Professor

Youngdong Yoo, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Chemistry, Ajou University

Office: 215-2 Woncheon Hall

Lab: 244-1 Woncheon Hall

Tel: 031-219-2692

E-mail: yyoo@ajou.ac.kr 

Education & Experience

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Ajou University, Suwon, Korea (2022/03 ~ present)

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Ajou University, Suwon, Korea (2018/03 ~ 2022/02)

Postdoctoral Associate, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN, United States (2014/04 ~ 2018/02)

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States (2012/12 ~ 2014/03)

Ph.D., Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea (2012)

B.S., Chemistry, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea (2006) 

Selected Recent Publications

H. Kim, Y. C. Kim, Y. H. Ahn*, Y. Yoo* "In-plane mixed-dimensional 2D/2D/1D MoS2/MoTe2/Mo6Te6 heterostructures for low contact resistance optoelectronics" Chemical Engineering Journal 468, 143678 (2023).

J. Ahn, S. Ha, J. Choi, D.-I. Yeom*, Y. Yoo* “Large-Area Structure-Selective Synthesis of Symmetry-Broken MoSe2 and Their Broadband Nonlinear Optical Response” Advanced Optical Materials 11, 2203116 (2023).

H. Kim, J. Johns, Y. Yoo* "Mixed-Dimensional In-Plane Heterostructures from 1D Mo6Te6 and 2D MoTe2 Synthesized by Te-Flux-Controlled Chemical Vapor Deposition" Small 16, 2002849 (2020).

Y. Yoo*, J. S. Jeong, R. Ma, S. J. Koester, J. E. Johns* “Ultrathin One-Dimensional Molybdenum Telluride Quantum Wires Synthesized by Chemical Vapor Deposition” Chemistry of Materials 32, 9650 (2020).

Y. Yoo*, S. Kim, J. Kim, B. Kim* "Geometry-Tailored Freestanding Epitaxial Pd, AuPd, and Au Nanoplates Driven by Surface Interactions" Nanoscale 12, 6537 (2020).

Y. Yoo, S. Kim, S. Han, H. Lee, J. Kim, H. S. Kim, J. P. Ahn, T. Kang, J. Choo, B. Kim "Epitaxially Aligned Submillimeter-Scale Silver Nanoplates Grown by Simple Vapor Transport" Nanoscale 11, 17436 (2019).

Y. Yoo#, H. Lee#, H. Lee, M. Lee, S. Yang, A. Hwang, S. Kim, J. Y. Park, J. Choo, T. Kang, B. Kim “Surfactant-Free Vapor-Phase Synthesis of Single-crystalline Gold Nanoplates for Optimally Bioactive Surfaces” Chemistry of Materials 29, 8747 (2017).

Y. Yoo, Z. P. Degregorio, Y. Su, S. J. Koester, J. E. Johns “In-Plane 2H-1T′ MoTe2 Homojunctions Synthesized by Flux-Controlled Phase Engineering” Advanced Materials 29, 1605461 (2017).

Z. P. Degregorio#, Y. Yoo#, J. E. Johns “Aligned MoO2/MoS2 and MoO2/MoTe2 Freestanding Core/Shell Nanoplates Driven by Surface Interactions” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 8, 1631 (2017).

Y. Yoo, Z. P. Degregorio, J. E. Johns “Seed Crystal Homogeneity Controls Lateral and Vertical Heteroepitaxy of Monolayer MoS2 and WS2” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137, 14281 (2015).

S. Brittman#, Y. Yoo#, N. P. Dasgupta, S. Kim, B. Kim, P. Yang “Epitaxially Aligned Cuprous Oxide Nanowires for All-Oxide, Single-Wire Solar Cells” Nano Letters 14, 4665 (2014).

S. Lee#, J. Im#, Y. Yoo#, E. Bitzek, D. Kiener, G. Richter, B. Kim, S. H. Oh “Reversible Cyclic Deformation Mechanism of Gold Nanowires by Twinning–Detwinning Transition Evidenced from In Situ TEM” Nature Communications 5, 3033 (2014).