Group News
May 14, 2024
Our review on defective Zr-MOFs for energy & environmental applications is published in Chemical Society Reviews:
May 11, 2024
Our work demonstrating the post-synthetic immobilization of graphene quantum dots (GQD) with tunable sizes on a stable and dispersable 2D Zr-MOF is out in Communications Chemistry:
May 7, 2024
Shang-Cheng's work showing that compared to zirconia and carbon, ceria is a better support of Cu for electrochemically converting nitrate to ammonia! The work is just published in Electrochimica Acta:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2024.144348
Thank Yi-Pei Li's group@NTU for DFT calculation!
May 6, 2024
Jhe-Wei's work demonstrating the post-synthetic modifications of both sensitizers and lanthanide ions in a 2D Zr-MOF to design the water-stable, dispersible and photoluminescent MOF is out in CrystEngComm:
March 12, 2024
Kuan-Chu's work on the direct grafting of redox-active 2D Ce-based MOF onto CNT for the use in supercapacitors is published in APL Materials:
January 6, 2024
We welcome our undergraduate students You-Chi Liang (梁佑齊) and Min-Yao Fan (范閔堯) to join the group!
December 28, 2023
We welcome our undergraduate student Tsan-Yu Chuang (莊璨羽) to join the group!
December 27, 2023
Our collaborative work with Prof. Jung-Yao Chen's group on the use of ionic liquid@MOF in organic electrochemical transistors (OECT) is out in Advanced Electronic Materials!
December 10, 2023
Our group at 70th TwIChE meeting and congratulations to Meng-Dian for winning the Excellent Oral Paper Award and Shang-Cheng for winning the Honorable Mention Oral Paper Award!
November 10, 2023
MOF on 3D-printed octopus! Our collaborative work with Yu Research Group on growing Ce-MOF on 3D-printed monolith is featured as the cover of this issue of ACS Applied Nano Materials!
October 28, 2023
Our group at 2023 ICGET-TW, and congratulations to Prof. Kung for receiving the 1st Outstanding Young Researcher Award (優秀青年研究獎) of the E-Chem society of Taiwan (台灣電化學學會)!
October 23, 2023
Our invited perspective highlighting the concept of using electrochemically “inactive” MOFs in electrocatalysis has been published in ChemElectroChem:
October 17, 2023
Meng-Dian's work reporting that sulfonate-rich 2D Zr-MOF can act as a "dispersant" during the in-situ polymerization of polyaniline and enhance its electrochemical performance has been published in ACS Applied Energy Materials:
October 12, 2023
Yi-Ping's work with the collaboration with Yu Research Group reporting that cellulose nanocrystals can both act as the rheology modifier for printing and initiate the growth of Ce-MOF nanocrystals on 3D-printed monolith has been published in ACS Applied Nano Materials:
October 2, 2023
Congratulations on Prof. Kung for receiving the Teaching Excellence Award of NCKU!
August 16, 2023
Congratulations on Prof. Kung for being selected as one of the Outstanding Reviewers for ChemComm in 2022:
July 26, 2023
Welcome our new undergraduate student Hsin-Ya Tsai (蔡莘亞) for joining the group!
July 8, 2023
Welcome our new master students Tzu-Hsien Yang (楊子賢) and Chung-Huan Wu (吳仲寰) for joining the group!
June 30, 2023
Congratulations on Cheng-Hui for winning the Outstanding Oral Presentation Award, You-Liang for winning the Honorable Oral Presentation Award, and Shang-Cheng and Chi-Wei for winning the Outstanding Poster Awards, at the 2023 Taiwan International Conference on Catalysis (TICC 2023)!
June 29, 2023
Polymerizing conducting polymer (CP) in Ce-MOF usually causes structural degradation. Yan-Ling's work reported the first example of crystalline Ce-MOF/CP composite synthesized by electropolymerization, aiming for energy storage, and it was published in Materials Today Sustainability:
June 20, 2023
Congratulations on Yu-Na for winning the Best Oral Paper Award, and You-Liang and Meng-Dian for winning the Excellent Oral Paper Awards, at the 2023 International Conference on Smart Sensors (ICSS2023)!
