Publications

 § = equal contribution * = corresponding author

36. Sarah Adaryan, Tae-Ung Wi, Katrina Santos, Ahmad Elgazzar, Andrea Hicks, Haotian Wang*, and Rafael Verduzco*

"Free-Standing Porous Composite Polyelectrolyte for Efficient CO2 Electrolysis"

Environmental Science & Technology 59, 49, 26819–26829 (2025).

35. Wei Ping Lam, Tae-Ung Wi, Ahmad Elgazzar, Shaoyun Hao, Malik Paulino, Valery Okatenko, Chase Sellers, Junwei Zhang, and Haotian Wang*

"High-Pressure Electrochemical CO2 Capture and Reduction to Formic Acid"

ACS Energy Letters 10 (11), 5466–5473 (2025).

34. Chang Qiu, Chase Sellers, Zhen-Yu Wu, David A Cullen, Eli Stavitski, Akhil Tayal, Tae-Ung Wi, Mounika Kodali, Bryan Erb, Andrew Smeltz, Feng-Yang Chen, Yuge Feng, Zhou Yu, Ahmad Elgazzar, Tanguy Terlier, Thomas P Senftle*, and Haotian Wang*

"Low-iridium stabilized ruthenium oxide anode catalyst for durable proton-exchange membrane water electrolysis"

Nature Nanotechnology 20, 1787–1795 (2025).

33. Shaoyun Hao§, Ahmad Elgazzar§, Shou-Kun Zhang, Tae-Ung Wi, Feng-Yang Chen, Yuge Feng, Peng Zhu, and Haotian Wang*

"Acid-humidified CO2 gas input for stable electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction"

Science 388, eadr3834 (2025).

32. Abdullah Alazmi, Ahmad Elgazzar, Safiya Khalil, Ravindra Saxena, Tae-Ung Wi, Eugene McCarty, Haotian Wang*, and Rafael Verduzco*

"Sulfonated Silica Particles as Proton-Conductive Porous Solid Electrolytes for CO2 Electrolysis"

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 17 (19), 28181–28187 (2025).

31. Shaoyun Hao, Yuge Feng, Duo Wang, Jinwon Cho, Chang Qiu, Tae-Ung Wi, Ziang Xu, Zhou Yu, Chase Sellers, Shiqiang Zou*, Anubhav Jain*, and Haotian Wang*

"Electrochemical Removal of Se(IV) from Wastewater Using RuO2-Based Catalysts"

Nano Letters 25 (6), 2547–2553 (2025).

30. Tae-Ung Wi, Zachary H Levell, Shaoyun Hao, Ahmad Elgazzar, Peng Zhu, Yuge Feng, Feng-Yang Chen, Wei Ping Lam, Mohsen Shakouri, Yuanyue Liu*, and Haotian Wang*

"Selective and stable ethanol synthesis via electrochemical CO2 reduction in a solid electrolyte reactor"

ACS Energy Letters 10, 822–829 (2025).

29. Shaoyun Hao, Ahmad Elgazzar, Nandakishore Ravi, Tae-Ung Wi, Peng Zhu, Yuge Feng, Yang Xia, Feng-Yang Chen, Xiaonan Shan*, and Haotian Wang*.

"Improving the operational stability of electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction via salt precipitation understanding and management"

Nature Energy 10, 266–277 (2025).

28. Ahmad Elgazzar, Peng Zhu, Feng-Yang Chen, Shaoyun Hao, Tae-Ung Wi, Chang Qiu, Valery Okatenko, and Haotian Wang*

"‘Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to Formic Acid with High Carbon Efficiency"

ACS Energy Letters 10 (1), 450–458 (2024).

27. Tae-Ung Wi§, Yongchao Xie§, Zachary Levell, Danyi Feng, Jung Yoon Kim, Peng Zhu, Ahmad Elgazzar, Tae Hwa Jeon, Mohsen Shakouri, Shaoyun Hao, Zhiwei Fang, Hyun-Wook Lee, Andrea Hicks*, Yuanyue Liu*, Chong Liu*, and Haotian Wang*

"Upgrading carbon monoxide to bioplastics via direct interaction of electrochemical reduction and biosynthesis"

Nature Synthesis 3, 1392–1403 (2024).

