2025
[40] Sunghak Park*, Aleksandr Bashkatov*, Jordy J. J. Eggebeen, Siyoung Lee, Detlef Lohse, Dominik Krug*, Marc T. M. Koper*, “Combined effects of electrode morphology and electrolyte composition on single H2 gas bubble detachment during hydrogen evolution reaction” Nanoscale 17, 10020-10034 (2025). Highlighted in Nanoscale Emerging Investigator Series 2025
[39] Jaemin Park, Min Jae Kim, Youngeun Kim, Siyoung Lee, Sunghak Park*, Wooseok Yang*, “Insights into Bubble Dynamics in Water Splitting” ACS Energy Lett. 10 (1), 212-237 (2025).
2024
[38] Won Il Choi, Jaeyeon Jo, Seungwoo Choi, Jung Sug Hong, Ingyu Yoo, Hyacinthe Randriamahazaka, Miyoung Kim, Sunghak Park*, Ki Tae Nam*, “Thin Titanium Nitride Layer-Inserted Porous Ru0.3Sn0.35Ti0.35O2–x Anode for Stable Chlorine Evolution Reaction” ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 7 (21), 9962-9973 (2024).
[37] Thimo S. Jacobs†, Sunghak Park†, Marco Schönig, Bert M. Weckhuysen, Marc T. M. Koper*, Ward van der Stam*, “Luminescence Thermometry Probes Local Heat Effects at the Platinum Electrode Surface during Alkaline Water Electrolysis” ACS Energy Lett. 9 (7), 3335-3341 (2024).
[36] Sunghak Park*, Detlef Lohse, Dominik Krug, Marc T. M. Koper*, “Electrolyte design for the manipulation of gas bubble detachment during hydrogen evolution reaction” Electrochimica Acta 485 (1), 144084 (2024).
[35] Onno van der Heijden, Sunghak Park, Rafaël E Vos, Jordy JJ Eggebeen, Marc T. M. Koper*, “Tafel Slope Plot as a Tool to Analyze Electrocatalytic Reactions” ACS Energy Lett. 9 (4), 1871-1879 (2024).
[34] Chan Woo Lee†, Byoung-Hoon Lee*†, Sunghak Park†, Yoon Jung, Jaebeom Han, Junhyeok Heo, Kangjae Lee, Wonjae Ko, Seungwoo Yoo, Megalamane S. Bootharaju, Jaeyune Ryu, Ki Tae Nam, Minho Kim* & Taeghwan Hyeon*, “Photochemical tuning of dynamic defects for high-performance atomically dispersed catalysts” Nature Materials 23, 552-559 (2024).
[33] Aleksandr Bashkatov*, Sunghak Park, Çayan Demirkır, Jeffery A Wood, Marc T. M. Koper, Detlef Lohse, Dominik Krug*, “Performance enhancement of electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution through coalescence-induced bubble dynamics” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 146 (14), 10177-10186 (2024).
2023
[32] Sunghak Park†, Taehwan Jang†, Seungwoo Choi†, Yoon Ho Lee, Kang Hee Cho, Moo Young Lee, Hongmin Seo, Hyung Kyu Lim, Yujeong Kim, Jinseok Ryu, Sang Won Im, Min Gyu Kim, Ji-Sang Park, Miyoung Kim, Kyoungsuk Jin, Sun Hee Kim, Gyeong-Su Park, Hyungjun Kim*, Ki Tae Nam*, “Iridium-Cooperated, Symmetry-Broken Manganese Oxide Nanocatalyst for Water Oxidation” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 145 (49), 26632-26644 (2023). Highlighted in Nature Synthesis [https://www.nature.com/articles/s44160-023-00471-8]
[31] Sunghak Park, Luhao Liu, Çayan Demirkır, Onno van der Heijden, Detlef Lohse, Dominik Krug*, Marc T. M. Koper*, “Solutal Marangoni effect determines bubble dynamics during electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution” Nature Chemistry 15, 1532-1540 (2023). Highlighted in Nature Chemistry [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-023-01351-6]
[30] Won Il Choi, Seungwoo Choi, Mani Balamurugan, Sunghak Park, Kang Hee Cho, Hongmin Seo, Heonjin Ha, Ki Tae Nam*, “Ru-Doped Co3O4 Nanoparticles as Efficient and Stable Electrocatalysts for the Chlorine Evolution Reaction” ACS Omega 8 (38), 35034-35043 (2023).
