Mina Yoon

Research Assistant Professor

Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996
Phone: (865) 974-8998

Materials Science and Technology Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN 37831
Phone: (865) 574-6153

Publications in preparation

22. Mina Yoon, Shenyuan Yang, Enge Wang, and Zhenyu Zhang,
Interaction of a Molecular Hydrogen with a Metallofullerene (to be submitted).
21. Mina Yoon, Doug Lowndes, and Zhenyu Zhang,
Defect Assisted Growth Mechanism of Nanoscaled Carbon Materials (to be submitted).
20. D. Tománek, M. Yoon, J. M. Pacheco, G. K. Gueorguiev, S. W. D. Bailey, and C. J. Lambert,
Microscopic Switching of a Molecular Memory Device (in preparation).


Publications

19. Mina Yoon, Shenyuan Yang, Christian Hicke, David Geohegan, Enge Wang,
and Zhenyu Zhang, Calcium as a superior coating metal in functionalization of
carbon fullerenes for high-capacity hydrogen storage, Phys. Rev. Lett. (2008, in press).
18. Shenyuan Yang, Mina Yoon, Enge Wang, and Zhenyu Zhang,
Electron Transfer and Localization in Endohedral Metallofullerenes (submitted for publication).
17. Shenyuan Yang, Mina Yoon, Enge Wang, and Zhenyu Zhang,
Energetics and Kinetics of Ti clustering on a C60 surface (submitted for publication).
16. Mina Yoon and David Tománek,
Equilibrium Structure of Ferrofluid Aggregates (submitted for publication).
15. Mina Yoon, Shenyuan Yang, Enge Wang, and Zhenyu Zhang,
Charged Fullerenes as High Capacity Hydrogen Storage Media,
Nano Lett. 7, 2578 (2007).
14. Mina Yoon, Ho Nyung Lee, Wei Hong, Hans M. Christen, Zhenyu Zhang, and Zhigang Suo, Dynamics of Step Bunching in Heteroepitaxial Growth on Vicinal Substrates,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 055503 (2007).
13. Mina Yoon, Jane Howe, Gary Tibbetts, Gyula Eres, and Zhenyu Zhang,
Polygonization and Anomalous Graphene Interlayer Spacing of Multi-Wall Carbon Nanofibers, Phys. Rev. B 75, 165402 (2007).
12. Mina Yoon, Peter Borrmann, and David Tománek,
Targeted Medication Delivery Using Magnetic Nanostructures,
J. of Phys: Cond. Mat. 19, 086210 (2007).
11. W. Hong, H. N. Lee, M. Yoon, H. M. Christen, D. H. Lowndes, Z. Suo, and Z. Zhang,
Persistent Step-Flow Growth of Strained Films on Vicinal Substrates,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 095501 (2005).
10. Mina Yoon, Savas Berber, and David Tománek,
Energetics and Packing of Fullerenes in Nanotube Peapods,
Phys. Rev. B 71, 155406 (2005).
9. S. Han, M. Yoon, S. Berber, N. Park, E. Osawa, J. Ihm, and D. Tománek,
Microscopic Mechanism of Fullerene Fusion,
Phys. Rev. B 70, 113402 (2004).
8. Yoshiyuki Miyamoto, Savas Berber, Mina Yoon, Angel Rubio, David Tománek,
Can photo excitations heal defects in carbon nanotubes?
Chem. Phys. Lett. 392, 209 (2004).
7. Gregory C. McIntosh, Mina Yoon, Savas Berber, David Tománek,
Diamondoids as Building Blocks for Functional Nanostructures,
Phys. Rev. B 70, 045401 (2004).
6. Y. Miyamoto, A. Rubio, S. Berber, M. Yoon, and D. Tománek,
Spectroscopic characterization of Stone-Wales defects in nanotubes,
Phys. Rev. B (rapid communications) 69, 121413 (2004).
5. M. Yoon, S. Han, G. Kim, S. Lee, E. Osawa, J. Ihm, M. Terrones, F. Banhart,
J.-C. Charlier, N. Grobert, H. Terrones, P. Ajayan, D. Tománek,
The Zipper mechanism of nanotube fusion: Theory and Experiment,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 075504 (2004).
4. Noejung Park, Mina Yoon, Savas Berber, Jisoon Ihm, Eiji Osawa, and David Tománek,
Magnetism in all-carbon structures with negative Gaussian curvature,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 237204 (2003).
3. Miyamoto Y, Berber S, Yoon M, Rubio A,Tománek D,
Onset of nanotube decay under extreme thermal and electronic excitations,
Physica B 323(1-4): 78-85 (2002).
2. M. Y. Choi, Gun Sang Jeon, and Mina Yoon,
Boundary effects on dynamic behavior of Josephson-junction arrays,
Phys. Rev. B 62, 5357 (2000).
1. Mina Yoon, M. Y. Choi, and Beom Jun Kim,
Lattice effects on the current-voltage characteristics of superconducting arrays,
Phys. Rev. B 61,3263 (2000).
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