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Author Correction: Nanoscale C–H/C–D mapping of organic materials using electron spectroscopy Open

Ryosuke Senga, Katsumi Hagita, Tomohiro Miyata, Hsiao‐Fang Wang, Koichi Mayumi , et al. · 2025

Ultraviolet optical conductivity, exciton fine-structure and dispersion of freestanding monolayer h-BN Open

Jinhua Hong, Alberto Guandalini, Weibin Wu, Haiming Sun, Fuwei Wu , et al. · 2025

Excitons govern the light-matter interaction in 2D gapped materials with intrinsically large binding energies. In spite of plentiful optical measurements in the visible for semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenides, we still lack opt…

Defect migration and phase transformations in 2D iron chloride inside bilayer graphene Open

Qiunan Liu, Haiming Sun, Yung‐Chang Lin, Mahdi Ghorbani‐Asl, Silvan Kretschmer , et al. · 2025

The intercalation of metal chlorides, and particularly iron chlorides, into graphitic carbon structures has recently received lots of attention, as it can not only protect this two-dimensional (2D) magnetic system from the effects of the e…

Janus MoSSe Nanotubes on 1D SWCNT‐BNNT van der Waals Heterostructure (Small 27/2025) Open

Chunxia Yang, Qingyun Lin, Yuta Sato, Yanlin Gao, Yongjia Zheng , et al. · 2025

Momentum and energy resolution Open

Christian Kramberger, Ryosuke Senga, Yung‐Chang Lin, Kazu Suenaga, Thomas Pichler · 2025

The energy and momentum transfered in an elastic scattering event from a fast electron to a plasmon are intimately linked. The in-plane ( q 2 D ) and out-of-plane transfered momenta ( q z ) are however fundamentally distinct in a two dimen…

Superior Adhesion of Monolayer Amorphous Carbon to Copper Open

H. L. Zhang, Artem K. Grebenko, Konstantin Iakoubovskii, Hanning Zhang, Ruslan D. Yamaletdinov , et al. · 2025

The single‐atom thickness of graphene holds great potential for device scaling, but its effectiveness as a thin metal‐ion diffusion barrier in microelectronics and a corrosion barrier for plasmonic devices is compromised by weak van der Wa…

Janus MoSSe Nanotubes on 1D SWCNT‐BNNT van der Waals Heterostructure Open

Chunxia Yang, Qingyun Lin, Yuta Sato, Yanlin Gao, Yongjia Zheng , et al. · 2025

Two‐dimensional (2D) Janus transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) layers with broken mirror symmetry exhibit giant Rashba splitting and unique excitonic behavior. For their one‐dimensional (1D) counterparts, the Janus nanotubes possess cur…

Nanoscale C–H/C–D mapping of organic materials using electron spectroscopy Open

Ryosuke Senga, Katsumi Hagita, Tomohiro Miyata, Hsiao‐Fang Wang, Koichi Mayumi , et al. · 2025

Core-hole induced misalignment between Van Hove singularities and -edge fine structure in carbon nanotubes Open

Martin Unzog, Alexey Tal, Pedro Melo, Ryosuke Senga, Kazu Suenaga , et al. · 2025

We investigate the relationship between the -edge fine structure of isolated single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and the Van Hove singularities (VHSs) in the conduction-band density of states. To this end, we model x-ray absorption spect…

Lattice-guided growth of dense arrays of aligned transition metal dichalcogenide nanoribbons with high catalytic reactivity Open

Zongpeng Ma, Pablo Solís‐Fernández, Kaito Hirata, Yung‐Chang Lin, Keisuke Shinokita , et al. · 2025

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit unique properties and potential applications when reduced to one-dimensional (1D) nanoribbons (NRs), owing to quantum confinement and high edge densities. However, effective growth methods fo…

Pseudotunnel Magnetoresistance in Twisted van der Waals Fe3GeTe2 Homojunctions Open

Reiji Obata, Haiming Sun, Kartik Samanta, Naafis Ahnaf Shahed, Mioko Kosugi , et al. · 2025

