June 2026

• Yujung Jung and Hana Rufaidah successfully defended their Master's theses.

• A paper by Dr. Gunjoo Kim and Gahong Kim on active nitrogen-mediated Ru migration has been accepted in Nature Communications (IF: 15.7). 

• A paper by Solicha Annur Hanifah, Dr. Hyunsik Hwang, and Dr. Jin Su Kim on Ru/MgAl2O4 catalysts has been accepted in Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy (IF: 21.1).

• We held a farewell for Solicha Annur Hanifah and wished her the best in her future endeavors.

• An ammonia demonstration site was successfully constructed, enabling the operation of a co-generation system for hydrogen and electricity. 

May 2026

• Our group attended the KHNES (Korean Hydrogen and New Energy Society) conference, where several team members received presentation awards. 

• Yujung Jung's paper on morphological control of TiO2 supports for Pt-catalyzed MCH dehydrogenation has been accepted in Small Science (IF: 8.3). 

April 2026

• The team enjoyed the annual spring cherry blossom picnic at Miraeyeon.

March 2026

• Dr. Hyangsoo Jeong has been promoted to Principal Research Scientist.

• We welcomed Dr. Ma. Charlene Tapia, Dr. Hyewon Lee, and Owen Khosashi, while bidding farewell to Jun-seok Do and Jae-eun Lee.

January 2026

• The group held a New Year's gathering to celebrate new beginnings and the expanding team.

December 2025

• Gahong Kim has been accepted into the PhD program at ETH Zurich.

November 2025

• Dr. Eun-young Kim received the Best Presentation Award at the 2025 KHNES Fall Conference.

• Dr. Taehun Kim, Seung Kwan Heo, Hyeong Woo Ryu, Se Min Kim, and Jungwon Kim joined the group.

• Dr. Yongmin Kim has left for a research sabbatical at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). 

October 2025

• Dr. Minseok Bae joined the team as a new staff scientist.

September 2025

• Dr. Jounghwan Choi, Mario Caesar Arrahman, Ju Young Kim, and Jae Eun Lee joined the lab.

August 2025

• We held a farewell party for Euirim On, Seong Mo Yun, Simon Lee, and Najwa Somanjaya.

April 2025

• The team held its annual spring cherry blossom picnic at Miraeyeon.

September 2024

• Our lab was selected to lead the "Global Top Research Lab" (GTL) project on Clean Hydrogen Storage and Utilization funded by NST. The project will run until August 2029 with a total budget of 85 billion KRW (61M USD).