1Q LAB’s publications reflect our commitment to rigorous, reproducible, and high-quality research in materials science, electrocatalysis, and electrochemical energy technologies. We strive to provide reliable scientific insights that advance fundamental understanding and contribute to the development of sustainable energy technologies (*denotes equal contribution, †denotes corresponding authors).
2026
S. Baek,* S. Shin,* J. Han, M. K. Nam, H. Jeon, J. Lee, M. K. Cho, S. Y. Kim, B. Shong,† I. S. Kim,† and W.-K. Lee,† “Phase-Engineered MoTex Supporting Ni(OH)2 Enables Enhanced Hydrazine Oxidation Assisted Hydrogen Production,” in preparation
M. H. Ali, W.-K. Lee, Y. Kwon,† “Phase-Field Modeling of Multi-Flake Growth and Grain-Boundary Formation in CVD-Grown 2D Materials,” submitted
B. Hur, K. Jeong, J. Park, J. Kwon, C. E. Lee, Y. Choi, J. Kang, H. Jeon, J. Park, A. Gorospe, Y. Shao-Horn, J. Hong, Y.-T. Kim, W.-K. Lee, S.-Y. Lee, K.-Y. Park, D. Lee,† “Rapid Drying Synthesis of Amorphous Solid Solutions Beyond Crystalline and Glass-Forming Compositional Limits,” Nature Communications 2026, in revision
S. Kang, J. Pyo, M. Jung, S. Park, T. Kim, H. Jeon, J. Lee, W.-K. Lee, Y.-W. Lee, S. Cha, S. Pak,† “Tunable Bandgap of Copper Sulfide via Cation Exchange as a p-Type Transparent Electrode,” Nanoscale 2026, in press
S. Han,* Y. Kweon,* H. Jeon,* J. H. Cho, J. Yim, J. Lee, J. Heo, S. Shin, S. J. Baek, M. Cho, S. Y. Kim, I. S. Kim,† M. Kim,† and W.-K. Lee,† “Amorphized and Oxidized Layered PtSe2 as an All-in-One Electrocatalytic Platform for Hydrazine-Assisted Water Splitting,” Advanced Materials 2026, in revision
J. Lee, S. Shin, S. Han, D. Lee, I. S. Kim,† W.-K. Lee,† “Beyond Monolayers: Activating Multilayer and Bulk Transition Metal Chalcogenides for Water Electrolysis,” Materials Horizons 2026, under review (invited review article)
Z. Liu,* R. M. Rasheed,* A. Rajappan, T. F. Yap, B. Jumet, R. Cisneros, Y. Song, G. Wehmeyer, W.-K. Lee, and D. J. Preston,† “Scalable Hot-Water-Repellent Superhydrophobicity,” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2026, 18, 4401
2025
P. Liu, J. Heo, H. Bong, J. Choe, H. Lee, W.-K. Lee, D. Son, J. Kang, T. Eom,† S. J. Park,† I. S. Kim,† “Functional Chalcogenide Materials for Memory and Sensing Applications,” International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing 2025, 8, 022003
S. Shin,* I. Cho,* S. Han,* J. Heo, J. Han, H. Jeon, M. Cho, D. J. Preston, I. S. Kim,† B. Shong,† and W.-K. Lee,† “Strain-Engineered Oxygen-Modified Nickel Telluride/Nickel Oxide Heterostructures for Bifunctional Alkaline Water Electrolysis,” ACS Nano 2025, 19, 51, 42796 (Highlighted as Back Cover article)
J. Han,* M. K. Nam,* S. Shin,* I. Cho, S. Hwang, H. Jeon, M. K. Cho, D. J. Preston, M. C. Hersam, I. S. Kim,† B. Shong,† and W.-K. Lee,† “Efficient and Stable Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution from MoTex/Ni(OH)2 Heterostructures,” Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025, 147, 44, 41096 (Featured on National Research Foundation of Korea)
H. Jeon,* H. J. Kwon,* J. Lee,* S. Hahn, H. Kim, J. Heo, J. Han, S. Shin, J. Park, M. K. Cho, D. J. Preston, I. S. Kim,† M. Kim,† and W.-K. Lee,† “Strain-Enabled Band Structure Engineering of Multilayer PtSe2 for Water Electrolysis under Ultralow Overpotential,” ACS Nano 2025, 19, 9107 (Featured on Hongik News)
2024
J. Park,* I. Cho,* H. Jeon,* Y. Lee, D. Lee, J. Zhang, M. K. Cho, D. J. Preston, B. Shong,† I. S. Kim,† and W.-K. Lee,† “Conversion of Layered WS2 Crystals into Mixed-Domain Electrochemical Catalysts by Plasma-Assisted Surface Reconstruction,” Advanced Materials 2024, 36, 2314031 (Featured on Hongik News, Monthly people)
D. Kang, K. Lee, H. Ryu, S. Shin, A. EG. Gorospe, S. H. Kang, W.-K. Lee, W. Shin,† and D. Lee, † “Separator-Driven Synergistic Suppression of Li Dendrite for > 2600 Cycles with Simultaneous 10C rate Capability,” Chemical Engineering Journal 2024, 483, 1, 149378.
