News

2026.08

• Dayoung will begin her MS degree in our lab. Good luck! 

• Nayoung won the KPX Scholarship and the Interdisciplinary Research Excellence Award from the BK21 FOUR graduate program. Congratulations!

2026.05

• Mingyu and Semi won the Young Pioneer Researcher Awards from the University. Congratulations!

2026.03

• Seoeon joined our group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

• Jaedeok's paper on 'Programmable patch formation on anisotropic nanoparticles' has been accepted for publication in the ACS Materials Au! Congratulations!

• Nayoung won the JLCHEM Scholarship by successfully conducing Early-Bird program in the department. Congratulations!

2026.02

• Mingyu won the BK21 FOUR Outstanding Paper Award from the department. Congratulations!

• Daeun won the BK21 FOUR Best Paper Award from the department. Congratulations!

• Yeeun won the KPX Scholarship. Congratulations!

• Eunseo joined our group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

2026.01

• Mingyu's paper on 'Hydrophobic metal–organic frameworks enable superior high-pressure ammonia storage through geometric design' has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society! Congratulations to the group!

• Nayoung will begin her MS degree in our lab. Good luck!​

2025.12

• Congratulations on Yeeun's Internship at Histogenetics in USA!

• Daeun and Yeeun have successfully passed the thesis defense for their master's degrees. Congratulations!​

2025.11

• Dayoung joined our group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

• Our paper on 'Dimensional engineering of metal-organic framework-based electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction' got accepted by Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society! Congratulations to the group!

• Our group and Prof. Kuo group at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University signed lab-to-lab MoU.

2025.10

• Daeun's paper was selected as a Dalton Transactions HOT Article, representing the top 10% of research published in Dalton Transactions each quarter. Congratulations!

2025.09

• Daeun received the Visiting Student Scholarship through Taiwan Experience Education program. She will be visiting Chun-Hong Kuo Research Group at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan from Sep. 2025 to Dec. 2025. Congratulations!

• Dr. Jaedeok Lee began his postdoctoral career in our group. Welcome!​

2025.08

• Semi won the 2-year NRF Fellowship for the Next Generation of Researchers funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea. Congratulations!

• Our paper on 'Curvature-directed patch formation on gold nanocubes by thermally induced polymer redistribution' got accepted by Advanced Science! Congratulations to the group!

• Semi and Daeun won multiple awards from the BK21 FOUR graduate program. Congratulations!

2025.07

• Our paper on 'Supramolecular assemblies and nanoparticle integration studied through quantitative image analysis and 3D reconstruction' got accepted by Dalton Transactions. Congratulations to the group!

• Cheongwon has been appointed as a Postdoctoral Fellow through the prestigious GIST AI-ACE InnoCORE initiative at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology. Congratulations!

• Jaedeok won the Best Oral Presentation Award from 2025 Summer Symposium by the Korean Chemical Society Inorganic Chemistry Division. Congratulations!

2025.06

• Our paper on 'Sulfur-functionalized MOF via ligand additive-stabilized SALE for efficient Hg2+ ion removal' got accepted by Small! Congratulations to the group!

• Jaedeok and Cheongwon have successfully passed the their PhD defenses. Congratulations!

2025.04

• Prof. Kim won the 2025 Progress in Chemistry Award of the Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society from the Korean Chemical Society. Congratulations! Read the news here.

2025.03

• Gidong, Chaeyeon and Nayoung joined our group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

2025.02

• Mingyu, Semi, Daeun and Yeeun won multiple awards from the BK21 FOUR graduate program. Congratulations!

• Semi won the KPX Scholarship. Congratulations!

2024.12

• Semi has successfully passed the thesis defense for her master's degree. Congratulations!

• ​Our paper on 'Investigating the block copolymer deposition on Au nanoparticle surface via graphene liquid cell' got accepted by Nano Today. Congratulations to the group!

2024.11

• Our paper on 'Enhanced urea oxidation reaction through layered double hydroxides: insights from ZIF-67-derived nanostructures' got accepted by EcoMat. Congratulations to the group!

