Anatoli Melechko came to the University of Tennessee in 1996 from Novosibirsk, Russian where he was a junior research staff member at the Institute of Semiconductor Physics.  He completed a MS degree in 1992 at the Department of Physics, Novosibirsk State University working with Professor Dmitry V. Petrov. His thesis work at UTK involved the use of the scanning tunneling microscope to map out surface phase transition with atomic resolution.  His thesis, completed in 2001 was titled “Role of Defects in Two-Dimensional Phase transitions.  The following are some of his most cited papers resulting from his thesis work.

  • Two-dimensional phase transition mediated by extrinsic defects, A. V. Melechko, J. Braun, H.H. Weitering, and E.W. Plummer,  Physical Review Letters 83, 999 (1999).
  • Defect-Mediated Condensation of a Charge Density Wave, (H. H. Weitering, J. M. Carpinelli, A. V. Melechko, Jiandi Zhang, M. Bartkowiak and E. W. Plummer), Science 285, 2107-2110 (1999).
  • The Role of Defects in Two-Dimensional Phase Transitions: an STM Study of the Sn/Ge(111) System, , (A. V. Melechko, J. Braun, H. H. Weitering, and E. W. Plummer), Phys. Rev.  B 61, 2235 (2000). 

After completion of this thesis he he accepted a postdoctoral Research Associate position in the Center for Environmental Biotechnology at UTK.  In 2004 he was appointed as a research assistant professor in the Department of  Materials Science and Engineering at UTK.  In 2006 he became a research staff member in the Material Science and Technology Division and the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at ORNL.  In 2008, he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.   [http://tolik.sciencedom.com].
His most cited paper is:

  • Vertically aligned carbon nanofibers and related structures: Controlled synthesis and directed assembly, A. V. Melechko, V.I. Merkulov, T. E. McKnight, et al., Journal of Applied Physics 97, 041301, (2005). 

 

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