26. Rosalynn Nankya, Yuting Xu, Ahmad Elgazzar, Peng Zhu, Tae-Ung Wi, Chang Qiu, Yuge Feng, Fanglin Che, and Haotian Wang*

"Cobalt-Doped Bismuth Nanosheet Catalyst for Enhanced Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to Electrolyte-Free Formic acid"

Angewandte Chemie International Edition 63, e202403671 (2024).

25. Tae-Ung Wi§, Changhyun park§, Sangho Ko, Taewon Kim, Ahreum Choi, Vithiya Muralidharan, Myeongjun Choi, and Hyun-Wook Lee*

"Cathode Electrolyte Interphase Engineering for Prussian Blue Analogues in Lithium-ion Batteries"

Nano Letters 24 (25), 7783-7791 (2024).

24. Feng-Yang Chen§, Chang Qui§, Zhen-Yu Wu§, Tae-Ung Wi, Y. Zou Finfrock, and Haotian Wang*

"Ruthenium-lead oxide for acidic oxygen evolution reaction in proton exchange membrane water electrolysis"

Nano Research 17, 8671–8677 (2024).

23. Su Jeong Yeom§, Tae-Ung Wi§, Soon-Jae Jung§, Myeong Seon Kim, Sang-Chae Jeon, and Hyun-Wook Lee*

"Near zero-strain silicon oxycarbide interphases for stable Li-ion batteries"

Chemical Communications 59 (80), 11963-11966 (2023).

22. Min-Ho Kim§, Juyoung Kim§, Seong-Hyeon Choi, Tae-Ung-Wi, Ahreum Choi, Jeongwoo Seo, Chek Hai Lim, Changhyun Park, and Hyun-Wook Lee*

"Mitigating Electrode-Level Heterogeneity Using Phosphorus Nanolayers on Graphite for Fast-Charging Batteries"

ACS Energy Letters 8 (9), 3962-3970 (2023).

21. Peng Zhu§, Zhen-Yu Wu§, Ahmad Elgazzar, Changxin Dong, Tae-Ung Wi, Feng-Yang Chen, Yang Xia, Yuge Feng, Mohsen Shakouri, Jung Yoon (Timothy) Kim, Zhiwei Fang, T. Alan Hatton, and Haotian Wang*

"Continuous carbon capture in an electrochemical solid-electrolyte reactor"

Nature 618, 959-966 (2023).

20. Tae-Ung Wi, Sung O Park, Su Jeong Yeom, Min-Ho Kim, Imanuel Kristanto, Haotian Wang, Sang Kyu Kwak*, and Hyun-Wook Lee*

"Revealing the Dual-Layered Solid Electrolyte Interphase on Lithium Metal Anodes via Cryogenic Electron Microscopy"

ACS Energy Letters 8 (5), 2193-2200 (2023).

19. Min-Ho Kim§, Tae-Ung Wi§, Jeongwoo Seo, Ahreum Choi, Sangho Ko, Juyoung Kim, Ukhyun Jung, Myeong Seon Kim, Changhyun Park, Sunghwan Jin, and Hyun-Wook Lee*

"Design Principles for Fluorinated Interphase Evolution via Conversion-Type Alloying Processes for Anticorrosive Lithium Metal Anodes"

Nano Letters 23 (8), 3582-3591 (2023).

18. Seokmin Shin, Siraj Sultan, Zong-Xian Chen, Hojeong Lee, Hansaem Choi, Tae-Ung Wi, Changhyun Park, Tae Won Kim, Chanhee Lee, Jihong Jeong, Hyeju Shin, Tae-Hee Kim, Hyungkuk Ju, Hyung-Chul Yoon, Hyun-Kon Song*, Hyun-Wook Lee*, Mu-Jeng Cheng*, and Youngkook Kwon*

"Copper with an atomic-scale spacing for efficient electrocatalytic co-reduction of carbon dioxide and nitrate to urea"

Energy & Environmental Science 16 (5), 2003-2013 (2023).

