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Overview

Seoin Back is affiliated with Sogang University in South Korea and has a substantial body of research primarily focused on energy conversion, engineering, and materials science. Their scholarly contributions cover multiple subfields including renewable energy, sustainability, electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, catalysis, and electrochemistry.

The main topics of Back's research include:

  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Advancements in Battery Materials

Recent publication venues where Seoin Back frequently publishes include:

  • Advanced Materials
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Advanced Functional Materials

Their notable recent papers showcase research on catalyst design, electrochemical synthesis, and related topics. Selected papers include:

  • "A Review on Challenges and Successes in Atomic-Scale Design of Catalysts for Electrochemical Synthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide," 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • "Confined local oxygen gas promotes electrochemical water oxidation to hydrogen peroxide," 2020, Nature Catalysis
  • "Electrochemical Synthesis of H2O2 by Two-Electron Water Oxidation Reaction," 2020, Chem
  • "A Porphyrinic Zirconium Metal-Organic Framework for Oxygen Reduction Reaction: Tailoring the Spacing between Active-Sites through Chain-Based Inorganic Building Units," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Transition Metal Ion Doping on ZIF-8 Enhances the Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Reaction," 2022, Advanced Materials

Seoin Back collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Dong Hyeon Mok
  • Ho Yeon Jang
  • Taeghwan Hyeon
  • Hyun Dong Jung
  • Samira Siahrostami

Best Publications

  • Highly selective oxygen reduction to hydrogen peroxide on transition metal single atom coordination.

    Kun Jiang;Seoin Back;Austin J. Akey;Chuan Xia

  • Suppression of Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in Electrochemical N2 Reduction Using Single-Atom Catalysts: A Computational Guideline

    Changhyeok Choi;Seoin Back;Na Young Kim;Juhyung Lim

  • Active Sites of Au and Ag Nanoparticle Catalysts for CO2 Electroreduction to CO

    Seoin Back;Min Sun Yeom;Yousung Jung

  • Single-atom catalysts for CO2 electroreduction with significant activity and selectivity improvements

    Seoin Back;Juhyung Lim;Na Young Kim;Yong-Hyun Kim

  • A Review on Challenges and Successes in Atomic-Scale Design of Catalysts for Electrochemical Synthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide

    Samira Siahrostami;Santiago Jimenez Villegas;Amir Hassan Bagherzadeh Mostaghimi;Seoin Back

  • Confined local oxygen gas promotes electrochemical water oxidation to hydrogen peroxide

    Chuan Xia;Seoin Back;Stefan Ringe;Kun Jiang

  • Electrochemical Synthesis of H2O2 by Two-Electron Water Oxidation Reaction

    Xinjian Shi;Seoin Back;Thomas Mark Gill;Samira Siahrostami

  • Balancing activity, stability and conductivity of nanoporous core-shell iridium/iridium oxide oxygen evolution catalysts.

    Yong-Tae Kim;Pietro Papa Lopes;Shin-Ae Park;A-Yeong Lee

  • ZnO As an Active and Selective Catalyst for Electrochemical Water Oxidation to Hydrogen Peroxide

    Sara R. Kelly;Xinjian Shi;Seoin Back;Lauren Vallez

  • Convolutional Neural Network of Atomic Surface Structures To Predict Binding Energies for High-Throughput Screening of Catalysts

    Seoin Back;Junwoong Yoon;Nianhan Tian;Wen Zhong

  • TiC- and TiN-Supported Single-Atom Catalysts for Dramatic Improvements in CO2 Electrochemical Reduction to CH4

    Seoin Back;Yousung Jung

  • A Porphyrinic Zirconium Metal-Organic Framework for Oxygen Reduction Reaction: Tailoring the Spacing between Active-Sites through Chain-Based Inorganic Building Units.

    Magdalena Ola Cichocka;Zuozhong Liang;Dawei Feng;Seoin Back

  • Selective Heterogeneous CO2 Electroreduction to Methanol

    Seoin Back;Heejin Kim;Yousung Jung

  • Toward a Design of Active Oxygen Evolution Catalysts: Insights from Automated Density Functional Theory Calculations and Machine Learning

    Seoin Back;Kevin Tran;Zachary W. Ulissi

  • On the mechanism of electrochemical ammonia synthesis on the Ru catalyst

    Seoin Back;Yousung Jung

  • Improved reversibility in lithium-oxygen battery: Understanding elementary reactions and surface charge engineering of metal alloy catalyst

    Byung Gon Kim;Hyung-Jin Kim;Seoin Back;Kwan Woo Nam

  • Mixed Transition Metal Oxide with Vacancy-Induced Lattice Distortion for Enhanced Catalytic Activity of Oxygen Evolution Reaction

    Hyeon Jeong Lee;Seoin Back;Ji Hoon Lee;Sun Hee Choi

  • The Role of Adsorbed CN and Cl on an Au Electrode for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction

    Minhyung Cho;Jun Tae Song;Seoin Back;Yousung Jung

  • Data-driven discovery of electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction using active motifs-based machine learning

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  • Bifunctional Interface of Au and Cu for Improved CO2 Electroreduction.

    Seoin Back;Jun-Hyuk Kim;Yong-Tae Kim;Yousung Jung

  • Doping palladium with tellurium for the highly selective electrocatalytic reduction of aqueous CO2 to CO

    Hengcong Tao;Xiaofu Sun;Seoin Back;Zishan Han

Frequent Co-Authors

Yousung Jung
Yousung Jung Seoul National University
Samira Siahrostami
Samira Siahrostami Simon Fraser University
Jens K. Nørskov
Jens K. Nørskov Technical University of Denmark
Haotian Wang
Haotian Wang Rice University
Kun Jiang
Kun Jiang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Yong-Hyun Kim
Yong-Hyun Kim Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Jang Wook Choi
Jang Wook Choi Seoul National University
Xiaolin Zheng
Xiaolin Zheng Stanford University
Thomas F. Jaramillo
Thomas F. Jaramillo Stanford University
Jeong Young Park
Jeong Young Park Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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