• Postdoctoral Associate

09. 2022 ~ Present: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, US

[Advisor: Prof. Haotian Wang]

Main Topic: Electrocatalyst and reactor design for electrochemical CO2RR

Leading DOE EERE project with PI: Producing acetic acid from CO2/CO in the scaled system (Team of NREL, DeNora, Kraton, and UW-Madison) 

• Exchange Ph.D. Student

11. 2021 ~ 08. 2022: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, US

[Advisor: Prof. Haotian Wang]

• Ph.D.

03. 2017 ~ 08. 2022: School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea

[Advisor: Prof. Hyun-Wook Lee]

• B.S. 

03. 2011 ~ 02. 2017: School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Pusan National University (PNU), South Korea

[Advisor: Prof. Kyu Hyun]

1. Continuous carbon capture in an electrochemical solid-electrolyte reactor. Nature, 618 959-966 (2023).

2. Upgrading carbon monoxide to bioplastics via integrated electrochemical reduction and biosynthesis. Nature Synthesis, 3 1392–1403 (2024).

3. Revealing the Dual-Layered Solid Electrolyte Interphase on Lithium Metal Anodes via Cryogenic Electron Microscopy. ACS Energy Letters, 8 (5) 2193-2200 (2023).

4. Design Principles for Fluorinated Interphase Evolution via Conversion-Type Alloying Processes for Anticorrosive Lithium Metal Anodes. Nano Letters, 23 (8) 3582-3591 (2023).

5. Understanding the conversion mechanism and performance of monodisperse FeF2 nanocrystal cathodes. Nature Materials, 19 (6) 644-654 (2020).

• Oral Presentation: Electrochemical CO Reduction to Acetate in Bioelectrolyte for Product Upgrading to Bioplastics (Carbon Dioxide Upgrading IV: Engineering CO2 Reduction Catalysis), AICHE Annual Meeting 2024, San Diego, US (2024)

• Oral Presentation: Revealing design principles for interphase layer of lithium metal anodes via cryogenic/in-situ transmission electron microscopy (Division of Energy and Fuels), ACS Spring 2024, New Orleans, US (2024)

• Oral Presentation: The Chemical Stability of Nasicon As a Solid Electrolyte for Seawater Batteries (Symposium in Honor of Bob Huggins), 236th ECS meeting, Atlanta, US (2019)

• [Electrochemical CO2/CO reduction into valuable products]

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea (2024) 

• [In-situ and Cryogenic TEM analysis of battery materials]

Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea (2024)

• [Electrochemical CO2/CO reduction into valuable products]

School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Korea (2024)