Category: Publications

• John Hong, Byung-Sung Kim, Bo Hou, Yuljae Cho, SangHyo Lee, Sangyeon Pak, Jung Inn Morris, Stephen M. Sohn, SeungNam Cha, Plasmonic Effects of Dual-Metal Nanoparticle Layers for High-Performance Quantum Dot Solar Cells, Plasmonics (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-020-01120-y

• Dong-Wook Shin, Yo-Han Suh, Sanghyo Lee, Bo Hou, Soo Deok Han, Yuljae Cho, Xiang-Bing Fan, Sang Yun Bang, Shijie Zhan, Jiajie Yang, Hyung Woo Choi, Sungmin Jung, Felix C Mocanu, Hanleem Lee, Luigi Occhipinti, Young Tea Chun, Gehan Amaratunga, Jong Min Kim, Waterproof Flexible InP@ ZnSeS Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diode, Advanced Optical Materials (2020), 1901362.

• Geon-Hyoung An, John Hong, Sangyeon Pak, Yuljae Cho, Sanghyo Lee, Bo Hou, SeungNam Cha, Zn-Ion Supercapacitors: 2D Metal Zn Nanostructure Electrodes for High-Performance Zn Ion Supercapacitors (Adv. Energy Mater. 3/2020), Advanced Energy Materials (2020), 10: 2070010.

• Akbar I Inamdar, Harish S Chavan, Bo Hou, Chi Ho Lee, Sang Uck Lee, SeungNam Cha, Hyungsang Kim, Hyunsik Im, Electrochemical Water Splitting: A Robust Nonprecious CuFe Composite as a Highly Efficient Bifunctional Catalyst for Overall Electrochemical Water Splitting (Small 2/2020), Small (2020), 16: 2070006.

• Hang Xiang, Shahid Rasul, Bo Hou, Jose Portoles, Peter Cumpson, Eileen Hao Yu, Copper-indium binary catalyst on gas diffusion electrode for high-performance CO2 electrochemical reduction with record CO production efficiency, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2020) 12, 1, 601-608.

• Geon‐Hyoung An, John Hong, Sangyeon Pak, Yuljae Cho, Sanghyo Lee, Bo Hou, SeungNam Cha,2D Metal Zn Nanostructure Electrodes for High‐Performance Zn Ion Supercapacitors, Advanced Energy Materials (2020), 10, 1902981.

• Akbar I Inamdar, Harish S Chavan, Bo Hou, Chi Ho Lee, Sang Uck Lee, SeungNam Cha, Hyungsang Kim, Hyunsik Im, A Robust Nonprecious CuFe Composite as a Highly Efficient Bifunctional Catalyst for Overall Electrochemical Water Splitting, Small (2020),  16, 1905884.

• Sungmin Jung, Hyung Woo Choi, Felix Cosmin Mocanu, Dong-Wook Shin, Mohamed Foysol Chowdhury, Soo Deok Han, Yo-Han Suh, Yuljae Cho, Hanleem Lee, Xiangbing Fan, Sang Yun Bang, Shijie Zhan, Jiajie Yang, Bo Hou, Young Tea Chun, Sanghyo Lee, Luigi Giuseppe Occhipinti, Jong Min Kim, Modeling electrical percolation to optimize the electromechanical properties of cnt/polymer composites in Highly Stretchable fiber Strain Sensors, Scientific Reports (2019) 9, 20376.

• Shijie Zhan, Soodeok Han, Sang Yun Bang, Benxuan Li, Young Tea Chun, Bo Hou*, Jong Min Kim, Hybrid Passivation for Foldable Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide Thin‐Film Transistors Mediated by Low Temperature and Low Damage Parylene‐C/ALD‐AlOx Coating, physica status solidi (a) (2019), doi:10.1002/pssa.201900832.

• Yang Hong, Bo Hou, Hengle Jiang, Jingchao Zhang, Machine Learning and Artificial Neural Network Accelerated Computational Discoveries in Materials Science, WIREs Computational Molecular Science (2019), e1450.

• Juwon Lee, Sangyeon Pak, Young-Woo Lee, Youngsin Park, A-Rang Jang, John Hong, Yuljae Cho, Bo Hou, Sanghyo    Lee, Hu Young Jeong, Hyeon Suk Shin, Stephen M Morris, SeungNam Cha, Jung Inn Sohn, Jong Min Kim, Direct Epitaxial Synthesis of Selective Two-Dimensional Lateral Heterostructures, ACS nano (2019) 13 (11), 13047-13055.