[29] Onno van der Heijden, Sunghak Park, Jordy J. J. Eggebeen, Marc T. M. Koper*, “Non-Kinetic Effects Convolute Activity and Tafel Analysis for the Alkaline Oxygen Evolution Reaction on NiFeOOH Electrocatalysts” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 135, e202216477 (2023).
2022
[28] Arthur J. Shih*, Mariana C. O. Monteiro, Federico Dattila, Davide Pavesi, Matthew Philips, Alisson H. M. da Silva, Rafaël E. Vos, Kasinath Ojha, Sunghak Park, Onno van der Heijden, Giulia Marcandalli, Akansha Goyal, Matias Villalba, Xiaoting Chen, G. T. Kasun Kalhara Gunasooriya*, Ian McCrum*, Rik Mom*, Núria López*, Marc T. M. Koper*, “Water electrolysis” Nature Review Methods Primers 2, 84 (2022).
[27] Byoung-Hoon Lee, Eunhee Gong, Minho Kim, Sunghak Park, Hye Rim Kim, Junho Lee, Euiyeon Jung, Chan Woo Lee, Jinsol Bok, Yoon Jung, Young Seong Kim, Kug-Seung Lee, Sung-Pyo Cho, Jin-Woo Jung, Chang-Hee Cho, Sébastien Lebègue, Ki Tae Nam, Hyungjun Kim*, Su-Il In*, Taeghwan Hyeon*, “Electronic interaction between transition metal single-atoms and anatase TiO2 boosts CO2 photoreduction with H2O” Energy Environ. Sci. 15, 601-609 (2022).
2021
[26] Sunghak Park, Seungwoo Choi, Sungho Kim, Ki Tae Nam*, “Metal halide perovskites for solar fuel production and photoreactions” J Phys. Chem. Lett. 12, 8292-8301 (2021).
[25] Hongmin Seo†, Sunghak Park†, Kang Hee Cho†, Seungwoo Choi, Changwan Ko, Hyacinthe Randriamahazaka*, Ki Tae Nam*, “Complex Impedance Analysis on Charge Accumulation Step of Mn3O4 Nanoparticles during Water Oxidation” ACS Omega 6, 18404-18413 (2021).
[24] Younghwan Yang, Gwanho Yoon, Sunghak Park, Seok Daniel Namgung, Trevon Badloe, Ki Tae Nam, Junsuk Rho*, “Revealing Structural Disorder in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon for a Low-loss Photonic Platform at Visible Frequencies” Adv. Mater. 33, 2005893 (2021).
[23] Kang Hee Cho, Sunghak Park, and Ki Tae Nam*, “Engineered Dissolution for Better Electrocatalysts” Chem 7, 20-22 (2021).
[22] Kang Hee Cho, Sunghak Park, Hongmin Seo, Seungwoo Choi, Moo Young Lee, Changwan Ko, Ki Tae Nam*, “Capturing Manganese Oxide Intermediates in Electrochemical Water Oxidation at Neutral pH by In Situ Raman Spectroscopy” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60, 2-11 (2021).
2020
[21] Sunghak Park†, Kyoungsuk Jin†, Hyung Kyu Lim, Jin Kim, Kang Hee Cho, Seungwoo Choi, Hongmin Seo, Moo Young Lee, Yoon Ho Lee, Sangmoon Yoon, Miyoung Kim, Hyungjun Kim*, Sun Hee Kim*, and Ki Tae Nam*, “Spectroscopic capture of a low-spin Mn(IV)-oxo species in Ni-Mn3O4 nanoparticles during water oxidation catalysis” Nature Communications 11, 5230 (2020).
[20] Sunghak Park†, Yoon Ho Lee†, Seungwoo Choi†, Hongmin Seo, Moo Young Lee, Mani Balamurugan, Ki Tae Nam*, “Manganese Oxide-based Heterogeneous Electrocatalysts for Water Oxidation” Energy Environ. Sci. 13, 2310-2340 (2020).
