Lah, Myoung Soo

Research Professor

Frontier Energy Storage Materials Lab.

Lab: NSB (108) 705
Office: NSB (108) 701-6
E-mail: mslah@unist.ac.kr
Phone: +82-52-217-2931

Lah, Myoung Soo

Research Professor

Frontier Energy Storage Materials Lab.

E-mail: mslah@unist.ac.kr
Lab: NSB (108) 705
Office: NSB (108) 701-6
Phone: +82-52-217-2931
Research Areas
Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), Crystal Engineering, Supramolecular coordination chemistry
Research Summary

Lah’s group is interested in understanding inorganic-organic hybrid materials based on their structural and topological characteristics and is involved in the development of functional porous materials by design for their application in hydrogen and methane storage, CO2 capture, catalysis, and delivery.

Education

Ph. D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1991)
M. S., Chemistry, Seoul National University (1984)
B. S., Chemistry, Seoul National University (1982)

Career

Professor (2010-Present) UNIST

Selected Publications
Single Crystalline Hollow Metal-Organic Frameworks via a Metal-Organic Polyhedron Single Crystal as a Sacrificial Template
Hyehyun Kim, Minhak Oh, Dongwook Kim, Jeongin Park, Junmo Seong, Sang Kyu Kwak and Myoung Soo Lah* Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 3678.
Supermolecular Building Approach for the Design and Construction of Metal-Organic Frameworks
Vincent Guillerm, Dongwook Kim, Xinfang Liu, Karim Adil, Ryan Luebke, Jarrod F. Eubank, Myoung Soo Lah* and Mohamed Eddaoudi*, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2014, 43, 6141.
Post-synthetic Modifications of Framework Metal Ions in Isostructural Metal–organic Frameworks: Core-shell Heterostructures via Selective Transmetalations
Xiaokai Song, Tae Kyung Kim, Hyehyun Kim, Dongwook Kim, Seok Jeong, Hoi Ri Moon, Myoung Soo Lah*, Chem. Mater. 2012, 24, 3065.
A Foldamer-Based Chiroptical Molecular Switch That Displays the Complete Inversion of the Helical Sense upon Anion Binding
Jae-min Suk, Veluru Ramesh Naidu, Xinfang Liu, Myoung Soo Lah* and Kyu-Sung Jeong*, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 13938.
A chiral pentadecanuclear metallamacrocycle with a sextuple twisted Mobius topology.
Rohith P. John, Mira Park, Dohyun Moon, Kyungjin Lee, Seunghee Hong, Yang Zou, Chang Seop Hong and Myoung Soo Lah*, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 14142.
Face-Driven Corner-Linked Octahedral Nanocages: M6L8 Cages Formed by C3-Symmetry Triangular Facial Ligands Linked via C4-Symmetry Square Tetratopic PdII Ions at Truncated Octahedron Corners.
Dohyun Moon, Sangmi Kang, Jaejoon Park, Kyungjae Lee, Rohith P. John, Hosik Won, Gi Hun Seong, Yang Sun Kim, Ghyung Hwa Kim, Hakjune Rhee and Myoung Soo Lah*, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 3530.
Research Highlights