Surface acoustic wave induced phenomena in two-dimensional materials

X Nie, X Wu, Y Wang, S Ban, Z Lei, J Yi, Y Liu… - Nanoscale …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Surface acoustic wave (SAW)–matter interaction provides a fascinating key for inducing and
manipulating novel phenomena and functionalities in two-dimensional (2D) materials. The …

Nanocarbon-based sensors for the structural health monitoring of smart biocomposites

GS Das, VK Tripathi, J Dwivedi, LK Jangir, KM Tripathi - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Structural health monitoring (SHM) is a critical aspect of ensuring the safety and durability of
smart biocomposite materials used as multifunctional materials. Smart biocomposites are …

Strong second-harmonic generation by sublattice polarization in non-uniformly strained monolayer graphene

K Lu, M Luo, W Gao, QJ Wang, H Sun… - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Despite the potential of graphene for building a variety of quantum photonic devices, its
centrosymmetric nature forbids the observation of second harmonic generation (SHG) for …

Deep elastic strain engineering of 2D materials and their twisted bilayers

Y Han, L Gao, J Zhou, Y Hou, Y Jia, K Cao… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conventionally, tuning materials' properties can be done through strategies such as
alloying, doping, defect engineering, and phase engineering, while in fact mechanical …

Heterostrain-enabled dynamically tunable moiré superlattice in twisted bilayer graphene

X Gao, H Sun, DH Kang, C Wang, QJ Wang, D Nam - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
The ability to precisely control moiré patterns in two-dimensional materials has enabled the
realization of unprecedented physical phenomena including Mott insulators, unconventional …

In Situ Nanomechanics: Opportunities Based on Superplastic Nanomolding

H Fang, Y Pan, C Lu, J Liu, T Ding, Z Liu - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
In situ nanomechanics, referring to the real-time monitoring of nanomechanical deformation
during quantitative mechanical testing, is a key technology for understanding the physical …

Creating a custom-designed moiré magnifying glass to probe local atomic lattice rotations in twisted bilayer graphene

CY Hao, JQ He, HJ Qiao, YW Liu, YN Ren, L He - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Moiré materials have risen to the forefront of physics research because of their ability to
realize a disparate set of fascinating physical phenomena in these systems. Besides …

Giant Periodic Pseudomagnetic Fields in Strained Kagome Magnet FeSn Epitaxial Films on SrTiO3(111) Substrate

H Zhang, M Weinert, L Li - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Quantum materials, particularly Dirac materials with linearly dispersing bands, can be
effectively tuned by strain-induced lattice distortions leading to a pseudomagnetic field that …

Gaussian curvature effects on graphene quantum dots

S de-la-Huerta-Sainz, A Ballesteros, NA Cordero - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the last few years, much attention has been paid to the exotic properties that graphene
nanostructures exhibit, especially those emerging upon deforming the material. Here we …

Interacting topological Dirac magnons

H Sun, D Bhowmick, B Yang, P Sengupta - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
In this work, we study the magnon-magnon interaction effect in typical honeycomb
ferromagnets consisting of van der Waals–bonded stacks of honeycomb layers, eg …