# Nam-Gyu Park

Nam-Gyu Park (Korean: 박남규; born 1960) was a South Korean chemist. He is Distinguished Professor and Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)-Fellow at School of Chemical Engineering, SKKU. His research focuses on high efficiency mesoscopic nanostructured solar cells. He announced the beginning of perovskite photovoltaic research by first reporting long-term stable perovskite solar cells in 2012, and is called the pioneer of practical perovskite solar cells.

## Education

Park received his B.S. degree in chemical education in 1988, M.S. in 1992 and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry in 1995 from Seoul National University.

## Career

Park worked as postdoctoral researcher at the Institut de Chimie de la Matiere Condensee de Bordeaux – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (ICMCB-CNRS), France, from 1996 to 1997 and at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, US, from 1997 to 1999. He joined SKKU as a full professor of School of Chemical Engineering in 2009.

## Awards and honors

* Aug. 2008 – KIST Award of Month (KIST)
* Oct. 2008 – Scientist Award of the Month (Korean Government)
* Oct. 2008 – Kyunhang Electricity and Energy Award (Korean Government)
* 2009 – Best KIST Award (KIST)
* 2010 – DuPont Science and Technology Award (DuPont Korea)
* 2013 – 100 National Outstanding Awards (Korean Government)
* 2014 – MRS Outstanding Research Award (MRS)
* 2014 – WCPEC-6 Paper Award (Kyoto, Japan)
* 2015 – Hamakawa Award of PVSEC (Busan, Korea)
* 2016 – Dukmyung KAST Engineering Award (KAST)
* 2017 – Clarivate Citation Laureates (Clarivate Analytics)
* 2018 – ACS-KCS Excellence Award (American Chemical Society)
* 2018 – Lee Hsun Lecture Award (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
* 2018 – Ho-Am Prize in Engineering (Ho-Am Foundation)
* 2018 – Prime Minister Award (No. 6912)
* 2018 – Minister of Science Award (No. 25595)
* 2018 – Scientist of the Year Award
* 2019 – Asian Scientist 100, Asian Scientist
* 2020 – 1st Jin-Ho Choy Academic Award (Korean Chemical Society)
* 2021 – NANO
* 2022 – Rank Prizes for Optoelectronics
* 2023 – Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Materials Science - 2023
* 2024 – Top Scientist and Technologist Award of Korea
* 2024 – ENI award for Energy Frontiers

## Patents

* Perovskite Solar Cell

## Books

* “Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskite Photovoltaics” Ed. N.-G. Park, M. Gratzel and T. Miyasaka, Springer (2016), ISBN 978-3-319-35114-8
* “High Efficiency Mesoscopic Organometal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells” in “Unconventional Thin Film Photovoltaics”, Ed. Enrico Da Como, Filippo De Angelis, Henry Snaith, Alison Walker, Royal Society of Chemistry (2016), ISBN 978-1-78262-293-2
* “Sensitized Mesoscopic Solar Cells” McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology (2015), ISBN 978-0-07-183576-3
* “Perovskite Solar Cell” in "Advanced concepts in photovoltaics", Ed. A.J. Nozik, Royal Society of Chemistry (2014), ISBN 978-1-84973-591-9
* "Advanced technologies of perovskite-based thin film solar cells" in “Recent development of perovskite thin film solar cells", Ed. T. Miyasaka and H. Segawa, CMC Publishing Co., Japan (2014), ISBN 978-4- 907837-25-9 C3058.
* “Perovskite-based solid state hybrid solar cells" in "Trends in Advanced Sensitized and Organic Solar Cells”, Ed. T. Miyasaka, CMC Publishing Co, Japan (2012), ISBN 978-4-7813-0620-9 C3054
* “Metal oxide nanostructures and their photovoltaic applications” in "Metal Oxide Nanostructures and Their Applications", Ed. Ahmad Umar, American Science Publisher, USA (2009), ISBN 1-58883-170-1
* “Research trend of dye-sensitized solar cell in Korea” in "Recent Advances in Research and Development for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells II", Ed. H. Arakawa, CMC Publishing Co, Japan (2007), ISBN 978-4- 88231-665-7 C3054

## Publications

* Scalable fabrication and coating methods for perovskite solar cells and solar modules, Nature Materials Review 5, 333–350 (2020)
* High-Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells, Chem. Rev. 120, 7867−7918 (2020)
* Multifunctional Chemical Linker Imidazoleacetic Acid Hydrochloride for 21% Efficient and Stable Planar Perovskite Solar Cells, Adv. Mater. 1902902 (2019)
* Bi-facial stamping for High Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells, Energy & Environ. Sci., 12, 308 (2018)
* Printable organometallic perovskite enables large-area, low-dose X-ray imaging, Nature, 550, 87 (2017)
* Towards stable and commercially available perovskite solar cells, Nature Energy, 1, 16152 (2016)
* Self-formed grain boundary healing layer for highly efficient CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite solar cells, Nature Energy, 1, 16081, (2016)
* Growth of CH3NH3PbI3 cuboids with controlled size for high-efficiency perovskite solar cells, Nature Nanotechnology, 9, 927 (2014)
* Water photolysis at 12.3% efficiency via perovskite photovoltaics and Earth-abundant catalysts, Science, 26, 1593 (2014)
* Mechanism of carrier accumulation in perovskite thin-absorber solar cells, Nature Communications, 4, 2242 (2013)
* Organometal perovskite light absorbers toward a 20% efficiency low-cost solid-state mesoscopic solar cell, J. Phys. Chem. Letters, 4, 2423 (2013) (Cover)
* Lead iodide perovskite sensitized all-solid-state submicron thin film mesoscopic solar cell with efficiency exceeding 9%, Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing), 2, 591 (2012) Highly cited article
* 6.5% efficient perovskite quantum-dot-sensitized solar cell, Nanoscale, 3, 4088 (2011)
* Selective positioning of organic dyes in a mesoporous inorganic oxide films, Nature Materials, 8, 665 (2009)