• Zesheng Zhang, Yang Hong, Bo Hou, Zhongtao Zhang, Mehrdad Negahban, Jingchao Zhang, Accelerated discoveries of mechanical properties of graphene using machine learning and high-throughput computation, Carbon (2019), 148, 115-123.

• Bo Hou* (Editorial), Colloidal Quantum Dots: The Artificial Building Blocks for New‐Generation Photo‐Electronics and Photochemistry, Israel Journal of Chemistry (2019), 59, 637 – 638.

• Bo Hou, Su-Ho Jung, Jingchao Zhang, Yang Hong, Byung-Sung Kim, Jung Inn Sohn, Eun Kyung Lee, Byoung Lyong Choi, Dongmok Whang, SeungNam Cha, Jong Min Kim, Growth of quantum dot coated core-shell anisotropic nanowires for improved thermal and electronic transport, Applied Physics Letters (2019) 114, 243104.

• Bo Hou, Myungbeom Sohn, Young-Woo Lee, Jingchao Zhang, JungInn Sohn, Hansu Kim, SeungNam Cha, JongMin Kim,Chemically encoded self-organized quantum chains supracrystals with exceptional charge and ion transport properties, Nano Energy (2019), 62, 764-771.

• Abu Talha Aqueel Ahmed, Bo Hou, Akbar I. Inamdar, SeungNam Cha, Hyungsang Kim, Hyunsik Im, Morphology Engineering of Self‐Assembled Nanostructured CuCo2O4 Anodes for Lithium‐Ion Batteries, Energy Technology, 7, 1900295.

• Yuljae Cho, Sangyeon Pak, Geon‐Hyoung An, Bo Hou*, SeungNam Cha*, Quantum Dots for Hybrid Energy Harvesting: From Integration to Piezo‐phototronics, Israel Journal of Chemistry (2019), 59, 747.

• Xiang‐Bing Fan, Shan Yu, Bo Hou*, Jong Min Kim, Quantum Dots Based Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution, Israel Journal of Chemistry (2019), 59, 762.

• Sambhaji M Pawar, Bharati S Pawar, Pravin T Babar, Abu Talha Aqueel Ahmed, Harish S Chavan, Yongcheol Jo, Sangeun Cho, Jongmin Kim, Bo Hou, Akbar I Inamdar, SeungNam Cha, Jin Hyeok Kim, Tae Geun Kim, Hyungsang Kim, Hyunsik Im, Nanoporous CuCo2O4 nanosheets as a highly efficient bifunctional electrode for supercapacitors and water oxidation catalysis, Applied Surface Science (2019), 470, 360-367.

• SM Pawar, BS Pawar, Bo Hou, ATA Ahmed, HS Chavan, Yongcheol Jo, Sangeun Cho, Jongmin Kim, Jiwoo Seo, SeungNam Cha, AI Inamdar, Hyungsang Kim, Hyunsik Im, Facile electrodeposition of high-density CuCo₂O₄ nanosheets as a high-performance Li-ion battery anode material, Journal of industrial and engineering chemistry (2019), 69, 13-17.

• Mingxia Lu, Gang Wang, Bo Li, Jing Chen, Jingchao Zhang, Zhe Li, Bo Hou*, Molecular Interactions Balanced One-and Two-Dimensional Hybrid Nanoarchitectures for High-Performance Supercapacitors, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2019), 21, 22283-22292.

• Yuljae Cho, Paul Giraud, Bo Hou, Young‐Woo Lee, John Hong, Sanghyo Lee, Sangyeon Pak, Juwon Lee, Jae Eun Jang, Stephen M Morris, Jung Inn Sohn, SeungNam Cha, Jong Min Kim, Charge Transport Modulation of a Flexible Quantum Dot Solar Cell Using a Piezoelectric Effect, Advanced Energy Materials (2018), 8 (3), 1700809.

• Jayavant L Gunjakar, Bo Hou, Akbar I Inamdar, Sambhaji M Pawar, Abu Talha Aqueel Ahmed, Harish S Chavan, Jongmin Kim, Sangeun Cho, Seongwoo Lee, Yongcheol Jo, Seong‐Ju Hwang, Tae Geun Kim, SeungNam Cha, Hyungsang Kim, Hyunsik Im, Two‐Dimensional Layered Hydroxide Nanoporous Nanohybrids Pillared with Zero‐Dimensional Polyoxovanadate Nanoclusters for Enhanced Water Oxidation Catalysis, Small (2018), 14, 1703481.

