Minyoung Yoon

 Education

Sep. 2005 - Aug. 2011    Ph.D., Chemistry,  Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)  (Advisor: Kimoon Kim)

Aug. 2003 - Feb. 2004    International exchange student, UC Berkeley (Jeff R. Long group)

Mar. 2001 - Aug. 2005    B.S. (Cum Laude), Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)

Professional Experience

Apr. 2021 - Present        Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Kyungpook National University

Feb. 2020 - Present        Editorial Board, Energies (Section Editor on Hydrogen Energy) published by MDPI

Aug. 2024 - Jul. 2025      Visiting Scholar, University of Texas, Austin (Simon Humphrey group)

Oct. 2021 - Oct. 2022     Vice Dean, College of Natural Science, Kyungpook National University

Sep. 2019 - Mar. 2021    Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Kyungpook National University

Dec. 2019 - Mar. 2020     Visiting Researcher, Australia's Neutron Science and Technology Organization (AONSA Young Research Fellowship)

Jul. 2019  -  Aug. 2019     Visiting Researcher, J-PARC and KEK, Japan

Sep. 2013 - Aug. 2019    Assistant Professor, Department of Nanochemistry, Gachon University

Feb. 2018 - Jun. 2019     Department Chair, Department of Nanochemistry, Gachon University

Nov. 2012 - Aug. 2013    Postdoc Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley, (NRF Research Fellowship) (Advisor: Jeffrey R. Long)

Aug. 2011 - Nov. 2011    Postdoc Research Associate, Division of Advanced Materials Science,  POSTECH (Advisor: Danil Dybstev and Kimoon Kim)

Scientific Societies

2013~ Korean Chemical Society

2013~ Korean Chemical Society, Inorganic Chemistry Division

2017~ Korean Crystallographic Association (The Structural Science Society)

 Awards

Oct. 2021     Young Inorganic Chemist Award (Inorganic Chemistry Division, KCS)

Sep. 2021     Excellence Research Paper Award in Science and Technology (The Korean Foundation of Science and Technology Societies)

May 2016     Gachon Research Award, Gachon University

Jan. 2019      AONSA Young Research Fellowship (hosted by Australia's Nuclear Science and Technology Organization) 

 Research Interest

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and their applications in catalysis, including mechanism study

New porous carbon materials synthesis for electrode materials and gas separation

New types of hydrogen and methane gas storage materials

Porous carbon dioxide storage and separation

Ion-conducting materials and conduction mechanisms

Hydrogen storage and separation at low temperature

Confining unstable intermediates in the pores of MOFs

Selected Publications

1. Venkateswarlu, S.; Mahajan, H.; Panda, A.; Lee, J.; Govindaraju, S.; Yun, K.; Yoon, M. Fe3O4 Nano Assembly Embedded in 2D-Crumpled Porous Carbon Sheet for High Energy Density Supercapacitor. Chem. Eng. J. 2021, 420, 127584.

2. Venkateswarlu, S.; Yoon, M. "New Room-Temperature Organic Molecule-Based Magnets" Trends Chem. 2019, 1, 363-364.

3. Song. Y.; Khudozhitkov, A.; Lee, J.; Kang, H.; Kolokolov, D. I.;* Stepanov, A. G.; Yoon, M.* Transformation of a proton insulator to a conductor via reversible amorphous to crystalline structure transformation of MOFs. Chem. Commun. 2020, 56, 4468-4471.

4. Panda, A.; Reddy, A. S.; Venkateswarlu, S.;  Yoon, M. "Bio-inspired Diatom Nanomotors Under Low Fuel Concentration Levels" Nanoscale 2018, 10, 16268-16277.

5. Venkateswarlu, S.; Lee, D.; Yoon, M. "Bioinspired 2D-Carbon Flakes and Fe3O4 Nanoparticles Composite for Arsenite Removal" ACS App. Mater. Inter. 2016, 8, 23876-23885.

6. Venkateswarlu, S.; Yoon, M. "Core-Shell Ferromagnetic Nanorod Based on Amine Polymer Composite (Fe3O4@DAPF) for Fast Removal of Pb(II) from Aqueous Solutions" ACS Appl. Meter. Interface 2015, 7, 25462-25372.

7. Yoon, M.; Suh, K.; Kim, H.; Kim, Y.; Selvapalam, N.; Kim, K. "High, Anisotropic Proton Conductivity in Organic Molecular Porous Materials" Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 7080-7083. (Highlighted in Asian Materials published by Nature publishing group)

8. Yoon, M.; Srirambalaji, R. Kim, K. "Homochiral Metal-Organic Frameworks for Asymmetric Heterogeneous Catalysis" Chem. Rev. 2012, 112, 1196-1231.

9. Yoon, M.; Suh, K.; Natarajan, S.; Kim, K. “Proton Conduction in Metal-Organic Frameworks and Related Materials” Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 2688-2700.

Previous Projects

2007 - 2008    Space experiment: Synthesis of metal-organic frameworks under microgravity

                        The Korean Astronaut Program, KARI, MOEST (with Soyeon Yi)

2008 - 2012    Separation of carbon dioxide using crystalline porous materials, Steel Science, POSCO