2022
January: Michael Lee and Junghun Han’s research paper, Elastomeric electrolytes for high-energy solid-state lithium batteries, was published in Nature.
January: Shikai Jin and Omar Allam’s reviewer paper, Covalent organic frameworks: Design and applications
in electrochemical energy storage devices, was published in InfoMat.
2021
August: Hyewon Kang, Kun Ryu, and Minsu Kim joined the group as new graduate students. Welcome!!
July: Dr. Jiyong Chung joined the lab as a new postdoc. Welcome!!
May: Dr. Myeongjin Kim’s paper was selected as a front cover in Energy & Environmental Science, https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2021/ee/d1ee90025k?page=search
Jan: Michael Lee’s first paper, Outstanding Low-Temperature Performance of Structure-Controlled Graphene Anode Based on Surface-Controlled Charge Storage Mechanism in Advanced Functional Materials.
Jan: A collaborative review paper with Prof. Jinhan Cho, Interfacial Design and Assembly for Flexible Energy Electrodes with Highly Efficient Energy Harvesting, Conversion, and Storage, was published in Advanced Energy Materials.
Jan: Dr. Seung Woo Lee has received the 2020 Thank a Teacher Program Award at Georgia Tech.
Jan: Dr. Myeongjin Kim’s paper, Understanding synergistic metal–oxide interactions of in situ exsolved metal nanoparticles on pyrochlore oxide support for enhanced water splitting, was published in Energy & Environmental Science.
2020
Dec: Dr. Seung Woo Lee gave an invited talk at UKC 2020 Virtual.
Dec: Jose Lopez-Monis successfully defended his Master thesis dissertation. Congratulations!!
Oct: Dr. Seung Woo Lee gave an invited talk at the Pacific Rim Meeting on Electrochemical and Solid State Science.
Jun: An invited outlook paper, Toward Efficient Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution: Emerging Opportunities with Metallic Pyrochlore Oxides for Electrocatalysts
and Conductive Supports Sodium Metal Anodes: Emerging Solutions to Dendrite Growth, was published in ACS Central Science.
Jun: Hoyoung Lee’s first paper, Role of anions on electrochemical exfoliation of graphite into graphene in aqueous acids, was published in Carbon.
May: A collaborative paper with Prof. Oliver Brand at Georgia Tech, All-Soft Supercapacitors Based on Liquid Metal Electrodes with Integrated Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes, was published in ACS Nano.
Mar: Dr. Byeongyong Lee’s paper was published as a front cover in Advanced Energy Materials, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.202070076
Mar: Dr. Hyun Ju joined the lab as a new postdoc.
Feb: Joshua Clemons won a Gold Award (First Place) from ISEF Regional Science & Engineering Fair 2020. Congratulations!!
Feb: Dr. Byeongyong Lee joined as an Assistant Professor at Pusan National University in South Korea. Congratulations!!
Feb: Dr. Myeongjin Kim joined as an Assistant Professor at Kyungpook National University in South Korea. Congratulations!!
Jan: Dr. Yongmin Ko joined as a research staff at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) in South Korea. Congratulations!!
Jan: Jose Lopez-Monis joined the group as a new graduate student. Welcome!!
2019
Dec: Michael Lee gave an invited talk on behalf of Prof. Lee at the 2019 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA.
Oct: Dr. Seung Woo Lee gave an invited talk at the 236th ECS Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Sep: Minsoo Kang joined the group as a new graduate student. Welcome!!
Apr: Dr. Seung Woo Lee has been awarded the Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award.
https://provost.gatech.edu/awards/faculty-staff-honored-2019-luncheon
Apr: A collaborative review paper with Prof. David Mitlin, Sodium Metal Anodes: Emerging Solutions to Dendrite Growth, was published in Chemical Reviews.
Mar: Dr. Seung Woo Lee has been awarded promotion to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure, effective August 15, 2019.
Jan: Joshua Clemons (a high school intern of Project ENGAGES) won a gold medal (1st place) at the Regional Science Fair.
2018
Oct: A collaborative paper with Prof. Jinhan Cho from Korea University, High-power hybrid biofuel cells using layer-by-layer assembled glucose oxidase-coated metallic cotton fibers, was published in Nature Communications.
Sep: Shikai Jin joined the group as a new graduate student. Welcome to ESCL!!
Aug: Omar Allam joined the group as a new graduate student. He is also co-advised by Dr. Seung Soon Jang. Welcome to ESCL!!
Aug: JeongHoon Lim joined ESCL as a new graduate student. He is also co-advised by Dr. Marta Hatzell. Welcome!!
Aug: Dr. Seung Woo Lee has been awarded the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Early Career Faculty Award.
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/strg/ecf/2018_Selections
Aug: Kyungbin Lee joined ESCL as a new graduate student. Welcome!!
Aug: Byeongyong Lee successfully defended his dissertation and became the second Ph.D. from ESCL. Congratulations, Dr. Lee!!
