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(08/2024)  Hyun Ju Lee and Jin Seok Kang of our research group received their MS(Master of Science) and BS (Bachelor of Science). Congratulations. Their next positions are PhD(HyunJu) and MS(Jin Seok) students at Inha university, respectively.

(08/2024)  Ye Hyun Son joined our research group as an undergraduate student researcher. Welcome!!

(07/2024) Prof. Ham delivered the lecture on "DFT (density functional theory) applications to catalysis" in summer school of computational chemistry, organized by Korean Institute of Chemical Engineer(KIChE), held at Hanyang University on July 23, South Korea . There was more than 80 participants in this event.

(07/2024) CCEL welcome undergraduate student interns: Gyeong Won Seo, Jimin Hyun, Jin Hee Park, Soo Yeon Lee, ye hyun Son. They will learn DFT calculation during summer semester.

(07/2024)  Da Hyun Jung joined our research group as an undergraduate student researcher. Welcome!!

(06/2024) Hyun Ju Lee' work entitled "Ultrahigh Electrode Performance of Low-loaded Iridium Jagged Nanotubes for Water Electrolysis Applications” has been accepted in Advanced Energy Materials (experimental collaboration with Dr. Kim from KIST). Congratulation!!

(05/2024) Dr. Kamalakannan' paper entitled "Iron Carbide Anchored on N-doped Hierarchically porous carbon core/shell architecture for highly efficient OER water splitting" has been accepted in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (experimental collaboration with Prof. Yoong Ahm Kim from Chonnam National University). Congratulation!!

(05/2024) Kamalakannan and Elim Kim' paper entitled "Engineering the Band gap of g-C3N4 Catalyst by the Incorporation of Organic Acid for Efficient Bio-Diesel Production”,has been accepted in Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Congratulation!! 

(05/2024) Hyun Ju Lee' paper entitled "Iridium Selenium Oxyhydroxide Shell for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Water Electrolyzer with Low Ir Loading”,has been accepted in ACS Energy Letter (experimental collaboration with Dr. Yoo from KIST). Congratulation!! 

(05/2024) Junghyeon Han and Eun Seong Yoo won Outstanding Poster Award in Catalyst Division in 2024 Spring Meeting of The Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers (KIChE), held in Jeju, Korea, in April 24 - 26, 2024. Congratulation!!

(05/2024) Dr. Kamalakannan' paper entitled "Optimized separation of C2H2 from binary mixtures of C2H2/CO2 and C2H2/C2H4 by coordinative copper(I) metal nodes modified from HKUST-1”,has been accepted in Chemical Engineering Journal (experimental collaboration with Dr. Su Kyeong Lee from KRICT). Congratulation!!

(05/2024) Dr. Kamalakannan' paper entitled "Preferential heteroatom substitution into ZnIn2S4 nanosheets boosts photocatalytic hydrogen production”,has been accepted in Applied Catalysis B: Environmental and Energy (experimental collaboration with Prof. Young-Kwon Park from University of Seoul). Congratulation!!

(05/2024) Our team has been awarded a research project for the computational design of advanced electrode catalyst for PAFC (Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell) funded by Doosan Fuel Cell.

(05/2024)  Sang Hyun Joo joined our research group as an undergraduate student researcher and will seek MS degree in our team. Welcome!!

(05/2024) Dr. Kamalakannan' paper entitled "Tailoring active sites: Metal-coordinated ionic liquid encapsulation of MOF-derived trimetallic catalysts for superior oxygen reduction reaction in flexible Al-air batteries”, has been accepted in Energy Storage Materials (experimental collaboration with Prof. Kim from Jeju National University).  Congratulation!!

(04/2024) Eoyoon Lee' paper entitled "Carbon-Embedded Pt Alloy Cluster Catalysts with High Activity and Durability for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells”, has been accepted in Advanced Energy Materials (experimental collaboration with Prof. Hyunju Lee from KAIST).  Congratulation!!

(04/2024) Our CCEL team (Seok Jun Yoon, Eun Seong Yoo,Ju Hyun Yu, Junghyeon Han,Chi Hun Lee, Jin Seok Kang ) attended and presented in 2024 Spring Meeting of The Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers (KIChE), held in Jeju, Korea, in April 24 - 26, 2024  

(04/2024) Kiseong Song' paper entitled "Hollow-structured cobalt sulfide electrocatalyst for alkaline oxygen evolution reaction: Rational tuning of electronic structure using iron and fluorine dual-doping strategy”, has been accepted in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (experimental collaboration with Prof. Baeck from Inha University).  Congratulation!! 

