Publications related to Monolayer

Electrochemical-repaired porous graphene membranes for precise ion-ion separation

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Kuang-Jung Hsu, Heng-Yu Chi, Shuqing Song, Kangning Zhao, Zongyao Zhou

The preparation of atom-thick porous lattice hosting & Aring;-scale pores is attractive to achieve a large ion-ion selectivity in combination with a large ion flux. Graphene film is an ideal selective layer for this if high-precision pores can be incorpora ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Coordination-Driven Monolayer-to-Bilayer Transition in Two-Dimensional Metal–Organic Networks

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg, Mina Moradi, Patrick Shahgaldian

We report on monolayer-to-bilayer transitions in 2D metal–organic networks (MONs) from amphiphiles supported at the water–air interface. Functionalized calix[4]arenes are assembled through the coordination of selected transition metal ions to yield monomol ...

2021

Emergence of Potential-Controlled Cu-Nanocuboids and Graphene-Covered Cu-Nanocuboids under Operando CO2 Electroreduction

Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Fernando Pablo Cometto, Karla Banjac, Thanh Hai Phan

The electroreduction of CO2 (CO2RR) is a promising strategy toward sustainable fuels. Cu is the only Earth-abundant and pure metal capable of catalyzing CO2-to-hydrocarbons conversion with significant Faradaic efficiencies; yet, its dynamic structure under ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Gate Control of Spin-Layer-Locking FETs and Application to Monolayer LuIO

Nicola Marzari, Antimo Marrazzo, Thibault Daniel Pierre Sohier, Rong Zhang

A recent 2D spinFET concept proposes to switch electrostatically between two separate sublayers with strong and opposite intrinsic Rashba effects, exploiting the spin-layer-locking mechanism in centrosymmetric materials with local dipole fields. Here, we p ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Switchable and Simultaneous Spatiotemporal Analog Computing with Computational Graphene-based Multilayers

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Ali Momeni

In the past few years, analog computing has experienced rapid development but mostly for a single function. Motivated by parallel space-time computing and miniaturization, we show that reconfigurable graphene-based multilayerss offer a promising path towar ...

2022

Molecular ordering effects in bulk and at lipid/water nanoscopic interfaces: A story of water, light, and order

Nathan Dupertuis

Water is ubiquitous on Earth, playing a critical role for a plethora of structures, processes and chemical reactions in nature. Its unique physicochemical properties originate mainly from its hydrogen bond network. Despite its recognized importance, many a ...

EPFL2021

Reliable Langmuir Blodgett colloidal masks for large area nanostructure realization

Olivier Martin, Christian Santschi, Madasamy Thangamuthu

The fabrication of highly ordered nanostructures over large areas is key for many technologies and colloidal lithography using the Langmuir Blodgett technique appears a simple and straightforward way of reaching that goal. While this technique has been wid ...

2020

Carbon Nanomaterials from Oligoyne Surfactants

Enzo Jean Raymond Bomal

Carbonaceous nanocoatings such as diamond-like amorphous carbon or graphene layers exhibit remarkable properties in multiple fields, ranging from corrosion protection to electronics and lubrication. However, they are typically deposited from the vapor phas ...

EPFL2020

Controlling the Quantum Spin Hall Edge States in Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Oleg Yazyev, Artem Pulkin

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) of Mo and W in their 1T' crystalline phase host the quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator phase. We address the electronic properties of the QSH edge states by means of first-principles calculations perfo ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Thermomechanical Nanocutting of 2D Materials

Jürgen Brugger, Giovanni Boero, Xia Liu, Ana Conde Rubio, Samuel Tobias Howell

Atomically thin materials, such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides, are promising candidates for future applications in micro/nanodevices and systems. For most applications, functional nanostructures have to be patterned by lithography. Devel ...

Wiley2020

The Diverse Nature of Ion Speciation at the Nanoscale Hydrophobic/Water Interface

Sylvie Roke, Halil Ibrahim Okur, Evangelia Zdrali

Many biological systems are composed of nanoscale structures having hydrophobic and hydrophilic groups adjacent to one another and in contact with aqueous electrolyte solution. The interaction of ions with such structures is of fundamental importance. Alth ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Halogen-bond driven self-assembly of perfluorocarbon monolayers on silicon nitride

Nicola Marzari, Antonio Abate, Ngoc Linh Nguyen

The self-assembly of a single layer of organic molecules on a substrate is a powerful strategy to modify surfaces and interfacial properties. Thiolates, silanes, phosphonates and carboxylates are widely used head-groups to link organic molecules to specifi ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

Scanning Probe-Directed Assembly and Rapid Chemical Writing Using Nanoscopic Flow of Phospholipids

Vytautas Navikas

Nanofluidic systems offer a huge potential for discovery of new molecular transport and chemical phenomena that can be employed for future technologies. Herein, we report on the transport behavior of surface-reactive compounds in a nanometer-scale flow of ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Convergent and divergent beam electron holography and reconstruction of adsorbates on free-standing two-dimensional crystals

Tatiana Latychevskaia

Van der Waals heterostructures have been lately intensively studied because they offer a large variety of properties that can be controlled by selecting 2D materials and their sequence in the stack. The exact arrangement of the layers as well as the exact ...

HIGHER EDUCATION PRESS2019

Spin-valley optoelectronics based on two-dimensional materials

Dmitrii Unuchek

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, in particular graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC), have attracted great scientific interest over the last decade, revealing exceptional mechanical, electrical and optical properties. Owing to their layered n ...

EPFL2019

Excitonic effects in two-dimensional TiSe2 from hybrid density functional theory

Oleg Yazyev, Diego José Pasquier

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), whether in bulk or in monolayer form, exhibit a rich variety of charge-density-wave (CDW) phases and stronger periodic lattice distortions. While the actual role of nesting has been under debate, it is well understo ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2018

Interfacial Structure and Hydration of 3D Lipid Monolayers in Aqueous Solution

Sylvie Roke, Yixing Chen, Halil Ibrahim Okur, Nikolay Smolentsev, Evangelia Zdrali

Three-dimensional (3D) phospholipid monolayers at hydrophobic surfaces are ubiquitous and found in nature as adiposome organelles or in man-made materials such as drug delivery systems. However, the molecular level understanding of such monolayers remains ...

American Chemical Society2017

Electronic Transport in 2D Materials with Strong Spin-orbit Coupling

Artem Pulkin

The thesis describes the computational study of structural, electonic and transport properties of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) in the stable 2H and the metastable 1T' phases. Several aspects have been covered by the study including the ...

EPFL2017

Fluorinated and Charged Hydrogenated Alkanethiolates Grafted on Gold: Expanding the Diversity of Mixed-Monolayer Nanoparticles for Biological Applications

Francesco Stellacci

Low intrinsic toxicity, high solubility, and stability are important and necessary features of gold nanoparticles to be used in the biomedical field. In this context, charged nanoparticles proved to be very versatile, and among them charged mixed-monolayer ...

American Chemical Society2017

Free-standing electronic character of monolayer

Andras Kis, Dumitru Dumcenco, Olivier Renault, Yen-Cheng Kung, Ming-Wei Chen, Hokwon Kim

We have evaluated as-grown MoS2 crystals, epitaxially grown on a monocrystalline sapphire by chemical vapor deposition (CVD), with direct electronic band-structure measurements by energy-filtered k-space photoelectron emission microscopy performed with a c ...

Amer Physical Soc2016