Jul: Dr. Seung Woo Lee delivered an invited talk at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology.
Jul: Dr. Seung Woo Lee delivered an invited talk at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Korea University.
Jul: Dr. Seung Woo Lee gave an invited talk at the Korea Institue of Energy Research.
Jul: Dr. Seung Woo Lee gave an invited talk at the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at Yonsei University.
Jul: Joshuan Clemons joined the group as an ENGAGES (Engaging New Generations at Georgia Tech through Engineering & Science) scholar.
May: Dr. Seung Woo Lee gave an invited talk at the 233rd ECS Meeting, Seattle, WA.
May: Dr. Seung Woo Lee delivered an invited talk at the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor.
May: Siyao Cai successfully defended his Master thesis dissertation. Congratulations!!
May: Dr. Seung Woo Lee delivered an invited talk at the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Mar: Tianyuan Liu has been selected as the recipient of the Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award. Congratulations!!
Mar: Dr. Seung Woo Lee delivered an invited talk at the School of Chemical Engineering Seminar at Purdue University.
Mar: Dr. Seung Woo Lee has been awarded the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. http://me.gatech.edu/News/Lee_Receives_NSF_CAREER_Award
Feb: Drs. Yongmin Ko and Myeongjin Kim joined the lab as new postdoctoral fellows. Welcome to ESCL!!
Feb: Tianyuan’s paper, Self-Polymerized Dopamine as an Organic Cathode for Li- and Na-Ion Batteries, was Highlighted as a HOT article in 2017 from the Energy & Environmental Science Editorial Board: 2017 HOT articles collection
Jan: Tianyuan Liu has been awarded the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad.
2017
Nov: Tianyuan Liu successfully defended his dissertation and became the first Ph.D. from ESCL. Congratulations, Dr. Liu!!
Sep: A collaborative paper with Prof. Jinhan Cho from Korea University, Flexible supercapacitor electrodes based on real metal-like cellulose papers, was published in Nature Communications.
This work was featured in PHYS.ORG: Paper supercapacitor addresses power/energy density tradeoff and in Georgia Tech Research Horizons: Paper-Based Supercapacitor Uses Metal Nanoparticles to Boost Energy Density
Sep: Michael Lee joined the lab as a new graduate student.
Aug: Dr. Seung Woo Lee gave an invited talk at the US-Korea Conference, Washington, DC.
Jul: Marsha’ McCray (a high school intern) won 3rd place in Summer Final Presentation of Project ENGAGES (Engaging New Generations at Georgia Tech through Engineering & Science).
Feb: Jong received a travel grant by winning poster award from Career, Research, and Innovation Development Conference (CRIDC).
Jan: Dr. Seung Woo Lee gave an invited talk at the American Ceramic Society 41st International Conference & Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Daytona Beach, Fl.
Jan: Siyao Cai joined the lab as a new graduate student.
Jan: Tianyuan’s paper, Self-Polymerized Dopamine as an Organic Cathode for Li- and Na-Ion Batteries, was published in Energy & Environmental Science.
2016
Nov: Dr. Seung Woo Lee gave an invited talk at the 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
Aug: Jinho Park joined the lab as a new Post-Doc
Aug: Dr. Seung Woo Lee gave an invited talk at the US-Korea Conference, Dallas, TX
Aug: Dr. Seung Woo Lee has been awarded the 2016 Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) Young Investigator Grant Award, KSEA Young Investigator Grant 2016
Aug: Prof. Jinhan Cho, from Korea University, is visiting the lab with his graduate student, Dong Yeeb Shin
Aug: Tianyuan received a travel grant from Battery Division of ECS for PRiME 2016, Oct 2-7, Honolulu, HI.
May: Byeongyong Lee’s first paper, Hierarchical Networks of Redox-Active Reduced Crumpled Graphene Oxide and Functionalized Few-Walled Carbon Nanotube for Rapid Electrochemical Energy Storage, was published in Nanoscale.
Jan: Dr. Seung Woo Lee has been awarded the Hanwha Advanced Materials Non-Tenure Faculty Award.
2015
Oct: SunShot project has been launched.
Sep: Dr. Reza Kavian left the lab and joined Paraclete Energy, Inc.
Aug: Jong Ha, co-advised by Dr. Shannon Yee, joined the lab as a new graduate student.
May: John C. Bachman (Prof. Yang Shao-Horn’s group@MIT) and Dr. Reza Kavian’s paper, Electrochemical polymerization of pyrene derivatives on functionalized carbon nanotubes for pseudocapacitive electrodes, was published in Nature Communications.
Apr: Tianyuan and Dr. Ki Chul Kim (Prof. Seung Soon Jang’s group in MSE@Gatech)’s paper, High-Density Lithium-Ion Energy Storage Utilizing the Surface Redox Reactions in Folded Graphene Films, was published in Chemistry of Materials.
2014
Dec: Tianyuan’s first paper, Self-Assembled, Redox-Active Graphene Electrodes for High-Performance Energy Storage Devices, was published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.