(03/2024) CCEL welcome undergraduate student interns (Da Hyun Jung). She will learn DFT calculation during spring semester. 

(02/2024) Four members of our research group received their MS and BS degrees:  Ki Seong Song , Eun Seong Yoo and Hyeong Kyu Park, Ju Hyun Yu. Congratulations to them! Their next positions are a postgraduate researcher at Inha university, graduate students in our research group, respectively.

(02/2024) Prof. Hyung Chul Ham delivered a plenary  talk on "Computational Design of Single/Double Atom Catalysts " at the International Conference on Advanced Functional Materials and Devices (AFMD-2024), held in SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India (02/26-02/29).  In addition, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Inha University (Korea) and SRM Institute of Science and Technology (Inida) has been signed. The MoU can symbolize a partnership which  can  enhance the joint research activity in both institutions.

(01/2024) Hwa Woong Cha' paper entitiled "Adsorbed oxygen atoms for improving the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane over B-site-doped layered perovskite La2Ti2O7”, has been accepted in Chemical Engineering Journal (experimental collaboration with Dr. Ha JM from KIST).  Congratulation!!

(12/2023) Our CCEL team had internal seminar and a year-end party with current and old group members at restaurant in Sheraton Grand Incheon Hotel 

(12/2023) Prof. Ham delivered an invited talk on "Atomic-level design of catalyst for electrochemical ammonia synthesis" at the 2023 BrainLink X-Lab Day, held in Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea.

(12/2023) Chi Hun Lee joined our research group as intergrated MS/PhD student researcher. Welcome!!

(11/2023) Dr. Sang Jin Moon visited Department of Chemical Engineering, Inha University and delivered a special invited talks on the Progress and Accomplishments of PAFC (Phosphoric acid fuel cell).

(11/2023) Dr. Kamalakannan attended the 12th Asia-Pacific Forum on Renewable Energy, held in Jeju, Korea. He has won the best paper award.

(11/2023) Dr. Shedrack' paper entitiled “First-principles study on the design of nickel based bimetallic catalysts for xylose to xylitol conversion” has been accepted in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics(PCCP). Congratulation

(10/2023) Our CCEL team (Junghyeon Han, Seok Jun Yoon, Eun Seong Yoo) attended and presented in 2023 Fall Meeting of The Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers (KIChE), held in Daejeon, Korea, in October 24 - 27, 2023

(10/2023) Graduate student, HyunJu Lee had the POSTER presentation (Computational Design of Durable and Selective Double Atom Catalysts Toward the Electrochemical NH3 Production: Role of Carbon Defects) at 244th ECS Meeting  in Gothenburg, Sweden.

(09/2023) Prof. Ham gave an invited talk on "Basic Concept of DFT and Catalyst Design" at  Annual Meeting, KOREAN ZEOLITE ASSOCIATION (KZA) held in Yeosu, Korea. 

(08/2023) Graduate students, Giseong Song & Elim Kim had the POSTER presentations (First-principles design of novel catalysts for CH4 activation and oxygen reduction reaction) at 2023 ACS Fall Meeting, held in San Francisco, CA, USA.

(07/2023) Prof. Ham gave a invited talk on "Computational Chemistry" at the summer school of computational chemistry.

(07/2023) Eoyoon' work entitled "Electrolyte Regeneration Enables Highly Safe Aqueous Rechargeable Batteries” has been accepted in Energy Storage Materials (experimental collaboration with Dr. Oh from KIST). Congratulation!!

(07/2023) CCEL welcome undergraduate student interns (Gyubin Kim, Eun Seong Yoo, Jeong Hyun Seo). They will learn DFT calculation and Machine learning during summer vacation. 

(06/2023) Hyun Ju' work entitled "Realizing the Potential of Hydrophobic Crystalline Carbon as a Support for Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts" has been accepted in Energy & Environmental Science (experimental collaboration with Dr. Yoo from KIST). Congratulation!!

(06/2023) Ho Chang' paper entitled "On the Role of Metal Cation in MXene in boosting the Catalytic Activity of Single/Double Atom toward Electrochemical NH3 Production”, has been accepted in  Chemical Engineering Journal. Congratulation!!

(06/2023)  Junghyeon Han will start her research as a graduate student researcher. Welcome!!