17. Eunryeol Lee, Tae-Ung Wi, Jaehyun Park, Sang-Wook Park, Min-Ho Kim, Dae-Hyung Lee, Byung-Chun Park, Chiho Jo, Rahul Malik, Jong Hoon Lee, Tae Joo Shin, Seok Ju Kang, Hyun-Wook Lee*, Jinhyuk Lee*, and Dong-Hwa Seo*

"Nanocomposite engineering of a high-capacity partially ordered cathode for Li-ion batteries"

Advanced Materials 35 (13), 2208423 (2023).

16. Seokmin Shin§, Tae-Ung Wi§, Tae-Hoon Kong, Chanhyun Park, Hojeong Lee, Jihong Jeong, Eunryeol Lee, Subhin Yoon, Tae-Hee Kim, Hyun-Wook Lee, Youngkook Kwon*, and Hyun-Kon Song*

"Selectively enhanced electrocatalytic oxygen evolution within nanoscopic channels fitting a specific reaction intermediate for seawater splitting"

Small 19 (11), 2206918 (2023).

15. Lorenzo Mezzomo, Roberto Lorenzi, Michele Mauri, Roberto Simonutti, Massimiliano D’Arienzo, Tae-Ung Wi, Sangho Ko, Hyun-Wook Lee, Lorenzo Poggini, Andrea Caneschi, Piercarlo Mustarelli*, and Riccardo Ruffo*

"Unveiling the Role of PEO-Capped TiO2 Nanofiller in Stabilizing the Anode Interface in Lithium Metal Batteries"

Nano Letters 22 (21), 8509-8518 (2022).

14. Sang-Chae Jeon*, Tae-Ung Wi, Jae-Hwan Yang, Kyoung-Seok Moon, Dong-Yeol Yang, and Hyun-Wook Lee*

"Densification behavior of freeze-casted alumina with grain boundary segregation of impurities"

Applied Surface Science 593, 153437 (2022).

13. Sangho Ko§, Myung-Jin Baek§, Tae-Ung Wi, Juyoung Kim, Changhyun Park, Daegyun Lim, Su Jeong Yeom, Khayala Bayramova, Hyeong Yong Lim, Sang Kyu Kwak, Seok Woo Lee, Sunghwan Jin*, Dong Woog Lee*, and Hyun-Wook Lee*

"Understanding the Role of a Water-Soluble Catechol-Functionalized Binder for Silicon Anodes by Diverse In Situ Analyses"

ACS Materials Letters 4 (5), 831−839 (2022).

12. Ji Eun Lee§, Kern-Ho Park§, Jin Chul Kim, Tae-Ung Wi, A. Reum Ha, Yong Bae Song, Dae Yang Oh, Jehoon Woo, Seong Hyeon Kweon, Su Jeong Yeom, Woosuk Cho, Kyung Su Kim, Hyun-Wook Lee*, Sang Kyu Kwak*, and Yoon Seok Jung*

"Universal Solution Synthesis of Sulfide Solid Electrolytes Using Alkahest for All-Solid-State Batteries"

Advanced Materials 34 (16), 2200083 (2022). 

11. Myung-Jin Baek§, Jieun Choi§, Tae-Ung Wi, Hyeong Yong Lim, Min Hoon Myung, Chanoong Lim, Jinsu Sung, Jeong-Sun Park, Ju Hyun Park, Yul Hui Shim, Jaehyun Park, Seok Ju Kang, Young-Sik Kim, So Youn Kim, Sang Kyu Kwak*, Hyun-Wook Lee*, and Dong Woog Lee*

"Strong interfacial energetics between catalysts and current collectors in aqueous sodium-air batteries"

Journal of Materials Chemistry A 10 (9), 4601-4610 (2022).