[19] Jin Kim†, Sunghak Park†, Yoo Kyung Go†, Kyoungsuk Jin, Yujeong Kim, Ki Tae Nam*, Sun Hee Kim*, “Probing the Structure and Binding Mode of EDTA on the Surface of Mn3O4 Nanoparticles for Water Oxidation by Advanced EPR Spectroscopy” Inorg. Chem. 59 (13), 8846-8854 (2020).
[18] Sang Won Im†, Hehsang Ahn†, Da Hye Seo†, Sunghak Park, Seungwoo Choi, Wookha Ryu, Kyungjun Kim, Eun Soo Park*, Ki Tae Nam*, “Scalable Al–Ni Alloy Powder Catalyst Prepared by Metallurgical Microstructure Control” J. Mater. Chem. A 8, 11133-11140 (2020).
[17] Ki Tae Nam* and Sunghak Park, “Electrochemical cell in the brain” Nature Nanotechnology 15, 625-626 (2020).
[16] Seungwoo Choi, Mani Balamurugan, Kang-Gyu Lee, Kang Hee Cho, Sunghak Park, Hongmin Seo, Ki Tae Nam*, “Mechanistic Investigation of Biomass Oxidation Using Nickel Oxide Nanoparticles in CO2-Saturated Electrolyte for Paired Electrolysis” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 11 (8), 2941-2948 (2020).
[15] Kang Hee Cho, Hongmin Seo, Sunghak Park, Yoon Ho Lee, Moo Young Lee, Nam Heon Cho, Ki Tae Nam*, “Uniform, Assembled 4 nm Mn3O4 Nanoparticles as Efficient Water Oxidation Electrocatalysts at Neutral pH” Adv. Funct. Mater. 30 (10), 1910424 (2020).
[14] Jung Sug Hong, Hongmin Seo, Yoon Ho Lee, Kang Hee Cho, Changwan Ko, Sunghak Park, Ki Tae Nam*, “Nickel Doping Effect on Mn3O4 Nanoparticles for Electrochemical Water Oxidation under Neutral Condition” Small Methods 4 (3), 1900733 (2020).
[13] Moo Young Lee, Heonjin Ha, Kang Hee Cho, Hongmin Seo, Sunghak Park, Yoon Ho Lee, Sung-Joo Kwon, Tae-Woo Lee, Ki Tae Nam*, “Importance of Interfacial Band Structure between the Substrate and Mn3O4 Nanocatalysts during Electrochemical Water Oxidation” ACS Catal. 10 (2), 1237-1245 (2020).
[12] Sung Yul Lim, Sunghak Park, Sang Won Im, Heonjin Ha, Hongmin Seo, Ki Tae Nam*, “Chemically Deposited Amorphous Zn-Doped NiFeOxHy for Enhanced Water Oxidation” ACS Catal. 10 (1), 235-244 (2020).
2019
[11] Kang-Gyu Lee, Mani Balamurugan, Sunghak Park, Heonjin Ha, Kyoungsuk Jin, Hongmin Seo, Ki Tae Nam*, “Importance of Entropic Contribution to Electrochemical Water Oxidation Catalysis” ACS Energy Lett. 4 (8), 1918-1929 (2019).
[10] Hongmin Seo, Kyoungsuk Jin, Sunghak Park, Kang Hee Cho, Heonjin Ha, Kang-Gyu Lee, Yoon Ho Lee, Dang Thanh Nguyen, Hyacinthe Randriamahazaka, Jong-Sook Lee*, Ki Tae Nam*, “Mechanistic Investigation with Kinetic Parameters on Water Oxidation Catalyzed by Manganese Oxide Nanoparticle Film” ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 7 (12), 10595-10604 (2019).
[9] Byoung-Hoon Lee†, Sunghak Park†, Minho Kim, Arun K. Sinha, Seong Chan Lee, Euiyeon Jung, Woo Je Chang, Kug-Seung Lee, Jeong Hyun Kim, Sung-Pyo Cho, Hyungjun Kim*, Ki Tae Nam*, Taeghwan Hyeon*, “Reversible and cooperative photoactivation of single-atom Cu/TiO2 photocatalysts” Nature Materials 18, 620-626 (2019).