(05/2023) Our CCEL team (Elim Kim, Hyun Ju Lee, Kamalakannan, Hyeong Kyu Park, Junghyeon Han, Seok Jun Yoon) attended and presented in 2023 Spring Meeting of he Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, held in Jeju, Korea, in May 10 - 12, 2023

(04/2023) Dr. Shedrack' paper entitiled “Highly selective PtCo bimetallic nanoparticles on silica for continuous production of hydrogen from aqueous phase reforming of xylose” has been accepted in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. Congratulation!!

(04/2023) Dr. Shedrack' paper entitiled “Direct C‒C bond scission of Xylitol to Ethylene and Propylene Glycol Precursors using Single Atom Catalysts (SACs) anchored on MgO” has been accepted in APL materials. Congratulation !!

(04/2023) Our CCEL team (Kiseung Song, Hochang Song) attended and presented in 2023 Spring Meeting of Korean Institute of Chemical Engineer, held in Pusan, Korea, in April 19 - 21, 2023. Honchang has won Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at 2023 Spring Conference of The Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers (KIChE). Congratulation !!

(03/2023) Eoyoon Lee moved to Department of chemical engineering, the University of Texas at Austin (Prof. Hwang Group)  to conduct the research on first-principle based ORR catalyst design for ten months as an exchange PhD student. 

(02/2023) Three members of our research group received their PhD and MS (Master of Science) degrees:  Dr. Shedrack Akpe, Mr. Ho Chang Song and Mr. Hwa Woong Cha. Congratulations to them! Their next positions are a postdoctoral researcher at Inha university, a PhD student in chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and research scientist in Samsung Electronics, respectively.

(02/2023) Ho Chang' paper entitled "Surface-Functionalized Three-Dimensional MXene Supports to Boost Hydrogen  Evolution Activity of Pt Catalysts in Alkaline Media”, has been accepted in  Journal of Materials Chemistry A (experimental collaboration with Prof. Kim from Ewha Womans University). Congratulation!!

(01/2023) Seok jun Yoon joined our research group as a graduate student researcher. Welcome!!

(01/2023) Junghyeon Han  joined our research group as an undergraduate student researcher. Welcome!!

(01/2023) CCEL welcome undergraduate student interns (Jinseok Kang, Jae sung Yang, Eunseok Cho, Hyeong Kyu Park). They will learn DFT calculation and Machine learning during summer vacation. 

(01/2023) Jinseok Kang joined our research group as undergraduate student researcher. Welcome!!

(12/2022) Hwa Woong Cha accepted a job offer (research engineer) from DIT (Data & Information Technology) center, Samsung Electronics. Congratulation !!

(12/2022) Ho Chang Song and Hwa Woong Cha successfully defended their M.S Thesis. Congratulate Ho Chang and Hwa Woong !!

(12/2022)  Shedrack (PhD student) has successfully  passed the final PhD defense. Congratulation !! Dr. Shedrack.

(11/2022) Undergraduate student Elim' paper entitled "Boosting the Transesterification Reaction by Adding a Single Na Atom into g-C3N4 Catalyst for Biodiesel Production: A First-Principles Study" has been accepted to Energies.

(11/2022)  Shedrack (PhD student) gave a oral talk at  2022 AIChE Annual Meeting, held in Phoenix, AZ, USA from November 13 to 18. The title for poster is “Ab Initio Study on the Reaction Kinetics of Ethylene Glycol Decomposition on Pt (111) and Pt3sc (111)”

(10/2022) Prof. Ham, and Hochang  attended the  7th Ertl symposium, held in Gwangju, Korea. Graduate student Honchang has won the RSC poster prize at the 7th International Ertl symposium. 

(10/2022) Hyeong Kyu Park joined our research group as undergraduate student researcher. Welcome!!

(10/2022) Eoyoon Lee (PhD student) delivered the oral presentation at 2022 Fall Meeting of Korean Institute of Chemical Engineer, held in Busan, Korea. The title for talk is “Sub-Nanocluster Carbon-Metal Hybrid Catalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction” and Hyun Ju and Elim presented poster in computational chemistry section. 

(10/2022) Eoyoon Lee (PhD student) presented a poster at  242nd ECS(electrochemical society) meeting, held in Atlanta, GA, USA from October 9 to 13. The title for poster is “First-Principles Study on Pt-Based Sub-Nanocluster Carbon-Metal Hybrid Catalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction”

(10/2022) Shedrack, and Elim  attended the 11th Asia-Pacific Forum on Renewable Energy, held in Jeju, Korea. Elim  has won the best paper award.

