Educational and Working History

Research History

Dmitri Golberg has a wide background and strong command in the synthesis, electron microscopy, and physical property measurements of BN and other inorganic nanotubes and related nanomaterials. In 1995 he became one of first world scientists to launch a full scale research on BN nanotubes. Since then he became a world-recognized expert in this field and published more than 100 papers solely on this topic. He has also deeply studied shape memory alloys while working as a visiting researcher at the University of Tsukuba, and single crystals of intermetallic compounds while being a guest scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute fuer Eisenforschung, and the National Institute for Metals, Tsukuba. Such joined unprecedented experience in nanotubes and metallic alloys allows him to launch a new and promising interesting field of nanoscale studies: physics, chemistry and functional properties of inorganic nanotubes filled and/or joined with metals. Over the last few years he became fully engaged in the electrical, mechanical and thermal property measurements of individual nanotubes, nanowires and graphene-like nanostructures in a transmission electron microscope. Golberg is author or co-author of more than 400 original papers in peer-reviewed International journals and over 100 patents. He has also authored numerous book chapters. In 2005 Golberg was awarded the 16th Tsukuba Prize for his studies of inorganic nanotubes and nanothermometers (Prof. Reona Ezaki, Nobel Prize winner, was the chairman of the selection committee of the Award). His works have been cited more than 10000 times and H-factor of his publications is 55.

Books (Chapter Author)

• Electron Microscopy of Nanotubes, Kluwer Academic Press, 2003
• Boron Nitride Nanotubes, AIP publishing, 2004
• In-situ Transmission Electron Microscopy of Filled Nanotubes, Wiley & Sons, 2007

Selected Papers

1. Boron nitride nanotubes and nanosheets

   Golberg D, Bando Y, Huang Y, Terao T, Mitome M, Tang CC, Zhi CY

   ACS Nano, 2010; 4(6): 2979-2993.

2. Properties and engineering of individual inorganic nanotubes in a transmission electron microscope

   Golberg D, Costa PMFJ, Mitome M, Bando Y

   J Mater Chem, 2009; 19(9): 909-920.

3. Boron nitride nanotubes

   Golberg D, Bando Y, Tang CC, Zhi CY

   Adv Mater, 2007; 19(18): 2413-2432.

4. Direct force measurements and kinking under elastic deformation of individual multiwalled boron nitride nanotubes

   Golberg D, Costa PMFJ, Lourie O, Mitome M, Tang C, Zhi CY, Kurashima K, Bando Y

   Nano Lett, 2007; 7(7): 2146-2151.

5. Copper-filled carbon nanotubes: rheostat-like behavior and femtogram copper mass transport

   Golberg D, Costa PMFJ, Mitome M, Mueller Ch, Hampel S, Leonhardt A, Bando Y

   Adv Mater, 2007; 19(15): 1937-1942.

6. Structural peculiarities of in situ deformation of a multi-walled BN nanotube inside a high-resolution transmission electron microscope

   Golberg D, Bai XD, Mitome M, Tang CC, Zhi CY, Bando Y

   Acta Mater, 2007; 55(4): 1293-1298.

7. Atomic structures of iron-based single-crystalline nanowires crystallized inside multi-walled carbon nanotubes as revealed by analytical electron microscopy

   Golberg D, Mitome M, Muller C, Tang CC, Leonhardt A, Bando Y

   Acta Mater, 2006; 54(9): 2567-2576.

8. Peculiarities of Fe-Ni alloy crystallization and stability inside C nanotubes as derived through electron microscopy

   Golberg D, Gu C, Bando Y, Mitome M, Tang CC

   Acta Mater, 2005; 53(5): 1583-1593.

9. Boron nitride nanotubes as nanocrucibles for morphology and phase transformations in encapsulated nanowires of the Mg-O system

   Golberg D, Bando Y, Mitome M, Fushimi K, Tang CC

   Acta Mater, 2004; 52(11): 3295-3303.

10. Synthesis, analysis and electrical property measurements of compound nanotubes in the ceramic B-C-N system

    Golberg D, Dorozhkin P, Bando Y, Dong ZC

    MRS Bulletin, 2004; 29(1): 38.