KOSEN 한인과학기술자네트워크

Most of our research is related to inorganic microporous material-based membranes, adsorbents, and catalysts.

Membrane science is an emerging research area, which will contribute to replacing and/or being complementary to traditional separation processes. Our overarching goal is to make defect-free and high-flux & highly selective membranes with good reproducibility, and further to apply these to industrially important, challenging separations.

In addition, microporous materials are being designed, lab-synthesized, and tuned for eventual uses in catalyst-relevant processes. In particular, studies on finding a simple, but reliable way to overcome pronounced problems deeply related to mass transfer limitation in the microporous catalysts/supports. For this, we would like to control the their physico-chemical properties to be suitable for given applications (petrochemical/refinery processes).

In parallel, adsorption and further, adsorption-assisted catalysis have been adopted for achieving the robust uses under harsh conditions including post-treatments (hydrocarbon adsorption/combustion and volatile compound removal) on the emission gas streams in the automobiles, industries (e.g., cement, steel, etc.), and power-plants.

(Please see details in the research section).

Notice: "We are currently looking for students (both master and ph.d. candidates) and post-docs, who would like to learn the fundamental principles of chemical engineering (especially, catalytic reactions, preferred adsorption, and perm-selective membranes) well. Please contact Prof. Choi (e-mail: jungkyu_choi@korea.ac.kr and office phone no.: 02-3290-4854) for detailed information"