News
2024.02.29
Dong-Yeop was awarded outstanding graduate student at KIST. Congrats!!!
2024.02.28.
Major changes in our lab are announced. Dr. Jiyoon Jung leaves the lab to accept industry position at Samsung SDI. Jung Gyu and Dong-Yeop successfully defend their Master's thesis. Dong-Yeop will stay on as Ph.D. candidate and Jung Gyu as post Master's intern. Congrats to all!!!
2024.01.14.
Jung Gyu and Jinsuk's work on ion-exchange membranes for electrochemical heavy metal removal titled "Ion-Exchangeable and Sorptive Reinforced Membranes for Efficient Electrochemical Removal of Heavy Metal Ions in Wastewater" was published in Journal of Cleaner Production. Congrats!!!
2024.01.13.
Our collaborative work with Prof Koo at SKKU on MXene OER electrocatalysts titled "Unveiling the Role of Catalytically Active MXene Supports in Enhancing the Performance and Durability of Cobalt Oxygen Evolution Reaction Catalysts for Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers" was published in Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. Congrats to Young Sang, Dr. Chae, and Dr. Choi!!!!
2023.11.09.
Dr. Lee was awarded the Miwon Young Scientist Award through Korea Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Conference. Congrats!!!
2023.09.30.
Jiyoon and Young Sang's paper on Ion-solvating membranes for AEMWE was published in International Journal of Energy Research, titled "Alkaline-Stable, In Situ Menshutkin Coat and Curable Ammonium Network: Ion-Solvating Membranes for Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers." Congrats!
2023.09.16.
A retirement commemoration for Dr. Seung Sang Hwang was held at KIST, celebrating 40+ years of research in polymer synthesis and silicon polymer chemistry.
2023.09.08.
Collaboration with Dr. Seung-Cheol Lee at KIST was published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, titled "Combining First-Principles Modeling and Symbolic Regression for Designing Efficient Single-Atom Catalysts in the Oxygen Evolution Reaction on Mo2CO2 MXenes." Congrats!
2023.09.05.
Juho and Ye Eun complete their undergraduate internship and leave the lab to finished their degrees.
2023.09.01.
Jinsuk enters SNU as Ph.D. candidate, Dana rejoins the lab as Master's student. Congrats and Welcome!
2023.08.24.
Jiyoon successfully defends her thesis and will stay on as NRF Funded Postdoc. Congrats!
2023.08.07.
Dong-Yeop's paper on polysilsesquioxane binders for HT-PEMFCs was published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A, titled "Mitigating Phosphoric Acid Migration in High Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells with Hydrophobic Polysilsesquioxane-based Binders." Congrats!
2023.06.30
Juheon leaves the group to take an industry research position at Sama Aluminum, (주)삼아알미늄. Congrats!
2023.06.26
Collaboration with Dr. Seung-Cheol Lee at KIST was published in Journal of Physical Chemistry C, titled "Unraveling the Influence of Oxygen Vacancies on the OER Performance of Co Single-Atom Catalysts Adsorbed on MXenes." Congrats!
2023.06.08
Our collaborative work with SKKU was featured in several news outlets. Congrats!
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2023.05.25
Collaboration with Prof. Lee's group at Korea University was published in Small, titled "Thin Film Composite Membranes as a New Category of Alkaline Water Electrolysis Membranes." Congrats!
2023.04.25
Dr. Gwan Hyun Choi's paper on non-PGM OER catalysts titled "High-Valent Metal Site Incorporated Heterointerface Catalysts for High-Performance Anion-Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysers" was published in Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. This work was in collaboration with Profs. Yoo and Yoon at SKKU. Congrats!
2023.04.19
Jiyoon and Young Sang's paper on ion solvating anion exchange membranes for AEMWEs titled "Polydiallylammonium Interpenetrating Cationic Network Ion-Solvating Membranes for Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers" was published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Congrats!
2023.03.31
Dr. Jinyoung Kim leaves the group to join Georgia Institute of Technology as a post doc. Congrats!
2023.03.28
Dr. Lee was named KIST Young Fellow. Check out the gallery section.
2023.03.26
Collaboration with Dr. Cho's group at KIST was published in Materials, titled "Lanthanide and Ladder-Structured Polysilsesquioxane Composites for Transparent Color Conversion Layers." Congrats!
2023.03.06
Dr. Ari Chae's work on MXene hydrogel sensors was published in Advanced Functional Materials through collaboration with Professor In's group at KNUT and Professor Park's group at Inha University. Congrats!
