Ho-Jin Son

Affiliation

Department of Advanced Materials Chemistry

Korea University Sejong Campus

2511 Sejong-ro, Sejong 30019, Republic of Korea

Education & Experience

2004.09 ~ 2009.08: Ph.D. in Materials Chemistry, Korea University, Republic of Korea

2009.09 ~ 2014.02: Post Doc. in Chemistry, Northwestern University, IL 60208, USA (Advisor: Joseph T. Hupp)

Professional Career

2014.03 ~ 2022.02: Assistant/Associate Professor

Department of Advanced Materials Chemistry, Korea University, Sejong 30019, Republic of Korea

2022.03 ~ present: Professor

Department of Advanced Materials Chemistry, Korea University, Sejong 30019, Republic of Korea

Selected publications

[1] ​Seong Woon Jeong, Hyung Joo Lee, Bum Joon Park, Min-Jong Bong, Daehan Lee, Taekyung Kim,* Chul Hoon Kim,* and Ho-Jin Son* 

"Facile Activation of Organic Phosphorescence in Pt(II)-Complex linked Organic Chromophore for Blue-Emitting Organic Light-Emitting Diodes"

Communications Chemistry (Nature portfolio journal) 2025, 8, 140.

[2] Bumsoo Chon, Hyung Joo Lee, Yun Kang, Hyun Woo Kim,* Chul Hoon Kim,* and Ho-Jin Son* 

"Investigation of Interface Characteristics and Physisorption Mechanism in Quantum Dots/TiO2 Composite for Efficient and Sustainable Photoinduced Interfacial Electron Transfer"

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2024, 16, 9414-9427.

[3] Daehan Lee, Farzad Molani, Min Su Choe, Hyun Seok Lee, Chul Hoon Kim, Kyung-Ryang Wee, Seongpil Hwang, Art E. Cho, and Ho-Jin Son* 

"Photocatalytic Conversion of CO2 to Formate/CO by (η6-para-Cymene)Ru(II) Half-Metallocene Catalyst: Influence of Additives and TiO2 Immobilization on Catalytic Mechanism and Product Selectivity"

Inorganic Chemistry 2024, 63, 11506-11522.

[4] Sunghan Choi, Min Su Choe, Daehan Lee, Jae Yoon Shin, and Ho-Jin Son* 

"Efficient Photosensitization of π-Extended Oligomeric Porphyrin Pigments through TiO2-Mediated Outer-Sphere Electron Transfer in Photochemical CO2 Reduction Systems"

ACS Applied Energy Materials 2024, 7, 3602-3617.

[5] Bumsoo Chon, Sunghan Choi, Yunjeong Seo, Hyun Seok Lee, Chul Hoon Kim, Ho-Jin Son,* and Sang Ook Kang*
"InP-Quantum Dot Surface Modified TiO2 Catalyst for Sustainable Photochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction"

ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2022, 10, 6033-6044.

[6] Ho-Jin Son,* Chyongjin Pac, and Sang Ook Kang 

"Inorganometallic Photocatalysts for CO2 Reduction"
Accounts of Chemical Research ​2021, 54, 4530-4544.

[7] Sung-Jun Woo, Sunghan Choi, So-Yoen Kim, Pil Soo Kim, Chul Hoon Kim, Ho-Jin Son,* Chyongjin Pac,* and Sang Ook Kang* 

"Highly Selective and Durable Photochemical CO2 Reduction by Molecular Mn(I) Catalyst Fixed on Particular Dye-Sensitized TiO2 Platform"
ACS Catalysis 2019, 9, 2580-2593.