Gleb Yushin

 

Research Assistant Professor,

A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute, Drexel University,

Materials Science and Engineering,

3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

 

Tel: 215.895.6211

Fax: 215. 895.1934

Email: yushin@cbis.ece.drexel.edu

 

 

Education

2003                            Ph.D. in Materials Science        (advisor: Dr. Z. Sitar)

North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, NC, USA   

1999                            M.S. in Physics, with Honors (advisor: Dr. M. Limonov)

Saint-Petersburg Technical University (SPTU), Saint-Petersburg, Russia

 

Research interests:                      

Nanotechnology, nanoporous carbon, carbon onions, nanodiamond,  gas separation, water purification, electrochemistry, porosity measurements, Raman spectroscopy, Transmission Electron Microscopy, Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy, etc.

 

Positions and Employment

 

9/2004 – present          Research Professor, A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute, Drexel University, Materials Science and Engineering, Philadelphia, PA

8/2003 – 9/2004          Postdoctoral Researcher, A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute, Drexel University, Materials Science and Engineering, Philadelphia, PA

7/1999 – 8/2003          Research Assistant, North Carolina State University (NCSU), Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Raleigh, NC

9/1995 – 5/1999          Research Assistant, A.F.Ioffe Physical and Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

 

Honors and Awards

 

2006                            Nano Letters, cover page image

2005                            B. Snow Award from the American Ceramic Society

2005                            Best Poster Award, Electrochemical Society Meeting, Quebec, Canada

2005                            Best Poster Award, Annual Meeting of North American Membrane Society, Providence, RI.

2005                            1st place award (in the Combined Techniques category) at the American Ceramic Society's annual Ceramographic Competition

2005                            1st place award (in the SEM category) at the American Ceramic Society's annual Ceramographic Competition

2005                            Best Poster in Hydrogen Storage Material Symposium and Nominee for MRS Best Poster Award, MRS Meeting, San Francisco, CA

2005                            Honorable Mention (International Metallographic Contest) at the International Metallographic Society Convention

2004                            Honorable mention at Nanotechnology Business Data Competition in Cleveland, Ohio

2004                            1st place award (in the Combined Techniques category) at the American Ceramic Society's annual Ceramographic Competition

1999                            M.S. diploma with Honors, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

1998                            Saint-Petersburg Scholarship For Best Graduate Students and Young Scientists, grant # M98-2.4D-144

1997                            Soros (International Science Foundation) student scholarship, grant # 97-1919

 

Member:                  

American Ceramic Society, Materials Research Society, American Chemical Society

 

Current students supervised:               

Ranjan Dash, Elizabeth Hoffman, John Chmiola, Goknur Cambaz, Daniel Vryhof, Saujanya Yachamaneni

 

Selected peer-reviewed publications:

 

1.         G. Yushin, Y. Gogotsi, and A. Nikitin, Carbide Derived Carbon, in Nanomaterials Handbook, Y. Gogotsi, Editor. 2006, CRC Press. p. 237-280.

2.         Z.G. Cambaz, G. Yushin, Y. Gogotsi, and V.G. Lutsenko, Anisotropic Etching of SiC Wiskers. Nano Lett., 2006, 6(3): p. 548-541.

3.         Y. Gogotsi, R.K. Dash, G. Yushin, T. Yildirim, G. Laudisio, and J.E. Fischer, Tailoring of Nanoscale Porosity in Carbide-Derived Carbons for Hydrogen Storage. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005. 127(46): p. 16006-16007.

4.         R.K. Dash, J. Chmiola, G.N. Yushin, Y. Gogotsi, G. Laudisio, J. Singer, J.E. Fischer, and S. Kucheyev, Titanium Carbide Derived Nanoporous Carbon for Energy-Related Applications. Carbon, 2006(accepted).

5.         G. Yushin, E. Hoffman, A. Nikitin, H. Ye, M.W. Barsoum, and Y. Gogotsi, Synthesis of Nanoporous Carbide-Derived Carbon by Chlorination of Titanium Silicon Carbide. Carbon, 2005. 44(10): p. 2075-2082.