2023
Y. Zhou,* N. Jin,* Y. Ma,* Y. Cui, L. Wang, Y. Kwon, W.-K. Lee, W. Zhang,† H. Ge,† and J. Zhang,† “Tube-Sponge-Inspired Hierarchical Electrocatalysts with Boosted Mass- and Electron Transfer for Efficient Oxygen Evolution,” Advanced Materials 2023, 35, 209500.
Y. Lee,* S. H. Lee,* S. Hahn,* J. Park, D. Lee, D. J. Preston, I. S. Kim, M. C. Hersam, Y. Kwon,† B. Shong,† and W.-K. Lee,† “Strain-Enabled Local Phase Control in Layered MoTe2 for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution,” ACS Energy Letters 2023, 8, 4716 (Featured on Hongik News, The Fact, Monthly people )
2022
J. Zhang,* Q. Li,* C. Dai,* M. Cheng, X. Hu, H.-S. Kim, H. Yang, D. J. Preston, Z. Li,† X. Zhang,† and W.-K. Lee,† “Hydrogel-Based, Dynamically Tunable Plasmonic Metasurfaces with Nanoscale Resolution,” Small 2022, 18, 205057.
D. Rhuy,* Y. Lee,* J. Y. Kim, C. Kim, Y. Kwon, D. J. Preston, I. S. Kim, T. W. Odom, K. Kang, D. Lee,† and W.-K. Lee,† “Ultraefficient Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution from Strain-Engineered, Multilayer MoS2,” Nano Letters 2022, 22, 14, 5742 (Highlighted as Front Cover article, Selected as the “most read” article, Featured on Hongik News, The Fact, 소비자가 만드는 신문)
W.-K. Lee,* D. J. Preston,* M. P. Nemitz, A. K. MacKeith, A. Nagarkar, B. Gorissen, N. Vasios, V. Sanchez, K. Bertoldi, L. Mahadevan, and G. M. Whitesides,† “A Buckling-Sheet Ring Oscillator for Electronics-free, Multimodal Locomotion,” Science Robotics 2022, 7, eabg5812 (Highlighted in a Focus article by Science Robotics: “Electronics-free soft robot has a nice ring to it,” Science Robotics 2022, 7, eabn6551).
J. A. Tracz, L. Wille, D. Pathiraja, S. V. Kendre, R. Pfisterer, E. Turett, G. T. Teran, C. K. Abrahamsson, S. E. Root, W.-K. Lee, D. J. Preston, H. J. Jiang, G. M. Whitesides, M. P. Nemitz,† “Tube-Balloon Logic for the Exploration of Fluidic Control Elements,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2022, 7, 5483-5488.
2021
J. Zhang,* W.-K. Lee,* R. Tu, D. Rhee, R. Zhao, X. Wang, X. Liu, X. Hu, X. Zhang,† T. W. Odom, and Mi Yan, “Spontaneous Formation of Ordered Magnetic Domains by Patterning Stress,” Nano Letters 2021, 21, 5430-5437.
A. Nagarkar,* W.-K. Lee,* D. J. Preston, N. Deng, G. M. Whitesides,† and L. Mahadevan,† “Elastic instability-enabled Locomotion,” PNAS 2021, 118, e2013801118 (PNAS direct submission).
PUBLICATIONS PRIOR TO JOINING HONGIK UNIVERSITY
D. Rhee,* J. T. Paci,* S. Deng, W.-K. Lee, G. C. Schatz,† and T. W. Odom,† “Soft Skin Layers Enable Area-specific, Multiscale Graphene Wrinkles with Switchable Orientations,” ACS Nano 2020, 14, 166.
D. J. Preston, H. J. Jiang, V. Sanchez, P. Rothemund, J. Rawson, M. P. Nemitz, W.-K. Lee, Z. Suo, Conor J. Walsh, and G. M. Whitesides,† “A Soft Ring Oscillator,” Science Robotics 2019, 4, eaaw 5496.
S. Deng, D. Rhee, W.-K. Lee, S. Che, B. Keisham, V. Berry, and T. W. Odom,† “Graphene Wrinkles Enable Spatially-defined Chemistry,” Nano Letters 2019, 19, 5640.