• Sangyeon Pak, Yuljae Cho, John Hong, Juwon Lee, Sanghyo Lee, Bo Hou, Geon-Hyoung An, Young-Woo Lee, Jae Eun Jang, Hyunsik Im, Stephen M Morris, Jung Inn Sohn, SeungNam Cha, Jong Min Kim, Consecutive Junction-Induced Efficient Charge Separation Mechanisms for High-Performance MoS₂/Quantum Dot Phototransistors, ACS applied materials & interfaces (2018), 10, 44, 38264-38271.

• Akbar I Inamdar, Abu Talha Aqueel Ahmed, Harish S Chavan, Yongcheol Jo, Sangeun Cho, Jongmin Kim, Sambhaji M Pawar, Bo Hou, SeungNam Cha, Hyungsang Kim, Hyunsik Im, Influence of operating temperature on Li₂ZnTi₃O₈ anode performance and high-rate charging activity of Li-ion battery, Ceramics International (2018), 44 (15), 18625-18632.

• Harish S Chavan, Bo Hou, Abu Talha Aqueel Ahmed, Yongcheol Jo, Sangeun Cho, Jongmin Kim, Sambhaji M Pawar, SeungNam Cha, Akbar I Inamdar, Hyunsik Im, Hyungsang Kim, Nanoflake NiMoO₄ based smart supercapacitor for intelligent power balance monitoring, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells (2018), 185, 166-173.

• Haige Wang, Bo Hou, Yang Yang, Qianwang Chen, Meifang Zhu, Arne Thomas, Yaozu Liao, Cobalt Nanocrystals Encapsulated in Heteroatom‐Rich Porous Carbons Derived from Conjugated Microporous Polymers for Efficient Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution, Small (2018), 14, 1803232.

• Hyunsik Im Harish S. Chavan, Bo Hou, Abu Talha Aqueel Ahmed, Jongmin Kim, Yongcheol Jo, Sangeun Cho, Youngsin Park, Sambhaji M. Pawar, Akbar I. Inamdar, Seung Nam Cha, Hyungsang Kim, Ultrathin Ni-Mo oxide nanoflakes for high-performance supercapacitor electrodes, Journal of Alloys and Compounds (2018), 767, 782-788.

• Abu Talha Aqueel Ahmed, Bo Hou, Harish S. Chavan, Yongcheol Jo, Sangeun Cho, Jongmin Kim, Sambhaji M. Pawar, SeungNam Cha, Akbar I. Inamdar, Hyungsang Kim, Hyunsik Im, Self‐Assembled Nanostructured CuCo2O4 for Electrochemical Energy Storage and the Oxygen Evolution Reaction via Morphology Engineering, Small (2018), 14, 1800742.

• Sangeun Cho, Seongwoo Lee, Bo Hou, Jongmin Kim, Yongcheol Jo, Hyeonseok Woo, Sambhaji M Pawar, Akbar I Inamdar, Youngsin Park, SeungNam Cha, Hyungsang Kim, Hyunsik Im, Optimizing nanosheet nickel cobalt oxide as an anode material for bifunctional electrochemical energy storage and oxygen electrocatalysis, Electrochimica Acta (2018), 274, 279-287.

• Yuljae Cho, Bo Hou, Jongchul Lim, Sanghyo Lee, Sangyeon Pak, John Hong, Paul Giraud, A-Rang Jang, Young-Woo Lee, Juwon Lee, Jae Eun Jang, Henry J Snaith, Stephen M Morris, Jung Inn Sohn, SeungNam Cha, Jong Min Kim, Balancing Charge Carrier Transport in a Quantum Dot P–N Junction toward Hysteresis-Free High-Performance Solar Cells, ACS energy letters (2018), 3, 4, 1036-1043.

• Paul Giraud, Bo Hou, Sangyeon Pak, Jung Inn Sohn, Stephen M. Morris, SeungNam Cha, Jong Min Kim, Field effect transistors and phototransistors based upon p-type solution-processed PbS nanowires, Nanotechnology (2018), 29 075202.

• Yuljae Cho, Sanghyo Lee, John Hong, Sangyeon Pak, Bo Hou, Young-Woo Lee, Jae Eun Jang, Hyunsik Im, Jung Inn Sohn, SeungNam Cha, Jong Min Kim, Sustainable hybrid energy harvester based on air stable quantum dot solar cells and triboelectric nanogenerator, Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2018) 6, 12440-12446. 

