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  1. Single-Molecule Architecture Engineering of n-type Host-Fused Multi-Resonance Emitters: Realizing Zero-Radius Intramolecular Energy Transfer in Exciplex-based OLEDs

    Article • January 2026, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  2. Deuterium Effect of Dinuclear Pt(II) Complex in Prolonging Operational Lifetime of OLEDs

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, December 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  3. Unexpected role of the substitutional effect of Si, Ge, and Sn on the electronic and photophysical properties of spirofluorene-based Pt(II) complex

    Article • Dyes and Pigments, August 2025, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  4. Multiple Donor Modification of Boron‐Based Emitters to Produce Aggregation‐Induced Emission and Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence for Blue OLEDs

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, January 2025, Wiley

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  5. In situ molecular passivation for improved performance and spectral stability in thermally evaporated pure blue perovskite light-emitting diodes

    Article • Industrial Chemistry and Materials, January 2025, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  6. Unveiling the role of external electric field on the charge transport and excited-state properties of high T1 host for blue OLED devices

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, December 2024, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  7. Blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence excimers with high external quantum efficiency and accelerated reverse intersystem crossing

    Article • Chemical Engineering Journal, October 2024, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  8. Superbly Efficient and Stable Ultrapure Blue Phosphorescent Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes with Tetradentate Pt(II) Complex with Vibration Suppression Effect

    Article • Advanced Materials, September 2024, Wiley

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  9. Non-conventional exciplex system by leveraging zero-radius of intramolecular energy transfer mechanism: Seamless integration of p-host and fluorescent dopant for highly efficient OLEDs

    Article • Chemical Engineering Journal, July 2024, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  10. Deterioration of Li-doped phenanthroline-based charge generation layer for tandem organic light-emitting diodes

    Article • Journal of Information Display, May 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  11. Comparative study of TDDFT and TDDFT-based STEOM-DLPNO-CCSD calculations for predicting the excited-state properties of MR-TADF

    Article • Heliyon, May 2024, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  12. Highly efficient white organic Light-Emitting diodes utilizing intermolecular interaction based on molecular geometry between host and deep blue Pt(Ⅱ) complex

    Article • Chemical Engineering Journal, May 2024, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  13. Multifunctional Deep-Blue Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Based on an Oxygen-Bridged Boron Acceptor for Highly Efficient Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, April 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  14. Anthracene derivatives with strong spin–orbit coupling and efficient high-lying reverse intersystem crossing beyond the El-Sayed rule

    Article • Materials Horizons, January 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  15. Exploring an Adequate DFT Functional to Accurately Describe the Singlet Excited State Properties in HLCT Materials: A Benchmark Study

    Article • Advanced Theory and Simulations, October 2023, Wiley

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  16. Exceeding 10 000 h of Lifetime in Blue Fluorescent Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes by Introducing an Electron Leakage Pathway

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, August 2023, Wiley

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  17. Unraveling the injection barrier between electrode and organic layer in OLED device: A theoretical prediction model

    Article • Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, August 2023, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  18. Unraveling the role of the external electric field on the photo-physical properties of thermally activated delayed fluorescence

    Article • Materials Today Chemistry, June 2023, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  19. Integration of Exciton Donor and Acceptor in a Blue‐Emitting Molecule with Zero Radius of Intramolecular Energy Transfer Mechanism for Highly Efficient and Stable Fluorescent OLEDs

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, April 2023, Wiley

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  20. Unraveling the complexation effect of electron transporting materials with Liq on the charge transport properties: A theoretical perspective

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, January 2023, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  21. Unraveling the Injection Barrier between Electrode and Organic Layer in Oled Device: A Theoretical Prediction Model

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  22. More than 25,000 h device lifetime in blue phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes via fast triplet up-conversion of n-type hosts with sub μs triplet exciton lifetime

    Article • Chemical Engineering Journal, December 2022, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  23. Superbly long lifetime over 13,000 h for multiple energy transfer channels in deep blue phosphorescence organic light-emitting diodes with Ir complex under CIEy of 0.17

    Article • Chemical Engineering Journal, November 2022, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  24. Insight into understanding the photo-chemical stability of bis-tridentate Ir(III) phosphors: A theoretical perspective

    Article • Dyes and Pigments, May 2022, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  25. Interrelationship between non-linear efficiency characteristics and deformation of efficiency curves by exciton formation in electron blocking layer in fluorescent OLEDs

    Article • Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, April 2022, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  26. Exceptionally stable blue phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes

    Article • Nature Precedings, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  27. A systematic investigation to unravel the primary determinant of the operational stability of blue fluorescent organic light-emitting diodes

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2022, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  28. Unprecedentedly Long Lifetime Over 13,000 H for Multiple Energy Transfer Channels in Deep Blue Phosphorescence Organic Light-Emitting Diodes with IR Complex Under Ciey of 0.17

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2022, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  29. 25‐3: Machine‐Learning‐Assisted Materials Discovery of Blue Emitter for More Efficient and Durable OLED Device