June 14, 2023
Congratulations! Cheng-Hui's work reporting that Zr-MOF installed with sulfonate groups can outperform the commercially used Nafion as the "ion-gating membrane" to modulate the microenvironments near the electrode and selectivity of electrochemical sensors was just published in ACS Materials Letters:
June 8, 2023
Congratulations! Our recent work with the collaboration with Prof. De-Hao Tsai's Group at NTHU, showing that PSM is a better way to install Ni in Ce-MOF than impregnation even for preparing MOF-derived catalysts, was published in ACS Applied Nano Materials:
May 27, 2023
Congratulations! Meng-Dian and Yu-Na won the 1st place and 3rd place awards in the Merck Young Scientist Award 2023!
April 27, 2023
Prof. Kung received the medal of Ta-You Wu Memorial Award, one of the highest honors for associate professors in Taiwan, from the Minister of NSTC!
March 31, 2023
Our work reporting the post-synthetic immobilization of spatially dispersed cyano-ferrate(II) moieties in Zr-MOF has been published in Langmuir:
March 10, 2023
We welcome our undergraduate students Yu-Chi Wang (王毓淇) and Kuan-Chu Wu (吳冠駒) to join the group!
February 20, 2023
Yu-Na's work on the use of defective MOF membrane casted on the active electrode surface to boost the sensing performances for dopamine has been published in ACS Applied Nano Materials:
January 11, 2023
We welcome our undergraduate students Tzu-Chi Lin (林子祺), Yan Yi Lin (林彥誼), Chi-Lun Chuang (莊其倫), and 彭楷 to join the group!
December 3, 2022
Group at 2022 TwIChE, and congratulations to Yu-Na for receiving Excellent Poster Award, You-Liang for receiving Honorable Mention Award in oral presentation competition, and Meng-Dian for receiving ChemE Outstanding Youth Scholarship!
November 25, 2022
You-Liang's work on Tb-installed 2D Zr-MOF to render the "antenna effect" for luminescent sensing has been published in Molecular Systems Design & Engineering (RSC):
November 14, 2022
Congratulations to Cheng-Hui Shen, our 1st-year PhD student, for receiving Honorable Mention Poster Award in 2022 ICGET (Annual Meeting of Electrochemical Society of Taiwan)!
September 28, 2022
Congratulations! Meng-Dian received the ChemE Outstanding Youth Scholarship (化工優秀青年奬學金) with the prize money of 50k TWD, and Prof. Kung received the Lee Chang Yung Research Outstanding Young Professor Award (李長榮學術研究傑出青年教授獎) with the prize money of 150k TWD!
See all the 2022 annual award winners announced by Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers (台灣化學工程學會):
August 24, 2022
Meng-Dian's work on selective pore confinement of PEDOT in MOF to reduce the limit of detection for electrochemical sensor has been published in ACS Applied Nano Materials:
August 22, 2022
Prof. Kung received the Ta-You Wu Memorial Award of 2022, on behalf of the Chemical Engineering discipline in Taiwan! This award is one of the highest honors for associate professor (and below) level researchers in Taiwan, with 44 award recipients from all research fields this year.
August 11, 2022
Congratulations! Yi-Ching's work on MOF-derived electrocatalysts for adiponitrile production was highlighted as the Cover of the current issue of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces!
Check out the issue here: https://pubs.acs.org/toc/aamick/14/31
August 6, 2022
Congratulations! Tzu-En's work on Ir-decorated MOF-CNT nanocomposites for electrocatalytic OER was highlighted as the Front Cover of the current issue of ChemCatChem, with the background featuring the sunset in Tainan City, Taiwan
Check out the cover here: https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.202200836
August 2, 2022
Yi-Ching's work on the design of Pb-MOF-derived electrocatalysts that can facilitate the electrosynthesis of adiponitrile, the raw material of Nylon 66, is published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces:
July 29, 2022
Welcome Jhe-Wei Chang (章哲維; master student) and Pei-Chen Liao (廖珮辰; undergraduate student) to join our group!
July 22, 2022
Our group in Taipei International Conference on Catalysis (TICC-2022)
Congratulations to Yi-Ching for receiving Oral Presentation Award, Meng-Dian for receiving Excellent Poster Award, Tzu-En for receiving Honorable Mention Poster Award, and Prof. Kung for receiving Young Investigator Award!
