Yakobson group: 08/2016

• Boris I. Yakobson, Group Leader
  Karl F. Hasselmann Chair of Engineering, Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering and Professor of Chemistry

•  Evgeni S. Penev
  Associate Research Professor

• Ksenia Bets, Research Administrator

Postdoctoral Research Associates

• Ting Cheng
• Levi Felix
• Sunny Gupta
• Chenmu Zhang
• Jun-Jie Zhang

Graduate Students

• Qinkun Li
• Xingfu Li
• Manoj Mattur
• Favian Sun
• Nicholas Tjahjono

Visitors

• Yufeng Zhao (Corban U)

Former Members

• Minglei Sun
• Yuefei Huang (CGG)
  PhD Thesis: … (2024)
• Jeong-ha Lee (Rice U)
• Miraslau Barabash
• Qiyuan Ruan (Huawei)
  PhD Thesis: “Computational Study of Growth, Thermodynamics, and Electronic Properties of Nanomaterials” (2023)
• Berna Akgenc (Kirklareli U, Turkey)
• Alex Kutana (Nagoya U)
• Nitant Gupta (U Delaware)
  PhD Thesis: “Theoretical and Computational Investigations into the Nanomechanics and Growth of Low Dimensional Materials” (2021)
• Jincheng Lei (Yale)
  PhD Thesis: …
• Kongtao Chen
• Sharmila Shirodkar (APS)
• Tonghui Su
  MS Thesis: “DFT methods applications in nanoscale materials modeling” (2021)
• Summayya Kouser (Pacific Northwest National Lab)
• Henry Yu (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)
  PhD Thesis: “Electronics in 2D: heterojunctions, property modulation, and growth” (2021)
• Luqing Wang (UN Las Vegas)
  PhD Thesis: “First-Principles Study of Properties, Morphology, Synthesis, and Applications of Low-Dimensional Material” (2020)
• Kaoru Hisama (U Tokyo)
• Yushun Zhao (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
• Chunmei LI (Southwest U, China)
• Jing Wang (Hebei Normal U, China)
• Baoan Bian (Jiangnan U, China)
• Rui Li (U Science and Technology Beijing, China)
• Sergey Erokhin (TISNCM Moscow)
• John Alred (NASA JPL)
  PhD Thesis: “Computationally modeling strengthening mechanisms in carbon nanotube composites and bundles” (2018)
• Yu Xie (Xi’an University, China)
• Ji-Hui Yang (Fudan U, China)
• Shijun Wang (Tsinghua U, China)
• Shiru Song (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
• Ming Luo (Amazon)
  PhD Thesis: “Computational Modeling of Growth and Mechanical Behavior of
  Carbon-based Nanomaterials” (2017)
• Zhuhua Zhang (Nanjing U of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
• Ruiqi Zhao (Henan Polytechnic U, China)
• Wenyan Zan (Lanzhou U, China)
• Hiroya Minowa (U Tokyo)
• Mingjie Liu (U Florida)
  PhD Thesis: “Computational Study of Carbon-Based Low-Dimensional Materials on Structures, Properties and Applications” (2016)
• Qinghong Yuan (ECNU, China)
• Zhili Hu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
• Xiaolong Zou (Tsinghua–UC Berkeley Shenzhen Institute)
• Yang Yang (CGG)
  PhD Thesis: “Computational study of structural and mechanical properties of two-dimensional nanomaterials and their derivatives” (2016)
• Ziang Zhang
  PhD Thesis: “Interfaces of Mono-Elemental Nanostructures: Edges, Grain Boundaries, and Junctions” (2016)
• Vasilii I. Artyukhov (Aquatic)
• Thierry Tsafack (ARL)
  PhD Thesis: “Nanomaterials Thermal Response and CNT Reinforced Polymer Composites: An ab initio Study” (2016)
• Guoying Gao (Yanshan U)
• Zhiming Shi (CAS, China)
• Fangbo Xu (TSMC)
  PhD Thesis: “Theoretical Study of Electron Transport Properties of Fullerene-based Low-dimensional Nanoelectronic Devices” (2015)
• Yuanyue Liu (UT Austin)
  PhD Thesis: “Computational study of synthesis, structure, property and application of low-dimensional materials” (2014)
• Jianxin Lu (Chevron)
  PhD Thesis: “Simulations of Carbon Nano-Structures for High-Strength Composites, Thermal Transport, and Hydrogen Storage” (2014)
• Ming Hua (University of Science and Technology of China)
  PhD Thesis: “Computer simulations on mechanical and electrical properties of nanoscale materials” (2013)
• Arta Sadrzadeh (New Dawn Energy)
  PhD Thesis: “Computational Study of Electronic and Transport Properties of Novel Boron and Carbon Nano-Structures” (2013)
• Somnath Bhowmick (IIT Kanpur)
• Alexander Kvashnin (TISNCM Moscow)
• Hoonkyung Lee (Konkuk U, South Korea)
• Ke Zhao (XTAL)
• Pavel Sorokin (TISNCM Moscow)
• Morgana Ribas (Alpha Assembly Solutions)
  PhD Thesis: “Catalytic processes simulated at nano-scale: Growth of graphitic structures and functionalized graphene explained” (2011)
• Abhishek K. Singh (IISc Bangalore)
• Morteza Bankehsaz (ROSEN Group)
  MS Thesis: “Investigating mechanical and physical properties of nanostructures” (2010)
• Enrique Muñoz (Pontifical Catholic U Chile)
• Alex Dobrinsky (Finnegan, …, LLP)
• Feng Ding (CAS, China)
• Traian Dumitricã (U Minnesota)
• Georgy Samsonidze (Bosch)