Twistronics, a novel engineering approach involving the alignment of van der Waals (vdW) integrated two‐dimensional materials at specific angles, has recently attracted significant attention. Novel nontrivial phenomena have been demonstrat…

Anomalous Raman signals in multilayer hexagonal boron nitride grown by chemical vapour deposition on metal foil catalysts Open

Takara Okonai, Pablo Solís‐Fernández, Satoru Fukamachi, Haiming Sun, Yeri Lee , et al. · 2025

Triangular multilayer pyramidal hBN grains grown by CVD on Fe–Ni exhibit an anomalous Raman sub-peak near the E 2g band, arising from compressive strain induced during the cooling step due to thermal expansion mismatch between Fe–Ni and hB…

Intrinsic Temperature Dependence of Raman-Active Modes in Individual Isolated Single- and Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Open

Ya Feng, Dmitry Levshov, Yuta Sato, Taiki Inoue, Sofie Cambré , et al. · 2024

The intrinsic temperature dependence of Raman-active modes in carbon nanotubes (CNTs), particularly the radial breathing mode (RBM), has been a topic of a long-standing controversy. In this study, we prepared suspended individual CNTs to i…

Graphene Bilayer as a Template for Manufacturing Novel Encapsulated 2D Materials Open

Arkady V. Krasheninnikov, Yung‐Chang Lin, Kazu Suenaga · 2024

Bilayer graphene (BLG) has recently been used as a tool to stabilize encapsulated single sheets of various layered materials and tune their properties. It was also discovered that the protecting action of graphene sheets makes it possible …

Core-hole induced misalignment between Van-Hove singularities and K-edge fine structure in carbon nanotubes Open

Martin Unzog, Alexey Tal, Pedro Melo, Ryosuke Senga, Kazu Suenaga , et al. · 2024

We investigate the relationship between the K-edge fine structure of isolated single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and the Van Hove singularities (VHSs) in the conduction band density of states. To this end, we model X-ray absorption spec…

Nanoscale C–H/C–D mapping of organic materials using electron spectroscopy Open

Ryosuke Senga, Katsumi Hagita, Hsiao‐Fang Wang, Koichi Mayumi, Tomohiro Miyata , et al. · 2024

Atomic-scale imaging and spectroscopy are essential for distinguishing hydrogen from deuterium, crucial in identifying structures and properties of organic materials with designed isotopic functionalities. However, conventional structural …

Superatomic Layer of Cubic Mo4S4 Clusters Connected by Cl Cross‐Linking (Adv. Mater. 39/2024) Open

Yusuke Nakanishi, Naoyuki Kanda, M Aizaki, Kaito Hirata, Yasufumi Takahashi , et al. · 2024

Superatomic Layer of Cubic Mo4S4 Clusters Connected by Cl Cross‐Linking Open

Yusuke Nakanishi, Naoyuki Kanda, M Aizaki, Kaito Hirata, Yasufumi Takahashi , et al. · 2024

Superatomic clusters – assemblies of atoms with various sizes, shapes, and compositions – can form hierarchical architectures that exhibit emergent electronic properties not found in their individual units. In particular, cubic M 4 X 4 clu…

Janus MoSSe nanotubes on one-dimensional SWCNT-BNNT van der Waals heterostructures Open

Chunxia Yang, Qingyun Lin, Yuta Sato, Yanlin Gao, Yongjia Zheng , et al. · 2024

2D Janus TMDC layers with broken mirror symmetry exhibit giant Rashba splitting and unique excitonic behavior. For their 1D counterparts, the Janus nanotubes possess curvature, which introduce an additional degree of freedom to break the s…

Lattice-guided growth of dense arrays of aligned transition metal dichalcogenide nanoribbons with high catalytic reactivity Open

Zongpeng Ma, Pablo Solís‐Fernández, Kaito Hirata, Yung‐Chang Lin, Keisuke Shinokita , et al. · 2024