• Prof. Luis M. Liz-Marzan from CIC biomaGUNE visited our lab and gave a special seminar to the department. Great thanks to Prof. Liz-Marzan.

• Semi won the Young Pioneer Researcher Award from the University. Congratulations!

• Donghyeon won the Best Poster Award through the R&D Internship program for undergraduate students in the College of Natural Sciences. Congratulations!​

2024.10

• Prof. Kim won the Young Inorganic Chemist Award from the division of inorganic chemistry in the Korean Chemical Society. Congratulations! Read the news here.

2024.09

• Semi won the BK21 FOUR Best Paper Award from the department. Congratulations!

• Mingyu won the KPX Scholarship and the BK21 FOUR Outstanding Leadership Award. Congratulations!

2024.08

• Semi won the Best Poster Award from 2024 International Conference on Ultra-Low Temperature and Clean Energy Materials. Congratulations!

2024.05

• Jaedeok won the Young Pioneer Researcher Award from the University. Congratulations!

2024.03

• Our paper on 'Harnessing nanoscale spatial effects in inner-modified zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 for enhanced Knoevenagel condensation reaction' got accepted by Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers! Congratulations to the group!

• Yeeun and Daeun won the JLCHEM Scholarship by successfully conducing Early-Bird program in the department. Congratulations!

• Donghyeon and Nayeong joined our group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

• Yuri and Ho-Jun started working as a researcher in our lab. Good luck!

• Yeeun and Daeun began master's program in our lab. Good luck!

2024.02

• Jaedeok won the BK21 FOUR Excellent Graduate Student Scholarship from the department. Congratulations!

2024.01

• Heemin and Juhui joined our group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

• Congratulations to our group alumna, Suhyeon, on her new position at Samsung Display!

2023.12

• Semi won the JLCHEM Scholarship by successfully conducing Early-Bird program in the department. Congratulations!

• Jaedeok and Suhyeon's paper on soft seed-mediated dimensional control of metal–organic framework nanocrystals through oil-in-water microemulsion was selected as Front Cover. Congratulations!​

2023.10

• Mingyu won the Best Poster Award from EUROMOF 2023. Congratulations!

• Our paper on 'Soft seed-mediated dimensional control of metal–organic framework nanocrystals through oil-in-water microemulsion' got accepted by Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers! Congratulations to the group!

2023.08

• Seojeong won the BK21 FOUR Excellent Graduate Student Scholarship from the department. Congratulations!

• Seojeong won the Best Poster Award from ICPCEM-2023, International Conference on Photochemistry and Clean Energy Materials. Congratulations!

• Our group and Prof. Song group at Hefei University of Technology signed lab-to-lab MoU.

2023.07

• Our group begins the Carbon-Neutral Joint Research Project in collaboration with Hyundai Motor Group [연합뉴스 등 관련뉴스 16건]

2023.05

• Cheongwon won the Young Pioneer Researcher Award from the University. Congratulations!

2023.04

• Our group and Prof. Liz-Marzan group at the University of Vigo signed lab-to-lab MoU.

• Prof. Kim gave a talk titled as 'Development of hybrid nanostructure with soft/hard shell' at CINBIO in the University of Vigo, Spain.

2023.03

• Saewon, Suyeon, Jiyeon and Seonghoon joined our group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

• Semi began master's program in our lab. Good luck!

• Mingyu began combined MS/PhD program in our lab. Good luck!

• Jeongeon's paper on the effect of tensile strain in Pd–Ni core–shell nanocubes with tuneable shell thickness on urea electrolysis selectivityis was selected as Front Cover. Congratulations!

2023.02

• Cheongwon, Suhyeon and Seojeong won the BK21 FOUR Excellent Graduate Student Scholarship from the department. Congratulations!

• Cheongwon and Mingyu's review paper on metal–organic frameworks for NH3 adsorption by different NH3 operating pressures was selected as Front Cover. Congratulations.

