Structural Analysis of Materials Lab

Susung Kim, Hae Sung Cho*, Recent advancements in the field of functional adsorbents for use in removing microplastics. Mol. Cell. Toxicol. 2025, 21, 1007-1014. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13273-025-00547-w

Kang Min Lee, Minseok Song, Wootaek Lim, Hae Sung Cho*, Changbum Jo*, Aminoethanethiol-assisted Capture of ppm-level Hg2+ by FAU Zeolites for Water Purification. Sep. Purif. Technol. 2025, 361, 131485. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2025.131485

Susung Kim, Seunghwan Kim, Hae Sung Cho*, Synthesis of MFI Zeolites with Hierarchical Porosity by Dry-Gel Conversion. Bull. Korean Chem. Soc. 2025, 46, 35–41. https://doi.org/10.1002/bkcs.12919

Michelle Åhlén, Yi Zhou*, Daniel Hedbom, Hae Sung Cho, Maria Strømme, Osamu Terasaki, Ocean Cheung*, Efficient SF6 Capture and Separation in Robust Gallium- and Vanadium-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2023, 11, 26435-26441. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3TA05297D

Hae Sung Cho*, Hideki Tanaka, Keiichi Miyasaka, Osamu Terasaki*, How to Directly Observe and Understand Adsorption: Gas Adsorption Crystallography. Acc. Mater. Res. 2023, 4, 668-680 (Selected as "ACS Editors' Choice). https://doi.org/10.1021/accountsmr.3c00052

Minseok Song, Eunji Eom, Jae Won Shin, Hae Sung Cho*, Jeong-Chul Kim*, Changbum Jo*, Mercaptoamine-assisted Post-encapsulation of Metal Nanoparticles within Preformed Zeolites and their Analogues for Hydroisomerization and Methane Decomposition. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 21, e202303503. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202303503 

Hyungmin Jeon, Jin Seok, Yejee Ha, Jeong-Chul Kim, Hae Sung Cho, Hee-Man Yang, Minkee Choi*, First Successful Synthesis of An Al-rich Mesoporous Aluminosilicate for Fast Radioactive Strontium Capture. J. Hazard. Mater. 2023, 451, 131136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.131136 

Chaehoon Kim, Haehoon Kim, Dong-Yeun Koh, Yongjin Lee, Hae Sung Cho, Minkee Choi* Bottom-up Synthesis of Two-dimensional Carbon with Vertically Aligned Ordered Micropores for Ultrafast Nanofiltration. Sci. Adv. 2023, 9, eade787. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ade7871 

Gang Wang†, Yunwei Zhang†, Hae Sung Cho†, Xiaowen Zhao, Alpha A. Lee, Franklin Kim*, Jianli Zou* Revisiting the Structure Evolution of MoS2 During Alkali Metal (Li, Na and K) Intercalation: A Combined in situ XRD and Raman Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory Study. ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2021, 4, 14180–14190. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.1c02937

Sang Rim Shin†, Hae Sung Cho†, Yongjin Lee, Suji Gim, Yongmin Jung, Hyungjun Kim, Osamu Terasaki, Jeung Ku Kang* In-situ Mapping and Local Negative Uptake Behavior of Adsorbates in Individual Pores of Metal-Organic Frameworks. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 20747–20757. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c08809 

Hae Sol Lee, Nam Sun Kim, Dong-il Kwon, Su-Kyung Lee, Muhammad Numan, Taesung Jung, Kanghee Cho, Michal Mazur*, Hae Sung Cho*, Changbum Jo* Post-Synthesis Functionalization Enables Fine-tuning the Molecular-Sieving Properties of Zeolites for Light Olefin/Paraffin Separations. Adv. Mater. 2021, 33, 2105398. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202105398

Kang Min Lee, Nam Sun Kim, Muhammad Numana, Jeong-Chul Kim, Hae Sung Cho, Kang Hee Cho, Changbum Jo* Post-Synthetic Modification of Zeolite Internal Surface for Sustainable Capture of Volatile Organic Compounds under Humid Conditions. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13, 53925–53934. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c16108

Hae Sung Cho*†, Hideki Tanaka†, Yue-Biao Zhang, Juncong Jiang, Minho Kim, Hyungjun Kim, Jeung Ku Kang, Osamu Terasaki* Physicochemical Understanding of the Impact of Pore Environment and Species of Adsorbates on Adsorption Behaviour. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 20504–20510. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202107897

Songhyeon Kwon†, Chaehoon Kim†, Eunhye Han, Hoin Lee, Hae Sung Cho*, Minkee Choi* Relationship between Zeolite Structure and Capture Capability for Radioactive Cesium and Strontium. J. Hazard. Mater. 2021, 408, 124419.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.124419 

Zhuo Jiang†, Xiaohui Xu†, Yanhang Ma, Hae Sung Cho, Deng Ding, Chao Wang, Jie Wu, Peter Oleynikov, Mei Jia, Jun Cheng, Yi Zhou, Osamu Terasaki*, Tianyou Peng*, Ling Zan, Hexiang Deng* Filling Metal–Organic Framework Mesopores with TiO2 for CO2 Photoreduction. Nature 2020, 586, 549–554. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2738-2

Hae Sung Cho*†, Yongjin Lee†, Jiasheng Wu, Sang Rim Shin, Jeung Ku Kang*, and Osamu Terasaki* Understanding Adsorption Behavior of Periodic Mesoporous Organosilica Having Heterogeneous Chemical Environment: Selective Coverage and Interpenetration of Adsorbates inside the Channel Wall. J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, 123, 24884-24889. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b06523

