Youngdong Song
Youngdong Song
Postdoctoral researcher
Heterogeneous Catalysis
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
ORCID: 0000-0003-2565-2091
Email: songyd88@gmail.com
Research interest
Gas/liquid phase CO2 conversion by thermal/photo catalysis
Dry reforming of methane
Haber-Bosch and Fischer-Tropsch process
Photocatalysis by halide perovskite
Education
Ph.D.
Mar. 2016 - Feb. 2021
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, KAIST, South Korea
Dissertation: Nickel Nanocrystals on Well-defined Supports for the Exploration of New Heterogeneous Catalysis
Advisor: Prof. Cafer T. Yavuz
M.S.
Mar. 2014 – Feb. 2016
Graduate School of Energy, Environment, Water, and Sustainability, KAIST, South Korea
Thesis: Nanoporous Materials for Efficient CO2 Capture: Amine Impregnation in Metal-organic Frameworks and Porous Carbon Derived from Covalent Organic Polymers
Advisor: Prof. Cafer T. Yavuz
B.S.
Mar. 2007 – Feb. 2014
Department of Chemical Engineering, Hanyang University, Ansan, South Korea
Summa cum Laude
Work experiences
Oct. 2021 - Present
Postdoctoral fellow, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Advisor: PD Dr. Harun Tüysüz
Apr. 2021 - Sep. 2021
Postdoctoral fellow, KAIST, South Korea
Advisor: Prof. Cafer T. Yavuz
Apr. 2018 - Sep. 2018
Visiting researcher at the University of Alberta, AB, Canada
Advisor: Prof. Jillian Buriak
Awards
5. Dissertation of the Year, S-Oil and the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, 2021
4. CheongHyeon Creative Awards for outstanding publication, KAIST, 2021
3. Top 100 National Research & Development Award, National Research Foundation of Korea, 2020
2. Best Poster Awards, “Highly stable single crystal magnesium oxide supported nickel-molybdenum catalyst for dry reforming of methane”, Cell Symposium, Xiamen, China, 2019
1. Mitacs Globalink Research Award ($12k), “Elucidation of Catalytic Activity by Nanopatterning of Nickel”, Mitacs and National Research Foundation of Korea, 2017
Oral presentations
9. Youngdong Song, "Ni-Mo Nanocatalysts on Single Crystal Edges for Coke-resistant Dry Reforming of Methane" Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER), Daejeon, Nov. 26, 2020, Invited seminar
8. Youngdong Song, Ercan Ozdemir, Sreerangappa Ramesh, Aldiar Adishev, Saravanan Subramanian, Aadesh Harale, Aqil Jamal, Dohyun Moon, Sun Hee Choi, Cafer T. Yavuz, “Single crystalline MgO supported Ni-Mo catalyst for coking-resistant dry reforming of methane”, ACS Fall 2020 Virtual Meeting
7. Youngdong Song, Saravanan Subramanian, Cafer T. Yavuz, “Tuning Catalytic Property of Porous Nickel Nanocomposite for Nitroarene Coupling Reactions to Azoarene” MRS Spring 2018, Phoenix, AZ
6. Youngdong Song, Saravanan Subramanian, Hasmukh A. Patel, Cafer T. Yavuz, “Porous benzoxazoles as oxygenation catalysts: Case of amine self-coupling”, ACS Spring 2017, San Francisco, CA
Poster presentations
5. Youngdong Song, Ercan Ozdemir, Sreerangappa Ramesh, Aldiar Adishev, Saravanan Subramanian, Aadesh Harale, Aqil Jamal, Dohyun Moon, Sun Hee Choi, Cafer T. Yavuz, “Highly stable single crystal magnesium oxide supported nickel-molybdenum catalyst for dry reforming of methane”, Cell Symposium, Xiamen, China, 2019
4. Youngdong Song, Ercan Ozdemir, Sreerangappa Ramesh, Aldiar Adishev, Saravanan Subramanian, Aadesh Harale, Mohammed Albuali, Bandar Fadhel, Aqil Jamal, Dohyun Moon, Sun Hee Choi, Cafer T. Yavuz, “Magnesium Oxide Supported Nickel-Molybdenum Catalyst for Dry Reforming of Methane”, The Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers, Jeju, Republic of Korea, 2019
3. Youngdong Song, Damien Thirion, Cafer T. Yavuz, “Monitoring Instability of Linear Amine Impregnated UiO-66 by In-situ Temperature Resolved Powder X-Ray Diffraction”, Korea Chemical Society (KCS) 2016, Bexco, Busan, Republic of Korea, 2016
2. Youngdong Song, Cafer T. Yavuz, “Unexpected Increase in Surface Area and CO2 Uptake by Grafting Cyanuric Chloride to UiO-66-NH2 for CO2 Capture”, IUPAC-2015, Bexco, Busan, Republic of Korea, 2015
1. Youngdong Song, Cafer T. Yavuz, “Enhanced CO2 Uptake by Pentaethylenehexamine Impregnation of UiO-66-NH2”, Korea Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Jeju, Republic of Korea, 2014