Prof. Chun-Hong KuoTaiwan
Department of Applied Chemistry, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
| 2021 to present | | Associate Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University |
| 2103 - 2020 | | Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica |
| 2020 - 2021 | | Associate Research Fellow, Institue of Chemistry, Academia Sinica |
| 2020 - 2012 | | Postdotoral Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Boston College |
| 2012 - 2013 | | Postdotoral Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley |
| 2018 | | Excellent Young Chemist Award of Chinese Chemical Society Located in Taipei |
| 2019 | | Ta-You Wu Memorial Award, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan |
| 2026 | | Shui-Mu Foundation of Chemistry Outstanding Young Scholar Award |
Nanoarchitectonics, Heterogeneous Catalysis, Nanoplasmonic Sensing
Prof. Chun-Hong Kuo received his BS in chemistry at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in 2002 and MS in chemistry at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in Taiwan in 2004. Finishing one-and-a-half-year mandatory military service (2004-2006), he went on his PhD degree in chemistry under the supervision of Professor Michael H. Huang at NTHU for three years. Afterwards, he joined Professor Chia-Kuang (Frank) Tsung's research team at Boston College (BC) in August 2010 to start his first 2-year postdoc life (2010-2012). In 2012 fall, he became the joint postdoc working for Professor Gabor Somorjai (UC Berkeley) and Professor Frank Tsung (BC) in ALS at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) from 2012 Oct to 2013 Sep. He began his academic career in the Institute of Chemistry in Academia Sinica as an assitant Research Fellow from 2013 Nov to 2021 July. Since 2021 August, he has moved to National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, as Associate Professor in Department of Applied Chemistry.
Harnessing Transformation of Metal-Ligand Coordination in Dinuclear Ni(II)-Schiff Base Coordination Polymer for Promoting Electrochemical Oxygen Evolution
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Applications of Synchrotron Radiation in Catalysis/TBA
One of the major challenges in overall water splitting is improving the sluggish kinetics of the anodic oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Various 3d transition metal oxides, hydroxides, and complexes have been investigated as cost-effective OER electrocatalysts. Herein, a novel type of Ni-based coordination polymer, [Ni2(tmd)2]n, containing six-coordinate Ni centers (two Ni–O and four Ni–N bonds) was synthesized. It acts as a pre-catalyst for alkaline OER, undergoing structural transformation in KOH into [Ni2(tmd)2]n-OH with five-coordinate Ni centers, and further into the catalytically active state [Ni2(tmd)2]n-CV after 150 cycles of cyclic voltammetry (CV). Under Fe-depleted alkaline conditions (KOH, pH = 13.8), [Ni2(tmd)2]n-CV exhibited outstanding OER performance, with overpotentials of η10 = 222 mV and η50 = 385 mV, a Tafel slope of 94.15 mV/dec, and a charge-transfer resistance (Rct) of 3.1 Ω, lower than those of NiPc, RuO2, and NiO. The catalyst also manifested excellent durability, with only a 6.1% drop in current density after 100 hours of operation. X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopies revealed its structural changes at different applied potentials. These changes are attributed to adsorption of oxygen species at the five-coordinate Ni sites, potentially associated with Ni–OOH intermediates forming during OER.