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Outstanding Thermal Conductivity of Single Atomic Layer Isotope-Modified Boron Nitride
Qiran Cai, Declan Scullion, Wei Gan +8
Materials with high thermal conductivities (k) is valuable to solve the challenge of waste heat dissipation in highly integrated and miniaturized modern devices. Herein, we report…
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…
Raman Signature and Phonon Dispersion of Atomically Thin Boron Nitride
Qiran Cai, Declan Scullion, Aleksey Falin +5
Raman spectroscopy has become an essential technique to characterize and investigate graphene and many other two-dimensional materials. However, there still lacks consensus on the…
Atomically Thin Boron Nitride as an Ideal Spacer for Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence
Wei Gan, Christos Tserkezis, Qiran Cai +11
The metal-enhanced fluorescence (MEF) considerably enhances the luminescence for various applications, but its performance largely depends on the dielectric spacer between the fluo…
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…
High thermal conductivity of high-quality monolayer boron nitride and its thermal expansion
Qiran Cai, Declan Scullion, Wei Gan +7
Heat management becomes more and more critical, especially in miniaturized modern devices, so the exploration of highly thermally conductive materials with electrical insulation an…
Asymmetric Electric Field Screening in van der Waals Heterostructures
Lu Hua Li, Tian Tian, Qiran Cai +2
Electric field screening plays an important role in the physical and chemical properties of materials and their devices. Here, we use a compelling set of theoretical and experiment…
Hunting micrometer-sized graphene flakes on gold substrate
Joel M. Katzen, Matěj Velický, Yuefeng Huang +7
Gold is widely used as the substrate material in many graphene devices, due to its superior optoelectronic properties and chemical stability. However, there has been little experim…
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…