    Article • SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, May 2021, Wiley

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  30. Extremely superb efficiency and lifetime of deep blue phosphorescent OLEDs by introducing a hypsochromic emissive intermolecular complex (HEIC) with a negligibly small ΔEST and fast reverse intersystem crossing rate

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  31. New design strategy for chemically-stable blue phosphorescent materials: improving the energy gap between the T1 and 3MC states

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  32. The nature of electronic and carrier transport properties of M-(quinolate)2 complexes (M = Be, Mg, Ca, and Sr): A computational study

    Article • Organic Electronics, December 2020, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  33. 48‐4: Toward the Achieving Excellent Longevity of Blue OLED Device: A Computation Study on Importance of the Co‐optimization of Material and Device

    Article • SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, August 2020, Wiley

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  34. A Silane‐Based Bipolar Host with High Triplet Energy for High Efficiency Deep‐Blue Phosphorescent OLEDs with Improved Device Lifetime

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, May 2020, Wiley

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  35. The key role of acceptor moieties on the structural and the electronic properties of thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters in excited states: A computational study

    Article • Organic Electronics, March 2020, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  36. Key host parameters for long lifetimes in phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes: bond dissociation energy in triplet excited state

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  37. Unveiling the Root Cause of the Efficiency-Lifetime Trade-Off in Blue Fluorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

    Article • Electronic Materials Letters, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  38. Signatures of Through‐Space Charge Transfer in Two‐Photon Absorption of Paracyclophane Derivatives

    Article • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society, October 2019, Wiley

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  39. Discovering new M-quinolate materials: theoretical insight into understanding the charge transport, electronic, self-aggregation properties in M-quinolate materials (M = Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Cu, Ag, and Au)

    Article • Journal of Materials Science, April 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  40. Design of efficient non-doped blue emitters: toward the improvement of charge transport

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  41. Theoretically Predicted New Multicyclic Compound by Stilbene Dimer

    Article • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society, October 2018, Wiley

    KYUNGYUP BAEK, Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  42. Trigraphene and its Derivates: A Novel Carbon Allotrope

    Article • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society, September 2018, Wiley

    KYUNGYUP BAEK, Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  43. Desolvation and decomposition of metal (Mn, Co and Ni)–ethylene carbonate complexes: Relevance to battery performance

    Article • Computational Materials Science, January 2014, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  44. Instant Visual Detection of Picogram Levels of Trinitrotoluene by Using Luminescent Metal–Organic Framework Gel‐Coated Filter Paper

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, November 2013, Wiley

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  45. Remarkable Reinforcement of a Supramolecular Gel Constructed by Heteroditopic [18]Crown-6-Based Molecular Recognition

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, January 2013, Wiley

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  46. Enhancement of the hydrogen storage capacity of Mg(AlH4)2by excess electrons: a DFT study

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  47. Fluoropropane sultone as an SEI-forming additive that outperforms vinylene carbonate

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry A, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Hochun Lee, Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  48. Facile synthesis and characterization of iridium(iii) complexes containing an N-ethylcarbazole–thiazole main ligand using a tandem reaction for solution processed phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  49. Investigation on the existence of optimum interlayer distance for H2 uptake using pillared-graphene oxide

    Article • International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, October 2012, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  50. A joint experimental and theoretical determination of the structures of oxidized and reduced molecules

    Article • Electrochemistry Communications, September 2012, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  51. Novel D–A–π–A coumarin dyes containing low band-gap chromophores for dye-sensitised solar cells

    Article • Dyes and Pigments, September 2012, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  52. Indenofluorene-Based Blue Fluorescent Compounds and Their Application in Highly Efficient Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

    Article • European Journal of Organic Chemistry, April 2012, Wiley

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  53. Homologous Series of Phenylquinoline-Carbazole Main Ligand Based On Red-Emitting Iridium(III) Complexes for Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, March 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  54. Ligand effects on the stability of thiol-stabilized gold nanoclusters: Au25(SR)18−, Au38(SR)24, and Au102(SR)44

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  55. A tetrazole-based metallogel induced with Ag+ ion and its silver nanoparticle in catalysis

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  56. Coordination polymer gel derived from a tetrazole ligand and Zn2+: spectroscopic and mechanical properties of an amorphous coordination polymer gel

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  57. Tuning glycolide as an SEI-forming additive for thermally robust Li-ion batteries

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Hochun Lee, Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  58. tert-Butylated spirofluorene derivatives with arylamine groups for highly efficient blue organic light emitting diodes

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  59. Back matter

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Sergio Brutti, Dr Dennis Wiedemann, Professor Paul Heitjans, Jun Shen, Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  60. Corrigendum to “Synthesis and electroluminescent properties of blue-emitting t-butylatedbis(diarylaminoaryl)anthracenes for OLEDs” [Thin Solid Films 518 (22) (2010) 6253–6258]

