Argonne National Laboratory

Sungsik Lee

Physicist

Biography

Chemical and Materials Science
X-ray Science Division 
Argonne National Laboratory

Sungsik Lee received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry from Yonsei University in Korea, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Utah. After a postdoc at Texas A&M university, he joined Argonne National Laboratory, where he is currently a physicist in the Chemical and Materials Science group (X-ray Science Division). His research interests include catalysis studies of nano-clusters on metal oxides and application of x-ray techniques (XAS, SAXS, WAXS) on nanostructured materials.

Research Interests

  • Heterogeneous catalysis of sub-nanoparticles: Investigating the local chemistry of sub-nanoparticles and their interaction with gas molecules using operando spectroscopic characterization like EXAFS and SAXS.
  • Structural characterization of nanoparticles and nanocomposite materials: Structure-activity relations in heterogeneous catalysis with emphasis on the understanding the role of active sites and size effects.
  • Development of techniques and equipment fabrication to study catalysts under dynamic reaction conditions.

Selected Publications

  1. Chukwu, E.; Molina, L.; Rapp, C.; Morales, L.; Jin, Z.; Karakalos, S.; Wang, H.; Lee, S.; Michael, J. Z.; Yang, M. Crowded Supported Metal Atoms on Catalytically Active Supports May Compromise Intrinsic Activity: A Case Study of Pt/α-MoC Catalysts, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 2023, 329, 122532.
  2. He, W.; Lin, Z.; Zhao, K.; Li, Y.; Meng, C.; Li, J.; Lee, S.; Wu, Y.; Hao, X. Interspace and Vacancy Modulation: Promoting the Zinc Storage of Alcohol-Based Organic–Inorganic Cathode in Water–Organic Electrolyte, Advanced Materials 2022, 34, 2203920.
  3. Barnes, P.; Zuo, Y.; Dixon, K.; Hou, D.; Lee, S.; Ma, Z.; Connell, J. G.; Zhou, H.; Deng, C.; Smith, K.; Gabriel, E.; Liu, Y.; Maryon, O. O.; Davis, P. H.; Zhu, H.; Du, Y.; Qi, J.; Zhu, Z.; Chen, C.; Zhu, Z.; Zhou, Y.; Simmonds, P. J.; Briggs, A. E.; Schwartz, D.; Ong, S. P.; Xiong, H. , Electrochemically induced amorphous-to-rock-salt phase transformation in niobium oxide electrode for Li-ion batteries, Nature Mater. 2022, 21, 795.
  4. Wang, L.; Liu, T.; Dai, A.; De Andrade, V.; Ren, Y.; Xu, W.; Lee, S.; Zhang, Q.; Gu, L.; Wang, S.; Wu, T.; Jin, H.; Lu, J., Reaction inhomogeneity coupling with metal rearrangement triggers electrochemical degradation in lithium-rich layered cathode. Nature Communications 2021, 12 (1), 5370.
  5. Luo, S.-X. L.; Liu, R. Y.; Lee, S.; Swager, T. M., Electrocatalytic Isoxazoline–Nanocarbon Metal Complexes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143 (27), 10441-10453.
  6. Wang, L.; Dai, A.; Xu, W.; Lee, S.; Cha, W.; Harder, R.; Liu, T.; Ren, Y.; Yin, G.; Zuo, P.; Wang, J.; Lu, J.; Wang, J., Structural Distortion Induced by Manganese Activation in a Lithium-Rich Layered Cathode. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142 (35), 14966-14973.
  7. Pattengale, B.; Huang, Y.; Yan, X.; Yang, S.; Younan, S.; Hu, W.; Li, Z.; Lee, S.; Pan, X.; Gu, J.; Huang, J., Dynamic evolution and reversibility of single-atom Ni(II) active site in 1T-MoS2 electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution. Nature Communications 2020, 11 (1), 4114.
  8. Lee, S.; Halder, A.; Ferguson, G. A.; Seifert, S.; Winans, R. E.; Teschner, D.; Schlögl, R.; Papaefthimiou, V.; Greeley, J.; Curtiss, L. A.; Vajda, S., Subnanometer cobalt oxide clusters as selective low temperature oxidative dehydrogenation catalysts. Nature Communications 2019, 10 (1), 954.
  9. Cao, S.; Yang, M.; Elnabawy, A. O.; Trimpalis, A.; Li, S.; Wang, C.; Göltl, F.; Chen, Z.; Liu, J.; Shan, J.; Li, M.; Haas, T.; Chapman, K. W.; Lee, S.; Allard, L. F.; Mavrikakis, M.; Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, M., Single-atom gold oxo-clusters prepared in alkaline solutions catalyse the heterogeneous methanol self-coupling reactions. Nature Chemistry 2019, 11, 1098-1105.
  10. Marcinkowski, M. D.; Darby, M. T.; Liu, J.; Wimble, J. M.; Lucci, F. R.; Lee, S.; Michaelides, A.; Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, M.; Stamatakis, M.; Sykes, E. C. H., Pt/Cu single-atom alloys as coke-resistant catalysts for efficient C–H activation. Nature Chemistry 2018, 10, 325-332.
  11. Shan, J.; Li, M.; Allard, L. F.; Lee, S.; Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, M., Mild oxidation of methane to methanol or acetic acid on supported isolated rhodium catalysts. Nature 2017, 551, 605.
  12. Zhou, Y.; Guan, X.; Zhou, H.; Ramadoss, K.; Adam, S.; Liu, H.; Lee, S.; Shi, J.; Tsuchiya, M.; Fong, D. D.; Ramanathan, S., Strongly correlated perovskite fuel cells. Nature 2016, 534, 231-234.
  13. Yang, M.; Li, S.; Wang, Y.; Herron, J. A.; Xu, Y.; Allard, L. F.; Lee, S.; Huang, J.; Mavrikakis, M.; Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, M., Catalytically active Au-O(OH)x- species stabilized by alkali ions on zeolites and mesoporous oxides. Science 2014, 346 (6216), 1498-1501.