July 5, 2022
You-Liang's work on pore-confined metal sulfide nanoparticles@Zr-MOF for heterogeneous catalysis is published in Materials Advances:
July 1, 2022
Our collaborative work with Bee's Lab@NCKU and The Tian group @NCKU reporting the first potassium-ion conducting MOF with a high transference number is published in ACS Applied Energy Materials:
June 23, 2022
Check out Yu-Hsiu's work on electronically conductive MOF-based nanocomposites as negative electrodes for supercapacitors, which has been published in MRS Energy & Sustainability:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1557/s43581-022-00034-y
June 22, 2022
Congratulations! Our collaborative work with Yu Research Group was highlighted as the Journal Cover of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces!
Check out the article here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.2c02690
June 14, 2022
Congratulations to You-Liang for receiving Fan-Ni Innovation Award (范倪創新獎) from our Department with the prize money of 60k NTD! There is only one award recipient every year from our Department.
June 8, 2022
Congratulations! Our work on conducting PANI@Zr-MOF grown on poly-CD membranes was highlighted as Inside Front Cover of Chemical Communications, with the background featuring "The Spring" square (河樂廣場) in Tainan City, Taiwan.
Check out the details here: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CC02231A
May 24, 2022
Congratulations! Our recent work on 3D printing of Zr-MOF ionogel for colorimetric and mechanical sensing with the collaboration with Yu Research Group was published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces!
May 18, 2022
Congratulations! Our recent work on the direct growth of UiO-66 on poly-cyclodextrin fibrous membranes and further confining polyaniline within the MOF pore to design the free-standing electrodes was published in Chemical Communications!
May 17, 2022
Check out the news reporting our research published in PCCP (in Chinese):
May 5, 2022
Congratulations! Cheng-Hui's work on tuning the ionic and electronic transport limitations in redox-active Zr-MOFs was highlighted as Inside Front Cover of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics!
Check out the details here: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CP00117A
April 1, 2022
Congratulations! Tzu-En's work on the design of Ir-installed MOF-CNT nanocomposites and the use of EIS to decouple the OER kinetics occurring on the installed Ir sites and the electron/ion transporting limitation within porous thin films was published in ChemCatChem:
March 14, 2022
Congratulations! Cheng-Hui's work on the redox-hopping behaviors of structurally distinct Zr-MOFs was published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics:
January 14, 2022
Welcome our undergraduate students Yi-Ping Chuang (莊顗平), Ming-Han Chen (陳明瀚), Yun-Shan Tsai (蔡昀珊), and Yan Ling Chang (張晏綾) to join the group.
January 10, 2022
Congratulations! Yi-Ting's work on the use of cerium-based MOF as an electrocatalyst for indirect "reductive" detection of dopamine was published in Electrochemistry Communications:
January 7, 2022
The group attending 2021 TwIChE Meeting this week and congratulations to our graduate student Tzu-En Chang for receiving the Excellence Award in English Oral Presentation Contest!
December 21, 2021
Prof. Kung is on the list of World's Top 2% Scientists based on 2020 single-year impact, ranking 4th in our Department and 24th in NCKU!
https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3
December 13, 2021
We welcome our new research assistant Wei-Fan Huang (黃緯帆) to join the group!
November 11, 2021
Congratulations! Our latest work on the use of cerium-based MOFs as proton conductors has been published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces! Thank Li Research Group@NTU for the computational studies on this work!
November 9, 2021
Prof. Kung won the first prize in the young PI research paper competitions hosted by College of Engineering in NCKU (成大工學院青年學者論文競賽)!
October 29, 2021
Congratulations! Our graduate student Tzu-En Chang received the Distinguished Poster Award in International Conference on Smart Sensors (2021 ICSS)!
October 28, 2021
Our latest review article focusing on the use of group(IV) metal-based MOFs for chemical sensors and relevant perspectives was published in Chemosensors: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/9/11/306
September 1, 2021
We welcome our new postdoctoral researcher Dr. Ramachandran Rajakumaran to join the group!
August 2, 2021
We welcome our new first year master student Ya-Hsin Hung (洪亞歆) and postdoctoral researcher Dr. Souvik Pal to join the group.
July 30, 2021
Congratulations to Yu-Juan, Yi-Da, and Wei-Huan for receiving their Master Degree! We appreciate their contributions on various research projects over the past two years!