    Article • Thin Solid Films, January 2012, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  61. Fluorescent Composite Hydrogels of Metal-Organic Frameworks and Functionalized Graphene Oxide

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, December 2011, Wiley

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  62. Highly Efficient Blue Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Based on 2-(Diphenylamino)fluoren-7-ylvinylarene Derivatives that Bear a tert-Butyl Group

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, September 2011, Wiley

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  63. 2-Diphenylaminofluoren-7-ylstyrene Derivatives with Various Aromatic End-Capping Groups for Highly Efficient Blue and White Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

    Article • European Journal of Organic Chemistry, July 2011, Wiley

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  64. Curvature Effect on the Barrier from the Physisorption to the Chemisorption of H2on Graphene

    Article • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society, March 2011, Korean Chemical Society

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  65. A Chromo-Fluorogenic Tetrazole-Based CoBr2 Coordination Polymer Gel as a Highly Sensitive and Selective Chemosensor for Volatile Gases Containing Chloride

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, February 2011, Wiley

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  66. Pyridine-based coordination polymeric hydrogel with Cu2+ ion and its encapsulation of a hydrophobic molecule

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  67. Fluorescence enhancement of a tetrazole-based pyridine coordination polymer hydrogel

    Article • New Journal of Chemistry, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  68. Electronic Structures and Charge Transport of Stacked Annelated β-Trithiophenes

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, November 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  69. Synthesis and electroluminescent properties of blue-emitting t-butylated bis(diarylaminoaryl)anthracenes for OLEDs

    Article • Thin Solid Films, September 2010, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  70. Blue electroluminescent materials based on 2,7-distyrylfluorene for organic light-emitting diodes

    Article • Thin Solid Films, July 2010, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  71. Highly efficient blue-emitting materials based on 10-naphthylanthracene derivatives for OLEDs

    Article • Organic Electronics, May 2010, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  72. Molecular Engineering of Blue Fluorescent Molecules Based on Silicon End-Capped Diphenylaminofluorene Derivatives for Efficient Organic Light-Emitting Materials

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, April 2010, Wiley

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  73. Highly Efficient Blue-Light-Emitting Diodes Based on Styrylamine Derivatives End-capped with a Diphenylvinyl Group

    Article • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society, February 2010, Korean Chemical Society

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  74. Thin-Film Formation of Imidazolium-Based Conjugated Polydiacetylenes and Their Application for Sensing Anionic Surfactants

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, January 2010, Wiley

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  75. Synthesis and Photovoltaic Properties of Novel Ruthenium(II) Sensitizers for Dye-sensitized Solar Cell Applications

    Article • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society, October 2009, Korean Chemical Society

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  76. Lysine-Functionalized Silver Nanoparticles for Visual Detection and Separation of Histidine and Histidine-Tagged Proteins

    Article • Langmuir, August 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  77. Hydrogen bonding nature between calix[6]arene and piperidine/triethylamine

    Article • Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry, August 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  78. F− Preference of Polyamide Cryptand to Cl−

    Article • Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry, July 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  79. Synthesis and Characterization of Red-Emitting Iridium(III) Complexes for Solution-Processable Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, July 2009, Wiley

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  80. Probing specific RNA bulge conformations by modified fluorescent nucleosides

    Article • Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, January 2009, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  81. Computational studies on electron and proton transfer in phenol-imidazole-base triads

    Article • Journal of Computational Chemistry, January 2009, Wiley

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  82. Conformational Barrier for Fullerene−Porphyrin−Fullerene Triad

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, December 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Kyoung Chul Ko, Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  83. High-Efficiency Deep-Blue Light-Emitting Diodes Based on Phenylquinoline/Carbazole-Based Compounds

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, December 2008, Wiley

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  84. Selective dehydration of 3β-hydroxy-5α-androstan-17-one over sulfonic acid-incorporated-MCM-41 mesoporous materials

    Article • Catalysis Communications, August 2008, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  85. Molecular recognition of a fluoride anion receptor: the importance of C–H (N–H)⋯F− and “electropositive field space”⋯F− interactions

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2008, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  86. Solubility of Small Molecule in Ionic Liquids:  A Model Study on the Ionic Size Effect

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, October 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  87. Modeling of thermal effects on photo-dissociation dynamics of diatomic molecular ion HCl+

    Article • Chemical Physics, July 2007, Elsevier

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  88. Attractive Sulfur...π Interaction between Fluorinated Dimethyl Sulfur (FDMS) and Benzene

    Article • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society, June 2007, Korean Chemical Society

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  89. Computational Approaches in Molecular Recognition, Self-assembly, Electron Transport, and Surface Chemistry

    Article • Supramolecular Chemistry, June 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  90. Spherical Self-aggregates Formed with an Alanine-functionalized Porphyrin Derivative in Organic Solvent

    Article • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society, November 2006, Korean Chemical Society

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang

  91. Invited Paper

    Article • Computing Letters, March 2006, Brill

    Prof. Sunwoo Kang