Yung Joon Jung

Professor,  Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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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

Faculty

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 […]

Faculty

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.”

Yung Joon Jung and Moneesh Upmanyu

Faculty

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.

Faculty

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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Faculty

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.

Yung Joon Jung and Swastik Kar

Faculty

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.”

Faculty

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”.

Faculty

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 […]

Faculty

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”.

Alumni

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.

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