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Bongjin Simon Mun is affiliated with the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and engineering, with a significant emphasis on materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment. Mun's work also covers electronic, optical, and magnetic materials along with atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Their research topics encompass catalytic processes in materials science, electronic and structural properties of oxides, and Ga2O3 and related materials. Additionally, they investigate electron and X-ray spectroscopy techniques, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, advanced chemical physics studies, and ZnO doping and properties.

Mun has contributed to several scientific publications. Notable recent papers include:

  • Activity-Stability Relationship in Au@Pt Nanoparticles for Electrocatalysis, 2020, ACS Energy Letters
  • How Rh surface breaks CO2 molecules under ambient pressure, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Understanding the Role of Electronic Effects in CO on the Pt-Sn Alloy Surface via Band Structure Measurements, 2021, ACS Catalysis
  • Crystallization and bandgap variation of non-stoichiometric amorphous Ga2O3-x thin films during post-annealing process, 2022, Applied Surface Science
  • Revealing CO2 dissociation pathways at vicinal copper (997) interfaces, 2023, Nature Communications

Mun frequently publishes in several venues including:

  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Applied Surface Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • ACS Catalysis

Collaboration is an important aspect of Mun's work. They have frequent coauthors such as Hojoon Lim, Dongwoo Kim, Minsik Seo, Do Young Noh, and Hyon Chol Kang, each with multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Improved Oxygen Reduction Activity on Pt3Ni(111) via Increased Surface Site Availability

    Vojislav R. Stamenkovic;Vojislav R. Stamenkovic;Ben Fowler;Bongjin Simon Mun;Guofeng Wang

  • Trends in electrocatalysis on extended and nanoscale Pt-bimetallic alloy surfaces

    Vojislav R. Stamenkovic;Vojislav R. Stamenkovic;Bongjin Simon Mun;Bongjin Simon Mun;Matthias Arenz;Karl J. J. Mayrhofer

  • Reaction-Driven Restructuring of Rh-Pd and Pt-Pd Core-Shell Nanoparticles

    Feng Tao;Feng Tao;Michael E. Grass;Michael E. Grass;Yawen Zhang;Yawen Zhang;Yawen Zhang;Derek R. Butcher;Derek R. Butcher

  • Effect of surface composition on electronic structure, stability, and electrocatalytic properties of Pt-transition metal alloys: Pt-skin versus Pt-skeleton surfaces.

    Vojislav R. Stamenkovic;Bongjin Simon Mun;Karl J. J. Mayrhofer;Philip N. Ross

  • Electron Spectroscopy of Aqueous Solution Interfaces Reveals Surface Enhancement of Halides

    Sutapa Ghosal;John C. Hemminger;Hendrik Bluhm;Bongjin Simon Mun

  • Highly Durable and Active PtFe Nanocatalyst for Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction Reaction.

    Dong Young Chung;Samuel Woojoo Jun;Gabin Yoon;Soon Gu Kwon

  • Synthesis and characterization of atomically thin graphite films on a silicon carbide substrate

    E. Rollings;G.-H. Gweon;S.Y. Zhou;B.S. Mun

  • Design Principle of Fe-N-C Electrocatalysts: How to Optimize Multimodal Porous Structures?

    Soo Hong Lee;Jiheon Kim;Dong Young Chung;Ji Mun Yoo

  • Soft X-ray Microscopy and Spectroscopy at the Molecular Environmental Science Beamline at the Advanced Light Source

    H. Bluhm;K. Andersson;K. Andersson;T. Araki;K. Benzerara

  • Intrinsic relation between catalytic activity of CO oxidation on Ru nanoparticles and Ru oxides uncovered with ambient pressure XPS.

    Kamran Qadir;Sang Hoon Joo;Bongjin S. Mun;Bongjin S. Mun;Derek R. Butcher

  • In situ ambient pressure XPS observation of surface chemistry and electronic structure of α-Fe2O3 and γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles

    Dorota Flak;Dorota Flak;Dorota Flak;Qianli Chen;Qianli Chen;Bongjin Simon Mun;Zhi Liu

  • In situ ambient pressure XPS study of CO oxidation reaction on Pd(111) surfaces

    Ryo Toyoshima;Masaaki Yoshida;Yuji Monya;Yuka Kousa

  • A study of electronic structures of Pt3M (M=Ti, V, Cr, Fe, Co, Ni) polycrystalline alloys with valence-band photoemission spectroscopy

    Bongjin Simon Mun;Masamitsu Watanabe;Massimiliano Rossi;Vojislav Stamenkovic

  • In Situ Oxidation Study of Pt(110) and Its Interaction with CO

    Derek R. Butcher;Michael E. Grass;Michael E. Grass;Zhenhua Zeng;Funda Aksoy;Funda Aksoy

  • On the Origin of Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Electrospun Nitrogen–Carbon Species

    Dongyoon Shin;Beomgyun Jeong;Bongjin Simon Mun;Hongrae Jeon

  • Direct Observation of High-Temperature Polaronic Behavior in Colossal Magnetoresistive Manganites

    Norman Mannella;Norman Mannella;Axel Rosenhahn;Corwin H. Booth;Stefano Marchesini

  • Deactivation mechanism of a Au/CeZrO4 catalyst during a low-temperature water gas shift reaction

    A. Goguet;R. Burch;Y. Chen;C. Hardacre

  • Adsorbate-driven reactive interfacial Pt-NiO1−x nanostructure formation on the Pt3Ni(111) alloy surface

    Jeongjin Kim;Woong Hyeon Park;Won Hui Doh;Si Woo Lee

  • Active Surface Oxygen for Catalytic CO Oxidation on Pd(100) Proceeding under Near Ambient Pressure Conditions.

    Ryo Toyoshima;Masaaki Yoshida;Yuji Monya;Kazuma Suzuki

  • Influence of N-doping on the structure and electronic properties of titania nanoparticle photocatalysts.

    Silvana J Stewart;Marcos Fernandez-García;Carolina Belver;B Simon Mun

  • Role of joule heating effect and bulk-surface phases in voltage-driven metal-insulator transition in VO2 crystal

    Bongjin Simon Mun;Joonseok Yoon;Sung Kwan Mo;Kai Chen;Kai Chen

  • The nature of the nonmetal–metal transition in LixCoO2 oxide

    A. Milewska;K. Świerczek;J. Tobola;F. Boudoire;F. Boudoire

  • In Situ Oxidation Study of Pt(110) and Its Interaction with CO DerekR.Butcher, †,#,$ MichaelE.Grass, †,‡,# ZhenhuaZeng, § FundaAksoy, †,|| HendrikBluhm, † Wei-XueLi,* ,§

    Bongjin S. Mun;Gabor A. Somorjai;Zhi Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhi Liu
Zhi Liu ShanghaiTech University
Charles S. Fadley
Charles S. Fadley University of California, Davis
Philip N. Ross
Philip N. Ross Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Zahid Hussain
Zahid Hussain Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Vojislav R. Stamenkovic
Vojislav R. Stamenkovic University of California, Irvine
Nenad M. Markovic
Nenad M. Markovic Argonne National Laboratory
Nobumichi Tamura
Nobumichi Tamura Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hendrik Bluhm
Hendrik Bluhm Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jeong Young Park
Jeong Young Park Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Gabor A. Somorjai
Gabor A. Somorjai University of California, Berkeley

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