2024

2023
2022
  • Aravind Puthirath Balan, Anand B. Puthirath, Soumyabrata Roy, Gelu Costin, Eliezer Fernando Oliveira, M.A.S.R. Saadi, Vishnu Sreepal, Rico Friedrich, Peter Serles, Abhijit Biswas, Sathvik Ajay Iyengar, Nithya Chakingal, Sohini Bhattacharyya, Sreehari K. Saju, Samuel Castro Pardo, Lucas M. Sassi, Tobin Filleter, Arkady Krasheninnikov, Douglas S Galvao, Robert Vajtai, Rahul R. Nair, Pulickel M. Ajayan, "Non-van der Waals quasi-2D materials; recent advances in synthesis, emergent properties and applications", Materials Today (2022)
  • ​Achari, Amritroop, Jonas Bekaert, Vishnu Sreepal, Andrey Orekhov, Piranavan Kumaravadivel, Minsoo Kim, Nicolas Gauquelin, Premlal Balakrishna Pillai, Johan Verbeeck, Francois M. Peeters, Andre K. Geim, Milorad V. Milošević, and Rahul R. Nair. "Alternating Superconducting and Charge Density Wave Monolayers within Bulk 6R-TaS2", Nano Letters (2022)
  • Ruiz-Barragan, Sergi, Federico Sebastiani, Philipp Schienbein, Jijo Abraham, Gerhard Schwaab, Rahul R. Nair, Martina Havenith, and Dominik Marx. "Nanoconfinement effects on water in narrow graphene-based slit pores as revealed by THz spectroscopy", Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2022)

2021

  • Shan Abraham Sam, Aravind Puthirath Balan, Aswathy Kaipamangalath, Manoj Raama Varma, Rahul Raveendran Nair, Senoy Thomas  "Nanocomposite Permanent Magnets Based on SrFe12O19-Fe3O4 Hard-Soft Ferrites" J. Supercond. Nov. Mag. (2021)
  • Rajeh Alotaibi, Edmund Little, Jonathan M Fowler, Adam Brookfield, Ralph W Adams, Amritroop Achari, Grigore A Timco, George FS Whitehead, Nicholas F Chilton, Rahul R Nair, David Collison, Richard EP Winpenny "Single Isomer Heterometallic {CrIII6MII2} Rings Templated by Tetramethylammonium" Inorg. Chem. (2021)
  • Yi-Chao Zou, Lucas Mogg, Nick Clark, Cihan Bacaksiz, Slavisa Milanovic, Vishnu Sreepal, Guang-Ping Hao, Yi-Chi Wang, David G Hopkinson, Roman Gorbachev, Samuel Shaw, Kostya S Novoselov, Rahul Raveendran-Nair, Francois M Peeters, Marcelo Lozada-Hidalgo, Sarah J Haigh "Ion exchange in atomically thin clays and micas" Nature Materials  (2021)
  • Anand B Puthirath, Aravind Puthirath Balan, Eliezer F Oliveira, Vishnu Sreepal, Francisco C Robles Hernandez, Guanhui Gao, Nithya Chakingal, Lucas M Sassi, Prasankumar Thibeorchews, Gelu Costin, Robert Vajtai, Douglas S Galvao, Rahul R Nair, Pulickel M Ajayan "Apparent Ferromagnetism in Exfoliated Ultrathin Pyrite Sheets" J. Phys. Chem. C (2021)
  • Mehmet Baskurt, Rahul R Nair, Francois M Peeters, Hasan Sahin "Ultra-thin structures of manganese fluorides: conversion from manganese dichalcogenides by fluorination" Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.  (2021)​