• Semi won the Graduate Research Scholarship from the university. Congratulations!

2023.01

• Our paper on 'The effect of tensile strain in Pd–Ni core–shell nanocubes with tuneable shell thickness on urea electrolysis selectivity' got accepted by Nanoscale! Congratulations to the group!

• Cheongwon won the Visiting Student Scholarship from Human Resource Development Program for Industrial Innovation by KIET. He will be visiting Xing Yi Ling Research Group at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore from Jul. 2023 to Jan. 2024. Congratulations!

2022.11

• Seojeong won the Best Oral Presentation Award from Indo-South Korea-Thailand 2nd International e-Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology for Energy, Environment and Biomedical Applications. Congratulations!

• Cheongwon and Suhyeon won the Young Pioneer Researcher Award from the University. Congratulations!

• Our review paper on 'Metal-organic frameworks for NH3 adsorption by different NH3 operating pressures' got accepted by Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society! Congratulations to the group!

2022.09

• Gaeun joined our group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

2022.07

• Jaedeok won the Best Poster Award from 2022 Korea-Thailand International Symposium on Photochemistry and Advanced Materials. Congratulations!

• Yuri won the Mitacs Globalink Research Award-National Research Foundation of Korea. She will be visiting Klinkova Research Group at the University of Waterloo, Canada from Dec. 2022 to Jun. 2023. Congratulations! 

2022.06

• Cheongwon won the Best Oral Presentation Award from 2022 Summer Annual Conference by the Society of Air-conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea. Congratulations!

• Mingyu won the Visiting Student Scholarship from Human Resource Development Program for Industrial Innovation by KIET. He will be visiting Cohen Research Group at the University of California at San Diego, USA from Oct. 2022 to Jul. 2023. Congratulations! 

• Yeram has successfully passed the thesis defense for her master's degree. Congratulations!

2022.05

• Suhyeon won the Young Pioneer Researcher Award from the University. Congratulations!

• Our paper on 'Silver-nanoparticle-assisted modulation of NH3 desorption on MIL-101' got accepted by ACS Omega! Congratulations to the group!

• Our paper on 'Synergistic effect of MIL-101/reduced graphene oxide nanocomposites on high-pressure ammonia uptake' got accepted by ACS Omega! Congratulations to the group!

2022.03

• Mingyu, Yuri, and Seojeong won the JLCHEM Scholarship by successfully conducing Early-Bird program in the department. Congratulations!

• Jaedeok, Suhyeon, Cheongwon, and Jeongeon won the Overseas Collaboration Research Fellowship from the graduate school. Congratulations!

• Eugene, Hyeongju, Yeeun, and Daeun joined our group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

2022.01

• Semi joined our group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

• Jaedeok won the Visiting Student Scholarship from Human Resource Development Program for Industrial Innovation by KIET. He will be visiting Liz-Marzan Research Group at CIC biomaGUNE (University of Vigo, Spain) from Nov. 2022 to Aug. 2023. Congratulations!

2021.12

• Our paper on 'ZIF-mediated gold nanorod assembly for surface-enhanced Raman scattering detection of 4-nitrobenzenethiol' got accepted by ACS Applied Nano Materials! Congratulations to the group!

• Suhyeon, Yuri, and Seo Jeong will be starting graduate study in our lab from March, 2022. Welcome!

2021.11

• Jaedeok and Cheongwon won the Young Pioneer Researcher Award from the University. Congratulations!

• Suhyeon has successfully passed the thesis defense for her master's degree. Congratulations!

2021.09

• Jeongeon won the 6-month Visiting Student Scholarship from Human Resource Development Program for Industrial Innovation by KIET. She will be visiting Klinkova Research Group at the University of Waterloo, Canada from Jan. 2022 to Jun. 2022. Congratulations!

• Heeeun and Dobin joined our group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

• Mingyu began master's program in our lab. Welcome!

