Curriculum Vitae

David Tománek    
Professor of Physics Telephone: +1-517-355-9702
Physics and Astronomy Department   +1-517-355-9200 x2305
4231 Biomedical and Physical Sciences Bldg. FAX: +1-517-353-4500
Michigan State University E-mail: tomanek@pa.msu.edu
East Lansing, MI 48824-2320, USA URL: http://www.pa.msu.edu/~tomanek/

Education

1983 Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) Theoretical Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
1979 M.S. (Diploma) Theoretical Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland

Employment and Professional Experience

1987–present Professor of Physics, Departments of Physics and Astronomy,
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
1985-1987 Assistant Professor of Physics on leave, Freie Universität Berlin, and
Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1985 Post-Doctoral Fellow, AT&T Bell Labs.
1979–1985 Research Assistant at the Freie Universität Berlin

Honors

2005 Fellow of the American Physical Society
2005 Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation Distinguished Senior Scientist Award

Visiting Positions

1983 Solid State Theory Group at the Centro Atomico Bariloche, Argentina
1985 AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey
1994 Laboratoire Aime Cotton of the CNRS, Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
1994 Department of Physics, National University of Singapore
1994 Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, Houston, USA
1995 Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy
1995 Fritz–Haber Institut der Max–Planck Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
1995 Physics Institute of Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden
1999 Physics Institute of the University of Coimbra, Portugal
2000 Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
(Invited Interdisciplinary Foreign Professor)
2001-2002 School of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
(Distinguished Visiting Professor of Physics)
2002 Visiting Professor, NEC Tsukuba Fundamental Research Labs.
2005 Vielberth Visiting Professor, University of Regensburg, Germany
2005 VTT Professor of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Professional Activities


Research Experience

Development and application of numerical techniques for structural, electronic, and optical properties of surfaces, low-dimensional systems and nanostructures. Computer simulations of fullerenes, nanotubes, ferrofluids, metallic and magnetic clusters.

Selected Publications

(complete list of 165 publications: http://www.pa.msu.edu/~tomanek/publications.html)

  1. D. Tománek and M.A. Schluter, Calculation of magic numbers and the stability of small Si clusters, Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 1055 (1986).

  2. D. Tománek, S.G. Louie and C.T. Chan, Ab initio calculation of coverage-dependent adsorption properties of H on Pd(001), Phys. Rev. Lett. 57, 2594 (1986); ibid. 58, 287 (1987) (E).

  3. Z. Sun and D. Tománek, Cold Fusion: How Close Can Deuterium Atoms Come Inside Palladium? Physical Review Letters 63, 59 (1989).

  4. D. Tománek, G. Overney, H. Miyazaki, S.D. Mahanti and H.J. Güntherodt, Theory for the Atomic Force Microscopy of Deformable Surfaces, Physical Review Letters 63, 876 (1989), and 63, 1896(E) (1989).

  5. S.B. Zhang, Mark S. Hybertsen, Marvin L. Cohen, Steven G. Louie, and D. Tománek, Quasiparticle Band Gaps for Ultrathin GaAs/AlAs(001) Superlattices, Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 1495 (1989).

  6. W. Zhong and D. Tománek, First-Principles Theory of Atomic-Scale Friction, Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 3054 (1990).

  7. D. Tománek and Michael A. Schluter, Growth Regimes of Carbon Clusters, Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2331 (1991).

  8. George F. Bertsch, Aurel Bulgac, David Tománek and Yang Wang, Collective Plasmon Excitations in C60 Clusters, Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2690 (1991).

  9. M. Schluter, M. Lannoo, M. Needels, G.A. Baraff, and D. Tománek, Electron-Phonon Coupling and Superconductivity in Alkali Intercalated C60 Solid, Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 526 (1992).

  10. W. Zhong, Y. Cai and D. Tománek, Computer simulation of hydrogen embrittlement in metals, Nature 362, 435 (1993).

  11. Seong Gon Kim and David Tománek, Melting the fullerenes: A molecular dynamics study, Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 2418 (1994).

