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Mechanical Properties of Atomically Thin Tungsten Dichalcogenides: WS, WSe and WTe
Alexey Falin, Matthew Holwill, Haifeng Lv +10
Two-dimensional (2D) tungsten disulfide (WS), tungsten diselenide (WSe), and tungsten ditelluride (WTe) draw increasing attention due to their attractive properties der…
Layer-dependent mechanical properties and enhanced plasticity in the van der Waals chromium trihalide magnets
Fernando Cantos-Prieto, Alexey Falin, Martin Alliati +7
The mechanical properties of magnetic materials are instrumental for the development of the magnetoelastic theory and the optimization of strain-modulated magnetic devices. In part…
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…
Electronic polarizability as the fundamental variable in the dielectric properties of two-dimensional materials
Tian Tian, Declan Scullion, Dale Hughes +5
The dielectric constant, which defines the polarization of the media, is a key quantity in condensed matter. It determines several electronic and optoelectronic properties importan…
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…
Atomically Thin Boron Nitride: Unique Properties and Applications
Lu Hua Li, Ying Chen
Atomically thin boron nitride (BN) is an important two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterial, with many properties distinct from graphene. In this feature article, these unique properties…
Quantum Emission from Defects in Single Crystal Hexagonal Boron Nitride
Toan Trong Tran, Cameron Zachreson, Amanuel Michael Berhane +7
Bulk hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a highly nonlinear natural hyperbolic material that attracts major attention in modern nanophotonics applications. However, studies of its opt…
Dielectric Screening in Atomically Thin Boron Nitride Nanosheets
Lu Hua Li, Elton J. G. Santos, Tan Xing +5
Two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal boron nitride (BN) nanosheets are excellent dielectric substrate for graphene, molybdenum disulfide and many other 2D nanomaterials based electronic…
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…
Strong Oxidation Resistance of Atomically Thin Boron Nitride Nanosheets
Lu Hua Li, Jiri Cervenka, Kenji Watanabe +2
Investigation on oxidation resistance of two-dimensional (2D) materials is critical for many of their applications, because 2D materials could have higher oxidation kinetics than t…
Boron Nitride Nanotube Films Grown From Boron Ink Painting
Lu Hua Li, Ying Chen, Alexey M. Glushenkov
The growth of nanotube films on various substrates and surfaces is vital for applications in nanoscale functional devices. We report a simple and versatile boron (B) ink painting m…