Hae Sung Cho†, Jingjing Yang†, Xuan Gong†, Yue-Biao Zhang, Koichi Momma, Bert M. Weckhuysen, Hexiang Deng*, Jeung Ku Kang, Omar M. Yaghi*, Osamu Terasaki* Isotherms of Individual Pores by Gas Adsorption Crystallography. Nat. Chem. 2019, 11, 562-570. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-019-0257-2

Hyeonbin Kim, Hae Sung Cho, Chaehoon Kim, Minkee Choi* Gradual Disordering of LTA Zeolite for Continuous Tuning of the Molecular Sieving Effect. J. Phys. Chem. C 2017, 121, 6807-6812. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b00724

Chaehoon Kim, Hae Sung Cho, Shuai Chang, Sung June Cho*, Minkee Choi* An Ethylenediamine-Grafted Y Zeolite: A Highly Regenerable Carbon Dioxide Adsorbent via Temperature Swing Adsorption without Urea Formation. Energy Environ. Sci. 2016, 9, 1803-1811. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6EE00601A

Hae Sung Cho†, Hexiang Deng†, Keiichi Miyasaka†, Zhiyue Dong, Minhyung Cho, Alexander V. Neimark, Jeung Ku Kang, Omar M. Yaghi*, Osamu Terasaki* Extra Adsorption and Adsorbate Superlattice Formation in Metal-Organic Frameworks. Nature 2015, 527, 503-507. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature15734

Shuai Wang†, Jie Wang†, Qingfei Zhao, Dandan Li, Jian-Qiang Wang, Minhyung Cho, Hae Sung Cho, Osamu Terasaki, Shangjun Chen, Ying Wan* Highly Active Heterogeneous 3 nm Gold Nanoparticles on Mesoporous Carbon as Catalysts for Low-Temperature Selective Oxidation and Reduction in Water. ACS Catal. 2015, 2, 797-802. https://doi.org/10.1021/cs501896c 

Dongyang Xi, Qiming Sun, Jun Xu, Minhyung Cho, Hae Sung Cho, Shunsuke Asahina, Yi Li, Feng Deng, Osamu Terasaki, Jihong Yu* In Situ Growth-Etching Approach to the Preparation of Hierarchically Macroporous Zeolites with High MTO Catalytic Activity and Selectivity. J. Mater. Chem. A 2014, 2, 17994-18004. https://doi.org/10.1039/C4TA03030C

Björn Elgh, Ning Yuan, Hae Sung Cho, David Magerl, Martine Philipp, Stephan V. Roth, Kyung Byung Yoon, Peter Müller-Buschbaum, Osamu Terasaki, Anders E. C. Palmqvist* Controlling Morphology, Mesoporosity, Crystallinity, and Photocatalytic Activity of Ordered Mesoporous TiO2 Films Prepared at Low Temperature. APL Mater. 2014, 2, 113313. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4899117

Björn Elgh*, Ning Yuan, Hae Sung Cho, Erik Nilsson, Osamu Terasaki, Anders E. C. Palmqvist* Correlating Photocatalytic Performance with Microstructure of Mesoporous Titania Influenced by Employed Synthesis Conditions. J. Phys. Chem. C 2013, 117, 16492-16499. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp405511n

Shuai Wang, Qingfei Zhao, Huimin Wei, Jian-Qiang Wang, Minhyung Cho, Hae Sung Cho, Osamu Terasaki, Ying Wan* Aggregation-Free Gold Nanoparticles in Ordered Mesoporous Carbons: Toward Highly Active and Stable Heterogeneous Catalysts. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 11849-11860. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja403822d 

Hae Sung Cho, Keiichi Miyasaka, Hyungjun Kim, Yoshiki Kubota, Masaki Takata, Susumu Kitagawa, Ryong Ryoo*, Osamu Terasaki* Study of Argon Gas Adsorption in Ordered Mesoporous MFI Zeolite Framework. J. Phys. Chem. C 2012, 116, 25300-25308. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp306268d

Hae Sung Cho, Ryong Ryoo* Synthesis of Ordered Mesoporous MFI Zeolite Using CMK Carbon Templates. Microporous Mesoporous Mater. 2012, 151, 107-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micromeso.2011.11.007

Mi-Hee Kim, Hee-Kyung Na, Young-Kwan Kim, Soo-Ryoon Ryoo, Hae Sung Cho, Kyung Eun Lee, Hyesung Jeon, Ryong Ryoo, Dal-Hee Min* Facile Synthesis of Monodispersed Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles with Ultralarge Pores and Their Application in Gene Delivery. ACS Nano. 2011, 5, 3568-3576. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn103130q 

Kanghee Cho, Hae Sung Cho, Louis-Charles de Ménorval, Ryong Ryoo* Generation of Mesoporosity in LTA Zeolites by Organosilane Surfactant for Rapid Molecular Transport in Catalytic Application. Chem. Mater. 2009, 21, 5664-5673. https://doi.org/10.1021/cm902861y 

Minkee Choi, Hae Sung Cho, Rajendra Srivastava, Chithravel Venkatesan, Dae-Heung Choi, Ryong Ryoo* Amphiphilic Organosilane-Directed Synthesis of Crystalline Zeolite with Tunable Mesoporosity. Nat. Mater. 2006, 5, 718-723. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1705