  12. P. Jund, S.G. Kim, D. Tománek, and J. Hetherington, Stability and fragmentation of complex structures in ferrofluids, Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 3049 (1995).

  13. A.G. Rinzler, J.H. Hafner, P. Nikolaev, L. Lou, S.G. Kim, D. Tománek, P. Nordlander, D.T. Colbert, and R.E. Smalley, Unraveling Nanotubes: Field Emission from an Atomic Wire, Science 269, 1550 (1995).

  14. James L. Dye, Michael J. Wagner, Gregor Overney, Rui H. Huang, Tibor F. Nagy, and David Tománek, Cavities and channels in electrides, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 118, 7329 (1996).

  15. David Tománek, Steffen Wilke, and Matthias Scheffler, Hydrogen-induced polymorphism of the Pd(110) surface, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 1329 (1997).

  16. Andreas Thess, Roland Lee, Pavel Nikolaev, Hongjie Dai, Pierre Petit, Jerome Robert, Chunhui Xu, Young Hee Lee, Seong Gon Kim, Daniel T. Colbert, Gustavo Scuseria, David Tománek, John E. Fischer, and Richard E. Smalley, Crystalline ropes of metallic carbon nanotubes, Science 273, 483 (1996).

  17. Young Hee Lee, Seong Gon Kim, and David Tománek, Catalytic growth of single-wall nanotubes: An ab initio study, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2393 (1997).

  18. Young-Kyun Kwon, Young Hee Lee, Seong-Gon Kim, Philippe Jund, David Tománek, and Richard E. Smalley, Morphology and stability of growing multi-wall carbon nanotubes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 2065 (1997).

  19. Young-Kyun Kwon, David Tománek, and Sumio Iijima, "Bucky-Shuttle" Memory Device: Synthetic Approach and Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1470 (1999).

  20. Petr Král and David Tománek, Laser driven atomic pump, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 5373 (1999).

  21. Stefano Sanvito, Young-Kyun Kwon, David Tománek, and Colin J. Lambert, Fractional quantum conductance in carbon nanotubes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1974 (2000).

  22. Young-Kyun Kwon and David Tománek, Orientational melting in carbon nanotube ropes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1483 (2000).

  23. Savas Berber, Young-Kyun Kwon, and David Tománek, Unusually High Thermal Conductivity of Carbon Nanotubes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4613 (2000).

  24. Petr Král, E. J. Mele, and David Tománek, Photogalvanic Effects in Heteropolar Nanotubes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1512 (2000).

  25. A. M. Rao, J. Chen, E. Richter, P. C. Eklund, R. C. Haddon, U. D. Venkateswaran, Y.-K. Kwon, and D. Tománek, Effect of van der Waals interactions on the Raman modes in single walled carbon nanotubes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3895 (2001).

  26. Savas Berber, Young-Kyun Kwon, and David Tománek, Microscopic Formation Mechanism of Nanotube Peapods, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 185502 (2002).

  27. Noejung Park, Mina Yoon, Savas Berber, Jisoon Ihm, Eiji Osawa, and David Tománek, Magnetism in all-carbon nanostructures with negative Gaussian curvature, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 237204 (2003).

  28. Mina Yoon, Seungwu Han, Gunn Kim, Sangbong Lee, Savas Berber, Eiji Osawa, Jisoon Ihm, Mauricio Terrones, Florian Banhart, Jean-Christophe Charlier, Nicole Grobert, Humberto Terrones, Pulickel M. Ajayan, David Tománek, The zipper mechanism of nanotube fusion: Theory and Experiment, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 (2004).

  29. Savas Berber, Young-Kyun Kwon, and David Tománek, Bonding and Energy Dissipation in a Nanohook Assembly, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 165503 (2003).

  30. Young-Kyun Kwon, Savas Berber, and David Tománek, Thermal Contraction of Carbon Fullerenes and Nanotubes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 (2004).


Invited and Contributed Presentations

(complete list of 460 presentations: http://www.pa.msu.edu/~tomanek/presentations.html)

Patent Applications

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