2023.02.28
ASLee lab welcomes new members: Dr. Ari Chae (Visiting Post Doctorate Research Scientist), Jeongmin Jang (MS degree program), Yu Eun Hwang (undergraduate intern program), Juheon Kim (undergraduate intern program), and Jo Ho Lee (undergraduate intern program). Dana and Yoo Jung leave the lab to finish their undergraduate degree. Welcome!
2023.02.10
Jiyoon was awarded the Grand Future Talent (Student Division) Award, 미래인재상 (학생부문) 최우수상, on the 57th Anniversary Ceremony of KIST. Congrats!
2023.02.08
Collaboration with Dr. Kim's group at KIST was published in Journal of European Ceramic Society, titled "Grain Boundary Engineering Strategy for Simultaneously Reducing the Electron Concentration and Lattice Thermal Conductivity in n-type Bi2Te2.7Se0.3-based Thermoelectric Materials." Congrats!
2023.01.12
Collaboration with Dr. Kim's group at KIST was published in Small, titled "Selective Dissolution-Derived Nanoporous Design of Impurity-Free Bi2Te3 Alloys with High Thermoelectric Performance." Congrats!
2023.01.07
Collaboration with Dr. Baek's group at KIST was published in Materials Chemistry Frontiers, titled "Durable and Thermally Switchable Polysilsesquioxane Adhesive via Dynamic Covalent Bond: Effect of Crosslinker on Reversible Chemistry." Congrats!
2022.12.30
Dongjun leaves the group to take an industry research position at KCC. Congrats!
2022.11.25
Dr. Junpyo Hong's paper was accepted in Chemical Engineering Journal, titled "Best practices for correlating electrical conductivity with broadband EMI shielding in binary filler-based conducting polymer composites," in which we study the correlation of EMI shielding properties with electrical conductivity in binary filler-based conducting polymer composites. Congrats!
2022.11.22
Jiyoon and Dong-yeop were awarded best poster prize at the Korea Institute of Chemical Engineering Conference. Congrats!
2022.11.21
Dr. Yu Seung Kim and Dr. Sandip Maurya of LANL visit KIST for a talk. Check out our post in the gallery section.
2022.10.06
Dr. Lee and ASLee Lab was featured on the cover of Science21. Check out the following links.
2022.10.01
Dr. Jinyoung Kim joins the group. Welcome!
2022.09.05
Kyung Wook completes his undergraduate internship and returns to school to finish his degree. Jinsuk receives her M.S. Degree and will stay on as Post-Master's intern.
New members, Dr. Junpyo Hong (post-doctorate), Yoo Jeong Kwon (undergraduate intern), and Da Na Kim (undergraduate intern) join the group. Welcome!
2022.07.01
Dr. Lee was featured in several news outlets.
2022.06.22
Kyeong Wook joins our lab as undergraduate intern. Welcome!
2022.05.20
Our collaborative work with LANL was featured in several news outlets. Congrats!
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2022.05.02
Dr. Gwan Hyun Choi joins our lab as post doctorate research scientist. Dr. Choi is a Sejong Science Fellowship awardee and will work on various electrocatalysts in our lab. Welcome!
2022.04.25
Young Sang was awarded best poster prize for his presentation at the Korea Polymer Society Spring Meeting. Congrats!
2022.04.11
Jiyoon's paper was published in ACS Energy Letters, titled "Dispersing Agents Impact Performance of Protonated Phosphonic Acid High-Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells." This work was a collaboration with Dr. Yu Seung Kim's group at LANL where we correlate dispersing agent pKa with ionomer morphology and fuel cell performance. Congrats!
2022.04.07
Seohyun and Junpyo's paper was published in Materials Chemistry and Physics, titled "Binary hybrid filler composite formulations of surface modified Fe–Si–Al alloys for multifunctional EMI shielding and thermal conduction." Congrats!
2022.04.05
Collaboration with Prof. Jong Suk Lee's group at Sogang University was published in Membranes, titled "Strategically Altered Fluorinated Polymer at Nanoscale for Enhancing Proton Conduction and Power Generation from Salinity Gradient." This paper was part of a special issue: Recent Membrane Research and Development in Korea.
2022.04.01
Dr. Lee is awarded the "KIST Researcher of the Month" award for research excellence.
2022.03.19
A retirement commemoration for Dr. Soon Man Hong was held at KIST, celebrating 30+ years of research in polymer processing and recycling technology.
2022.03.02
Jung Gyu (Master's Program) and Dong-yeop (Master's Program) join the group. Welcome!!!
2022.02.04
Dr. Lee posted a blog on Nature Sustainability Community on how we developed protonated phosphonic acid electrodes for HT-PEMFCs and published our results in Nature Energy. Check it out here.