2020

  • ​PZ Sun, Q Yang, WJ Kuang, YV Stebunov, WQ Xiong, J Yu, RR Nair, MI Katsnelson, SJ Yuan, IV Grigorieva, M Lozada-Hidalgo, FC Wang, AK Geim "Limits on gas impermeability of graphene" Nature  (2020)
  • K. Huang, P. Rowe, C. Chi, V. Sreepal, T. Bohn, K.-G. Zhou, Y. Su, E. Prestat, P. Balakrishna Pillai, C.T. Cherian, A. Michaelides & R.R. Nair "Cation-controlled wetting properties of vermiculite membranes and its promise for fouling resistant oil–water separation" Nature Communications (2020)

2019

  • Vishnu Sreepal, Mehmet Yagmurcukardes, Kalangi S. Vasu, Daniel James Kelly, Sarah Frances Rebecca Taylor, Vasyl G. Kravets, Zakhar Kudrynskyi, Zakhar D. Kovalyuk, Amalia Patanè, Alexander N. Grigorenko, Sarah J. Haigh, Christopher Hardacre, Laurence Eaves, Hasan Sahin, Andre K. Geim, Francois M. Peeters, and Rahul R. Nair "Two-dimensional covalent crystals by chemical conversion of thin van der Waals materials" Nano letters (2019)
  • Eileen Courtney, Eoghan O’Connell, Michelle Conroy , Rahul Nair and Ursel Bangert "Metal and 2D Material Interaction Investigated via HAADF STEM "Microsc. Microanal.  (2019)
  • Yang Su, Eric Prestat, Chengyi Hu, Vinod Kumar Puthiyapura, Mehdi Neek-Amal, Hui Xiao, Kun Huang, Vasyl G Kravets, Sarah J Haigh, Christopher Hardacre, Francois M Peeters, Rahul R Nair "Self-Limiting Growth of Two-Dimensional Palladium between Graphene Oxide Layers"Nano Letters  (2019)
  • Fatma Al Suwaidi, Hammad Younes, Vishnu Sreepal, Rahul Raveendran Nair, Cyril Aubry, Linda Zou "Strategies for tuning hierarchical porosity of 3D rGO to optimize ion electrosorption" 2D Materials (2019)
  • Georgia Kime, Kai-Ge Zhou, Samantha JO Hardman, Rahul R Nair, Konstantin Novoselov, Daria V Andreeva, David J Binks "The pH Dependence of Ultrafast Charge Dynamics in Graphene Oxide Dispersions" J. Phys. Chem. C (2019)
  • M Neek-Amal, R Rashidi, Rahul R Nair, D Neilson, FM Peeters "Electric-field-induced emergent electrical connectivity in graphene oxide" Phys. Rev. B  (2019)

2018

  • K-G Zhou, KS Vasu, CT Cherian, M Neek-Amal, Jason Chentian Zhang, H Ghorbanfekr-Kalashami, K Huang, OP Marshall, VG Kravets, J Abraham, Y Su, AN Grigorenko, Andrew Pratt, AK Geim, FM Peeters, KS Novoselov, RR Nair "Electrically controlled water permeation through graphene oxide membranes" Nature (2018)
  • M Nazarova, T Stora, AA Zhukov, K Huang, RR Nair, Y Wang, J Yin, M Holwill, Z Wang, A Mishchenko, KS Novoselov "Growth of graphene on tantalum and its protective properties" Carbon (2018)
  • Xianjun Huang, Ting Leng, Thanasis Georgiou, Jijo Abraham, Rahul Raveendran Nair, Kostya S Novoselov, Zhirun Hu "Graphene oxide dielectric permittivity at GHz and its applications for wireless humidity sensing " Scientific reports (2018)

