David Tománek
David Tomanek
BornJuly 1954 (age 69)
Prague
NationalityCzech
CitizenshipUnited States, Switzerland
OccupationProfessor of Physics
Known forNanotechnology
Academic background
Alma materFreie Universität Berlin
Doctoral advisorKarl Heinz Bennemann
Other advisorsMichael A. Schlüter, Steven G. Louie
Academic work
Disciplinetheoretical physics
Sub-disciplinecondensed matter physics, atomic clusters, carbon nanotubes, phosphorene
InstitutionsFreie Universität Berlin, Bell Labs, University of California, Berkeley, Michigan State University
Websitehttps://nanoten.com/tomanek/

David Tománek (born July 1954) is a U.S.-Swiss physicist of Czech origin and researcher in nanoscience and nanotechnology. He is Emeritus Professor of Physics at Michigan State University. He is known for predicting the structure and calculating properties of surfaces, atomic clusters including the C60 buckminsterfullerene, nanotubes,[1] nanowires and nanohelices,[2] graphene,[3] and two-dimensional materials including phosphorene.[4][5]

Academic career

Tománek earned a doctoral degree in Physics from the Freie Universität Berlin in 1983 under the supervision of Karl Heinz Bennemann and became Hochschulassistent there in 1984.[6] Between 1985 and 1987 he worked as postdoctoral researcher at the Bell Labs[6] under the supervision of Michael A. Schlüter and at the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Steven G. Louie. Since 1987, he has been Professor of Physics at Michigan State University, where he directs the Computational Nanotechnology Laboratory[7] at the Department of Physics and Astronomy.[8][6]

Research

Tománek and his research group have worked in areas in nanoscience and nanotechnology. As a graduate student at FU Berlin, he studied structural end electronic properties of surfaces, including reconstruction and photoemission spectra. He was intrigued by the unusual structure and electronic properties of atomic clusters,[9][10] including collective electronic excitations[11] and superconductivity.[12] His computational studies of growth regimes of silicon[13] and carbon[14] clusters have made use of the semi-quantitative Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals (LCAO) or tight-binding method.[6]

During his 1994 sabbatical stay at the laboratory of Richard E. Smalley, he turned his interest to the unique properties of nanotubes formed of carbon (CNTs) and other materials. He studied their morphology,[15] formation,[16][17][18][19] mechanical stiffness,[20] their ability to conduct heat[21] and electrons,[22] and field electron emission.[23]

After 2000, he got involved in studies of two-dimensional materials including phosphorene.[24][25] In the following years, he has continued identifying applications of carbon nanotubes and two-dimensional materials in fields including low-resistance contacts to nanostructures,[26][27] nanomechanical energy storage,[28] and purification and desalination of water.[29]

Conferences

Tománek initiated a series of annual Nanotube (NT) conferences[6] and a Gordon Research Conference on Two-dimensional electronics beyond graphene.[30]

Honors and awards

In 2004 Tománek was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society[31] and in 2005 he received the prestigious Alexander-von-Humboldt Senior Scientist Award[32] (Germany). In 2008 he received the Japan Carbon Award for Life-Time Achievement and was chosen by the American Physical Society as member of the Outstanding Referees Program[33] for excellence in peer review. In 2016 he received the Lee Hsun Research Award for Materials Science[34] from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His h-index is currently 85.[35]

