Duck Young Chung
Senior Materials Scientist
Biography
Duck Young Chung is a Senior Materials Scientist in the Quantum States and Crystalline Matter Group at Argonne National Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Kyungpook National University in 1991. In 1992, he joined the research group of Prof. Mercouri G. Kanatzidis at Michigan State University as a postdoctoral researcher and later became a Research Faculty member in the Department of Chemistry. In 2006, he joined Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory.
Dr. Chung has extensive expertise and a distinguished track record in solid-state chemistry and materials science. His research focuses on the exploratory synthesis and crystal growth of novel inorganic materials, advanced structural, chemical, and physical characterization, and the development of innovative synthesis and crystal growth methodologies. His work spans a broad range of material systems, including chalcogenides, pnictides, halides, and intermetallic compounds, with applications in thermoelectrics, superconductivity, topological quantum materials, and high-energy radiation detection. Dr. Chung has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications and patents. Contact: dychung@anl.gov
Selected Publications
Hengdi Zhao,Xiuquan Zhou, Ziliang Wang, Patricia E. Meza, Yihao Wang, Denis T. Keane, Steven J. Weigand, Saul H. Lapidus, Duck-Young Chung, Christopher Wolverton, Vinayak P. Dravid, Stephan Rosenkranz, and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis “A Stoichiometrically Conserved Heterostructural Series with Infinite Structural Diversity” Science, 2025, 390, 1057-1063. (DOI: 10.1126/science.aea80)
Hengdi Zhao,Xiuquan Zhou, Hyowon Park, Tianqi Deng, Brandon Wilfong, Alann P. Au II, Samuel E. Pate, Craig M. Brown, Hui Wu, Tushar Bhowmick, Tessa McNamee, Ravhi Kumar, Yu-Sheng Chen, Zhi-Li Xiao, Russell Hemley, Weizhao Cai, Shanti Deemyad, Duck-Young Chung, Stephan Rosenkranz, and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis “Evolution from Topological Dirac Metal to Flat-band-Induced Antiferromagnet in Layered KxNi4S2 (0≤x≤1)” Matter, 2025, 9, 102418. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2025.102418)
Duck Young Chung, Wenwen Lin, Mustafa Unal, Phan Quoc Vuong, Indra Pandey, Richard Vitt, Yihui, He, and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis “Growth of High-Purity CsPbBr3 Crystals for Enhanced Gamma-Ray Detection” Crys. Growth Des. 2024, 24, 22, 9590–9600. (doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.4c01109)
Ramakanta Chapai, Maxime Leroux,Vincent Oliviero, David Vignolles, Nicolas Bruyant, M. P. Smylie, D. Y. Chung, M. G. Kanatzidis, W.-K. Kwok, J. F. Mitchell, Ulrich Welp “Magnetic Breakdown and Topology in the Kagome Superconductor CsV3Sb5 under High Magnetic Field” Phys. Rev. Lett. 2023, 130, 126401. (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.126401)
Xiuquan Zhou, Chaitanya V. S. Kolluru, Wenqian Xu, Luqing Wang, Tieyan Chang, Yu-Sheng Chen,Lei Yu, Jianguo Wen,Maria K. Chan, Duck Young Chung, and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis. ” Discovery of Chalcogenides Structures and Compositions Using Mixed Fluxes” Nature 2022, 612, 72–77. (Nov. 9, 2022) (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05307-7)
Xiuquan Zhou,Christos D. Malliakas,Duck-Young Chung,Andrey Yakovenko,Brandon Wilfong, Suyin G. Wang,Yu-Sheng Chen, Lei Yu,Jianguo Wen,Mahalingam Balasubramanian, Hsien-Hau Wang,and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis “Coherent approach to two-dimensional heterolayered oxychalcogenides using molten hydroxides” Nature Synth. 2022, 1, 729-737. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44160-022-00130-4)
Alexander J. E. Rettie, Jingxuan Ding, Christos D. Malliakas, Naresh Osti, Duck Young Chung, Raymond Osborn, Olivier Delaire, Stephan Rosenkranz, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis “Discovery of a Two-Dimensional Type I Superionic Conductor” Nature Materials 2021, 20, 1683–1688. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-021-01053-9)
Yihui He, Matthew Petryk, Zhifu Liu, Daniel G. Chica, Ido Hadar, Charles Leak, Weijun Ke, Wenwen Lin, Duck Young Chung, Bruce W. Wessels, Zhong He and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis “CsPbBr3 Perovskite Detectors with 1.4% Energy Resolution for High Energy g-rays” Nature Photonics, 2021, 15, 36-42. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-020-00727-1)
Daniel G. Chica, Yihui He, Kyle M. McCall, Duck Young Chung, Rahmi O. Pak, Giancarlo Trimarchi, Zhifu Liu, Patrick M. De Lurgio, Bruce W. Wessels, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis “Direct Thermal Neutron Detection by the 2D Semiconductor 6LiInP2Se6″ Nature 2020, 577, 346-349. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1886-8)
A. D. Christianson, E. A. Goremychkin, R. Osborn, S. Rosenkranz, M. D. Lumsden, C. D. Malliakas, I. S. Todorov, H. Claus, D. Y. Chung, M. G. Kanatzidis, R. I. Bewley, and T. Guidi “Unconventional superconductivity in Ba0.6K0.4Fe2As2 from inelastic neutron scattering” Nature 2008, 456, 930-932. (https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07625)
D.-Y. Chung, T. Hogan, P. W. Brazis, M. Rocci-Lane, C. R. Kannewurf, M. Bastea, C. Uher and M. G. Kanatzidis “CsBi4Te6: A High-Performance Thermoelectric Material for Low-Temperature Applications” Science 2000, 287, 1024-1027. (DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5455.1024)