W.-K. Lee and T. W. Odom,† “Designing Hierarchical Nanostructures from Conformable and Deformable Thin Materials,” ACS Nano 2019, 13, 6170.
M. Anni,† D. Rhee and W.-K. Lee, “Random Lasing Engineering in Poly-(9-9dioctylfluorene) Active Waveguides Deposited on Wrinkle Corrugated Surfaces,” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2019, 11, 9385.
Y. Xue,* W.-K. Lee,* Jianghong Yuan, T. W. Odom,† and Y. Huang,† “Mechanics Modelling of Hierarchical Wrinkle Structures from Sequential Release of Pre-strain,” Langmuir 2018, 34, 15749.
W.-K. Lee, W.-B. Jung, D. Rhee, J. Hu, Y.-A. L. Lee, C. Jacobson, J. Hu, H.-T. Jung, and T. W. Odom,† “Monolithic Polymer Nanoridges with Programmable Wetting Transitions,” Advanced Materials 2018, 30, 1706657.
D. Wang, M. R. Bourgeois, W.-K. Lee, M. P. Kundson, R. Li, W. Wang, G. C. Schatz, and T. W. Odom,† “Stretchable Nanolasing from Hybrid Quadrupole Plasmons,” Nano Letters 2018, 18, 4549.
W.-K. Lee,* S. Yu,* C.J. Engel, D. Rhee, W. Chen,† and T. W. Odom,† “Concurrent Design of Quasi Random Photonic Nanostructures,” PNAS 2017, 114, 8734 (PNAS direct submission) (Highlighted by over 9 media reports including Northwestern Engineering News, ScienceDaily and LaserFocusWorld).
W.-B. Jung, K. M. Cho, W.-K. Lee, T. W. Odom, and H.-T. Jung,† “Universal Method to Create Hierarchical Wrinkles on Thin-Film Surfaces,” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2017, 10, 1347.
D. Rhee, W.-K. Lee, and T. W. Odom,† “Crack-free, Soft Wrinkles Enable Switchable Anisotropic Wetting,” Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2017, 56, 6523.
A. Paul, M. Stührenberg, S. Chen, D. Rhee, W.-K. Lee, T. W. Odom, S. C. Heilshorn, A. Enejder,† “Micro- & Nano-patterned Elastin-like Polypeptide Hydrogels for Patterned Stem Cell Growth,” Soft Matter 2017, 13, 5665.
J. T. Paci, C. T. Chapman, W.-K. Lee, T. W. Odom, and G. C. Schatz,† “Wrinkles in Polytetrafluoroethylene on Polystyrene: Persistence Lengths and the Effect of Nanoinclusions,” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2017, 9, 9079.
S. Yu, Y. Zhang, C. Wang, W.-K. Lee, B. Dong, C. Sun, T.W. Odom, W. Chen,† “Characterization and Design of Functional Quasi-Random Nanostructured Materials Using Spectral Density Function,”Journal of Mechanical Design 2017, 139, 07401.
W.-K. Lee,* J. Kang,* K.-S. Chen, C.J. Engel, W.-B. Jung, D. Rhee, M.C. Hersam,† and T. W. Odom,† “Multiscale, Hierarchical Patterning of Graphene using Conformal Wrinkling,” Nano Letters 2016, 16, 7121.
C.T. Chapman, J. T. Paci, W.-K. Lee, C. J. Engel, T. W. Odom, and G. C. Schatz,† “Interfacial Effects on Nanoscale Wrinkling in Gold-Covered Polystyrene,” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2016, 8, 24339.
W.-K. Lee, W.-B. Jung, S. R. Nagel, and T. W. Odom,† “Stretchable Superhydrophobicity from Monolithic, Three-Dimensional Hierarchical Wrinkles,” Nano Letters 2016, 16, 3774.
A. Yang, A. J. Hryn, M. Bourgeois, W.-K. Lee, J. Hu, G. C. Schatz, and T. W. Odom,† “Continuous and Reversible Plasmon Mode Engineering,” PNAS 2016, 113, 14201-14206 (PNAS direct submission).
W.-K. Lee, C. J. Engel, M. D. Huntington, J. Hu, and T. W. Odom,† “Controlled Three-Dimensional Hierarchical Structuring by Memory-Based, Sequential Wrinkling,” Nano Letters 2015, 15, 5624 (Highlighted by Science: “When wrinkling is a good thing,” Science, 2015, 349, 839).
For publications prior to his doctoral studies, please refer to Won-Kyu’s Curriculum Vitae.
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