Heat and Forces to Build and Understand the Nano World

• PAPER: Advanced Functional Materials 2021 on patterning replica of bone microenvironment using bio-tSPL

• PRESS RELEASE: Researchers use hot nano-chisel to create artificial bones in a Petri dish

• COVER: Advanced Science -- January 2021

• PRESS RELEASE: Advanced Science 2020 on transforming h-BN thin films into 2D diamond at room temperature

• PRESS RELEASE: Advanced Materials 2020. Magnonic nanoantennas demonstrated: Optically-inspired computing with spin waves one step closer

• PAPER: Nature Electronics 2019 on patterning metal contact on monolayer MoS2 with vanishing Schottky barriers by t-SPL PDF

• PAPER: Ultra Hard Diamene by applying pressure on two-layer epitaxial-Graphene - Nature Nano 2018

• PRESS RELEASE: Diamene in Newsweek!

• PAPER: Novel frictional behavior in 2D material MoS2

• The NanoFrazor arrived!!!!

• COVER: Nature Nanotechnology --June 2026

• PAPER: Nature Nanotechnology 2016 on Pattering Reconfigurable Magnetic Nanostructures 

• Congratulations to Xi LU for her Ph.D.!

• PAPER: Nature Communications 2015 on diamond spheres in AFM as a nano-thermometer 

• PAPER: Nature Materials 2015 on interlayer elasticity in 2D materials 

• The PicoForce Lab moves from GeorgiaTech  to the CUNY-ASRC in NYC!

• PAPER: Nature Nanotechnology 2014 on thermochemical nanolithography

• PAPER: Nature Communications 2013 on Interfacial Liquids Flow -- New Paradigm

• PAPER: Nature Materials 2012 on Epitaxial graphene oxide

• PAPER: Science 2010 on writing graphene-like structures with tunable conductivity

• PAPER: Nature Materials 2009 on the Friction anisotropy of carbon nanotubes

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We thank the following Funding Agencies:

We thank the european commission for funding through the Marie Curie "SWING - patterning Spin-Wave reconfIgurable Nanodevices for loGics and computing"Project