Shaping the Future of Nanotechnology
Welcome! We are the Picoforce Lab
We use state-of-the-art Nanocharacterization and Nanolithography techniques to shape the future of Nanotechnology.
Research Themes:
Biosensors and Tissue Engineering
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2D Materials & Phase Transformation
Graphene and beyond
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Nanomechanics
The power of Å-Indentation | Understanding the Friction forces
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Thermal scanning probe lithography (t-SPL)
Harnessing heat to pattern with unprecedented resolution
We are hiring PhDs and PostDocs! Please contact us!
News and Press:
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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 Electronics 2019 on patterning metal contact on monolayer MoS2 with vanishing Schottky barriers by t-SPL PDF
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PAPER: Ultra Hard Diamene by applying pressure on two-layer epitaxial-Graphene - Nature Nano 2018
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The NanoFrazor arrived!!!!
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PAPER: Nature Nanotechnology 2016 on Pattering Reconfigurable Magnetic Nanostructures
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Congratulations to Xi LU for her Ph.D.!
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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
Pressure induced transformation of h-BN films into 2D Diamond
Nature Electronics 2019 on patterning metal contact on monolayer MoS2 with vanishing Schottky barriers by t-SPL
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We thank the following Funding Agencies:
