Publications

Publication

2025

1. Seyoon Kim†, Hyung il Lee†, Soon-ho Kwon†, Jin-wook Lee*, Il Jeon1*, Hyung-Suk Oh*, Michael Grätzel*, William A Goddard III*, Chungseok Choi*

“Beyond C2 Products; Strategies and Challenges in Advancing CO2 Valorization to Higher Carbon Products.”

ACS Nano (2025) accepted

2. Hyeuk Jin Han, Moon Young Yang, Changsoo Lee, Gangtae Jin, James L Hart, Rabecca Mutheu, Hyung il Lee, Seo Hyun Kim, Hanhwi Jang, Minjoon Kim, Yeon Sik Jung, William A. Goddard III*, Judy J. Cha*, Chungseok Choi*

“Mechanistic Transformation of CuI Nanoparticles into Oxidation-Resistant 2D Copper Nanoplates.”

Small (2025) e08098 (Link) 

3. Rabecca Mutheu Maithya, Sung Geon Lee, Jae Sung Park and Chungseok Choi*  

“Environmentally sustainable CO2 valorization to green methanol.”

J Phys Energy  (2025) 7(4), 042005 (Link) 

4. Sang Heon Kim, Ji Young Park, Sung Yeol Choi, Jeongeun Mo, Hyun-Cheol Song, Chungseok Choi, Hyesung Park, Jeong Min Baik 

“Interface Engineering of LaSrCoO-N-CDs-FeOOH Composites for Synergistic Water-Splitting Catalysis.”

Nano Energy  (2025) 142, 111170 (Link) 

5. Hongmin Wang, Bo Shang, Chungseok Choi, Sungho Jeon, Yuanzuo Gao, Tyler Wang, Nia J Harmon, Mengxia Liu, Eric A Stach, Hailiang Wang 

“Enhanced methanol production from photothermal CO2 reduction via multilevel interface design.”

Nano Research  (2025) 18 (2), 94907160  (Link) 

2024

1. Yuanzuo Gao, Wanyu Zhang, Chungseok Choi, Bo Shang, Seonjeong Cheon, Aidan Francis Meese, Jae-Hong Kim, Donghui Long, John Fortner, Hailiang Wang 

“Effective electrochemical trichloroethylene removal from water enabled by selective molecular catalysis .”

Carbon future  (2025) 1 (3), 9200015 (Link) 

2. Chungseok Choi, Soonho Kwon, Yuanzuo Gao, Seonjeong Cheon, Jing Li, Fabian Menges, William A. Goddard III, and Hailiang Wang

“CO2-Promoted Electrocatalytic Reduction of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons.”

Journal of the American Chemical Society  (2024) 146 (12), 8486-8491  (Link) 

Before joining SKKU

1. Conor L Rooney, Mason Lyons, Yueshen Wu, Gongfang Hu, Maoyu Wang, Chungseok Choi, Yuanzuo Gao, Chun‐Wai Chang, Gary W Brudvig, Zhenxing Feng, Hailiang Wang 

"Active Sites of Cobalt Phthalocyanine in Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to Methanol"

Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English (2023) 136 (2), e202310623  (Link) 

2. Alexandre Genoux, Magnus Pauly, Conor L. Rooney, Chungseok Choi, Bo Shang, Scott McGuigan, Majed S. Fataftah, Yves Kayser, Simon C. B. Suhr, Serena DeBeer, Hailiang Wang, Paul A. Maggard, and Patrick L. Holland

“Well-Defined Iron Sites in Crystalline Carbon Nitride.”

Journal of the American Chemical Society 145, 38, (2023) 20739–20744  (Link)  

3. Hongmin Wang, Shuting Fu, Bo Shang, Sungho Jeon, Yiren Zhong, Nia J Harmon, Chungseok Choi, Eric A Stach, Hailiang Wang

“Solar‐Driven CO2 Conversion via Optimized Photothermal Catalysis in a Lotus Pod Structure”

Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English (2023) e202305251 (Link)  

4. Jin Cai, Qing Zhao, Wei-You Hsu, Chungseok Choi, Yang Liu, John Mark P Martirez, Chih Chen, Jin Huang, Emily A Carter, Yu Huang

“Highly Selective Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 into Methane on Nanotwinned Cu”

Journal of the American Chemical Society 145, (2023) 9136 (Link)  

5. Chungseok Choi, Fengyi Zhao, James L Hart, Yuanzuo Gao, Fabian Menges, Conor L. Rooney, Nia Harmon, Bo Shang, Zihao Xu, Sa Suo, Quynh Sam, Judy J. Cha, Tianquan Lian, and Hailiang Wang

“Hybrid Photocatalyst Material for Direct Conversion of Captured CO2 from Air”

Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English (2023) e202302152 (Link) 

6. Chungseok Choi, Xiaoxiong Wang, Soonho Kwon, James L Har, Conor L. Rooney, Nia Harmon, Quynh Sam, Judy J. Cha, William A. Goddard III, Menachem Elimelech, and Hailiang Wang

“Efficient Electrocatalytic Valorization of a Perennial Chlorinated Organic Pollutant in Water”

Nature Nanotechnology (2022) (Link)

7. Hongming Wang, Shuting Fu, Chungseok Choi, Yiren Zhong, and Samuel Schaefer

“Exploring the Potential of Natural Pyrrhotite Mineral for Electrochemical Energy Storage”

Energy Storage Materials 54 (2023) 421 (Link)

8. Nia J Harmon, Conor L Rooney, Zixu Tao, Bo Shang, Neera Raychaudhuri, Chungseok Choi, Huaping Li, Hailiang Wang

“Intrinsic Catalytic Activity of Carbon Nanotubes for Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction”

ACS Catalysis 12 (2022) 9135 (Link)

