About

Our research group focuses on the development of novel methodologies to design, synthesize, modify, deposit, and microfabricate nanoporous materials and to build them into hierarchical structures and complex forms for wide ranges of applications including bio/gas separations, membrane reactors, selective catalysts, and adsorbents. Specifically, we are developing new methods for the synthesis of materials and composites such as microwave heating, aerosol, and microfluidic environment. We are also preparing thin films and membranes of porous materials such as zeolites, metal organic frameworks (MOF), and zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF) for high resolution gas separations. Finally fundamental understanding on the interactions between porous oxide surface and polymer is under investigation for rational design of organic-inorganic hybrid films and membranes.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Engineering
• Chemical engineering
• Materials science
• Nanotechnology
• Telecommunications

Selected publications

• Rapid one-pot microwave-assisted synthesis and defect engineering of UiO-66 for enhanced CO₂ capture

  Journal of Materials Chemistry A · 2024 · 14 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Computer Science
  • Materials science
  • Nanotechnology

  UiO-66 and its derivative consisting of zirconium oxide clusters and terephthalate-based linkers stand out as some of the most extensively studied MOFs for various applications owing to their exceptional stability.

  DOI

Recent grants

• UNS:New strategies for ultra-thin sub-10 nm thick zeolitic imidazolate framework membranes with tunable molecular sieving properties

  NSF · $300k · 2015–2019

Frequent coauthors

• Kyung‐Youl Baek

  Korea University of Science and Technology

  15 shared

• Kie Yong Cho

  Pukyong National University

  15 shared

• Xuan Huy

  Korea Institute of Science and Technology

  14 shared

• Ho Gyu Yoon

  11 shared

• Jong Suk Lee

  9 shared

• Heseong An

  7 shared

• Keunsu Choi

  Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

  6 shared

• Jungkyu Choi

  Korea University

  4 shared

Awards & honors

• Qatar National Research Foundation

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