References

  1. ↑ Chang, Kenneth (27 March 2001). "New York Times: Of nanotubes and buckyballs". The New York Times.
  2. ↑ "Advances in Engineering: Origin of Unusually High Rigidity in Selected Helical Coil Structures".
  3. ↑ "Physical Review Focus: Diamonds Aren't Forever".
  4. ↑ "Nature: Phosphorene excites materials scientists".
  5. ↑ "Science News: Phosphorene introduced as graphene alternative".
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 "David Tománek's C.V." Computational Nanotechnology Lab at Michigan State University. Retrieved October 5, 2020.
  7. ↑ "Computational Nanotechnology Laboratory".
  8. ↑ "MSU Department of Physics and Astronomy".
  9. ↑ Tomanek, D; Mukherjee, S; Bennemann, KH (1983). "Simple theory for the electronic and atomic structure of small clusters". Phys. Rev. B. 28 (2): 665–673. Bibcode:1983PhRvB..28..665T. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.28.665.
  10. ↑ Tomanek, D; Mukherjee, S; Bennemann, KH (1984). "Erratum: Simple theory for the electronic and atomic structure of small clusters". Phys. Rev. B. 29 (2): 1076. Bibcode:1983PhRvB..28..665T. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.28.665.
  11. ↑ Bertsch, George F.; Bulgac, Aurel; Tomanek, David; Wang, Yang (1991). "Collective plasmon excitations in C60 clusters". Phys. Rev. Lett. 67 (19): 2690–2693. Bibcode:1991PhRvL..67.2690B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.2690. PMID 10044492.
  12. ↑ Schluter, M; Lannoo, M; Needels, M; Baraff, GA; Tomanek, D (1992). "Electron-phonon coupling and superconductivity in alkali-intercalated C60 solid". Phys. Rev. Lett. 68 (4): 526–529. Bibcode:1992PhRvL..68..526S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.526. PMID 10045919.
  13. ↑ Tomanek, D.; Schlüter, M A (1986). "Calculation of magic numbers and the stability of small Si clusters". Phys. Rev. Lett. 56 (10): 1055–1058. Bibcode:1986PhRvL..56.1055T. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.1055. PMID 10032556.
  14. ↑ Tomanek, David; Schluter, Michael A. (1991). "Growth regimes of carbon clusters". Phys. Rev. Lett. 67 (17): 2331–2334. Bibcode:1991PhRvL..67.2331T. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.2331. PMID 10044399.
  15. ↑ Thess, Andreas; Lee, Roland; Nikolaev, Pavel; Dai, Hongjie; Petit, Pierre; Robert, Jerome; Xu, Chunhui; Lee, Young Hee; Kim, Seong Gon; Colbert, Daniel T.; Scuseria, Gustavo; Tománek, David; Fischer, John E.; Smalley, Richard E. (1996). "Crystalline ropes of metallic carbon nanotubes". Science. 273 (5274): 483–7. Bibcode:1996Sci...273..483T. doi:10.1126/science.273.5274.483. PMID 8662534. S2CID 13284203.
  16. ↑ Guo, Ting; Nikolaev, Pavel; Rinzler, Andrew G.; Tománek, David; Colbert, Daniel T.; Smalley, Richard E. (1995). "Self-Assembly of Tubular Fullerenes". J. Phys. Chem. 99 (27): 10694. doi:10.1021/j100027a002.
  17. ↑ Lee, Young Hee; Kim, Seong Gon; Tománek, David. "Catalytic growth of single-wall nanotubes: An ab initio study". Phys. Rev. Lett. 78: 2393. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.2393.
  18. ↑ Kwon, Young-Kyun; Lee, Young Hee; Kim, Seong-Gon; Jund, Philippe; Tománek, David; Smalley, Richard E. (1997). "Morphology and stability of growing multi-wall carbon nanotubes". Phys. Rev. Lett. 79 (11): 2065. Bibcode:1997PhRvL..79.2065K. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.2065.
  19. ↑ Nasibulin, Albert G.; Pikhitsa, Peter V.; Jiang, Hua; Brown, David P.; Krasheninnikov, Arkady V.; Anisimov, Anton S.; Queipo, Paula; Moisala, Anna; Gonzalez, David; Lientschnig, Günther; Hassanien, Abdou; Shandakov, Sergey D.; Lolli, Giulio; Resasco, Daniel E.; Choi, Mansoo; Tománek, David; Kauppinen, Esko I. (2007). "A novel hybrid carbon material". Nature Nanotechnology. 2 (3): 156–61. Bibcode:2007NatNa...2..156N. doi:10.1038/nnano.2007.37. PMID 18654245.
