Yang Gao

TL;DR: At room temperature and after nano-indentation, two-layer graphene on SiC(0001) exhibits a transverse stiffness and hardness comparable to diamond, is resistant to perforation with a diamond indenter and shows a reversible drop in electrical conductivity upon indentation.

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that two-layer graphene on SiC(0001) exhibits a transverse stiffness and hardness comparable to diamond, is resistant to perforation with a diamond indenter and shows a reversible drop in electrical conductivity upon indentation.

TL;DR: This work uses a diamond-nanocrystal-hosted nitrogen-vacancy centre attached to the apex of a silicon thermal tip as a local temperature sensor and combines atomic force and confocal microscopy to image phantom microstructures with nanoscale resolution and attain excellent agreement between the thermal conductivity and topographic maps.

TL;DR: Sub-ångström-resolution indentation measurements of the perpendicular-to-the-plane elasticity of 2D materials are reported and it is found that the perpendicular Young's modulus of graphene oxide films reaches a maximum when one complete water layer is intercalated between the graphitic planes.

TL;DR: The possibility to parallelize thermochemical nanolithography (TCNL) is demonstrated by employing five nano-tips for the fabrication of conjugated polymer nanostructures and graphene-based nanoribbons.