(09/2022) Our CCEL team with the collaboration of KAIST team applied for the patent entitled "Sub-nanocluster catalysts with carbon shell, ultra-low platinum loadings and its alloy for oxygen reduction reaction". 

(09/2022) Mr. Jaehyun Park has joined our CCEL. He is MS. student in department of chemical Engineering at Graduate School of Engineering.

(09/2022) Dr. S. Kamalakannan joined our research group as postdoctoral researcher. Welcome!! 

(09/2022) Seohan Park joined our research group as undergraduate student researcher. Welcome!!

(08/2022) Eoyoon' paper entitled "Unravelling the Effect of A-site Sr-doping in Double Perovskites Ca2-xSrxScRuO6 (x = 0 & 1): Structural Interpretation and Mechanistic Investigations of Trifunctional Electrocatalytic Effect" has been accepted to ACS Applied Energy Materials. This provide a theoretical explanation on the experimental work of KIST

(08/2022) Prof. Ham delivers a technical seminar on "Computational understanding of active sites for fuel cell reactions " at the R&D center, Doosan Fuel cell.

(07/2022) CCEL welcome undergraduate student interns (Junseo Park, Mingyu Park, Seohan Park, Juhyun Yu, and Jinwon Seo). They will learn DFT calculation and Machine learning during summer vacation. 

(07/2022) Prof. Geun Ho Gu (KENTECH) gave a seminar "Interfacing Data Science for Accelerated Materials Science"

(07/2022) Je Gyu Oh accepted a job offer (research engineer) from SK siltron. Congratulation !!

(07/2022) Hyun Ju Lee finished her undergraduate student researcher and will continue to study DFT calculation to earn her MS degree in our team. 

(06/2022) Our team was awarded to a research project for the computational design of advanced electrode catalyst for PAFC (Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell) , which is funded by Doosan Fuel Cell.

(05/2022) Eoyoon' paper entitled "First-principles Design of Hetero CoM (M = 3d, 4d, 5d Block Metals) Double Atom Catalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reaction in alkaline condition" has been accepted to Nanoscale Advance. Congratulation !!

(05/2022) Dr. Lee, Ms. Kim, and Dr. Kim' paper entitled "Aqueous Phase Reforming of Xylose using the Bimetallic PtRe/SiO2 Catalysts for H2 Production: Impact of oxidation level" has been accepted to International Journal of Energy Research. Congratulation !!

(04/2022) Our CCEL team (Eoyoon Lee, Shedrack, Kiseung Song, Elim Kim) attended 2022 Spring Meeting of Korean Institute of Chemical Engineer, held in Jeju, Korea.

(04/2021) Prof. Ham delivers an invited keynote talk on "First-principles study of the surface reactivity of hydrogen and fuel cell catalysts" at the computational chemistry symposium at 2022 Spring Meeting of Korean Institute of Chemical Engineer, held in Jeju, Korea

(04/2022) Dr. Kim' paper entitled "A Sacrificial Dopant to Enhance the Activity and Durability of Electrochemical N2 Reduction Catalysis" has been accepted to ACS Catalysis (which provide a theoretical explanation on the experimental work of Dr. Park at KIST). Congratulation !!

(04/2022) QS World University Ranking for Chemical Engineering of INHA university is 151-200. Click here QS ranking and financial news for more information.

(04/2022) Prof. Ham delivers an invited  talk on "Density functional study on the electrochemical synthesis of ammonia in hetero double atom catalyst " at the NH3 and CO2 symposium at 2022 Spring Meeting of The Korean Electrochemical Society, held in Jeju, Korea.

(04/2022) Our CCEL team (Eoyoon Lee, Elim Kim) attended  2022 Spring Meeting of The Korean Electrochemical Society, held in Jeju, Korea.

(03/2022) Ho Chang Song moved to Department of chemical engineering, the University of Texas at Austin to conduct the research on the modeling of solid-liquid interface phenomena for fuel cell applications for three months as an exchange graduate student, which is funded by BK21 four project. 

(03/2022) Our CCEL team (Hwa Woong Cha,  Ho Chang Song, Eoyoon Lee, Je Gyu Oh) attended ACS Spring Meeting 72nd Annual Meeting, held in San Diego, CA, USA.

(03/2022) Hyun Ju Lee joined our research group as undergraduate student researcher.

(03/2022) Eun Seong You joined our research group as undergraduate student researcher.

