(1) Chiral induction in single molecules by light irradiation, (2) Organic semiconducting materials, and (3) Photocatalysis and electrocatalysis in energy conversion.
Education
(PhD) 1992-1997 Organic Chemistry, University of Mississippi
Experience
1997-1999 Postdoc, North Carolina State University
2000-2009 Principal Researcher, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Daejeon
2007-2009 Adjunct Professor, University of Science and Technology
2009-Present Professor of Department of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University
2010- Present Director of Creative Research Institute
2015- Present Associate director of IBS (CINAP)
Journal Articles
(2023)
One-Step Passivation of Both Sulfur Vacancies and SiO<sub>2</sub> Interface Traps of MoS<sub>2</sub> Device.
NANO LETTERS.
23,
17
(2023)
Boosting internal quantum efficiency via ultrafast triplet transfer to 2H-MoTe2 film.
SCIENCE ADVANCES.
9,
25
(2023)
Electron deficient boron-doped amorphous carbon nitride to uphill N2 photo-fixation through π back donation.
Applied Catalysis B: Environmental.
321,
(2022)
Inductive Effect of Lewis Acidic Dopants on the Band Levels of Perovskite for a Photocatalytic Reaction.
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES.
14,
48
(2022)
Unveiling the Protonation Kinetics-Dependent Selectivity in Nitrogen Electroreduction: Achieving 75.05 % Selectivity.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION.
61,
50
(2022)
Dual-Functional Self-Attachable and Stretchable Interface for Universal Three-Dimensional Modular Electronics.
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES.
14,
43
(2022)
Electron deficient boron-doped amorphous carbon nitride to uphill N-2 photo-fixation through pi back donation.
APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL.
321,
(2022)
Efficient Nitrate Conversion to Ammonia on f-Block Single-Atom/Metal Oxide Heterostructure via Local Electron-Deficiency Modulation.
ACS NANO.
16,
9
(2022)
Controlling the Helicity Direction of Nanoribbons by Circularly Polarized Light.
ACS MATERIALS LETTERS.
4,
10
(2022)
Coupling Amorphous Ni Hydroxide Nanoparticles with Single-Atom RH on Cu Nanowire Arrays for Highly Efficient Alkaline Seawater Electrolysis.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS.
13,
34
(2022)
Efficient ammonia synthesis via electroreduction of nitrite using single-atom Ru-doped Cu nanowire arrays.
CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS.
58,
34
(2022)
Efficient ambient ammonia synthesis by Lewis acid pair over cobalt single atom catalyst with suppressed proton reduction.
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A.
10,
15
(2022)
Unveiling a Three Phase Mixed Heterojunction via Phase-Selective Anchoring of Polymer for Efficient Photocatalysis.
ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS.
12,
15
(2022)
Unraveling the Function of Metal-Amorphous Support Interactions in Single-Atom Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION.
61,
9
(2022)
Amorphization of Metal Nanoparticles by 2D Twisted Polymer for Super Hydrogen Evolution Reaction.
ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS.
12,
16
(2022)
Accelerating water reduction towards hydrogen generation via cluster size adjustment in Ru-incorporated carbon nitride.
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL.
429,
132282
(2022)
Selectively Regulating the Chiral Morphology of Amino Acid-Assisted Chiral Gold Nanoparticles with Circularly Polarized Light.
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES.
14,
2
(2022)
CNT-molecule-CNT (1D-0D-1D) van der Waals integration ferroelectric memory with 1-nm2 junction area.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS.
13,
1
(2022)
Pseudo-capacitive and kinetic enhancement of metal oxides and pillared graphite composite for stabilizing battery anodes.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS.
12,
1
Publications
(2011)
Nanoscale interface for organic electronics.
World scientific publishing Co. Pte Ltd.
Lead author
Patent/Intellectual Property
전이금속칼코게나이드 이차원 나노구조체 제조방법, 전이금속칼코게나이드 이차원 나노구조체 및 이를 포함하는 소자.
15/805,810.
20201006.
UNITED STATES
Conference Paper
(2023)
Single-atom and Single-atom Dimer Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion.
International Forum on Functional Materials (IFFM) 2023.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
(2022)
Single-atom and Single-atom Dimer Electrocatalysts for Sustainability.
The 4th international Conference on Emerging Advanced Nanomaterials.
AUSTRALIA
(2022)
Selective Disordering of Rutile Phase-only and Anatase Phase-only in P25 TiO2 for Visible-light Photocatalyst.
NT22.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
(2020)
Phase-selective disorder of two phase-mixed heterogeneous TiO2 for energy and sustainability.
Nano-Micro Letters Webinar Series.
SINGAPORE
(2018)
Catalysis using Transition metal chalcogenides for Energy Conversions.
International Conference on Catalysis and Pyrolysis.
UNITED STATES
(2018)
Low energy bandgap semiconducting materials for energy and environment.
Innovative Material Science & Nanotechnology.
SPAIN
(2018)
Tuning Photocatalytic Semiconducting Materials for Environmental and Greenchemistry.
European Chemistry Conference 2018.
ITALY
(2017)
Blue/Black TiO2 materials prepared at room temperature atmosphere in solution and their industrial applications.
Asia Pacific Society for Materials Research.
TAIWAN
(2017)
Design of Asymmetric Supercapacitors USING Graphene Flakes.
International Community for Composites Engineering.
ITALY
(2016)
Research Progress on Graphene Flakes, Graphene Quantum Dots and reduced TiO2 and their Possible Applications.
ICNST 2016.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
(2016)
Controllable Interlayers of Graphene Flake with Conductive Molecular Linkers for Supercapacitors.
IDC-NICE 2016.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
(2016)
Layered Graphene Flakes and Blue TiO2 Nanomaterials with Low Energy Bandgap.
7th international symposium on functional materials.
CHINA