Professor Won Dong-il of the NanoBio Energy Materials Center Selected for Post-Doc. Joint Research Project
- Date2024.09.12
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Professor Won Dong-il of the NanoBio Energy Materials Center and POETICS lab was selected to engage in the 2024 Post-Doc. Growth-Type Joint Research Project, led by the Ministry of Education.
The Ministry of Education newly launched a project program this year for outstanding university faculties, mentors, and mentees to conduct innovative and challenging joint research, selected 180 tasks nationwide. Professor Won’s project titled “Development of Chiral Catalysts for Photochemical Hydrogen Evolution and Plastic Decomposition” was chosen for this project. As the researcher in charge of this project, Professor Won will receive a total of 900 million won for three years, from September 2024 to August 2027. The research team aims to introduce chirality into a photocatalytic system that enables simultaneous hydrogen evolution and plastic decomposition. The goal is to selectively induce polarized hot carriers generated through light-matter interactions, maximize the efficiency of selective plastic conversion, and the corresponding hydrogen generation, and develop a chiral photocatalyst. The research will comprehensively encompass the creation of a chiral photocatalyst, efficiency evaluation of hydrogen evolution-plastic decomposition, and mechanism analysis.
Professor Won has been focusing his research on the field of photocatalysts, having published papers as the lead author in prestigious SCI-rank journals such as Journal of American Chemical Society, ACS Catalysis, and Chemical Society Reviews.
(From left) Professor Kim Dong-ha (mentor), Associate Professor Park Jae-hong (mentor), Professor Won Dong-il (Principal Investigator), Researcher Ahn Yun-ho (co-researcher)
Ewha’s Professor Kim Dong-ha and Associate Professor Park Jae-hong from Chemistry and Nanoscience are mentors of this research project, with co-researcher as Ahn Yun-ho from the Materials Physics lab. Professor Nam Ki-tae (mentor) and researcher Kim Jeong-eun (co-researcher) from Seoul National University are also involved in this project.
Through this project, the research team aims to present a new direction in the field of photocatalysis by incorporating chirality, challenging the standardized research methods in this domain, and offering a fresh perspective on eco-friendly energy technologies, particularly in hydrogen evolution and plastic decomposition.