2017

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  • Q Yang, Y Su, C Chi, CT Cherian, K Huang, VG Kravets, FC Wang, JC Zhang, A Pratt, AN Grigorenko, F Guinea, AK Geim, RR Nair "Ultrathin graphene-based membrane with precise molecular sieving and ultrafast solvent permeation" Nature Materials  (2017)
  • H Ghorbanfekr-Kalashami, KS Vasu, RR Nair, FM Peeters, M Neek-Ama l"​Dependence of the shape of graphene nanobubbles on trapped substance" Nature Communications  (2017)
  • A. Esfandiar, B. Radha, F. C. Wang, Q. Yang, S. Hu, S. Garaj, R. R. Nair, A. K. Geim, K. Gopinadhan "Size effect in ion transport through angstrom-scale slits" Science (2017)
  • RR Nair, "Graphene-based membranes with limited swelling sieve common salts out of salty water", Membrane Technology  ​(2017)
  • F Shayeganfar, KS Vasu, RR Nair, FM Peeters, M Neek-Amal" Monolayer alkali and transition-metal monoxides: MgO, CaO, MnO, and NiO , Phys. Rev. B  (2017)
  • Jijo Abraham, Kalangi S Vasu, Christopher D Williams, Kalon Gopinadhan, Yang Su, Christie T Cherian, James Dix, Eric Prestat, Sarah J Haigh, Irina V Grigorieva, Paola Carbone, Andre K Geim, Rahul R Nair "Tunable sieving of ions using graphene oxide membranes" Nature Nanotechnology  (2017)

2016

  • Stuart M Holmes, Prabhuraj Balakrishnan, Vasu Kalangi, Xiang Zhang, Marcelo Lozada‐Hidalgo, Pulickel M Ajayan, Rahul R Nair "2D Crystals Significantly Enhance the Performance of a Working Fuel Cell" Advanced Energy Materials  (2016) 
  • K. S. Vasu, E. Prestat, J. Abraham, J. Dix,  R. J. Kashtiban, J. Beheshtian, J. Sloan, P. Carbone, M. Neek-Amal, S. J. Haigh, A. K. Geim &R. R. Nair “Van der Waals pressure and its effect on trapped interlayer molecules” Nature Communications  (2016)
  • J. Chapman, Y. Su, C. A Howard, D. Kundys, A. N. Grigorenko, F. Guinea, A. K. Geim, I. V Grigorieva & R. R . Nair “Superconductivity in Ca-doped graphene” Scientific Reports  (2016).

2015

  • S. Kar, Y. Su, R. R Nair & A. K Sood “Probing Photoexcited Carriers in a Few-Layer MoS2 Laminate by Time-Resolved Optical Pump–Terahertz Probe Spectroscopy” ACS Nano  (2015).
  • G. Algara-Siller, O. Lehtinen, F. C Wang, R. R. Nair, U. Kaiser, H. A Wu, I. V Grigorieva & A. K Geim “Square ice in graphene nanocapillaries” Nature (2015).

2014

  • S. Hu, M. Lozada-Hidalgo, F. C Wang, A. Mishchenko, F. Schedin, R. R. Nair, E. W Hill, D. W Boukhvalov, M. I Katsnelson, R. A. W Dryfe, I.V Grigorieva, H. A Wu & A. K Geim “Proton transport through one atom thick crystals” Nature  (2014).
  • S. Kumar, R. R. Nair, P. B Pillai, S. N Gupta, M. A Iyengar & A. K Sood “Graphene Oxide-MnFe2O4 Magnetic Nanohybrids for Efficient Removal of Lead and Arsenic from Water.”  ACS applied materials & interfaces  (2014).
  • Reza J Kashtiban, M Adam Dyson, Rahul R Nair, Recep Zan, Swee L Wong, Quentin Ramasse, Andre K Geim, Ursel Bangert & Jeremy Sloan “Atomically resolved imaging of highly ordered alternating fluorinated graphene”  Nature Communications (2014).
  • Y. Su, V. G. Kravets, S. L. Wong, J. Waters, A. K. Geim & R. R. Nair “Impermeable Barrier Films and Protective Coatings Based on Reduced Graphene Oxide” Nature Communications (2014).
  • Panit Chantharasupawong, Cory W Christenson, Reji Philip, Lei Zhai, Jeffrey Winiarz, Michiharu Yamamoto, Laurene Tetard, Rahul R Nair & Jayan Thomas “Photorefractive performances of a graphene-doped PATPD/7-DCST/ECZ composite” Journal of Materials Chemistry C (2014).
  • Ossi Lehtinen, I-Ling Tsai, Rashid Jalil, Rahul R Nair, Juhani Keinonen, Ute Kaiser & Irina V Grigorieva “Non-invasive transmission electron microscopy of vacancy defects in graphene produced by ion irradiation” Nanoscale  (2014).
  • R. K. Joshi, P. Carbone, F. C. Wang, V. G. Kravets, Y. Su, I. V. Grigorieva, H. A. Wu, A. K. Geim & R. R. Nair “Precise and ultrafast molecular sieving through graphene oxide membranes” Science (2014).

