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We use state-of-the-art Nanocharacterization and Nanofabrication techniques to shape the future of Nanotechnology.
Research Themes:
Biosensors and Tissue Engineering
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2D Materials & Phase Transformation
Graphene, 2D Diamond, and beyond
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Nanomechanics
The power of Å-Indentation and Understanding Friction
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Thermal scanning probe lithography (tSPL)
Harnessing heat to pattern with nanoscale resolution
We are hiring PhDs and PostDocs! Please contact us!
Welcome! We are the Picoforce Lab
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Pressure induced transformation of h-BN films into 2D Diamond
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Nature Electronics 2019 on patterning metal contact on monolayer MoS2 with vanishing Schottky barriers by t-SPL
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Pressure induced transformation of h-BN films into 2D Diamond
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PAPER: Advanced Healthcare Materials 2023 on A polymer canvas with the stiffness of the bone matrix to study and control mesenchymal stem cell response
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PAPER: Advanced Science 2023 on Giant increase of hardness in silicon carbide by metastable single layer diamond
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PAPER: Nature Reviews Methods Primers on Thermal scanning probe lithography.
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PAPER: Nature Reviews Materials 2022 on Two-dimensional diamonds from sp2-to-sp3 phase transitions
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PAPER: Nature Nanotechnology 2022 on Interfacial Shear in 2D Materials
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PAPER: Advanced Functional Materials 2021 on Cost and Time Effective Lithography of Reusable Millimeter Size Bone Tissue Replicas With Sub‐15 nm Feature Size on A Biocompatible Polymer
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PRESS RELEASE: Advanced Materials 2020. Magnonic nanoantennas demonstrated: Optically-inspired computing with spin waves one step closer
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PAPER: Nature Nano 2018 on Ultra Hard Diamene by applying pressure on two-layer epitaxial-Graphene -
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The NanoFrazor arrived!!!!
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PAPER: Nature Nanotechnology 2016 on Pattering Reconfigurable Magnetic Nanostructures
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PAPER: Nature Communications 2015 on diamond spheres in AFM as a nano-thermometer
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PAPER: Nature Materials 2015 on interlayer elasticity in 2D materials
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The PicoForce Lab moves from GeorgiaTech to the CUNY-ASRC in NYC!
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PAPER: Nature Nanotechnology 2014 on thermochemical nanolithography
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PAPER: Nature Communications 2013 on Interfacial Liquids Flow -- New Paradigm
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PAPER: Science 2010 on writing graphene-like structures with tunable conductivity
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PAPER: Nature Materials 2009 on the Friction anisotropy of carbon nanotubes