It's Not Just About Speed, It's About the Flow Catalysts help speed up chemical reactions, but what happens when electricity can't reach all their active sites? Parts of the catalyst may be left unable to do their job. Prof. Taek Dong Chung and his team developed a new technique to measure both how well a catalyst works and how easily electricity flows through it, all while it's running. The findings could help scientists design better catalysts for clean energy technologies. Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society: doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c16237 #SNUResearch #JACS #Electrocatalysis #CleanEnergy #Chemistry

🎓𝐒𝐍𝐔 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞: 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐒𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 For decades, SNU has been recognized as a world-class institution known for solving complex problems. The Grand Quest Initiative marks a new chapter: SNU now steps forward as an agenda setter—proactively posing the hard questions that academia has yet to confront. A Grand Quest is not a research topic. It's a question that disrupts entrenched assumptions, confronts the limits of existing knowledge, and embraces the risk of failure in pursuit of something genuinely new. 📢 𝐒𝐍𝐔 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 📅 Submission period: March 17 – April 17, 2026 📣 Results announced: June 5, 2026 🏆 Award: KRW 5,000,000 per selected question 🔍 Evaluation: Fully blind review All SNU members are invited to submit their boldest, most transformative questions. What question have you been afraid to ask? Now is the time to ask it. 🔗 Details & submission: grandquest.snu.ac.kr Read more about the Grand Quest Initiative: en.snu.ac.kr/snunow/snu_medi… #SNU #SeoulNationalUniversity #GrandQuest #ResearchInnovation #SNUGrandQuest