Khidong Kim

Graduate Student, Chemistry

Education

01.2020 – Present      Ph.D. Student

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States


08.2012 – 05.2012      B.Sc in Biological Chemistry

Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, United States

Research

01.2020 – Present      Matyjaszewski Group

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

In close collaboration with the Harth Lab, University of Houston

• Synthesis of Polyolefin – Polar block containing block copolymer via ATRP and examining their possibilities of polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA).

Publications

2. “Red-Light-Induced, Copper-Catalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization”, Sajjad Dadashi-Silab, Khidong Kim, Francesca Lorandi, Grzegorz Szczepaniak, Stephanie Kramer, Linda Peteanu, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, ACS Macro Letters, 2022, 11, 3, 376–381

1. “Effect of halogen and solvent on iron-catalyzed atom transfer radical polymerization”, Sajjad Dadashi-Silab, Khidong Kim, Francesca Lorandi, Dirk J Schild, Marco Fantin, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Polymer Chemistry, 2022, 13, 1059-1066