Principal investigator

Assistant Professor, Woo-Jin Song (송우진)

¹Department of Organic Materials Engineering, ²Department of Polymer Science & Engineering,

³Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, Chungnam Nationa University

Email: wjsong@cnu.ac.kr, Office: +82-42-821-6669

  • Professional Experiences

2020 – Present, Assistant Professor, Depratment of Organic Materials Engineering, Chungnam National University

2019 – 2020, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University (PI: Zhenan Bao)

2018 – 2019, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, POSTECH (PI: Unyong Jeong)

  • Education

2013 – 2018, Ph.D. in School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, UNIST (PI: Soojin Park)

2005 – 2013, B.S. in Department of Chemical Engineering, Soongsil University

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Honor & Award


n  2017: Outstanding Graduate Student Award for Excellent, UNIST

n  2018: Oral presentation award, the spring meeting of the Polymer Society of Korea

n  2018: Outstanding Graduate Student Award, UNIST

n  2019: TCI excellent polymer research award, Fall meeting of the Polymer Society of Korea

n  2022: Miwon Young Sientist Award, Fall meeting of the Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry

Selected Papers (first & corresponding authors)


n  Self-assembled protective layer by symmetric ionic liquid for long-cycling lithium-metal batteries, Advaned Energy Materials, 2022 

n  Stretchable battery printed circuit board for stand-alone stretchable electronics, Advaned Functional Materials, 2020 (Front Cover)

n  Design of janus-faced electrode for highly stretchable zinc-silver batteries, Advaned Functional Materials, 2020

n  A game changer: functional nano/micro materials for smart rechargeable batteries, Advaned Functional Materials, 2020

n  Stretchable batteries with gradient multilayer conductors, Science Advances, 2019

n  Metamorphosis of seaweeds into multitalented materials for energy storage applications, Advanced Energy Materials, 2019 (Front Cover)

n  Stretchable aqueous batteries: progress and perspective, ACS Energy Letters, 2019 (Most read articles 2019)

n  Highly stretchable separator membrane for deformable energy storage devices, Advanced Energy Materials, 2018 (Front Cover)

n  Jabuticaba-inspired hybrid carbon filler/polymer electrode for use in highly stretchable aqueous Li-ion batteries, Advanced Energy Materials, 2018 

n  Foldable electrode architectures based on SiNW-wound or CNT-webbed fibers of PET mats for flexible batteries, Advanced Materials, 2018 (Front cover)