July 9, 2021
Congratulations! Cheng-Hui Shen (沈承輝) from the Kung Research Group received the Excellent Paper Award from Chinese Institute of Engineers (中國工程師學會).
July 1, 2021
Congratulations! Yi-Ting Chiang (蔣宜庭) from the Kung Research Group received the College Student Research Scholarship, supported by Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan.
April 21, 2021
We welcome our new first year master student Wei-Chen Lin (林韋辰) to join the group.
April 8, 2021
Congratulations! Our recently published work in Applied Materials Today on the use of Ce-MOF-derived CeOx@C for Na-ion batteries was highlighted by the News of Materials Today:
https://www.materialstoday.com/energy/news/metal-organic-framework-boosts-sodium-ion-storage-/
April 5, 2021
Congratulations! Cheng-Hui's work on the design of electrochemically addressable cerium-based MOF nanocomposites was published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces and selected as the daily ACS Editors' Choice:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.1c02038
February 22, 2021
We welcome our new undergraduate students Meng dian Tsai (蔡孟典), Shang-Cheng Yang (楊尚澄), and Yuna Chang (張瑀娜) to join the group.
January 9, 2021
Congratulations! Our collaborative work with Prof. Wei-Ren Liu's group@CYCU on the use of Ce-MOF-808-derived CeOx@C for Na-ion batteries has been published on Applied Materials Today:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352940721000019
December 16, 2020
Congratulations! Tzu-En's work on the use of Ir-decorated UiO-66 for electrochemical nitrite detection was published on Electrochemistry Communications:
December 1, 2020
Prof. Kung received the "Honorable Mention Award (佳作獎)" in the Innovative Research Findings Competition for Young Scholars (台綜大年輕學者創新研發成果選拔), awarded by Taiwan Comprehensive University System (TCUS) !
November 10, 2020
Congratulations! Yi-Da's work on the selective synthesis of pore-confined polyaniline (PANI) in MOF without forming polymer between MOF particles was published on Chemistry—A European Journal:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.202004516
October 24, 2020
Congratulations!
Yi-Da received the High Distinction Award in the Student’s English Oral Presentation Contest in the 2020 TwIChE Meeting!
Wei Huan received the Honorable Mention Award in the Poster Competition in the 2020 TwIChE Meeting!
October 6, 2020
Congratulations! Wei Huan's work on POM@MOF was highlighted as the Outside Front Cover of Chemical Communications:
Check out the details here: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CC90429E
September 25, 2020
Congratulations! Cheng-Hsun's work on the hopping-based electrochemical behavior of MOF thin films was highlighted as the Cover of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C:
Check out the issue here: https://pubs.acs.org/toc/jpccck/124/38
September 9, 2020
Congratulations! Our collaborative study with Prof. Ya-Ping Chiu's Group@NTU Physics on imaging the heterogeneity of donor-acceptor-based electrical conductivity on MOF by STM has been published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c07477
September 8, 2020
Congratulations! Wei Huan's work on POM@MOF for electrocatalytic dopamine oxidation has been published in Chemical Communications:
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CC04904B
August 31, 2020
Congratulations on two papers accepted on one day!
Yi-Ching's work on the pore-confined Ag nanoparticles@MOF for electrocatalysis, supported by College Student Research Scholarship (大專生研究計畫) under MOST, has been published in ACS Applied Nano Materials:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsanm.0c02052
Cheng-Hsun's work on the effect of thin-film fabrication on hopping-based electrochemical behavior of MOF thin films has been published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C:
July 7, 2020
Congratulations on Jun-Hong, Yi-Sen, and Yu-Chuan to successfully defend their theses for Master Degree! See the following Twitter post:
June 29, 2020
We welcome our new members Yu-Hsiu Chen (陳昱修), Ciao-Yang Hsu (許喬洋), and Yi-Ting Chiang (蔣宜庭) to join the group.
June 19, 2020
Check out our invited review regarding the perspectives on MOFs for electrochemical sensors, published in Electroanalysis:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/elan.202060111
June 18, 2020
Congratulations! You-Liang Chen (陳囿良) from the Kung Research Group received the College Student Research Scholarship, supported by Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan.
