Yung Joon Jung
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Office
- 265 SN
- 617.373.4843
Lab
- 250 EC
- 617.373.8702
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
- 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
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 […]
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.”
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.
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.”
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.
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.”
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”.
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 […]
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”.
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.