(03/2022) Yun Do Kim joined our research group as POST-Master researcher

(02/2022) Hwa Woong moved to Department of chemical engineering, the University of Texas at Austin to conduct the research on the modeling of solid-liquid interface phenomena for fuel cell applications for three months as an exchange graduate student, which is funded by BK21 four project. 

(02/2022) Elim Kim joined our research group as a undergraduate researcher. He is expected to  pursue his MS degree in our team. Welcome Elim Kim!! 

(01/2022) CCEL welcome undergraduate student interns (Elim Kim, and Minki Choi). They will learn DFT calculation during winter vacation. 

(01/2022) Seung-hoon and Hochang' paper entitled "Impact of Dopant-induced Ensemble Structure of Hetero Double Atom Catalysts in Electrochemical NH3 Production" has been accepted to Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Congratulation !!

(01/2022) A research project for computational design of H2 production catalyst from biomass as the part of Hydrogen Innovation Research program, which is funded by National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), is approved to enter the 2nd phase. Our role is the computational design of biomass decomposition catalyst.

(12/2021) Geungsang accepted a job offer (research engineer) from DIT (Data & Information Technology) center, Samsung Electronics. Congratulation !!

(12/2021) Shedrack' paper entitled "Conversion of Cyclic Xylose into Xylitol on the Ru, Pt, Pd, Ni, and Rh Catalysts: A Density Functional Theory Study" has been selected by Editors as a 2021 HOT PCCP article. 

(12/2021) Seung-hoon successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulate Dr. Seung-hoon Kim !!

(11/2021) Eoyoon and Geungsang successfully defended his M.S Thesis. Congratulate Eoyoon and Geungsang !!

(11/2021) Seung-hoon' paper entitled "First-principles study of Pt-based Bifunctional Oxygen Evolution & Reduction Electrocatalyst: Interplay of strain and ligand effect" has been accepted to Energies Journal. Congratulation !!

(11/2021) Shedrack' paper entitled "Conversion of Cyclic Xylose into Xylitol on the Ru, Pt, Pd, Ni, and Rh Catalysts: A Density Functional Theory Study" has been accepted to Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP). Congratulation !!

(11/2021)  Prof. Ham delivers an invited  talk on "First-Principles Design on Small Cluster Catalysts for the Electrochemical NH3 Synthesis By Ligand Engineering" at the symposium on Nanomaterials for Energy Storage and Conversion 2 at 2021 Annual AIChE virtual meeting.

(11/2021) Ki Seong joined our research group as a undergraduate researcher. He will also pursue his MS degree in our team. Welcome Ki Seong!! 

(11/2021) Eoyoon' paper entitled "Plasma-Induced Alloying as a Green Technology for Synthesizing Ternary Nano-particles with an Early Transition Metal" has been accepted to Nano Today  (which provide a theoretical explanation on the experimental work of Dr. Yoo at KIST). Congratulation !!

(10/2021) Ho chang, Jegyu, Hwa Woong gave the poster presentation at 2021 Fall Meeting of KIChE.

(10/2021) Eoyoon' paper entitled "Ultra-low Pt Loaded Porous Carbon Microparticles with Controlled Channel Structure for High-Performance Fuel Cell Catalysts" has been accepted to Advanced Energy Materials (which provide a theoretical explanation on the experimental work of Prof. Lee at KAIST). Congratulation !!

(10/2021) Dr. Lee and Dr. Kwon' paper entitled "Novel High-Purity H2 Production through the Integration of Dry-Reforming and Sorption-Enhanced Water Gas Shift Reactions from Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gases" has been accepted to  Journal of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry. Congratulation !!

(10/2021) Hyunjin joined our research group as undergraduate researchers. Welcome  Hyunjin !!

(09/2021) Ho Chang' paper entitled "Facile one-step synthesis of Ru doped NiCoP nanoparticles as highly efficient electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction" has been accepted to Chemistry - An Asian Journal (which provide a theoretical explanation on the experimental work of Dr. Kim at KIST). Congratulation !!

(09/2021) Su Min Oh joined our research group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome Su Min !!

(08/2021) Our CCEL team (Geungsang Yoo, Hwa Woong Cha,  Hyung Chul Ham, Colbert Ayuk, Ho Chang Song, Eoyoon Lee, Je Gyu Oh) attended ISE 2021, 72nd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry, held in Jeju, Korea.(04/2021) Seung-Hoon gave the poster presentation on "A Study on the Electrochemical Nitrogen Reduction Reaction of a Single Atomic Catalyst Using DFT Calculation" at 2021 Spring Meeting of The Korean Electrochemical Society.

