Bonjae Koo, Ph.D

Assistant Professor, School of Chemistry and Energy, Sungshin Women's University

• Office: A547 Mia Woonjung Green Campus, 55, 76 ga-gil, Dobong-ro, Gangbuk-gu, Seoul 01133, Republic of Korea 

• E-mail: bkoo@sungshin.ac.kr

• Phone: +82-2-920-2771

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Education

• Ph.D. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST, 2014. 03 - 2018. 08 (Advisor: Prof. WooChul Jung) 

• M.S. School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, UNIST, 2012. 09 - 2014. 02 (Advisor: Prof. Nam-Soon Choi) 

• B.S. School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, UNIST, 2009. 03 - 2012. 08 



Professional Experience 

• Assistant Professor, School of Chemistry and Energy, Sungshin Women's University, 2021.03 - Present

• Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST, 2020. 09 - 2021. 02

• Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, 2019. 03 - 2020. 08 (Advisor: Prof. Ahmed Ghoniem)

• Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST, 2018. 09 - 2019. 02

• Visiting Researcher, Department of Materials, Imperial College London, 2016.10 - 2016.12 (Advisor: Prof. Stephen Skinner)

Selected Publications

• “Highly durable C2 hydrocarbon production via the oxidative coupling of methane using a BaFe0.9Zr0.1O3−δ mixed ionic and electronic conducting membrane and La2O3 catalyst”, ACS Catal., 11, 6, 3638-3661, 2021

• “Control of transition metal-oxygen bond strength boosts the redox ex-solution in perovskite oxide surface”, Energy Environ. Sci., 13, 3404-3411, 2020

• “Isovalent doping: a new strategy to suppress surface Sr segregation of perovskite based O2-electrode for solid oxide fuel cells”, J. Mater. Chem. A, 8 (27), 13763-13769, 2020

• “Growth kinetics of individual Co particles exsolved on SrTi0.75Co0.25O3-δ polycrystalline thin films”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141 (16), 6690-6697, 2019

• “Sr segregation in perovskite oxides: Why it happens and how it exists”, Joule, 2 (8), 1476-1499, 2018

• “Enhanced oxygen exchange of perovskite oxide surfaces through strain-driven chemical stabilization”, Energy Environ. Sci., 11, 71-77, 2018

• “A highly crosslinked polymeric binder for high-performance Si negative electrode in Li-ion batteries”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 124 (35), 8762-8767, 2012

Teaching

• 2024 Spring: Introduction to Energy Engineering, Heat and Mass Transfer

• 2023 Fall: Chemical Reaction Engineering, General Chemistry Experiment 2 (001, 002)

• 2023 Spring: Introduction to Energy Engineering, Heat and Mass Transfer, General Chemistry Experiment 1 (001, 006)

• 2022 Fall: Chemical Reaction Engineering, General Chemistry Experiment 2 (001, 002)

• 2022 Spring: Introduction to Energy Engineering, General Chemistry Experiment 1 (005, 006, 008)

• 2021 Fall: Inorganic Chemistry 2, Inorganic Chemistry Special Lecture,  General Chemistry Experiment 2 (007)

• 2021 Spring: Inorganic Chemistry 1, Inorganic Chemistry Experiment (001, 002) 

Academic Activities

• Member of The Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers

• Member of The Korean Ceramic Society 

• Member of The Korean Electrochemical Society 

• Member of The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry 

• Member of The Korean Chemical Society 

• Member of The Korean Society of Energy & Climate Change

• Member of The Materials Research Society 

• Member of The American Ceramic Society