Yongjoon Cho

About

• Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Lab: Organic Semiconductor Synthesis & Engineering Lab
2026 ~

• Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST)
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Chemistry
Lab: Organic Semiconductor Design & Synthesis & Engineering Lab
2025 - 2026

• Northwestern University, Evanston IL, USA
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry
Advisor: Prof. Tobin J. Marks & Antonio Facchetti
Project: Multifunctional Organic Semiconductor Synthesis for Electronics
2022 - 2025

• Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea
M.S.-Ph.D. Combined Course, Department of Energy Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Changduk Yang
Project: Structure Engineering of N-type Organic Conjugated Materials toward Next-generation Optoelectronics
2016 - 2022

• Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea
B.S., Department of Energy Conversion & Storage for 1st Track
B.S., Department of Nano Chemistry for 2nd Track
2012 – 2016

Employment

• POSTECH Professor
  2026 - Present
• Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology Professor
  2025 - 2026

Education

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Projects & Funding

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Publications (88)

• Broadly applicable hydrophilic additive enhances electrochemical transistor function
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2026 DOI: 10.1073/PNAS.2523877123
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• Integrated Molecular and Optical Materials Design for High‐Efficiency Perovskite/Si Tandem Cells
  Small 2026 DOI: 10.1002/smll.74792
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• An organic electrochemical neuron for a neuromorphic perception system
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2025 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2414879122
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• Constructing High-Performance Solar Cells by Incorporating an A1-A2-Type Polymer Donor as a Guest Material
  Molecules 2025 DOI: 10.3390/MOLECULES30244755
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• Efficient Semitransparent Organic Solar Modules with Exceptional Diurnal Stability Through Asymmetric Interaction Induced by Symmetric Molecular Structure
  Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2025 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202424287
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• High-efficiency, ultra-flexible organic solar cells enabled by chloroprene rubber as both a non-volatile solid additive and plasticizer
  Joule 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2025.101996
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• Local phase-modulated heterostructures for perovskite solar cells with high-efficiency and ultra-stability
  Energy & Environmental Science 2025 DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00897B
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• Nearly 50-50 Face-on to Edge-on Crystallites in Regioisomeric Polymers Based on n-Type Thienylvinyl-1,1-dicyanomethylene-3-indanone for High Electron Mobility
  ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2025 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5c05769
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• Overcoming the Conductivity-Stability Trade-Off in PEDOT:PSS via Hydrogen-Bond Modulation Enables 20.0% Efficient Bilayer Organic Solar Cells
  Advanced Functional Materials 2025 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202521694
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• Post-Polymerization Strategy via Dual Site Clicking for Synthesizing Intrinsically Cross-Linkable Semiconducting Polymers
  Ecomat 2025 DOI: 10.1002/eom2.12513
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