Jae-Young Cho, PhD

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Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering Dept

Email: jcho4@ualberta.ca

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Area of Study / Keywords

Nanotechnology Microscopic Characterization Soft Nanomaterials CCUS Hydrogen Biomedical Application

About

Dr. Jae-Young Cho is currently working as a Senior Research Officer at National Research Council of CANADA - Quantum & Nanotechnology Research Centre (NRC-QN) and Adjunct Professor, in Dept of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta. His area of expertise is nano-characterization using different microscopic/spectroscopic techniques. During his Ph.D. at McGill, he studied the effects of microstructure and texture on the reliability of nano-scaled copper damascene interconnects. Right after receiving his Ph.D., he joined NRC-NANO in 2005 and his main role was to develop new soft nanomaterials characterization methods using cutting-edge microscopic/spectroscopic techniques.

While at NRC-NANO, he has been involved in many different collaborative research projects with universities, companies and different parts of NRCs & OGDs. He has published over 80 articles in peer reviewed journals, conference proceedings and technical reports. He is a two-time recipient of the Research Excellence Award at NRC-NANO (2019, 2022). He has maintained active collaborations with industrial, government and academic partners, and has supervised Ph.D./MEng/Co-op students from various universities in CANADA.

His current works focus on developing in-situ characterization methods for nanomaterials, particularly in the areas of soft nanomaterials and he is leading the CCUS (carbon capture utilization and storage) & hydrogen projects, and cryo-EM group.

Featured Publications

Kinetically Controlled Synthesis of Non-Noble Metal Based High-Entropy Alloy Nanoparticles via Supersonic-Nozzle-Assisted Thermal Plasma Jet

Ziqi Tang, Martin Couillard, Jian Chen, Homin Shin, Olga Naboka, James Tordiff, Jae-Young Cho, Thomas Lacelle, Dean Ruth, Mark Plunkett, Michel Nganbe, Keun Su Kim

ACS Nano. 2026 July; 10.1021/acsnano.6c02465

Functionalized graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets as next-generation fillers for fabrication of CO2 separation mixed matrix membranes

Xinyu Wang, Arash Mollahosseini, Fatemeh Seyedpour Taji, Jian Chen, Khalid Azyat, John Canlas, Paul Concepcion, Katherine Lin, Mohtada Sadrzadeh, Jae-Young Cho

FlatChem. 2026 May; 10.1016/j.flatc.2026.101051

pH-Fractionated lignin enables high-selectivity, chlorine-tolerant polyester thin-film composite nanofiltration membranes

Amirhossein Taghipour, Pooria Karami, Aria Khalili, Elham Jashni, Behzad Ahvazi, Aman Ullah, Jae-Young Cho, Mohtada Sadrzadeh

Chemical Engineering Journal. 2026 April; 10.1016/j.cej.2026.175224

Harvesting lithium from brines via high-selectivity nanofiltration integrated with membrane distillation

Amir Aghaei, Muhammad Amirul Islam, Vahid Rad, Aria Khalili, Afrouz Yousefi, Ahamd Arabi Shamsabadi, Masoud Soroush, Jae-Young Cho, Young-Hye La, Mohtada Sadrzadeh

Chemical Engineering Journal. 2026 January; 10.1016/j.cej.2026.172766

Ultra-small defect-engineered UiO-66 on cellulose nanocrystal template for advanced carbon dioxide capture membrane

Xinyu Wang, Seyed Fatemeh Seyedpour, Sabahudin Hrapovic, Usha D. Hemraz, Mohammad Mozafari, Masoud Soroush, Muhammad Amirul Islam, Arash Mollahosseini, Mohtada Sadrzadeh, Jae-Young Cho

Cleaner Engineering and Technology. 2025 July; 10.1016/j.clet.2025.100999

Novel Green Fabrication of Stable Hydrogel Beads from Industrial Waste Lignin for Efficient Pb(II) Ion Removal

Xiwen Hu, Amir Aghaei, Muhammad Amirul Islam, Aria Khalili, Jae-Young Cho, Mohtada Sadrzadeh

RSC Sustainability. 2025 January; 10.1039/d4su00732h

Polymeric Membranes in Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage: Current Trends and Future Directions in Decarbonization of Industrial Flue Gas and Climate Change Mitigation

Arash Mollahosseini, Mostafa Nikkhah Dafchahi, Saeed Khoshhal Salestan, Mohammad Mozafari, Usha D. Hemraz, Ronaldo Giro, Seyed Fatemeh Seyedpour Taji, Amirul Islam, Sajjad Kavyani, Xinyu Wang, Jia Wei Chew, Masoud Soroush, Sabahudin Hrapovic, Mathias Steiner, Young-Hye La, Mohtada Sadrzadeh, Khalid Azyat, Jae-Young Cho

Energy & Environmental Science. 2025 January; 10.1039/d4ee05328a

Histamine stimulates human microglia to alter cellular prion protein expression via the HRH2 histamine receptor

Scientific Reports. 2024 January; 10.1038/s41598-024-75982-1

Preclinical evaluation of manufacturable SARS-CoV-2 spike virus-like particles produced in Chinese Hamster Ovary cells

Sergio P. Alpuche-Lazcano, Matthew Stuible, Bassel Akache, Anh Tran, John Kelly, Sabahudin Hrapovic, Anna Robotham, Arsalan Haqqani, Alexandra Star, Tyler M. Renner, Julie Blouin, Jean-Sébastien Maltais, Brian Cass, Kai Cui, Jae-Young Cho, Xinyu Wang, Daria Zoubchenok, Renu Dudani, Diana Duque, Michael J. McCluskie, Yves Durocher

Communications Medicine. 2023 August; 10.1038/s43856-023-00340-7