Sang Hoon Joo
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Seoul National University
Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
Tel: 82-2-880-6658
E-mail: shjoo1/at/snu.ac.kr; sanghjoo/at/gmail.com
Education
| 2004 | Ph.D., Materials Chemistry, KAIST Advisor: Prof. Ryong Ryoo |
| 2000 | M.S., Chemistry, KAIST Advisor: Prof. Ryong Ryoo |
| 1998 | B.S., Chemistry, KAIST |
Professional Positions
| 2023− | Professor, Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University |
| 2020−2023 | Professor, Department of Chemistry, UNIST |
| 2019−2020 | Professor, School of Energy & Chemical Engineering, UNIST |
| 2014−2019 | Associate Professor, School of Energy & Chemical Engineering, UNIST |
| 2010−2014 | Assistant Professor, School of Nano-Bioscience & Chemical Engineering, UNIST |
| 2007−2009 | Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Advisor: Prof. Gabor A. Somorjai |
| 2004−2007 | R&D Staff Member, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology |
Professional Activity
| 2023− | Associate Editor, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, ACS |
| 2016−2023 | Associate Editor, J. Electrochem. Sci. Technol., KECS |
| 2024− | Advisory Board, Electrochimica Acta, Elsevier |
| 2023− | Editorial Board, Nano Express, IOP |
| 2015−2022 | Editorial Board, Nano Convergence, Springer Nature |
| 2020−2023 | Review Board (RB), Division of Natural Sciences, NRF of Korea |
| 2020−2021 | Director of Education, Steering Committee, KCS |
| 2017 | General Secretary, Division of Materials Chemistry, KCS |
Awards & Honors
| 2022 | Sigma−Aldrich Chemist Award, KCS |
| 2022 | Academic Excellence in Fuel Cells Award, KECS |
| 2021 | S-Oil Next-Generation Scientist Award, KAST and S-Oil Science Prodigy and Culture Foundation |
| 2020 | Gold Prize, 26th Samsung HumanTech Paper Award (Advisor), Samsung Electronics |
| 2019 | Best Paper Award, Nano Convergence Award in 2019, Springer Nature |
| 2019 | Elected Member, Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST), KAST |
| 2019 | Grand Prize, S-Oil Dissertation of the Year Award (Advisor), KAST and S-Oil Science Prodigy and Culture Foundation |
| 2018 | Young Distinguished Professor, UNIST |
| 2017 | Young Catalysis Scholar Award, Division of Catalysis and Reaction Engineering, KIChE |
| 2016 | Excellent Researcher Award, Division of Materials Chemistry, KCS |
| 2013 | UNIST Commendation, UNIST |
| 2011 | Knowledge Creation Award, MEST and KISTI |
| 2010 | TJ Park Junior Faculty Fellowship, POSCO TJ Park Science Foundation |
| 2005 | BK21 Best Graduate Student Award, MEST |
Representative Publications
Importance of Broken Geometric Symmetry of Single-Atom Pt Sites for Efficient Electrocatalysis
Nat. Commun. 14, 3233 (2023).
Steering Catalytic Selectivity with Atomically Dispersed Metal Electrocatalysts for Renewable Energy Conversion and Commodity Chemical Production
Acc. Chem. Res. 55, 2672−2684 (2022).
Direct Propylene Epoxidation with Oxygen Using a Photo-Electro-Heterogeneous Catalytic System
Nat. Catal. 5, 37−44 (2022).
Designing Highly Active Nanoporous Carbon H2O2 Production Electrocatalysts through Active Site Identification
Chem 7, 3114−3130 (2021).
Reversible Ligand Exchange in Atomically Dispersed Catalysts for Modulating the Activity and Selectivity of Oxygen Reduction Reaction
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60, 20528−20534 (2021).
Ordered Mesoporous Carbons with Graphitic Tubular Frameworks by Dual Templating for Efficient Electrocatalysis and Energy Storage
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60, 1441−1449 (2021).
Intermetallic PtCu Nanoframes as Efficient Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts
Nano Lett. 20, 7413−7421 (2020).
A General Strategy to Atomically Dispersed Precious Metal Catalysts for Unravelling Their Catalytic Trends for Oxygen Reduction Reaction
ACS Nano 14, 1990−2001 (2020).
Atomically Dispersed Pt−N4 Sites as Efficient and Selective Electrocatalysts for the Chlorine Evolution Reaction
Nat. Commun. 11, 412 (2020).
Active Edge-Site-Rich Carbon Nanocatalysts with Enhanced Electron Transfer for Efficient Electrochemical Hydrogen Peroxide Production
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 58, 1100−1105 (2019).
Oxygen-Deficient Triple Perovskites as Highly Active and Durable Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Electrode Reactions
Sci. Adv. 4, eaap9360 (2018).
A General Approach to Preferential Formation of Active Fe−Nx Sites in Fe−N/C Electrocatalysts for Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 138, 15046−15056 (2016).
Intrinsic Relationship between Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity and Nanoscale Work Function of Doped Carbons
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136, 8875-8878 (2014).
Carbon Nanotubes/Heteroatom-Doped Carbon Core-Sheath Nanostructures as Highly Active, Metal-Free Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts for Alkaline Fuel Cells
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 53, 4102-4106 (2014).
Ordered Mesoporous Porphyrinic Carbons with Very High Electrocatalytic Activity for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction
Sci. Rep. 3, 2715 (2013).