Computational Surface Science and Catalysis Group

Eunmi Kim

Email: ekim382@wisc.edu

Education:

Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering
Penn State University

M.S. in Chemistry
UNIST(Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)

B.S. in Chemical Engineering
UNIST(Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)

Publications:

  1. “Anisotropic surface potentials induced by competitive ion adsorption enable the synthesis of branched cubic Pt mesocrystals”, Y. Bae, E. M. Kim, J. Chun, Z. Zhu, T. H. Moser, H. Zhang, J. Heo, Y. K. Shin, H. Zhou, J. E. Evans, E. C. S. Jensen, K. S. Mølhave, K. A. Fichthorn, J. J. D. Yoreo, and D. Li, Nature Communications 16, 9758 (2025). [DOI]

  2. “Patchy nanoparticles by atomic stencilling”, A. Kim*, C. Kim*, T. Waltmann*, T. Vo, E. M. Kim, J. Kim, Y. Shao, A. Michelson, J. R. Crockett, F. C. Kalutantirige, E. Yang, L. Yao, C. Hwang, Y. Zhang, Y. Liu, H. An, Z. Gao, J. Kim, S. Mandal, D. A. Muller, K. A. Fichthorn, S. C. Glotzer, and Q. Chen, Nature 646, 592 (2025). [DOI]

  3. “A Study of Cl Adsorption on Pt(111) and Pt(100) using Ab Initio Grand-Canonical Monte Carlo”, E. M. Kim, J. Kim, and K. A. Fichthorn, Surface Science 752, 122647 (2024). [DOI]

  4. “Elucidating the Role of Reduction Kinetics in the Phase-Controlled Growth on Preformed Nanocrystal Seeds: A Case Study of Ru”, Q. N. Nguyen, E. M. Kim, Y. Ding, A. Janssen, C. Wang, K. K. Li, J. Kim, K. A. Fichthorn, and Y. Xia, Journal of the American Chemical Society 146, 12040 (2024). [DOI]

  5. “Hydrogen Activation and Spillover on Anatase TiO2-Supported Ag Single-Atom Catalysts”, J. Hu, E. M. Kim, M. J. Janik, and K. Alexopoulous, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 17, 7482 (2022). [DOI]

  6. “Molecularly Engineered Carbon Platform to Anchor Edge-Hosted Single-Atomic M-N/C (M = Fe, Co, Ni, Cu) Electrocatalysts of Outstanding Durability”, W. Y. Noh, J. Mun, Y. Lee, E. M. Kim, Y. K. Kim, K. Y. Kim, H. Y. Jeong, J. H. Lee, H. Song, and G. Lee, and J. S. Lee, ACS Catalysis 13, 7994 (2022). [DOI]

  7. “Edge Functionalized Graphene Nanoribbons with Tunable Band Edges for Carrie Transport Interlayer in Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells”, E. M. Kim, S. Javaid, J. H. Park, and G. Lee, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 22, 2955 (2020). [DOI]

  8. “Immobilizing single atom catalytic sites onto highly reduced carbon host: Fe-N4/CNT as a durable oxygen reduction catalyst for Na-air batteries”, W. Y. Noh, E. M. Kim, K. Y. Kim, J. H. Kim, H. Y. Jeong, P. Sharma, G. Lee, J. Jang, S. H. Joo, and J. S. Lee, Journal of Materials Chemistry A 8, 18891 (2020). [DOI]

  9. “Multiferroicity in atomic van der Waals heterostructures”, C. Gong, E. M. Kim, Y. Wang, G. Lee, and X. Zhang, Nature Communications 10, 2657 (2019). [DOI]

  10. “Band gap tuning and excitonic effect in chloro-fluorinated graphene”, S. Javaid, M. J. Akhtar, E. M. Kim, and G. Lee, Surface Science 686, 39 (2019). [DOI]