  20. ↑ Overney, G.; Zhong, W.; Tománek, D. (1993). "Structural Rigidity and Low Frequency Vibrational Modes of Long Carbon Tubules". Z. Phys. D. 27 (1): 93. Bibcode:1993ZPhyD..27...93O. doi:10.1007/BF01436769. S2CID 16133319.
  21. ↑ Berber, Savas; Kwon, Young-Kyun; Tománek, David (2000). "Unusually High Thermal Conductivity of Carbon Nanotubes". Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 (20): 4613–6. arXiv:cond-mat/0002414. Bibcode:2000PhRvL..84.4613B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.4613. PMID 10990753. S2CID 9006722.
  22. ↑ Kwon, Young-Kyun; Tománek, David (1998). "Electronic and Structural Properties of Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotubes". Phys. Rev. B. 58 (24): R16001. Bibcode:1998PhRvB..5816001K. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.58.R16001.
  23. ↑ Rinzler, A.G.; Hafner, J.H.; Nikolaev, P.; Lou, L.; Kim, S.G.; Tománek, D.; Nordlander, P.; Colbert, D.T.; Smalley, R.E. (1995). "Unraveling Nanotubes: Field Emission from an Atomic Wire". Science. 269 (5230): 1550–3. Bibcode:1995Sci...269.1550R. doi:10.1126/science.269.5230.1550. PMID 17789445. S2CID 9339793.
  24. ↑ Liu, Han; Neal, Adam T.; Zhu, Zhen; Luo, Zhe; Xu, Xianfan; Tománek, David; Ye, Peide D. (2014). "Phosphorene: An Unexplored 2D Semiconductor with a High Hole Mobility". ACS Nano. 8 (4): 4033–41. arXiv:1401.4133. doi:10.1021/nn501226z. PMID 24655084. S2CID 59060829.
  25. ↑ Zhu, Zhen; Tománek, David (2014). "Semiconducting layered blue phosphorus: A computational study". Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 (17): 176802. arXiv:1403.1300. Bibcode:2014PhRvL.112q6802Z. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.176802. PMID 24836265. S2CID 1164757.
  26. ↑ Nemec, Norbert; Tománek, David; Cuniberti, Gianaurelio (2006). "Contact Dependence of Carrier Injection in Carbon Nanotubes: An Ab Initio Study" (PDF). Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 (7): 076802. arXiv:cond-mat/0512396. Bibcode:2006PhRvL..96g6802N. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.076802. PMID 16606122. S2CID 12229482.
  27. ↑ Popov, Igor; Seifert, Gotthard; Tománek, David (2012). "Designing Electrical Contacts to MoS2 Monolayers: A Computational Study". Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 (15): 156802. arXiv:1202.6554. Bibcode:2012PhRvL.108o6802P. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.156802. PMID 22587274. S2CID 14614956.
  28. ↑ Teich, David; Fthenakis, Zacharias G.; Seifert, Gotthard; Tománek, David (2012). "Nanomechanical energy storage in twisted nanotube ropes". Phys. Rev. Lett. 109 (25): 255501. Bibcode:2012PhRvL.109y5501T. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.255501. PMID 23368478.
  29. ↑ Tománek, David; Kyrylchuk, Andrii (2019). "Designing an All-Carbon Membrane for Water Desalination". Physical Review Applied. 12 (2): 024054. arXiv:1908.02225. Bibcode:2019PhRvP..12b4054T. doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.12.024054. S2CID 199453090.
  30. ↑ "Gordon Research Conference: Two-dimensional electronics beyond graphene".
  31. ↑ American Physical Society Fellows. "David Tomanek becomes APS fellow in 2004". Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  32. ↑ "Alexander-von-Humboldt Senior Scientist Award".
  33. ↑ "APS Outstanding Referees program".
  34. ↑ "Lee Hsun Research Award for Materials Science".
  35. ↑ "Google scholar record of David Tomanek". Retrieved 29 March 2020.
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