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2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
86
Citations
32200
World Ranking
2493
National Ranking
34

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Korea Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Korea Leader Award

Overview

Yousung Jung is affiliated with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Energy, with a significant focus on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Catalysis, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques

Yousung Jung has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • Electrochemical ammonia synthesis: Mechanistic understanding and catalyst design, 2021, Chem
  • Generative Adversarial Networks for Crystal Structure Prediction, 2020, ACS Central Science
  • Safeguarding the RuO2 phase against lattice oxygen oxidation during acidic water electrooxidation, 2021, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Highly stable two-dimensional bismuth metal-organic frameworks for efficient electrochemical reduction of CO2, 2020, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • Machine-enabled inverse design of inorganic solid materials: promises and challenges, 2020, Chemical Science

Their publications appear frequently in the following scientific venues:

  • Chemical Science
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Nature Communications
  • Matter
  • ACS Catalysis

Yousung Jung collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Changhyeok Choi
  • Juhwan Noh
  • Geun Ho Gu
  • Zhenyu Sun
  • Song Hong

Best Publications

  • Advances in molecular quantum chemistry contained in the Q-Chem 4 program package

    Yihan Shao;Zhengting Gan;Evgeny Epifanovsky;Andrew T. B. Gilbert

  • Advances in methods and algorithms in a modern quantum chemistry program package

    Yihan Shao;Laszlo Fusti Molnar;Yousung Jung;Jörg Kussmann

  • Software for the frontiers of quantum chemistry: An overview of developments in the Q-Chem 5 package

    Evgeny Epifanovsky;Andrew T.B. Gilbert;Andrew T.B. Gilbert;Xintian Feng;Xintian Feng;Joonho Lee

  • Nitrogen Fixation by Ru Single-Atom Electrocatalytic Reduction

    Hengcong Tao;Changhyeok Choi;Liang-Xin Ding;Zheng Jiang

  • Scaled opposite-spin second order Møller-Plesset correlation energy: an economical electronic structure method.

    Yousung Jung;Rohini C. Lochan;Anthony D. Dutoi;Martin Head-Gordon

  • On the mechanism of enhanced oxygen reduction reaction in nitrogen-doped graphene nanoribbons

    Heejin Kim;Kirak Lee;Seong Ihl Woo;Yousung Jung

  • On the Theory of Organic Catalysis "on Water"

    Yousung Jung;R. A. Marcus

  • Strengthening effect of single-atomic-layer graphene in metal–graphene nanolayered composites

    Youbin Kim;Jinsup Lee;Min Sun Yeom;Jae Won Shin

  • 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

  • Unprecedented high-temperature CO 2 selectivity in N 2 -phobic nanoporous covalent organic polymers

    Hasmukh A. Patel;Sang Hyun Je;Joonho Park;Dennis P. Chen

  • 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

  • The High Performance of Crystal Water Containing Manganese Birnessite Cathodes for Magnesium Batteries

    Kwan Woo Nam;Sangryun Kim;Soyeon Lee;Michael Salama

  • Electrochemical ammonia synthesis: Mechanistic understanding and catalyst design

    Huidong Shen;Changhyeok Choi;Justus Masa;Xin Li

  • Intermolecular pi-to-pi bonding between stacked aromatic dyads. Experimental and theoretical binding energies and near-IR optical transitions for phenalenyl radical/radical versus radical/cation dimerizations.

    D Small;Yousung Jung;SV Rosokha

  • Na2FeP2O7 as a Promising Iron-Based Pyrophosphate Cathode for Sodium Rechargeable Batteries: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study

    Heejin Kim;R. A. Shakoor;Chansun Park;Soo Yeon Lim

  • Electrochemical and Thermal Properties of NASICON Structured Na3V2(PO4)3 as a Sodium Rechargeable Battery Cathode: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study

    Soo Yeon Lim;Heejin Kim;R. A. Shakoor;Yousung Jung

  • Entropy and the driving force for the filling of carbon nanotubes with water

    Tod A. Pascal;William A. Goddard;Yousung Jung

  • Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers as Promising Sodium Ion Battery Anodes

    Eunjeong Yang;Hyunjun Ji;Yousung Jung

  • Inverse Design of Solid-State Materials via a Continuous Representation

    Juhwan Noh;Jaehoon Kim;Helge S. Stein;Benjamin Sanchez-Lengeling

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Seoin Back
Seoin Back Sogang University
Jang Wook Choi
Jang Wook Choi Seoul National University
Zhenyu Sun
Zhenyu Sun Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Martin Head-Gordon
Martin Head-Gordon University of California, Berkeley
William A. Goddard
William A. Goddard California Institute of Technology
Cafer T. Yavuz
Cafer T. Yavuz King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Jieshan Qiu
Jieshan Qiu Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Jeong Young Park
Jeong Young Park Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Alán Aspuru-Guzik University of Toronto
Yihan Shao
Yihan Shao University of Oklahoma

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