10. Su Jeong Yeom, Tae-Ung Wi, Sangho Ko, Changhyun Park, Khayala Bayramova, Sunghwan Jin, Seok Woo Lee, and Hyun-Wook Lee*

"Nitrogen Plasma-Assisted Functionalization of Silicon/Graphite Anodes to Enable Fast Kinetics"

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 14 (4), 5237-5246 (2022).

9. Saehun Kim, Sung O Park, Min-Young Lee, Jeong-A Lee, Imanuel Kristanto, Tae Kyung Lee, Daeyeon Hwang, Juyoung Kim, Tae-Ung Wi, Hyun-Wook Lee, Sang Kyu Kwak*, and Nam-Soon Choi*

"Stable electrode–electrolyte interfaces constructed by fluorine- and nitrogen-donating ionic additives for high-performance lithium metal batteries"

Energy Storage Materials 45, 1-13 (2022). 

8. Aditya Narayan Singh§, Min‐Ho Kim§, Abhishek Meena, Tae‐Ung Wi, Hyun‐Wook Lee*, and Kwang S. Kim*

"Na/Al codoped layered cathode with defects as bifunctional electrocatalyst for high‐performance Li‐Ion battery and oxygen evolution reaction"

Small 17 (18), 2005605 (2021). 

7. Shiheng Li§, Tae-Ung Wi§, Min Ji, Zhiyang Cui, Hyun-Wook Lee*, and Zhenda Lu*

"The role of polymer and inorganic coatings to enhance interparticle connections diagnosed by in situ techniques"

Nano Letters 21 (3), 1530-1537 (2021).

6. Tae-Ung Wi§, Chanhee Lee§, M. Fahmi Rahman§, Wooseok Go, Su Hwan Kim, Dae Yeon Hwang, Sang Kyu Kwak*, Youngsik Kim*, and Hyun-Wook Lee*

"Chemical stability and degradation mechanism of solid electrolytes/aqueous media at a steady state for long-lasting sodium batteries"

Chemistry of Materials 33 (1), 126-135 (2021).

5. Isaac Capone, Jack Aspinall, Ed Darnbrough, Tae-Ung Wi, Hyun-Wook Lee, and Mauro Pasta*

"Electrochemo-mechanical properties of red phosphorus anodes in lithium, sodium, and potassium ion batteries"

Matter 3 (6), 2012-2028 (2020). 

4. Chanhee Lee§, Tae-Ung Wi§, Wooseok Go, Muhammad Fahmi Rahman, Matthew T. McDowell, Youngsik Kim*, and Hyun-Wook Lee*

"Unveiling interfacial dynamics and structural degradation of solid electrolytes in a seawater battery system"

Journal of Materials Chemistry A 8 (41), 21804-21811 (2020).

3. Albert W. Xiao, Hyeon Jeong Lee, Isaac Capone, Alex Robertson, Tae-Ung Wi, Jack Fawdon, Samuel Wheeler, Hyun-Wook Lee, Nicole Grobert, and Mauro Pasta*

"Understanding the conversion mechanism and performance of monodisperse FeF2 nanocrystal cathodes"

Nature Materials 19 (6), 644-654 (2020). 

2. Su Jeong Yeom, Cheolmin Lee, Sujin Kang, Tae-Ung Wi, Chanhee Lee, Sujong Chae, Jaephil Cho, Dong Ok Shin, Jungki Ryu*, and Hyun-Wook Lee*

"Native void space for maximum volumetric capacity in silicon-based anodes"

Nano Letters 19 (12), 8793-8800 (2019). 

1. Yongwon Lee, Jaegi Lee, Jeongmin Lee, Koeun Kim, Aming Cha, Sujin Kang, Taeung Wi, Seok Ju Kang*, Hyun-Wook Lee*, and Nam-Soon Choi*

"Fluoroethylene carbonate-based electrolyte with 1 M sodium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide enables high-performance sodium metal electrodes"

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 10 (17), 15270-15280 (2018).