(08/2021) Seung-Hoon gave the oral presentation on "A DFT Study on the Electrochemical Nitrogen Reduction Reaction of a double atom catalyst" at 2021 Fall Meeting of The American chemical Society, held in Atlanta, GA, USA.

(08/2021) Our team was awarded to a research project for the theoretical design of oxygen reduction catalyst for PEMFC application as the part of Nano and Material Program, which is funded by National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF).

(07/2021) Our team was awarded to a research project for the theoretical design of proton conductor as the part of Future Hydrogen Energy Program, which is funded by National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF).

(07/2021) Hwa Woong' paper entitled "Oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane with CO2 as a soft oxidant over a PtCe bimetallic catalyst" has been accepted to ACS Catalysis (which provide a theoretical explanation on the experimental work of Prof. Jo at Inha University). Congratulation !!

(07/2021) VASP-based DFT calculation tutorial, organized by Computational Catalysis and Energy Material Design Lab,  will kick off at 60th Anniversary hall in July 5th.

(07/2021) CCEL welcome undergraduate student interns (Kisung Song, Seok Min Oh, Su Min Oh, Ki Eun Sohn, Jeong Sub Kim, Ji Yeon Park). They will learn DFT calculation during summer vacation. 

(06/2021) Seung-Hoon' paper entitled "Hierarchically Assembled Cobalt Oxynitride and N-doped Carbon Nanofiber Hybrids for Efficient Bi functional Oxygen Electrocatalysis with Exceptional Regenerative Efficiency" has been accepted to ACS nano (which provide a theoretical explanation on the experimental work of Dr. Kim at KIST). Congratulation !!

(06/2021) A research project for Green H2 production as the part of Alchemist program, which is funded by Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KIET), is approved to enter the 2nd phase. Our role is the computational design of CH4 decomposition catalyst.

(05/2021) Young Min Jo joined our research group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome Young Min !!

(05/2021) Our team was awarded to a research project for CH4 reforming catalyst as the part of 1kW MCEC (molten carbonate electrolysis cell) development program, which is funded by Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) .

(05/2021) Eoyoon' paper entitled "Conformation-Modulated Three-Dimensional Electrocatalysts for High-Performance Fuel Cell Electrodes" has been accepted to Science Advances (which provide a theoretical explanation on the experimental work of Dr. Kim at KIST). Congratulation !!

(05/2021) KIURI (Korea Initiative for fostering University of Research & Innovation) in which our research team participates has been approved from NRF. Research topic is a hydrogen-based next-generation mechanical system.

(05/2021) Akpe Shedrack' paper entitled "Hydrogen-Mediated Thin Pt Layer Formation on Ni3N Nano-particles for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction" has been accepted to ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (which provide a theoretical explanation on the experimental work of Dr. Yoo at KIST). Congratulation !!

(04/2021) Our CCEL team (Seung-Hoon Kim, Geungsang Yoo, Je Gyu Oh, Ho Chang Song, Eoyoon Lee, Hyung Chul Ham, Hwa Woong Cha,Shedrack Akpe) attended 2021 Spring Meeting of Korean Institute of Chemical Engineer, held in Busan, Korea.

(04/2021) Geungsan, and Eoyoon gave the poster presentation on "Computational Design of Ni-based Bimetallic Catalysts for Hydrogen Generation from Biomass", and "Co-based Double Atom Catalysts with Transition Metals for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction: A DFT Study" at 2021 Spring Meeting of The Korean Electrochemical Society.

(04/2021) Prof. Ham delivers an invited keynote talk on "Computational Design of small cluster catalysts for NH3 synthesis via electrochemical N2 reduction " at symposium on carbon dioxide and nitrogen at 2021 Spring Meeting of The Korean Electrochemical Society.

(03/2021) Akpe Shedrack' paper entitled "Activity-stability benefits of Pt/C fuel cell electrocatalysts prepared via remote CeO2 interracial doping" has been accepted to J. Power Source (which provide a theoretical explanation on the experimental work of Dr. Kim at KIST and Dr. Yoon at KITECH). Congratulation !!

(03/2021) Our lab was awarded to a research project for catalyst design using computational method as the part of bio-diesel production, which is funded by KIER(Korea Institute of Energy Research).

