Nam Heon Cho

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Bldg. 735
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

ncho@bnl.gov

Expertise | Education | Appointments | Publications

Expertise

Nanomaterials synthesis, Chiral nanoparticles, Seed-mediated growth

Education

Seoul National University, Ph.D. 2021

• School of Materials Science and Engineering
• Dissertation: Study on Chirality Evolution during Systematic Control of Seed-mediated Chiral Nanoparticle Synthesis, Advisor: Prof. Ki Tae Nam

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, M.S. 2016

• Materials Science and Engineering

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, B.S. 2014

• Materials Science and Engineering

Professional Appointments

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Center for Functional Nanomaterials

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2025 – Present

Northwestern Univeristy, Chemistry

• Postdoctoral Researcher,  2022 – 2025 (Advisor: Prof. Teri Odom) 

Seoul National University 

• Postdoctoral Researcher,  2021-2022 (Advisor: Prof. Ki Tae Nam)

Selected Publications

• Cho NH, Jia J, Park S-M, et al (2025) Templated Synthesis of Mono- and Bimetallic Nanogap Dimer Arrays. ACS Nano 19:8966–8973. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c17223
• Cho NH, Guerrero-Martínez A, Ma J, et al (2023) Bioinspired chiral inorganic nanomaterials. Nature Reviews Bioengineering 1:88–106. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44222-022-00014-4
• Cho NH, Kim YB, Lee YY, et al (2022) Adenine oligomer directed synthesis of chiral gold nanoparticles. Nature Communications 13:. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31513-y
• Cho NH, Byun GH, Lim Y-C, et al (2020) Uniform Chiral Gap Synthesis for High Dissymmetry Factor in Single Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticle. ACS Nano 14:3595–3602. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.9b10094