Student devises method to produce nanomaterials

Park Sung-muk

By Jhoo Dong-chan

Park Sung-muk, 25, a student majoring in chemical engineering at Kwangwoon University, has posted his study in the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, the school said Monday.

A staffer of the journal said Park’s thesis, “Green synthesis of metal nanoparticles using sprout plants: pros and cons,” was posted in their monthly publication of Jan. 23.

The journal is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by American Scientific Publishers. Researches related to sciences and technologies at the nanoscale embodying materials synthesis, materials processing, and nanofabrication, usually publish their papers in this journal.

In the thesis, Park proposes the scientific method to produce nanomaterials with plants.

Nanomaterials have been traditionally produced by chemical methods.

Park’s method is expected to produce gold and silver nanoparticles during the plant cultivation process, said a Kwangwoon University staffer.

Park’s thesis has won the school’s president award for degree thesis.

“I am also interested in artificial photosynthesis and photocatalyst technologies using plants’ photosynthesis process. I will keep on my studying in the graduate school,” said Park.

The Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology is a Science Citation Indexed (SCI) journal.

The SCI is a citation index launched in 1964 that covers more than 6,500 notable and significant journals, across 150 disciplines, from 1900 to the present.