[8] Heonjin Ha, Kyoungsuk Jin, Sunghak Park, Kang-Gyu Lee, Kang Hee Cho, Hongmin Seo, Hyo-Yong Ahn, Yoon Ho Lee, Ki Tae Nam*, “Highly Selective Active Chlorine Generation Electrocatalyzed by Co3O4 Nanoparticles: Mechanistic Investigation through in Situ Electrokinetic and Spectroscopic Analyses” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 10 (6), 1226-1233 (2019).
[7] Yoon Ho Lee†, Sunghak Park†, Kang-Gyu Lee, Moo Young Lee, Kang Hee Cho, Sung Jin Kim, Ki Tae Nam*, “Methylamine Treated Mn₃O₄ Nanoparticles as a Highly Efficient Water Oxidation Catalyst under Neutral Condition” ChemCatChem 11 (6), 1665-1672 (2019).
2017
[6] Ghibom Bhak†, Junghee Lee†, Chang-Hyun Kim, Dong Young Chung, Jin Hyoun Kang, Soojung Oh, Jungsup Lee, Jin Soo Kang, Ji Mun Yoo, Jee Eun Yang, Kun Yil Rhoo, Sunghak Park, Somin Lee, Ki Tae Nam, Noo Li Jeon, Jyongsik Jang, Byung Hee Hong, Yung-Eun Sung, Myung-Han Yoon, and Seung R. Paik*, “High Density Single-layer Coating of Gold Nanoparticles onto Multiple Substrates by Using an Intrinsically Disordered Protein of α-Synuclein for Nano Applications” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 9 (10), 8519-8532 (2017).
[5] Hongmin Seo, Sunghak Park, Jung Sug Hong, Kang Hee Cho, Heonjin Ha, Kyoungsuk Jin, Ki Tae Nam*, “Water Oxidation Mechanism for 3d Transition Metal Oxide Catalysts under Neutral condition” J. Korean Ceram. Soc. 54 (1), 1-8 (2017).
2016
[4] Sunghak Park†, Woo Je Chang†, Chan Woo Lee, Sangbaek Park, Hyo-Yong Ahn, Ki Tae Nam*, “Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation from Hydriodic Acid Using Methylammonium Lead Iodide in Dynamic Equilibrium with Aqueous Solution” Nature Energy 2, 16185 (2016).
Featured as "Cover Article"
[3] Jaeho Choi†, Sunghak Park†, Joohee Lee, Kootak Hong, Do-Hong Kim, Cheon Woo Moon, Gyeong Do Park, Junmin Suh, Jinyeon Hwang, Soo Young Kim, Hyun Suk Jung, Nam-Gyu Park, Seungwu Han, Ki Tae Nam*, Ho Won Jang*, “Organolead Halide Perovskites for Low Operating Voltage Multilevel Resistive Switching” Adv. Mater. 28 (31), 6562-6567 (2016).
Featured as "Cover Article"
2015
[2] Hae Lin Jang, Keunho Lee, Chan Soon Kang, Hye Kyoung Lee, Hyo-Yong Ahn, Hui-Yun Jeong, Sunghak Park, Seul Cham Kim, Kyoungsuk Jin, Jimin Park, Tae-Youl Yang, Jinhong Kim, Seon Ae Shin, Heung Nam Han, Kyu Hwan Oh, Ho-Young Lee, Jun Lim, Kug Sun Hong, Malcolm Snead*, Jimmy Xu*, Ki Tae Nam*, “Biofunctionalized Ceramic with Self-assembled Networks of Nanochannels” ACS Nano 9 (4), 4447-4457 (2015).
2014
[1] Hyung-Seok Jang†, Jung-Ho Lee†, Yong-Sun Park, Young-O Kim, Jimin Park, Tae-Youl Yang, Kyoungsuk Jin, Jaehun Lee, Sunghak Park, Jae Myoung You, Ki-Woong Jeong, Areum Shin, In-Seon Oh, Min-Kyung Kwon, Yong-Il Kim, Hoon-Hwe Cho, Heung Nam Han, Yangmee Kim, Yoon Ho Chang, Seung R. Paik, Ki Tae Nam*, Yoon-Sik Lee*, “Tyrosine Mediated Two dimensional Peptide Assembly and Its Role as a Bio-Inspired Catalytic Scaffold” Nature Communications 5, 3665 (2014).