(03/2021) Colbert Ayuk joined our research group as a PhD student. Welcome Colbert Ayuk. And he won Global Vision Scholarship.

(02/2021) Seung-Hoon' paper entitled "Structural Engineering of Ultrathin ReS2 on Hierarchically Architectured Graphene for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction" has been accepted to ACS nano (which provide a theoretical explanation on the experimental work of Prof. Park at Sungkyunkwan University). Congratulation !!

(02/2021) Eun Taek Lim (a graduate student of Prof. CW Chung's group) joined our research group. He will perform a DFT study on the etching process of semiconductor materials. Welcome Eun Taek !!

(12/2020) Hwa Woong Cha and Ho Chang Song won INHA Graduate School Fellowship. Congratulation!!

(11/2020) Prof. Ham gave a talk on "Nanoalloy Catalysts for boosting H2 Production from HCOOH Decomposition: A First-principles Study" at 2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting.

(11/2020) Prof. Ham gave a talk on "A DFT Study on the Catalyst Structure-Activity Relationship" at Symposium on Computational Catalysis at 2020 Fall Conference of KIChE.

(11/2020) Prof. Ham gave a talk on "Machine Learning in Computational Catalysis" at Tutorial on Basics of Machine Learning for Chemical Engineering at 2020 Fall Conference of KIChE.

(11/2020) Seung-Hoon, and Eoyoon gave the poster presentation on "Cobalt-Metal hetero double atom catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction: A DFT Study", "Limits of single-atom catalysts in electrochemical nitrogen reduction reactions: a DFT Study" at 6th Ertl International Symposium on Electrochemistry and Catalysis.

(11/2020) Prof. Ham gave a talk on "Electrochemical ammonia synthesis on the hetero Ru-based atom catalysts: a DFT Study" at 6th Ertl International Symposium on Electrochemistry and Catalysis.

(10/2020) Dr. Jo' paper entitled "Roles of noble metals (M = Ag, Au, Pd, Pt and Rh) on CeO2 in enhancing activity toward soot oxidation: active oxygen species and DFT calculations" has been accepted to Journal of Hazardous Materials. Congratulation !!

(10/2020) Our group joined Education and Research Center for Smart Energy and Materials which is funded by Phase Four of Brain Korea 21 Project (BK21)

(10/2020) Our lab was awarded a project for Green H2 production as the part of Alchemist program, which is funded by Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KIET).

(09/2020) Our team was awarded to a research project for Machine Learning Guided Design of Electrocatalyst for Synthesis of Ammonia from N2 as the Jung-Gyeon (Mid-career) researcher program through National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF).

(08/2020) Prof. Ham gave a talk on "Computational Catalysis" at Korea Institute of Energy Research.

(08/2020) Je Gyu Oh joined our research group as graduate student. He also won INHA Graduate School Fellowship. Welcome Je Gyu !!

(08/2020) Jeong Min Oh joined our research group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome Jeong Min !!

(Information for university ranking) The world ranking for Chemical Engineering at INHA university is 201-250, which is based on QS ranking.

(07/2020) Seung-Hoon' paper entitled "Mechanistic insights on aqueous formic acid dehydrogenation over Pd/C catalyst for efficient hydrogen production" has been accepted to Journal of Catalysis (which provide a theoretical analysis on the experimental work of Prof. Kim at Seoul National University). Congratulation !!

(07/2020) Dr. Deokyeon Jo accepted a postdoctoral fellow position in KAIST.

(07/2020) Saerom moved to The University of Texas at Austin to seek a PhD degree.

(06/2020) Deokyeon' paper entitled "Facet-dependent Electrocatalysis in the HCOOH Synthesis from CO2 Reduction on Cu catalyst: A Density Functional Theory Study" has been accepted to Applied Surface Science. Congratulation !!

(05/2020) Deokyeon successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulate Dr. Deokyeon !!

(02/2020) Our lab was awarded to a project for computational design of H2 production catalyst from biomass as the part of Hydrogen Innovation Research program, which is funded by National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF).

(02/2020) INHA Graduate School Fellowships were awarded to Eoyoon Lee and Geungsan Yoo. Congratulate Eoyoon and Geungsang !!

(02/2020) Our research lab was awarded to a DFT-based catalyst design project as the part of alkaline electrolysis technology development, which is funded by KIST(Korea Institute of Science and Technology).

(01/2020) Hwa Woong Cha and Ho Chang Song joined our research group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome Hwa Woong Cha and Ho Chang Song!!