June 4, 2020
Congratulations! Jun-Hong's work on electrochemically evolved pore-confined Mo in MOF for MOF-based pseudocapacitors has been accepted by ACS Applied Energy Materials:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsaem.0c00399
May 14, 2020
Congratulations! Our work on pore-confined Pd nanoparticles@topologically distinct zirconium-based MOFs collaborated with Yu-Group@NTU has been published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c02743
April 24, 2020
Congratulations! Yu-Shan's work on pulse-reverse electrodeposition of electrocatalytic cobalt in MOF thin films has been published in Electrochimica Acta:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2020.136276
April 14, 2020
Our research group is now on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KungGroup_NCKU
March 7, 2020
The group welcomes our new undergraduate student Chi-Wei Huang (黃棨煒) to join the group.
February 29, 2020
Our research on redox-active MOF-graphene nanocomposites for charge storage was highlighted as the Cover on ACS Appl. Nano Mater.:
Check out the issue here: https://pubs.acs.org/toc/aanmf6/3/2
February 17, 2020
The group welcomes our new undergraduate students You-Liang Chen (陳囿良) and Cheng-Hui Shen (沈承輝) to join the group.
January 11, 2020
Congratulations! Yi-Sen's work on electrically conductive MOF-2D carbon nanocomposites has been accepted for publication on ACS Appl. Nano Mater:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsanm.9b02297
November 20, 2019
Check out our perspective on electrically conductive MOF-based materials published on APL Materials:
October 4, 2019
Congratulations! Yu-Chuan received the Poster Prize at the 2019 International Conference on Nanospace Materials (ICNM 2019) held at The University of Queensland, Australia.
September 25, 2019
Our research on quantum dots@MOF hybrid material was highlighted as the Cover on ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces.Check out the issue here: https://pubs.acs.org/toc/aamick/11/38
August 19, 2019
Congratulations! Yu-Chuan's work was accepted for publication on ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces.
Check out the story about conductive quantum dots@MOF hybrid material for electrochemical sensing:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.9b11447
August 7, 2019
The group welcomes our new member Cheng-Hsun Chuang (莊程勛) to join the group.
July 23, 2019
Our review article collaborated with Chueh's Research Group@NTU and Kevin Wu's Lab@NTU was highlighted as the Front Cover on J. Mater. Chem. A !
June 27, 2019
Our research on MOF-based nanocomposites was highlighted as the Front Cover on Eur. J. Inorg. Chem.!
Check out the story behind the cover: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201900676
June 20, 2019
Congratulations! Yi-Ching Wang (王宜晴) from the Kung Research Group received the College Student Research Scholarship, supported by Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan.
May 30, 2019
Find the FIRST research paper from the Kung Research Group published on Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. on MOF-based nanocomposites:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejic.201900584
April 29, 2019
Check out the FIRST Review Paper from the Kung Research Group published on J. Mater. Chem. A on the use of MOF materials for photovoltaics:
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/ta/c9ta03595h#
February 20, 2019
The group welcomes our new (zero-year) master student Yi-Da Song (宋易達) and new undergraduate student Tzu En Chang (張子恩) to join the group.
February 13, 2019
The group welcomes our new (zero-year) master student Wei Huan Ho (賀威翰) and new undergraduate students Yi-Ching Wang (王宜晴) and Yushan Chang (張郁姍) to join the group.
January 14, 2019
The group welcomes our new (zero-year) master student Yu-Juan Gu (辜于娟) to join the group.
January 11, 2019
Check out our invited review on MOFs for Electrochemical Applications published on Chemistry (mandarin): http://dx.doi.org/10.6623%2fchem.201812_76(4).003
September 28, 2018
The interview with Dr. Kung and his group was included in the current issue of Global Views Monthly:
Find more details at: https://www.gvm.com.tw/article.html?id=46098
September 11, 2018
The "Electrochemical Materials Lab" of The Kung Research Group got ready on the 10th floor of Chemical Engineering building in NCKU and the group initiated the first experiment of the research projects!
August 21, 2018
Dr. Kung received “Yushan Young Scholar” supported by Ministry of Education (MOE), Taiwan, with an annual research funding of NT$ 1.5 million for the group for five years.
August 1, 2018
The group welcomes our new master students: Jun-Hong Li (李俊宏), Yi-Sen Wang (王藝森), and Yu-Chuan Chen (陳昱全).
August 1, 2018
The research group is launched in Department of Chemical Engineering, NCKU, Taiwan.