2021.08

• Cheongwon and Jaedeok won the BK21 FOUR Excellent Graduate Student Researcher Award from the department. Congratulations!

2021.06

• Suhyeon won the 1-year Visiting Student Scholarship from Human Resource Development Program for Industrial Innovation by KIET. She will be visiting Shim Research Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA from Dec. 2021 to Nov. 2022. Congratulations!

• Cheongwon won the 2-year NRF Fellowship for the Next Generation of Researchers funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea. Congratulations!

2021.05

• Cheongwon won the Young Pioneer Researcher Award from the University. Congratulations!

2021.03

• Jukyoung, Esther and Minsang joined our group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

2021.02

• Hyeon Ju joined our group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

2021.01

• Our paper on 'Nanoscopic morphological effect on optical properties of polymer-grafted gold polyhedra' got accepted by Nanoscale Advances! It was selected as Back cover. Congratulations to the group!

• Yuri and Seo Jeong joined our group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

2020.12

• Our paper on 'Photophysical properties of guest molecules confined in nanopores' got accepted by Journal of Korean Powder Metallurgy Institute! Congratulations to the group!

2020.11

• Mingyu, Yeonju and Jieun passed undergraduate research presentation. Congratulations!

2020.09

• Yeram and Jeongeon began master's program in our lab. Welcome!

2020.08

• Our paper on 'Mechanistic insight into gold nanorod transformation in nanoscale confinement of ZIF-8' got accepted by Nano Research! Congratulations to the group!

• Mingyu joined our group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

2020.04

• Jeongeon joined our group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

2020.03

• Suhyeon began her master's program in our lab. Welcome!

​2019.12

• Yeram joined our group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

2019.11

• Jaedeok won the Young Pioneer Researcher Award from the University. Congratulations!

• ​Wonnyeong passed undergraduate research presentation. Congratulations!

2019.10 

• Prof. Benjamin J. Lear from Penn State visited our lab and gave a seminar on 'Photothermal heating drives chemical reactions cleanly at extreme temperatures' to the department. Great thanks to Prof. Lear!

2019.10 

• Suhyeon gave a poster presentation on 'Development of hybrid nanomaterials and self-assembly' in the 124th Korean Chemical Society Annual Meeting.

• Cheongwon visited Qian Chen group in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from Oct. 13rd to 20th. Great thanks to Prof. Chen and her group members for hosting Cheongwon!

2019.09 

• Jieun, Yeonju, Wonnyeong and Eunjin joined our group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

• Our first paper on 'Controllable coating and reshaping of gold nanorods with tetracyanoquinodimethane' got accepted by Chemical Communications! Congratulations to the group!

2019.08

• Our group received an award from the Undergraduate Research Program by KOFAC. Congratulations!

2019.02

• Jaedoek visited Toho University and gave a poster presentation. He won the best poster award. Congratulations!

• Cheongwon joined our group for his master's degree. Welcome!

2018.12 

• Yuna, Suhyeon and Collins joined our group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

2018.11 

• Hyoseong received the GPP award at GNU. Congratulations!

• Gunhee passed undergraduate research presentation. Congratulations!

2018.09 

• Prof. Kim gave an invited talk in GNU-KIMS Joint Symposim at Korea Institue of Materials Science.

2018.08 

• Jaedeok began his mater's degree at Inorganic Nanomaterials Lab. Welcome! 

• Prof. Kim gave an invited talk in 2018 KCS Yeongnam Regional Meeting at Daegu-Gyeongbuk Medical Innovation Foundation.

2018.07 

• Gunhee joined our group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

2018.06 

• Prof. Kim gave an invited talk in 2018 KCS Inorganic Chemistry Division Summer Symposium at Hanwha Resort.

2018.06 

• Hyoseong joined our group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

2018.05 

• Jaedeok joined our group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

• Prof. Kim gave an invited talk in 2018 Spring KCS Gyeongnam Regional Meeting at Changwon University.

2018.03 

• Inorganic Nanomaterials Laboratory was opened at GNU.