Research Areas
- Physical Chemistry
- Spectroscopy and Imaging
- Chemical Dynamics
- Liquid Electrolyte for Energy Storage System
- Computational Chemistry for Lanthanide and Actinide compounds.
Representative Publications
- "Ultrafast dynamics of solute-solvent complexation observed at thermal equilibrium in real time’ J. Zheng, K. Kwak, J. Asbury, X. Chen, I.R. Piletic, M.D. Fayer, Science, 309, 1338, (2005)
- "Ultrafast Carbon-Carbon Single Bond Rotational Isomerization in room temperature solution" Zheng JR, Kwak K, Xie J, Fayer MD Science 313 1952 (2006).
- "Dynamics around solute and solute-solvent complex in mixed solvents" Kwak K, Park S and Fayer MD. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104 14221 (2007)
- "Biomimetic Self-Templating Supramolecular Structure" WJ Chung, JW Oh, K Kwak ,BY Lee, J Meyer, E Wang, A Hexamer, SW Lee, Nature,478 364 (2011)
- Infrared Pump−.Probe Study of Nanoconfined Water Structure in Reverse Micelle, Jooyong Lee, Michał Maj, Kyungwon Kwak*, and Minhaeng Cho*, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 5, 3404 (2014)