis of using density functional theory (DFT) modeling and synchrotron X-ray measurements. We aim at evaluating minerals as a geological proxy in igneous and metamorphic rocks. For these purposes we combine experiments and field observations with various electron- and X-ray based microscopic and spectroscopic analyses including EPMA, SEM/EDS, and TEM.