Skills
Synthesis → surface analysis → reactors & equipment → software → process economics — each with where it was used.
Synthesis & surface modification
- Hands-on: supported-metal catalyst synthesis · plasmonic photothermal catalysts
- Distinctive: atomic layer deposition on powders — from process design to operation
Used in: CO purification catalyst patent (lead inventor) · Powder ALD · Photothermal NH3 · Formic acid / formate
Surface & materials analysis
- Proficient in: XRD · TEM / SEM · XPS · TPx · UV-Vis · TGA · MS · GC
- Distinctive: in-situ DRIFTS and operando analysis under reaction conditions
Used in: Science 2026 · in-situ DRIFTS · CEJ 2025 · Appl. Surf. Sci. 2024 · XPS · ACS Sus. Chem. Eng. 2022 · operando pH
Reactors & equipment
- Built: a photothermal reactor, designed from scratch
- Hands-on: plug-flow and high-pressure (500-bar-class) H2 systems
- Also: vacuum & gas delivery · software safety interlocks
Used in: Photothermal NH3 · SBH platform · CEJ 2025, first author · IJHE 2026 · Powder ALD
Software & automation
- Built: equipment control software that replaced two vendor programs
- Hands-on: Python lab-data pipelines · LLM & MCP research tools
- Recognized: KIST AIX 2026 Excellence Award
Used in: equipment-control · gc-analysis · H2-bench & H2-MCP · get-ASAP · KIST AIX 2026 Excellence Award
Process economics
- Built: levelized-cost (LCOH) models from scratch
- Hands-on: techno-economic and sensitivity analysis
- Recognized: First Prize, 2022 national mobility idea contest
Used in: TEA · First Prize, 2022 idea contest