(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
(2026)
Magnetic-field-assisted cascade electrocatalysis: simultaneous H2O2 generation and cOH radical production for coupled hydrogen evolution and water disinfection.
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A.
14,
x
(2026)
Beyond Copper: Expanding the Horizon of CO2 Electrocatalysis for Multicarbon Product Formation.
ACS ENERGY LETTERS.
11,
1
(2025)
Non-oxide High-Entropy Ceramics for Oxygen Evolution Reaction: A Review.
Carbon Neutralization.
4,
5
(2025)
Recent progress in two-dimensional graphdiyne: Synthesis, characterization, and applications.
ChemPhysMater.
4,
2
(2025)
Blue TiO2-Based Photocatalysis under Ambient Indoor Light for Prolonged Food Storage.
ACS Applied Bio Materials.
8,
3
(2025)
Effectiveness of strain and dopants on breaking the activity-stability trade-off of RuO2 acidic oxygen evolution electrocatalysts.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS.
16,
1
(2025)
Advanced systems for enhanced CO2 electroreduction.
CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS.
54,
2
(2024)
Stable and efficient chlorine evolution reaction with atomically dispersed Ru on surface tensile strained TiO2.
APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY.
359,
(2024)
Ion-migration-induced synaptic plasticity in high ion-storable fluorine graphdiyne for information processing.
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL.
500,
15
(2024)
Modified TiO2/In2O3 heterojunction with efficient charge separation for visible-light-driven photocatalytic CO2 reduction to C2 product.
JOURNAL OF ENERGY CHEMISTRY.
98,
(2024)
Coordination Environment and Distance Optimization of Dual Single Atoms on Fluorine-Doped Carbon Nanotubes for Chlorine Evolution Reaction.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION.
63,
44
(2024)
Relationship between Structure and Performance of Atomic-Scale Electrocatalysts for Water Splitting.
SMALL.
20,
39
(2024)
Coupling photocatalytic CO2 reduction and CH3OH oxidation for selective dimethoxymethane production.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS.
15,
1
(2024)
Recent Advances in Electrochemical Water Splitting Electrocatalysts: Categorization by Parameters and Catalyst Types.
ACS MATERIALS LETTERS.
6,
8
(2024)
Insight into Facile Ion Diffusion in Resistive Switching Medium toward Low Operating Voltage Memory.
NANO LETTERS.
24,
26
(2024)
Fe Species Supported on Blue-TiO<sub>2</sub>/WO<sub>3</sub> Nanocomposite as Catalyst for the Decomposition of Toluene Vapor under White Light-Emitting Diode Lighting.
ACS APPLIED NANO MATERIALS.
7,
12
(2024)
Main Group SnN<sub>4</sub>O Single Sites with Optimized Charge Distribution for Boosting the Oxygen Reduction Reaction.
ACS NANO.
18,
22
(2024)
Indoor-Light-Activated Blue TiO2-Molecule-WO3 Visible Photocatalyst for Antibacterial Performance against Escherichia coli.
ACS INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
10,
6
(2024)
Effective Charge Separation in a Dual-Single-Atom Photocatalyst for Sacrificial Agent-Free H<sub>2</sub> Evolution.
ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING.
12,
16
Publications
(2011)
Nanoscale interface for organic electronics.
World scientific publishing Co. Pte Ltd.
Lead author
Patent/Intellectual Property
플렉서블 무기 반도체 소자 및 이의 제조 방법(FLEXIBLE INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND PREPARING METHOD OF THE SAME).
10-2646-8980000.
20240307.
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
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
