Research topics

Smart organic electrode materials for energy storage

: Aim to synthesize & discover organic electrode materials for high-performance (non)aqueous battery applications

• "Contorted Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon: Promising Li Insertion Organic Anode"
  Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 6,12589 (2018)

• "Capacitive Organic Anode Based on Fluorinated-Contorted Hexabenzocoronene: Applicable to Lithium-Ion and Sodium-Ion Storage Cells"
  Advanced Science, 5, 1801365 (2018)

• "Organic Semiconductor Cocrystal for Highly Conductive Lithium Host Electrode"
  Advanced Functional Materials, 29, 1902888 (2019)

• "Solid Solution of Semiconducting Contorted Small Molecules for High-Performance Li/Na-Ion Host Electrodes"
  Energy Storage Materials, 36, 123 (2021)

• "Crystalline Chlorinated Contorted Hexabenzocoronene: A Universal Organic Anode for Advanced Alkali-Ion Batteries"
  Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 9, 20607 (2021)

• "Effects of Methoxy Substituents in Contorted Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons for Pseudocapacitive Charge Storage"
  ACS Energy Letters, 7, 4142-4149 (2022)

Electrosynthesis of liquid fuels

: Aim for developing heterogeneous electrocatalysts towards electrosynthesis of green liquid fuel from water, CO2, and N2

• “Alkali-Metal-Mediated Reversible Chemical Hydrogen Storage Using Seawater"
  JACS Au, 1, 2339–2348 (2022)

• “Carbothermal Shock-Induced Bifunctional Pt-Co Alloy Electrocatalysts for High-Performance Seawater Batteries”
  Energy Storage Materials, 45, 281–290 (2022)

• "Sacrificial Catalyst of Carbothermal-Shock-Synthesized 1T-MoS₂ Layers for Ultralong-Lifespan Seawater Battery."
  Nano Letters, 23, 344-352 (2023)

• "Selective Electroreduction of CO2 to C2+ Alcohols Using Graphitic Frustrated Lewis Pair Catalyst"
  ACS Catalysis, accepted (2024)