9. Bo Shang, Fengyi Zhao, Chungseok Choi, Xiaofan Jia, Magnus Pauly, Yueshen Wu, Zixu Tao, Yiren Zhong, Nia Harmon, Paul A Maggard, Tianquan Lian, Nilay Hazari, Hailiang Wang

“Intimate Atomic Cu-Ag Interfaces for High CO2RR Selectivity towards CH4 at Low Over Potential”

ACS Energy Letters 7 (2022) 2265 (Link) 

10. Chungseok Choi, Jin Cai, Changsoo Lee, Hyuck Mo Lee, Mingjie Xu, Yu Huang “Intimate Atomic Cu-Ag Interfaces for High CO2RR Selectivity towards CH4 at Low Over Potential”

Nano Research 14 (2021) 3497 (Link)

11. Michelle M Flores Espinosa, Tao Cheng, Mingjie Xu, Luca Abatemarco, Chungseok Choi, Xiaoqing Pan, William A Goddard III, Zipeng Zhao, Yu Huang

“Compressed Intermetallic PdCu for Enhanced Electrocatalysis”

ACS Energy Letters 5 (2020) 3672 (Link)

12. Jin-Wook Lee, Shaun Tan, Tae-Hee Han, Rui Wang, Lizhi Zhang, Changwon Park, Mina Yoon, Chungseok Choi, Mingjie Xu, Michael E Liao, Sung-Joon Lee, Selbi Nuryyeva, Chenhui Zhu, Kenny Huynh, Mark S Goorsky, Yu Huang, Xiaoqing Pan, Yang Yang

“Solid-phase hetero epitaxial growth of α-phase formamidinium perovskite”

Nature communications 11 (2020) 1 (Link)

13. Chungseok Choi, Soonho Kwon, Tao Cheng, Mingjie Xu, Peter Tieu, Changsoo Lee, Jin Cai, Hyuck Mo Lee, Xiaoqing Pan, Xiangfeng Duan, William A Goddard III, Yu Huang “Highly Active and Stable Stepped Cu Surface for Enhanced Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to C2H4”

Nature Catalysis 3 (2020) 804 (Link)

14. Tae-Hee Han, Jin-Wook Lee, Yung Ji Choi, Chungseok Choi, Shaun Tan, Sung-Joon Lee,  Yepin Zhao, Yu Huang, Dongho Kim, Yang Yang

 “Surface‐2D/Bulk‐3D Heterophased Perovskite Nanograins for Long‐Term‐Stable Light‐Emitting Diodes”

Advanced Materials 32 (2020) 1905674 (Link)

15. Kim, Dong Hoe, Christopher P. Muzzillo, Jinhui Tong, Axel F. Palmstrom, Bryon W. Larson, Chungseok Choi, Steven P. Harvey, Stephen Glynn, James B. Whitaker, Fei Zhang, Zhen Li, Haipeng Lu, Maikel F.A.M. van Hest, Joseph J. Berry, Lorelle M. Mansfield, Yu Huang, Yanfa Yan and Kai Zhu

"Bimolecular Additives Improve Wide-Band-Gap Perovskites for Efficient Tandem Solar Cells with CIGS."

Joule 3 (2019) 1734-1754 (Link)

16. Tae-Hee Han, Jin-Wook Lee, Chungseok Choi, Shaun Tan, Changsoo Lee, Yepin Zhao, Zhenghong Dai, Nicholas De Marco, Sung-Joon Lee, Sang-Hoon Bae, Yonghai Yuan, Hyuck Mo Lee, Yu Huang, Yang Yang

“Perovskite-polymer composite cross-linker approach for highly-stable and efficient perovskite solar cells”

Nature Communications 10 (2019) 1-10 (Link) 

17. Chungseok Choi, Tao Cheng, Michelle Flores Espinosa, Huilong Fei, Xiangfeng Duan, William A Goddard III, Yu Huang

“A Highly Active Star Decahedron Cu Nanocatalyst for Hydrocarbon Production at Low Overpotentials”

Advanced Materials (2019) 1805405 (Link)

18. Jin-Wook Lee, Zhenghong Dai, Tae-Hee Han, Chungseok Choi, Sheng-Yung Chang, Sung-Joon Lee, Nicholas De Marco, Hongxiang Zhao, Pengyu Sun, Yu Huang, Yang Yang “2D perovskite stabilized phase-pure formamidinium perovskite solar cells”

Nature Communications 9 (2018) 3021(Link)

19. Chung Seok Choi, Sang Chul Yeo, Dowan Kim, Jongchae Kim, Hyuck Mo Lee and Kyungdong Yoo

 "Study of Shallow Backside Junctions for Backside Illumination of CMOS Image Sensors” 

Journal of Electronic Materials 43 (2014) 3933 (Link)

20. Chung Seok Choi, Young Uk Park, Hyungsub Kim, Narae Kim, Kisuk Kang, and Hyuck Mo Lee

“Three Dimensional Sponge-Like Architectured Cupric Oxides as High-Power and Long-Life Anodes for Lithium Rechargeable Batteries”

Electrochimica Acta 70 (2012) 98 (Link)

21. Chung Seok Choi, Yun Hwan Jo, Min Gyu Kim, and Hyuck Mo Lee

“Control of Chemical Kinetics for Sub-10 nm Cu Nanoparticles to Fabricate Highly Conductive Ink below 150°C”

Nanotechnology 23 (2012) 065601(Link)

22. Yun Hwan Jo, Inyu Jung, Chung Seok Choi, Inyoung Kim, and Hyuck Mo Lee “Synthesis and Characterization of Low Temperature Sn Nanoparticles for the Fabrication of Highly Conductive Ink”

Nanotechnology 22 (2011) 225701 (Link)