Tománek and his research group have worked in areas in
nanoscience and
nanotechnology. As a graduate student at
FU Berlin, he studied structural end electronic properties of
surfaces, including
reconstruction and photoemission spectra. He was intrigued by the unusual structure and electronic properties of
atomic clusters, including collective electronic excitations and superconductivity. His computational studies of growth regimes of silicon and carbon clusters have made use of the semi-quantitative
Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals (LCAO) or
tight-binding method. formation, mechanical
stiffness, their ability to conduct
heat and
electrons, and
field electron emission. After 2000, he got involved in studies of
two-dimensional materials including
phosphorene. In the following years, he has continued identifying applications of
carbon nanotubes and
two-dimensional materials in fields including low-resistance contacts to nanostructures, nanomechanical
energy storage, and purification and
desalination of water. == Conferences ==