Bokwon Yoon

 

Research Scientist II

Center for Computational Materials Science

School of Physics, Georgia Tech

 

Office

403B, Howey Physics Building

Address

837 State Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0439

Tel

404-894-1168

Fax

404-894-7747

Email

 

Personal Information:

1997

Université Paris-Sud

France

Ph.D. (thèse)

1993

Université Paris-Sud

France

DEA

1990

Seoul National University

Korea

BS

 

1999~         School of Physics, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

1997~1999 Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, CNRS, Orsay, France

 

News Appearance:

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, 2005

Societé Française de Chemie (in French), 2005

Chemie.de (in German), 2005

PhysOrg.com, 2005

Yonhap news agency (in Korean), 2005

Dong-A daily news (in Korean), 2005

Chosun daily news (in Korean), 2005

Georgia Tech new release: 2005, 2007

 

Software Development:

Developed IntelligentView, a scientific image processing/analysis software

 

Three of Dr. Yoon’s publications have been cited more than 100 times each (see publications (8), (9), and (12)). His 2005 report from Science (Yoon, et al, Science 307, 403 (2005)) was cited more than 300 times (October, 2009).

 

Publications:

 

(1) Hydrogen-Promoted Oxygen Activation by Free Gold Cluster Cations

-         Sandra M. Lang, Thorsten M. Bernhardt, Robert N. Barnett, Bokwon Yoon and Uzi Landman

-         Journal of the American Chemical Society 131, 8939 (2009)

 

(2) Control and Manipulation of Gold Nanocatalysis: Effects of Metal Oxide Support Thickness and Composition

-         Chris Harding, Vahideh Habibpour, Sebastian Kunz, Adrian Nam-Su Farnbacher, Ueli Heiz, Bokwon Yoon and Uzi Landman

-         Journal of the American Chemical Society 131, 538 (2009)

 

(3) Electric field control of structure, dimensionality, and reactivity of gold nanoclusters on metal-supported MgO films

-         Bokwon Yoon and Uzi Landman

-         Physical Review Letters 100, 056102 (2008)

 

(4) Factors in gold nanocatalysis: oxidation of CO in the non-scalable size regime

-         Uzi Landman, Bokwon Yoon, Chun Zhang, Ueli Heiz, Matthias Arenz

-         Topics in Catalysis 44, 145 (2007)

 

(5) Predicted Oxidation of CO Catalyzed by Au Nanoclusters on a Thin Defect-Free MgO Film Supported on a Mo(100) Surface

-         Chun Zhang, Bokwon Yoon, and Uzi Landman

-         Journal of the American Chemical Society 129, 2228 (2007)

 

(6) Size-Dependent Structural Evolution and Chemical Reactivity of Gold Clusters

-         Bokwon Yoon, Pekka Koskinen, Bernd Huber, Oleg Kostko, Bernd von Issendorff,  Hannu Häkkinen, Michael Moseler, and Uzi Landman

-         ChemPhysChem 8, 157 (2007)

 

(7) Structural evolution of Au nanoclusters: From planar to cage to tubular motifs

-         Xiaopeng Xing, Bokwon Yoon, Uzi Landman, and Joel H. Parks

-         Physical Review B 74, 165423 (2006)

 

(8) Charging Effects on Bonding and Catalyzed Oxidation of CO on Au8 Clusters on MgO

-         Bokwon Yoon, Hannu Häkkinen, Uzi Landman, Anke, S. Wörz, Jean-Marie Antonietti, Stéphane Abbet, Ken Judai, and Ueli Heiz

       -     Science 307, 403 (2005)

 

(9) On the Electronic and Atomic Structures of Small AuN- (N = 4-14) Clusters: A Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Density-functional Study

       -     Hannu Häkkinen, Bokwon Yoon, Uzi Landman, Xi Li, Hua-Jin Zhai, and Lai-Sheng Wang

       -     Journal of Physical Chemistry A 107, 6168 (2003)

 

(10) Thermal and chemical nanofractal relaxation

-         C. Bréchignac, Ph. Cahuzac, F. Carlier, C. Colliex, M. de Frutos, N. Kébaïli, Le Roux, A. Masson, and B. Yoon

-         European Physical Journal D 24, 265 (2003)

 

(11) Diffusion of gold clusters on defective graphite surfaces

-         Bokwon Yoon, W. D. Luedtke, Jianping Gao, and Uzi Landman

-         Journal of Physical Chemistry B 107 5882 (2003)

 

(12) Interaction of O2 with Gold Clusters: Molecular and Dissociative Adsorption

-         Bokwon Yoon, Hannu Häkkinen, and Uzi Landman

-         Journal of Physical Chemistry A 107 4066 (2003)

 

(13) Instability Driven Fragmentation of Nanoscale Fractal Islands

-         C. Bréchignac, Ph. Cahuzac, F. Carlier, C. Colliex, J. Leroux, A. Masson, B. Yoon, and Uzi Landman

-         Physical Review Letter 88, 196103 (2002)

 

(14) Control of island morphology by dynamic coalescence of soft-landed clusters

-         C. Bréchignac , Ph. Cahuzac , F. Carlier , C. Colliex , M. de Frutos , N. Kebaïli , J. Le Roux , A. Masson , and B. Yoon

-         The European Physical Journal D 16, 265 (2001)

 

(15) Morphology control of the supported islands grown from soft-landed clusters

-         B. Yoon, V. M. Akulin, Ph. Cahuzac, F. Carlier, M. de Frutos, A. Masson, C. Mory, C. Colliex, and C. Bréchignac

-         Surface Science 443, 76 (1999)

 

(16) Size effect in mobility and coalescence of preformed soft landed antimony clusters on amorphous carbon surface.    

-     C. Bréchignac, Ph. Cahuzac, and F. Carlier, M. de Frutos, and A. Masson, C. Mory, C. Colliex and B. Yoon

-     Physical Review B 57 R2084 (1998)

 

(17) Mobility and aggregation of free clusters soft landed on amorphous and crystalline carbon substrates.  

-     C. Bréchignac , P. Cahuzac , F. Carlier , M. de Frutos , A. Masson , C. Colliex, C. Mory , and B. Yoon       

-     Zeitschrift für Physik D 40, 520 (1997)