Kim published over 400 papers in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Chemical Reviews, Chemical Reviews Society, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, Accounts of Chemical Research, Physical Review Letters, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Chemistry - A European Journal, Organic Letters, The Journal of Organic Chemistry, Physical Review, The Journal of Chemical Physics, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, etc.