Yung Joon Jung
Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Office
- 265 SN
- 617.373.4843
Lab
- 250 EC
- 617.373.8702
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Research Focus
Synthesis of low dimensional nanomaterials and engineering their molecular structures; assembly, transfer and integration of nanomaterials and nanostructured architectures and study properties and underlying fundamental science; nanoelectronics, flexible devices, chemical sensors and energy application
Education
- PhD (2003), Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Honors & Awards
- Startup Guardion, was one of six winners of the NASA Science Mission Directorate Challenge
Teaching Interests
- Materials Science
- Carbon Nanostructured Materials
- Strengthening Mechanism of Materials
Professional Affiliations
- Materials Research Society
- American Chemical Society
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Research Overview
Synthesis of low dimensional nanomaterials and engineering their molecular structures; assembly, transfer and integration of nanomaterials and nanostructured architectures and study properties and underlying fundamental science; nanoelectronics, flexible devices, chemical sensors and energy application
Selected Research Projects
- Developing Strong, High Thermal Resistant, and Light Weight Materials and their Processing for the High Performance Automotive Lighting System
- – Principal Investigator, Ministry of Industry, Korea
- DMREF: Engineering Strong, Highly Conductive Nanotube Fibers Via Fusion
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- Gao, S., Hong, S., Park, S. et al. Catalyst-free synthesis of sub-5 nm silicon nanowire arrays with massive lattice contraction and wide bandgap. Nat Commun 13, 3467 (2022).
- J. Hao, B. Li, H. Jung, S. Hong, Y. Jung, S. Kar, Vapor-Phase-Gating Induced Ultrasensitive Ion Detection in Graphene and Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Networks, Advanced Materials, 2017, 1606883
- S. Hong, T. Lundstrom, R. Ghosh, H. Abdi, J. Hao, S.K. Jeoung, P. Su, J. Suhr, A. Vaziri, N. Jalili, Y.J. Jung, Highly Anisotropic Adhesive Film Made from Upside-Down Flat and Uniform Vertically Aligned CNTs, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 8, 2016, 34061
- H. Jung, Y. Kim, J. Robinson, M. Zalalutdinov, S. Hong, J. Hao, KT. Wan, Y. Jung, B. Li, X. Wang, Printing Highly Controlled Suspended Carbon Nanotube Network on Micro-Patterned Superhydrophobic Surface, Scientific Reports, 5,2015, 15908
- B. Li, Y. He, S. Lei, S. Najmaei, Y. Gong, X. Wang, J. Zhang, L. Ma, Y. Yang, S. Hong, J. Hao, G. Shi, A. George, K. Keyshar, P. Dong, L. Ge, R. Vajtai, J. Lou, Y.J. Jung, P. Ajayan, Scalable Transfer of Suspended Two Dimensional Single Crystals, Nano Letters, 15(8), 2015, 5089-5097
- H. Jung, S. Kar, J. Kong, M.S. Dresselhaus, Y.J. Jung, et al., Sculpting Carbon Bonds: Allotropic Transformation Through Solid-State Re-Engineering of–sp2 carbon, Nature Communications, 5, 2014, 4941
- Y. Kim, H. Jung, S. Park, B. Li, F. Liu, J. Hao, Y.J. Jung, et al., Voltage-switchable Photocurrents in Single-wall Carbon Nanotube – Silicon Junctions for Analogue and Digital optoelectronics, Nature Photonics, 8, 2014, 239-243
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Oct 07, 2022
Ultra-Small Silicon Nanowires Could Revolutionize Semiconductor Industry
MIE Professors Yung Joon Jung and Moneesh Upmanyu have discovered a new, highly dense form of silicon that could revolutionize the semiconductor industry. New form of silicon discovered by Northeastern engineers can revolutionize semiconductor industry Main photo: Ph.D. student Jianlin Li, works on the catalyst-free etching of sub-5 nm silicon nanowires in the Egan Research […]
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Jun 28, 2022
Ultrasensitive, Miniaturized, and Inexpensive Ion Detection Device
MIE Professor Yung Joon Jung and affiliated Physics Associate Professor Swastik Kar were awarded a patent for “Ion and radiation detection devices based on carbon nanomaterials and two-dimensional nanomaterials.”
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Jun 24, 2022
Jung and Upmanyu Develop First Silicon Nanowires that Operate as an Ultrawide-bandgap Semiconductor
The research of mechanical and industrial engineering professors Yung Joon Jung and Moneesh Upmanyu on “Catalyst-free synthesis of sub 5nm silicon nanowire arrays with massive lattice contraction and wide-band gap” has been published in Nature Communications. The researchers developed silicon nanowires that operate as an ultrawide-bandgap (UWBG) semiconductor—a first in the world of silicon, potentially revolutionizing the integration of etched silicon nanowires into UWBG device applications.
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May 18, 2022
Creating Ion-Doped 2D Nanomaterials
MIE Professor Yung Joon Jung and affiliated Physics Associate Professor Swastik Kar were awarded a patent for “Ion-doped two-dimensional nanomaterials.”
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Nov 03, 2020
Startup Guardion Wins NASA Science Mission Directorate Challenge
MIE Professor Yung Joon Jung’s startup, Guardion, was one of six winners of the NASA Science Mission Directorate Challenge.
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May 21, 2020
Patent for Fabricating Carbon Nanoribbons
MIE Professor Yung Joon Jung and affiliated Physics Associate Professor Swastik Kar were awarded a patent for “Fabrication of carbon nanoribbons from carbon nanotube arrays.”
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Aug 01, 2018
Jung and Kar Awarded Patent for Ultrasensitive Ion Detector
MIE Professor Yung Joon Jung and affiliated Physics Associate Professor Swastik Kar were awarded a patent for “Ultrasensitive ion detector using carbon nanotubes or graphene”.
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Jan 31, 2018
Jung Awarded Patent
MIE Professor Yung Joon Jung was awarded a patent for "Flexible and transparent supercapacitors and fabrication using thin film carbon electrodes with controlled morphologies". Abstract Source: USPTO Mechanically flexible and optically transparent thin film solid state supercapacitors are fabricated by assembling nano-engineered carbon electrodes in porous templates. The electrodes have textured graphitic surface films with […]
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Dec 18, 2017
Jung Awarded Patent for Preparing Silicon Nanowire
MIE Professor Yung Joon Jung was awarded a patent for “Methods of preparing high density aligned silicon nanowire”.
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Nov 05, 2017
Professors Jung, Kar, and MIE Alumnus Win Gold at the MassChallenge and $550K CASIS-Boeing Research Grant
MIE Professor Yung Joon Jung, COS Associate Professor Swastik Kar, and ME Alumnus Dan Esposito, E’08, were awarded the $50K gold medal at the 2017 MassChallenge, for their start-up company, Guardion, which uses nanotechnology to create highly sensitive, low-cost, networked detectors of radioactivity and nuclear radiation.