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Visualizing Van der Waals Epitaxial Growth of Two-Dimensional Heterostructures
Kenan Zhang, Changchun Ding, Baojun Pan +5
Understanding the growth mechanisms of two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures is of great importance in exploring their functionalities and device applications.…
Mechanical Properties of Atomically Thin Boron Nitride and the Role of Interlayer Interactions
Aleksey Falin, Qiran Cai, Elton J. G. Santos +11
Atomically thin boron nitride (BN) nanosheets are important two-dimensional nanomaterials with many unique properties distinct from those of graphene, but the investigation of thei…
Two-dimensional van der Waals Heterostructures for Synergistically Improved Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
Qiran Cai, Wei Gan, Alexey Falin +8
Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a precise and non-invasive analytical technique that is widely used in chemical analysis, environmental protection, food processing, p…
Molecule-Induced Conformational Change in Boron Nitride Nanosheets with Enhanced Surface Adsorption
Qiran Cai, Aijun Du, Guoping Gao +11
Surface interaction is extremely important to both fundamental research and practical application. Physisorption can induce shape and structural distortion (i.e. conformational cha…
Boron Nitride Nanosheets Improve Sensitivity and Reusability of Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
Qiran Cai, Srikanth Mateti, Wenrong Yang +6
Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a useful multidisciplinary analytic technique. However, it is still a challenge to produce SERS substrates that are highly sensitive,…
Boron Nitride Nanosheet Veiled Gold Nanoparticles for Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering
Qiran Cai, Srikanth Mateti, Kenji Watanabe +4
Atomically thin boron nitride (BN) nanosheets have many properties desirable for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). BN nanosheets have a strong surface adsorption capabili…
Boron Nitride Nanosheets as Improved and Reusable Substrates for Gold Nanoparticles Enabled Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
Qiran Cai, Lu Hua Li, Yuanlie Yu +5
Atomically thin boron nitride (BN) nanosheets have been found an excellent substrate for noble metal particles enabled surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), thanks to their g…
Observation of Active Sites for Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Nitrogen-doped Multilayer Graphene
Tan Xing, Yao Zheng, Lu Hua Li +5
Active sites and catalytic mechanism of nitrogen-doped graphene in oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) have been extensively studied but are still inconclusive, partly due to the lack…
Band Structure, Phonon Scattering and the Ultimate Performance of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Transistors
Xinjian Zhou, Ji-Yong Park, Shaoming Huang +2
Semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes are studied in the diffusive transport regime. The peak mobility is found to scale with the square of the nanotube diameter and invers…