In-situ investigation of stacked heteronanostructures (ISIHNANO)

2017–2020

Similar to sheets of paper, which can be extracted from a paper stack, some materials in Nature exist in layers which form stacked crystals. The best know example of such a material is graphite, which consists of layers of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern. Only a decade ago, it was shown that—similar to an individual paper sheet—such a carbon layer can also exists individually, without the support of the other layers in the stack. This one-atom-thick crystal of carbon atoms, called graphene, and other similar materials have been in the focus of an immense research effort ever since its discovery. Interestingly, such atomic sheets can also be rolled up, again similar to paper, to form tubular structures, such as carbon nanotubes. Also other similarly quasi-one-dimensional structures exist and exhibit interesting properties. During the last few years, a large research effort has started to investigate more complicated structures, which can be formed by combining different building blocks such as graphene and nanotubes. In this project, we bring together two research teams to study properties of such combined structures at atomic level. This combination of expertise allows us to bring our understanding of this new class of structures up to a completely new level, which may pave the way for their use in applications for example in nanoelectronics, thermoelectrics and on other fields.

Funder: Austrian Science Fund

Project identifier: I3181-N36

Principal investigator: J. Kotakoski, in collaboration with Sang Wook Lee (Ewha Womans University, Republic of Korea)


Project publications

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2022


Niggas, A., Schwestka, J., Balzer, K., Weichselbaum, D., Schlünzen, N., Heller, R., Creutzburg, S., Inani, H., Tripathi, M., Speckmann, C., McEvoy, N., Susi, T., Kotakoski, J., Gan, Z., George, A., Turchanin, A., Bonitz, M., Aumayr, F., & Wilhelm, R. A. (2022). Ion-Induced Surface Charge Dynamics in Freestanding Monolayers of Graphene and MoS2 Probed by the Emission of Electrons. Physical Review Letters, 129(8), [086802]. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.086802

2021


Goldt, A. E., Zaremba, O. T., Bulavskiy, M. O., Fedorov, F. S., Larionov, K., Tsapenko, A. P., Popov, Z., Sorokin, P., Anisimov, A. S., Inani, H., Kotakoski, J., Mustonen, K., & Nasibulin, A. G. (2021). Highly efficient bilateral doping of single-walled carbon nanotubes. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 9(13), 4514-4521. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0tc05996j

2020


Ahmad, S., Mustonen, K., McLean, B., Jiang, H., Zhang, Q., Hussain, A., Khan, A. T., Ding, E-X., Liao, Y., Wei, N., Monazam, M. R. A., Nasibulin, A. G., Kotakoski, J., Page, A. J., & Kauppinen, E. I. (2020). Hybrid Low-Dimensional Carbon Allotropes Formed in Gas Phase. Advanced Functional Materials, 30(45), [2005016]. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202005016

Schwestka, J., Inani, H., Tripathi, M., Niggas, A., McEvoy, N., Libisch, F., Aumayr, F., Kotakoski, J., & Wilhelm, R. A. (2020). Atomic-Scale Carving of Nanopores into a van der Waals Heterostructure with Slow Highly Charged Ions. ACS Nano, 14(8), 10536-10543. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c04476

Creutzburg, S., Schwestka, J., Niggas, A., Inani, H., Tripathi, M., George, A., Heller, R., Kozubek, R., Madauss, L., McEvoy, N., Facsko, S., Kotakoski, J., Schleberger, M., Turchanin, A., Grande, P. L., Aumayr, F., & Wilhelm, R. A. (2020). Vanishing influence of the band gap on the charge exchange of slow highly charged ions in freestanding single-layer MoS2. Physical Review B, 102(4), [045408]. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.102.045408


2019


Liao, Y., Mustonen, K., Tulić, S., Skákalová, V., Khan, S. A., Laiho, P., Zhang, Q., Li, C., Monazam, M. R. A., Kotakoski, J., Lipsanen, H., & Kauppinen, E. I. (2019). Enhanced Tunneling in a Hybrid of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene. ACS Nano, 13(10), 11522-11529. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.9b05049

Su, C., Tripathi, M., Yan, Q. B., Wang, Z., Zhang, Z., Hofer, C., Wang, H., Basile, L., Su, G., Dong, M., Meyer, J. C., Kotakoski, J., Kong, J., Idrobo, J. C., Susi, T., & Li, J. (2019). Engineering single-atom dynamics with electron irradiation. Science Advances, 5(5), [2252]. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aav2252

Kozubek, R., Tripathi, M., Ghorbani-Asl, M., Kretschmer, S., Madauß, L., Pollmann, E., O'Brien, M., McEvoy, N., Ludacka, U., Susi, T., Duesberg, G. S., Wilhelm, R. A., Krasheninnikov, A. V., Kotakoski, J., & Schleberger, M. (2019). Perforating Freestanding Molybdenum Disulfide Monolayers with Highly Charged Ions. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 10(5), 904-910. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b03666

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