(01/2020) Eoyoon Lee and Geungsang Yoo joined our research group as graduate student. Welcome Eoyoon and Geungsang !!

(01/2020) Seung-Hoon' paper entitled "Electrocatalytic glycerol oxidation enabled by surface plasmon polaron-induced hot carriers in Kretschmann configuration" has been accepted to Nanoscale (which provide a theoretical analysis on the experimental work of Prof. Kim at Ewha Womans University). Congratulation !!

(11/2019) Prof. Ham gave a talk on "Computational Catalysis for Energy Conversion and Storage" at the graduate school of chemical engineering at Korea University.

(11/2019) Prof. Ham' interview as a new faculty member of Inha University. 

(10/2019) Prof. Ham gave a talk at the symposium of the multi-scale modeling and simulation in Fall meeting of KIChE held in Daejeon, Korea.

(09/2019) Akpe Shedrack  joined our research group as Ph.D student. Welcome Shedrack !!

(09/2019) Dr. Ham accepted a tenure-track associate professor position at Department of Chemical Engineering, Inha University.

(07/2019) Dr. Ham gave a talk on "Density Functional Theory Study of Nanocatalysts for Fuel Cell Applications" in Nano Korea 2019 held in Insan, Korea.

(07/2019) Our research paper entitled "Combined experimental and density functional theory (DFT) studies on the catalyst design for the oxidative coupling of methane" (with research collaboration with Dr. Ha at KIST) was highlighted in various media (Yonhap News, HelloDD, The Digital Times, Maeil Business News, Donga Science, I-news24)

(05/2019) The CH4 activation paper entitled  "Combined experimental and density functional theory (DFT) studies on the catalyst design for the oxidative coupling of methane" (with research collaboration with Dr. Ha at KIST) has been accepted to Journal of Catalysis.

(05/2019) Deokyeon' paper entitled "Interplay of Ligand and Strain Effects in CO Adsorption on Bimetallic Cu/M (M=Pt, Pd, Ir, Ni) Catalysts from First-principles: Effect of Different Facets in Catalysis" (with research collaboration with Prof. Lee at Korea University) has been accepted to Catalysis Today.

(04/2019) Dr. Ham gave a talk on "Atomistic modeling of NH3 synthesis and decomposition catalysts" in Symposium for Environmental electrochemistry at 2019 Spring Meeting of the Korean Society of Electrochemistry, Jeju, April, 2019.

(04/2019) Deokyeon' paper  entitled "Role of the Zn atomic arrangements in Enhancing the Activity and Stability of the Kinked Cu(211) site in CH3OH Production by CO2 Hydrogenation and Dissociation: First-principles Microkinetic Modeling Study"(with research collaboration with Prof. Lee at Korea University) has been accepted to Journal of Catalysis. Congratulation !!

(03/2019) Jinwon' paper entitled "Au-doped PtCo/C Catalysts Preventing Co Leaching for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells" (with research collaboration with Prof. Lee at KAIST) has been accepted to Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 

(03/2019) Joohyeng' paper entitled "Importance of Exsolution in Transition Metal (Co, Rh, Ir)-doped LaCrO3 Perovskite Catalysts for Boosting Dry Reforming of CH4 for Hydrogen Production"(with research collaboration with Prof. Lee at Korea University) has been accepted to Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.

(06/2018) Our research paper entitled "Computational and Experimental Design of Active and Durable Ir-based Nanoalloy for Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction Reaction" was highlighted in various media (Yonhap News, HelloDD, The Digital Times, Maeil Business News, Gas Newspaper)

(08/2018) Dr. Ham gave a talk on "current status in computational catalysis in South Korea" in SKI Forum at UKC 2019 conference held in New York, USA.

(04/2018) Jinwon' paper entitled "Computational and Experimental Design of Active and Durable Ir-based Nanoalloy for Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction Reaction" has been accepted to Applied Catalysis B: Environmental.

(04/2018) Dr. Kwon' paper entitled "The novel perovskite Ni-doped doped Sr0.92Y0.08TiO3 as a reforming biogas (CH4 +CO2) for H2 production" has been accepted to Applied Energy.

(03/2017) Jinwon' paper entitled "Role of Heteronuclear Interactions in Selective H2 Formation from HCOOH Decomposition on Bimetallic Pd/M (M=Late Transition FCC Metals) Catalysts" has been accepted to ACS Catalysis.