Hanyang University · Engineering
Professor Seunghyun Lee's research lab specializes in the design and fabrication of advanced nanomaterials for energy conversion and biomedical sensing applications. The lab focuses on plasmonic nanostructures, such as gold bipyramids and nanorods, for label-free immunoassays and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), leveraging their tunable optical properties and high sensitivity. Additionally, the lab develops heterostructured electrocatalysts—particularly boron-doped cobalt oxide and transition metal oxides integrated with conductive carbon matrices—for efficient alkaline water splitting, targeting both oxygen and hydrogen evolution reactions. The integration of 2D materials like graphene with plasmonic nanostructures further expands their capabilities in ultrasensitive detection and catalytic performance.
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Gold nanoparticles bound to substrates exhibit localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) in their optical extinction spectra at visible and near-infrared wavelengths. The LSPR wavelength is sensitive to the surrounding refractive index, enabling a simple, label-free immunoassay when capture antibodies are bound to the nanoparticles. Gold bipyramids are nanoparticles with a penta-twinned crystal structure, which have a sharp LSPR because of their high monodispersity. Bipyramid substrates were fo
A structurally tunable 3D surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate based on vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) sputter-coated with a gold film is described. This substrate shows highly sensitive SERS signals at very low target concentrations of 4-mercaptophenol (4-MPH), down to 10 fM. Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted
Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) of gold nanorods in cetyltrimethylammonium bromide solution has been used to analyze the interfacial surfactant structure based on the distance-dependent electromagnetic enhancement. The spectra were consistent with a surfactant bilayer oriented normal to the surface. As the surfactant concentration was reduced, a structural transition in the surfactant layer was observed through a sudden increase in the signal from the alkane chains. The structural tra
Atomic layers of graphene were optomechanically laminated onto gold bipyramids (length of ∼95 ± 3 nm and sharp tip radius less than 10 nm) using laser induced shock pressure. The fabricated graphene-gold bipyramid hybrids were employed as surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)-active substrates for the detection of tetracycline, an antibiotic, at very low concentrations.
This review presents comprehensive details on recent developments in the fabrication of different amorphous–crystalline heterostructures, their compositions, and the resulting physicochemical properties for OER, HER, and overall water splitting.
Heteroatom-doped transition metal-oxides of high oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activities interfaced with metals of low hydrogen adsorption energy barrier for efficient hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) when uniformly embedded in a conductive nitrogen-doped carbon (NC) matrix, can mitigate the low-conductivity and high-agglomeration of metal-nanoparticles in carbon matrix and enhances their bifunctional activities. Thus, a 3D mesoporous heterostructure of boron (B)-doped cobalt-oxide/cobalt-me
Abstract We herein report a facile, cost‐competitive, and scalable method for producing viscoelastic conductors via one‐pot melt‐blending using polymers and supramolecular gels composed of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), diphenylamine (DP), and benzophenone (BP). When mixed, a non‐volatile eutectic liquid (EL) produced by simply blending DP with BP (1:1 molar ratio) enabled not only the gelation of CNTs (EL‐CNTs) but also the dissolution of a number of commodity polymers. To make use of these advantage
We measure the collision-rate coefficient between laser-cooled rubidium (Rb) atoms in a magneto-optical trap (MOT) and optically dark Rb${}^{+}$ ions in an overlapping Paul trap. In such a mixture, the ions are created from the MOT atoms and allowed to accumulate in the ion trap, which results in a significant reduction in the number of steady-state MOT atoms. A theoretical rate-equation model is developed to describe the evolution of the MOT atom number due to ionization and ion-atom collisions
Porous silicon nanoparticles have recently garnered attention as potentially-promising biomedical platforms for drug delivery and medical diagnostics. Here, we demonstrate porous silicon nanoparticles as contrast agents for <sup>29</sup> Si magnetic resonance imaging. Size-controlled porous silicon nanoparticles were synthesized by magnesiothermic reduction of silica nanoparticles and were surface activated for further functionalization. Particles were hyperpolarized via dynamic nuclear polariza
The interface engineering includes intricate procedures for the development of heterostructures and heterojunctions, modifying the composition at the interface, and optimizing the interfacial area to enhance H 2 catalytic performance.
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