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit unique properties and potential applications when reduced to one-dimensional (1D) nanoribbons (NRs), owing to quantum confinement and high edge densities. However, effective growth methods fo…

Direct observation of the vanishing EELS cross section in graphene Open

Alberto Guandalini, Ryosuke Senga, Yung‐Chang Lin, Kazu Suenaga, Paolo Barone , et al. · 2024

In transmission electron energy-loss spectroscopy, the cross section in 2D is quenched by kinematic effects once the momentum transfer becomes smaller than a critical value set by $q_z$, the momentum loss parallel to the beam. Our highly m…

Publisher Correction: Ready-to-transfer two-dimensional materials using tunable adhesive force tapes Open

Maki Nakatani, Satoru Fukamachi, Pablo Solís‐Fernández, Satoshi Honda, Kenji Kawahara , et al. · 2024

Ready-to-transfer two-dimensional materials using tunable adhesive force tapes Open

Maki Nakatani, Satoru Fukamachi, Pablo Solís‐Fernández, Satoshi Honda, Kenji Kawahara , et al. · 2024

Graphene and other two-dimensional (2D) materials can be used to create electronic and optoelectronic devices. However, their development has been limited by the lack of effective large-area transfer processes. Here we report a transfer me…

Alkali metal bilayer intercalation in graphene Open

Yung‐Chang Lin, Rika Matsumoto, Qiunan Liu, Pablo Solís‐Fernández, Ming‐Deng Siao , et al. · 2024

Enhanced Thermal Conductivity of Single‐Walled Carbon Nanotube with Axial Tensile Strain Enabled by Boron Nitride Nanotube Anchoring Open

Ya Feng, Yuta Sato, Taiki Inoue, Rong Xiang, Kazu Suenaga , et al. · 2023

Thermal conductivity measurements are conducted by optothermal Raman technique before and after the introduction of an axial tensile strain in a suspended single‐walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) through end‐anchoring by boron nitride nanotub…

Structural Diversity of Single‐Walled Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanotubes Grown via Template Reaction (Adv. Mater. 46/2023) Open

Yusuke Nakanishi, Shinpei Furusawa, Yuta Sato, Takumi Tanaka, Yohei Yomogida , et al. · 2023

Single-Walled Nanotubes In article number 2306631, Yusuke Nakanishi, Yasumitsu Miyata, and co-workers engineer new single-walled nanotubes of transition metal dichalcogenides with different compositions and chiralities by templating off bo…

Structural Diversity of Single‐Walled Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanotubes Grown via Template Reaction Open

Yusuke Nakanishi, Shinpei Furusawa, Yuta Sato, Takumi Tanaka, Yohei Yomogida , et al. · 2023

Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are an ideal 2D platform for studying a wide variety of electronic properties and potential applications due to their chemical diversity. Similarly, single‐walled TMD nanotubes (SW‐TMDN…

One-Dimensional Crystallographic Etching of Few-Layer WS$_2$ Open

Shisheng Li, Yung-Chang Lin, Yiling Chiew, Yunyun Dai, Zixuan Ning , et al. · 2023

Layer number-dependent band structures and symmetry are vital for the electrical and optical characteristics of two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs). Harvesting 2D TMDCs with tunable thickness and properties can be…

Misoriented high-entropy iridium ruthenium oxide for acidic water splitting Open

Chun Hu, Kaihang Yue, Jiajia Han, Xiaozhi Liu, Lijia Liu , et al. · 2023

Designing an efficient catalyst for acidic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is of critical importance in manipulating proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer (PEMWE) for hydrogen production. Here, we report a fast, nonequilibrium strate…

Direct Observation of Locally Modified Excitonic Effects within a Moiré Unit Cell in Twisted Bilayer Graphene Open

Ming Liu, Ryosuke Senga, Masanori Koshino, Yung‐Chang Lin, Kazu Suenaga · 2023

Bilayer graphene, which forms moiré superlattices, possesses distinct electronic and optical properties owing to its hybridized energy band and the emergence of van Hove singularities depending on its twist angle. Extensive research has be…

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