James Hone

TL;DR: A new contact scheme is reported that utilizes cobalt (Co) with a monolayer of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) that has the following two functions: modifies the work function of Co and acts as a tunneling barrier, and measures a flat-band Schottky barrier of 16 meV, which makes thin tunnel barriers upon doping the channels, and thus achieves low-T contact resistance of 3 kΩ.

TL;DR: This work directly verified the systematic changes in transition energies of semiconducting nanotubes as a function of their chirality and observed predicted energy splittings of optical transitions in metallic nanot tubes.

TL;DR: A facile method to disassemble vdW single crystals layer by layer into monolayers with near-unity yield and with dimensions limited only by bulk crystal sizes is reported, one step closer to mass production of macroscopic monolayer and bulk-like artificial materials with controllable properties.

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the reduced crystal symmetry of ReS2 leads to anisotropic optical properties that persist from the bulk down to the monolayer limit.