Research & Projects

Current and Past Projects at Ewha

Yoon (PI)

'Brain Pool Plus (BP+): Development of water
treatment technology and advancement of
data-based water management technology to
realize safe water environment welfare and
achieve carbon neutrality'

Granting agency: National Research Foundation of Korea

Mar. 2024/Dec. 2033

Yoon (Co-PI)

'CRC: Strategic Solutions for Environmental
Blindspots in the Interest of Society'

Granting agency: National Research Foundation of Korea

Jun. 2023/Feb. 2030

Yoon (PI)

'Evaluation of MXene-coated Ultrathin membrane targeted for micropollutants removal and development of actionable
prediction models using machine learning algorithms'

Granting agency: National Research Foundation of Korea

Sep. 2023/Feb. 2028

Yoon (Co-PI)

'Ewha Frontier 10-10: Leading Research Center for Smart Water
Environment Management with Carbon Neutralization'

Granting agency: Ewha Womans University

Oct. 2022/Aug. 2025

Past Projects at USC

Yoon (PI)

'Remediation of Soil and Groundwater Contaminated with Various Organic Contaminants '

Granting agency: The Ministry of Environment in South Korea (Subcontract under Korean Army Academy at Young-Cheon)

Jul. 2018/Jun. 2021

Yoon (co-PI) & Cardona-Martinez, Curet-Arana, Heyden, Lopez-Garriga, Terejanu, Ammal, Mangual, Hernandez-Maldonado, Lauterbach, Martinez-Inesta, and Torres (PIs and other co-PIs)

'RII Track-2 FEC: Center for a Sustainable Water, Energy, and Food Nexus (SusWEF)'

Granting agency: NSF

Sep. 2016/Aug. 2020

Yoon (PI) & Flora (co-PI)

'The Study of FO-RO Mechanism Investigation and Advanced
Operation Technology for Water Quality Control'

Granting agency: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport in South Korea (Subcontract under Sungkyunkwan University)

Jan. 2015/Dec. 2019

Yoon (PI) & Flora (co-PI)

'Preliminary Evaluation for Removal of Selected Pharmaceuticals in a Hierarchical Porous Carbon-Graphene Oxide Coated Ultrafiltration Membrane System'

Granting agency: The University of South Carolina (ASPIRE)

Jul. 2018/Sep. 2019

Yoon (PI)

'Applications of Carbon Nanomaterials in Water Treatment and Their Toxicity Assessment'

Granting agency: The Ministry of Environment in South Korea (Subcontract under Korean Army Academy at Young-Cheon)

May 2015/Apr. 2018

Yoon (co-PI), & Huang (PI) and Richardson (co-PI)

'Decentralized Desalination and Water Treatment with Direct Solar Membrane Distillation'

Granting agency: The University of South Carolina (ASPIRE-II)

Jul. ‘2016/Sep. 2017

Yoon (co-PI), & Berg (PI) and Pierce, Caicedo, Fabio, Flora, and Gassman (co-PIs)

'NUE: Nanotechnology LINK: An Integrated Approach for Nanotechnology Education: End-of-Life Management of Nanomaterial-Containing Wastes'

Granting agency: NSF

Sep. 2013/Aug. 2015

Yoon (PI)

'Development of Treatment Techniques for Combined Sewer Overflow'

Granting agency: The Ministry of Environment in South Korea (Subcontract under Chung-Ang University)

May 2013/Apr. 2016

Yoon (PI)

'Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon Treatability Using Ultrasonication and Pulsed Ultraviolet'

Granting agency: The Ministry of Environment in South Korea (Subcontract under BEC)

May 2012/Apr. 2015

Yoon (co-PI)

'Granting agency: Fate and Their Removals of Emerging Micropollutants in Water'

Granting agency:National Research Foundation of Korea/Seoul National University

Nov. 2012/Oct. 2015

Yoon (PI)

'Preliminary Evaluation of Sonocatalytic Degradation Coupled with Carbon Nanotubes for Removal of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds, Pharmaceuticals, and Personal Care Products'

Granting agency: The University of South Carolina (ASPIRE-I)

May 2013/Sep. 2014

Yoon (PI)

'Development of High-Rate Disinfection Techniques for Combined Sewer Overflow'

Granting agency: The Ministry of Environment in South Korea (Subcontract under Halla E&E)

May 2011/Apr. 2013

Yoon (PI), Saleh, & Flora (co-PIs)

'Applications of Carbon Nanotubes in UF and MF Membranes: Pretreatment in Seawater Desalination'

Granting agency: GS E&C

May 2010/Apr. 2013

Yoon (PI) & Flora (co-PI)

'Determination of Optimal Treatment Processes for Natural Organic Matter Removal and Disinfection By-Product Formation Reduction'