6.         Z.G. Cambaz, G.N. Yushin, K.L. Vyshnyakova, L.N. Pereselentseva, and Y.G. Gogotsi, Conservation of Shape During Formation of Carbide-Derived Carbon on Silicon Carbide Nano-Whiskers. J. Am. Ceram. Soc, 2005 (in press).

7.         J. Chmiola, G. Yushin, R.K. Dash, E.N. Hoffman, J.E. Fischer, M.W. Barsoum, and Y. Gogotsi, Double-Layer Capacitance of Selected Carbide Derived Carbons in Sulfuric Acid. Electrochemical and Solid State Communications, 2005. 8 (7): p. A357-A360.

8.         G.N. Yushin, S. Osswald, V.I. Padalko, G.P. Bogatyreva, and Y. Gogotsi, Effect of sintering on structure of nanodiamond. Diam.  Related Mater., 2005. 14(10): p. 1721-1729.

9.         R.K. Dash, G. Yushin, and Y. Gogotsi, Nanoporous Carbon Derived from Zirconium Carbide. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 2005. 86: p. 50-57.

10.       E. Hoffman, G.N. Yushin, B.M. Barsoum, and G. Gogotsi, Synthesis of Nanoporous Carbide-Derived Carbon by Chlorination of Titanium Aluminum Carbide. Chem. Mater., 2005. 17(9): p. 2317-2322.

11.       G.N. Yushin, A.V. Kvit, and Z. Sitar, Transmission electron microscopy studies of the bonded SiC-SiC interface. J. Mat. Sci., 2005. 40: p. 4369-4371.

12.       G.N. Yushin and Z. Sitar, Influence of relative wafer rotation on the electrical properties of the bonded SiC/SiC interface. Appl. Phys. Lett, 2004. 84(20): p. 3993-3995.

13.       G.N. Yushin, A. Aleksov, S.D. Wolter, F. Okuzumi, J.T. Prater, and Z. Sitar, Wafer bonding of highly oriented diamond to silicon. Diam.  Related Mater., 2004. 13(10): p. 1816-1821.

14.       K.L. Vyshnyakova, L.N. Pereselentseva, Z.G. Cambaz, G.N. Yushin, and Y. Gogotsi, Whiskerisation of polycrystalline SiC fibres during synthesis. British Ceramic Transactions, 2004. 103(5): p. 193-196.

15.       S.D. Wolter, G.N. Yushin, J.T. Prater, and Z. Sitar, Processing routes for direct bonding of silicon to epitaxially textured diamond. Diam.  Related Mater., 2003. 12(3-7): p. 257-261.

16.       G.N. Yushin, A.V. Kvit, R. Collazo, and Z. Sitar, Wafer bonding of SiC to SiC. Mat.Res.Soc.Symp.Proc., 2003.

17.       S.D. Wolter, G.N. Yushin, F. Okuzumi, B.R. Stoner, J.T. Prater, and Z. Sitar, Direct fusion bonding of silicon to polycrystalline diamond. Diam.  Related Mater., 2002. 11: p. 482-486.

18.       G.N. Yushin, S.D. Wolter, A.V. Kvit, F. Okuzumi, B.R. Stoner, J.T. Prater, and Z. Sitar, Study of fusion bonding of diamond to silicon for silicon-on-diamond technology. Appl. Phys. Lett., 2002. 81(17).

19.       Y.E. Kitaev, M.F. Limonov, P. Tone, and G.N. Yushin, Raman-active modes in wurtzite (GaN)m(AlN)n superlattices. Phys. Rev. B, 1999. 57(22): p. 14209-14212.

20.       N.K. Yushin, E.P. Smirnova, and G.N. Yushin, Nonlinearity of the low-frequency permitivity of disordered ferroelectrics. Tech. Phys. Lett., 1996. 22(5): p. 405-406.