2022.01.31
Dr. Lee's paper titled" Protonated Phosphonic Acid Electrodes for High Power Heavy-Duty Vehicle Fuel Cells" was published in Nature Energy. This exciting work reports ionomer development for HT-PEMFCs which showed greatly improved power density performance and durability for heavy-duty mobility applications. Congrats to Jiyoon, who is a co-author on this paper!
2022.01.04
Our review paper titled "Advances in Ion Conducting Membranes and Binders for High Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells" was published in Polymer Reviews. Congrats to Jiyoon, Jinsuk, and Young Sang!!!
2021.12.31
Young Jae, Jeong Beom, Ho Joong, Sunyung, Ga Yeon complete their undergraduate internship at ASLee Lab at KIST and leave the group. Thank you for your contribution to our lab!!!
2021.11.23
Collaboration with Prof. Jin Hong Lee's group at PNU was published in Carbon, titled "Pyro-polymerization of Organic Pigments for Superior Lithium Storage."
2021.11.08.
Collaboration with Prof. Jin Hong Lee's group at PNU was published in Nanomaterials, titled "Organic Dye-Derived N, S Co-Doped Porous Carbon Hosts for Effective Lithium Polysulfide Confinement in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries."
2021.10.01
Ryung-Il leaves the group to accept an industry position at LG Chem. Congrats!
2021.09.07
Collaboration with Dr. Baek's group at KIST was published in Reactive and Functional Polymers, titled "Flowable Polysilsesquioxanes as Robust Solvent-free Optical Hard Coatings."
2021.09.01
Five new undergraduate interns join our group for this semester. Welcome Young Jae, Jeong Beom, Ho Joong, Sunyung, Ga Yeon!
2021.08.10
Collaboration with Prof. Jin Hong Lee's group at PNU was published in Applied Chemistry for Engineering (공업화학학회지), titled "Gel Polymer Electrolytes from a Polysilsesquioxane Crosslinker for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries."
2021.08.24
Ryung-Il's paper was accepted in ACS Applied Polymer Materials, titled "Structure-Property Relationships of 3D-Printable Chain-Extended Block Copolymers with Tunable Elasticity and Biodegradability." Congrats!
2021.03.02
Dongjun (Master's Program) joins the group. Welcome!
2021.02.26
Youmee (Ph.D.) and Seohyun (M.S.) graduate and leave the group! Congrats!
2021.01.13
Collaboration with Dr. Baek's group at KIST was published in Separation and Purification Technology, titled "Effect of Thermal Processing on Brominated 6FDA-DAM for Effective Propylene/Propane Separation."
2020.12.31
Moohyun leaves the group to join Hanyang University, MS program. Congrats!
2020.12.11
Youmee, Ryung Il, and Seohyun successfully defend their thesis. Congrats!
2020.12.08
Dr. Lee's work at Los Alamos National Lab was published in Nature Materials, titled "Synergistically Integrated Phosphonated Poly(pentalflurostyrene) for fuel cells."
2020.12.01
Young Sang joins the group as Post-Master's intern. Welcome!
2020.11.12
You-Mee's paper was published in Composites Science and Technology, titled "Photosensitive Hybrid Polysilsesquioxanes for Etching-Free Processing of Flexible Copper Clad Laminate." Congrats!
2020.10.07
Collaboration with Prof. Lee's group at Sogang University was published in Journal of Membrane Science titled "Tailoring Selective Pores of Carbon Molecular Sieve Membranes towards Enhanced N2/CH4 Separation Efficiency"
2020.09.01
Jinsuk (Master's Program) and Moohyun (Undergraduate Intern) join the group. Welcome!
2020.08.21
Layoung leaves the group for an industry research position at Dongjin Semichem. Congrats!
2020.08.14
Jeongmin leaves the group for an industry research position at INTOPS. Congrats!
2020.08.04
Dr. Lee's work at Los Alamos National Lab was published in Journal of Physical Chemistry B titled "Energetics of Base-Acid Pairs for the Design of High Temperature Fuel Cell Polymer Electrolytes."
2020.05.25
Layoung and Jeongmin join the group as interns.
2020.05.15
Ryung Il's paper on polyimide / silsesquioxane composites was published in Materials as invited paper in a special issue titled "Silsesquioxane-Related Functional Materials: From Synthesis to Applications." Congrats!
2020.04.23
Youmee successfully passes her comprehensive exam. Congrats!
2020.02.25
Collaborative work with PNU and KERI got published in Materials Letters. Congrats!
2019.12.18
Dr. Lee rejoins KIST as Senior Research Scientist and ASLee Lab at KIST is born.