• Jayavant L Gunjakar, Akbar I Inamdar, Bo Hou, SeungNam Cha, SM Pawar, AA Abu Talha, Harish S Chavan, Jongmin Kim, Sangeun Cho, Seongwoo Lee, Yongcheol Jo, Hyungsang Kim, Hyunsik Im, Direct growth of 2D nickel hydroxide nanosheets intercalated with polyoxovanadate anions as a binder-free supercapacitor electrode, Nanoscale (2018) 10, 8953-8961.

• Yuljae Cho, Paul Giraud, Bo Hou, Young‐Woo Lee, John Hong, Sanghyo Lee, Sangyeon Pak, Juwon Lee, Jae Eun Jang, Stephen M Morris, Jung Inn Sohn, SeungNam Cha, Jong Min Kim, Charge Transport Modulation of a Flexible Quantum Dot Solar Cell Using a Piezoelectric Effect (2018), Advanced Energy Materials, 8, 1700809.

• Bo Hou, Yuljae Cho, Byung-Sung Kim, Docheon Ahn, Sanghyo Lee, Jong Bae Park, Young-Woo Lee, John Hong, Hyunsik Im, Stephen M Morris, Jung Inn Sohn, SeungNam Cha, Jong Min Kim, Red green blue emissive lead sulfide quantum dots: heterogeneous synthesis and applications, Journal of Materials Chemistry C (2017), 5 (15), 3692-3698.

• Sambhaji M Pawar, Bharati S Pawar, Bo Hou, Jongmin Kim, Abu Talha Aqueel Ahmed, Harish S Chavan, Yongcheol Jo, Sangeun Cho, Akbar I Inamdar, Jayavant L Gunjakar, Hyungsang Kim, SeungNam Cha, Hyunsik Im, Self-assembled two-dimensional copper oxide nanosheet bundles as an efficient oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalyst for water splitting applications, Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2017), 5 (25), 12747-12751.

• Akbar I. Inamdar, Jongmin Kim, Yongcheol Jo, Hyeonseok Woo, Sangeun Cho, Sambhaji M. Pawar, Seongwoo Lee, Jayavant L. Gunjakar, Yuljae Cho, Bo Hou, SeungNam Cha, Jungwon Kwak, Youngsin Park, Hyungsang Kim, Hyunsik Im, Highly efficient electro-optically tunable smart-supercapacitors using an oxygen-excess nanograin tungsten oxide thin film, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells (2017), 166, 78-85.

• Rajkumar Patel, Akbar I Inamdar, Bo Hou, SeungNam Cha, Abu Talha Ansari, Jayavant L Gunjakar, Hyunsik Im, Hyungsang Kim, Solvothermal synthesis of high-performance Ni-Co layered double hydroxide nanofoam electrode for electrochemical energy storage, Current Applied Physics, 17 (4), 501-506.

• Young-Woo Lee, Byung-Sung Kim, John Hong, Heechae Choi, Hyun-Sik Jang, Bo Hou, Sangyeon Pak, Juwon Lee, Sang-Hyo Lee, Stephen M Morris, Dongmok Whang, Jin-Pyo Hong, Hyeon Suk Shin, SeungNam Cha, Jung Inn Sohn, Jong Min Kim, Hierarchically assembled tubular shell-core-shell heterostructure of hybrid transition metal chalcogenides for high-performance supercapacitors with ultrahigh cyclability, Nano Energy (2017), 37, 15-23.

• John Hong, Young-Woo Lee, Docheon Ahn, Sangyeon Pak, Juwon Lee, A-Rang Jang, Sanghyo Lee, Bo Hou, Yuljae Cho, Stephen M Morris, Hyeon Suk Shin, SeungNam Cha, Jung Inn Sohn, Jong Min Kim, Highly stable 3D porous heterostructures with hierarchically-coordinated octahedral transition metals for enhanced performance supercapacitors, Nano Energy (2017), 39, 337-345.

• Akbar I Inamdar, Jongmin Kim, Yongcheol Jo, Hyeonseok Woo, Sangeun Cho, Sambhaji M Pawar, Seongwoo Lee, Jayavant L Gunjakar, Yuljae Cho, Bo Hou, Seung Nam Cha, Jungwon Kwak, Youngsin Park, Hyungsang Kim, Hyunsik Im, Dataset on electro-optically tunable smart-supercapacitors based on oxygen-excess nanograin tungsten oxide thin film, Data in brief (2017), 14, 453-457.

