CRC Materials Science and Engineering Handbook

About James F. ShackelfordSe-Hun KwonSukyoung KimYoung-Hwan Han

James F. Shackelford earned a BS and MS from the University of Washington and a Ph.D from the University of California Berkeley. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at McMaster University he joined the University of California Davis (UC Davis) where he is currently distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. He previously served at UC Davis as the associate dean for undergraduate studies in the College of Engineering director of the University Honors Program associate director for education for the National Science Foundation-funded Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology and as faculty assistant to the director of the McClellan Nuclear Research Center. Widely published and highly decorated Dr. Shackelford is a member and fellow of the American Ceramic Society and ASM International.Young-Hwan Han earned a BS and MS from Sungkyunkwan University and an MS and Ph.D from the University of Nevada Reno. He is currently a foreign professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Yeungnam University. For many years he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of California Davis and University of California Berkeley. Dr. Han has also worked as an invited professor and research professor at Sungkyunkwan University Keimyung University and Pusan National University. He currently teaches materials science courses at Yeungnam University and conducts research in the structural characterization and processing of materials focusing on nanoceramics. Dr. Han has published more than 60 technical papers and translated several books into Korean.Sukyoung Kim earned a BS from Inha University an MS from Seoul National University and from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and a Ph.D from the University of Vermont. After graduation he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vermont Hospital. In 1991 he joined the Biomaterials Group in the Center for Biomaterials at the University of Toronto. In 1994 Dr. Kim joined the faculty of the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Yeungnam University. A member of several scientific societies Dr. Kim as a chairman organized the 2009 Bioceramics 22 meeting. He also organized the 29th International KoreaJapan Seminar on Ceramics in 2012. Currently he is an international executive committee member of the International Society of Ceramics in Medicine.Se-Hun Kwon earned a BS MS and Ph.D from and served as a postdoctoral associate at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). In 2009 he joined Pusan National University (PNU) where he is currently associate professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering. Dr. Kwon also worked as an adjunct professor of the School of Convergence Science at PNU. He is a member of several scientific societies and has published more than 70 archived papers and 20 patents. His research group Surface Materials Laboratory focuses on the design and synthesis of multifunctional surfaces and interfacial layers using atomic layer deposition techniques and on the fabrication of highly ordered nanostructures for semiconductors photovoltaic devices and nanodevices by utilizing hybrid bottom-up and top-down fabrication approaches.