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Chan Kim

Catalysis + Reactor Systems, Code, and Economics

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A researcher who works across four axes

Research

Schematic — coming soon
  • Materials
  • Systems
  • Code

Photothermal NH₃ Decomposition

Designing and building the reactor system for plasmon-enhanced photothermal ammonia decomposition, from catalyst to control electronics. The one case where the tools and the research are the same story.

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Schematic — coming soon
  • Systems
  • Materials
  • Economics

Sodium Borohydride Platform

A five-study arc on acid-mediated NaBH₄ hydrolysis, from on-board generation to a 500-bar, compressor-free charging system — first author, CEJ 2025. Publicly demonstrated at ADEX 2025.

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Schematic — coming soon
  • Materials

Formic Acid / Formate Dehydrogenation

Operando pH tracking inside the reactor located the acid–formate ratio that maximizes H₂ output — co-first author, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2022.

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Schematic — coming soon
  • Economics

LOHC & Hydrogen Economics

Techno-economic assessment of hydrogen refueling and compression, built on HDSAM — the same economics thinking that won grand prize at a national mobility idea contest.

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Publications

  • 2025
    High-Pressure, Grid-Independent Hydrogen Generation via Chemical Hydride Hydrolysis: Demonstration and Deployment StrategiesFirst author
    Chemical Engineering Journal

    From lab bench to a working high-pressure, grid-independent hydrogen generator.

  • 2022
    Strategy for Efficient H₂ Production from a Mixture of Formic Acid and Formate using Operando pH MeasurementsCo-first author
    ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

    Real-time pH tracking inside the reactor located the acid–formate ratio that maximizes H₂ output.

  • 2025
    Promoter-guided reaction intermediate dynamics enhance perhydro-benzyltoluene dehydrogenationCo-author
    ACS Catalysis

    How promoter atoms steer reaction intermediates in LOHC dehydrogenation over Pt.

  • 2026
    Dependence of catalytic properties of strongly supported platinum clusters with atom countsCo-author
    Science

    How the catalytic behavior of supported platinum clusters changes atom by atom.

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Tools I built for the research

  • get-ASAPGmail-to-Notion literature radar tracking 85+ journals across 7 publishers.View repo
  • paper-autodownAI pipeline that triages paper candidates, fetches subscription PDFs, and files them into Zotero and a knowledge graph.
  • research-workbenchLocal MCP server that cross-checks research claims against a paper knowledge graph, with citations traced back to Zotero.
  • lat-pipelineAutomated collection, classification, and analysis of lab experiment data, from Google Drive to Notion.
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Hi there

I work on making hydrogen practical — chemical hydride systems, liquid organic carriers, and photothermal ammonia decomposition — at Seoul National University and KIST. Along the way I build the software that runs the research: pipelines that read the literature, file the papers, and analyze the data, so more of my time goes to the chemistry.

Now working on plasmon-enhanced photothermal ammonia decomposition. Always happy to talk hydrogen, catalysis, or the tools that make research move faster — feel free to drop me a line.

Analytical Toolkit

  • XPSmain operator — CO-purification patent
  • in-situ DRIFTSScience 2026, BN methane oxidation
  • GC-FID / GC-TCDbattery cathode papers
  • Plug-flow reactorsSBH high-pressure platform
  • Operando pHACS Sus. Chem. Eng. 2022
  • TEA (HDSAM)LOHC & hydrogen economics case

Experience & Education

  • 2024 – nowPhD Candidate · Seoul National University (Jungwon Park Lab) × KIST
  • 2023 – 2024Research Intern · KIST Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Research Center
  • 2021 – 2023M.S., KHU-KIST Convergence Science & Technology · Kyung Hee University
  • 2015 – 2021B.S., Chemistry · Kyung Hee University

11 publications (2 first-author) · 1 patent · 8 research tools · 2 awards

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Chan Kim — portrait