• Lee A Burton, Thomas J Whittles, David Hesp, Wojciech M Linhart, Jonathan M Skelton, Bo Hou, Richard F Webster, Graeme O’Dowd, Christian Reece, David Cherns, David J Fermin, Tim D Veal, Vin R Dhanak, Aron Walsh, Electronic and optical properties of single crystal SnS 2: an earth-abundant disulfide photocatalyst, Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2016), 4 (4), 1312-1318.

• John Hong, Bo Hou, Jongchul Lim, Sangyeon Pak, Byung-Sung Kim, Yuljae Cho, Juwon Lee, Young-Woo Lee, Paul Giraud, Sanghyo Lee, Jong Bae Park, Stephen M Morris, Henry J Snaith, Jung Inn Sohn, SeungNam Cha, Jong Min Kim, Enhanced charge carrier transport properties in colloidal quantum dot solar cells via organic and inorganic hybrid surface passivation, Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2016), 4(48), 18769-18775.

• Bo Hou, Yuljae Cho, Byung Sung Kim, John Hong, Jong Bae Park, Se Jin Ahn, Jung Inn Sohn, SeungNam Cha, Jong Min Kim, Highly Monodispersed PbS Quantum Dots for Outstanding Cascaded-Junction Solar Cells, ACS Energy Letters (2016) 1, 834–839.

• Byung-Sung Kim, Darren CJ Neo, Bo Hou, Jong Bae Park, Yuljae Cho, Nanlin Zhang, John Hong, Sangyeon Pak, Sanghyo Lee, Jung Inn Sohn, Hazel E Assender, Andrew AR Watt, SeungNam Cha, Jong Min Kim, High performance PbS quantum dot/graphene hybrid solar cell with efficient charge extraction, ACS applied materials & interfaces (2016), 8 (22), 13902-13908.

• John Hong, Young-Woo Lee, Bo Hou, Wonbae Ko, Juwon Lee, Sangyeon Pak, JinPyo Hong, Stephen M Morris, SeungNam Cha, Jung Inn Sohn, Jong Min Kim, Solubility-Dependent NiMoO4 Nanoarchitectures: Direct Correlation between Rationally Designed Structure and Electrochemical Pseudokinetics, ACS applied materials & interfaces (2016), 8(51), 35227-35234.

• Nessrin Kattan, Bo Hou, David J Fermín, David Cherns, Crystal structure and defects visualization of Cu2ZnSnS4 nanoparticles employing transmission electron microscopy and electron diffraction, Applied Materials Today (2015)1 (1), 52-59.

• Bo Hou, Synthesis and electrochemical study of binary, ternary and quaternary semiconductor nanoparticle, PhD Thesis (2014) University of Bristol.

• Bo Hou, David Benito-Alifonso, Richard Webster, David Cherns, M Carmen Galan, David J Fermín, Rapid phosphine-free synthesis of CdSe quantum dots: promoting the generation of Se precursors using a radical initiator, Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2014), 2 (19)6879-6886.

• David Benito‐Alifonso, Shirley Tremel, Bo Hou, Harriet Lockyear, Judith Mantell, David J Fermin, Paul Verkade, Monica Berry, M Carmen Galan, Lactose as a “Trojan horse” for quantum dot cell transport, Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2014), 53 (3), 810-814.

• Bo Hou, David Parker, Gabriela P Kissling, Jonathan A Jones, David Cherns, David J Fermín, Structure and Band Edge Energy of Highly Luminescent CdSe1–xTex Alloyed Quantum Dots, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 117(13), 6814-6820.

• Bo Hou, David Benito‐Alifonso, Nessrin Kattan, David Cherns, M Carmen Galan, David J Fermín, Initial Stages in the Formation of Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 Nanoparticles, Chemistry–A European Journal, 19 (47), 15847-15851.

Bo Hou, Yongjun Liu, Yanjuan Li, Bo Yuan, Mingfen Jia, Fengzhi Jiang, Evolvement of soft templates in surfactant/cosurfactant system for shape control of ZnSe nanocrystals, Materials Science and Engineering: B (2012), 117, 411-415.

• Yiyun Zhao, Bo Hou, Zhjie Tang, Xuexi Li, Yunjun Yang, Application of ultrasonics to enhance the efficiency of cleaning Thelephora ganbajun, Ultrasonics sonochemistry (2009) 16 (2), 209-211

• Bo Hou, Yanjuan Li, Yongjun Liu, Bo Yuan, Mingfen Jia, Fengzhi Jiang, A simple way of  shape-controlled synthesis of ZnSe nanocrystals: nanodots, nanoflowers, and  nanotubes, CrystEngComm (2009), 11 (9), 1789-1792