2013

  • ​R. R. Nair, I-L Tsai, M. Sepioni, O. Lehtinen, J. Keinonen, A.V. Krasheninnikov, A. H. Castro Neto, M. I. Katsnelson, A. K. Geim & I. V. Grigorieva “Dual origin of defect magnetism in graphene and its reversible switching by molecular doping” Nature Communications (2013).
  • D. Brida, A. Tomadin, C. Manzoni, Y. J. Kim, A. Lombardo, S. Milana, R. R. Nair, K. S. Novoselov, A. C. Ferrari, G. Cerullo & M. Polini“Ultrafast collinear scattering and carrier multiplication in graphene” Nature Communications (2013).
  • H. Ali-Boucetta, D. Bitounis, R. R. Nair A. Servant, J. Van den Bossche & K. Kostarelos “Purified graphene oxide dispersions lack in vitro cytotoxicity and in vivo pathogenicity” Adv. Healthcare Mater. (2013).

2012

  • P. Kossacki, C. Faugeras, M. Kühne, M. Orlita, A. Mahmood, E. Dujardin, R. R. Nair, A. K. Geim, & M. Potemski “Circular dichorism of magnetophonon resonance in doped graphene” Phys. Rev. B  (2012).
  • M. Sepioni, R. R. Nair, I.-Ling Tsai, A. K. Geim & I. V. Grigorieva “Reply to the comment by D. Spemann et al.” Europhys. Lett.  (2012).
  • M. Sepioni, R. R. Nair, I-Ling Tsai, A. K Geim & I. V Grigorieva, “Revealing common artifacts due to ferromagnetic inclusions in highly oriented pyrolytic graphite” Europhys. Lett.  (2012).
  • R. R. Nair, M. Sepioni, I-Ling Tsai, O. Lehtinen, J. Keinonen, A. V. Krasheninnikov, T. Thomson, A. K. Geim & I. V. Grigorieva, “Spin-half paramagnetism in graphene induced by point defects” Nature Phys.  (2012).
  • R. R. Nair, H. A. Wu, P. N. Jayaram, I. V. Grigorieva & A. K. Geim, “Unimpeded permeation of water through helium-leak–tight graphene-based membranes” Science (2012).
  • C. T. Pan, R. R. Nair, U. Bangert, Q. Ramasse, R. Jalil, R. Zan, C. R. Seabourne & A. J. Scott, “Nanoscale electron diffraction and plasmon spectroscopy of single- and few-layer boron nitride” Phys. Rev. B  (2012).​
  • Jakob Zabel, Rahul R. Nair, Anna Ott, Thanasis Georgiou, Andre K. Geim, Kostya S. Novoselov & Cinzia Casiraghi, “Raman spectroscopy of graphene and bilayer under biaxial strain: bubbles and balloons” NanoLett. (2012).

2011

  • A. Luican, Guohong Li, A. Reina, J. Kong, R. R. Nair, K. S. Novoselov, A. K. Geim &  E.Y. Andrei, “Single layer behavior and its breakdown in twisted graphene layers” Phys. Rev. Lett. (2011).
  • F. Carbone, G. Aubock, A. Cannizzo, F. Van Mourik, R.R. Nair, A.K. Geim, K.S. Novoselov & M. Chergui, “Femtosecond carrier dynamics in bulk graphite and graphene paper” Chem. Phys.Lett.  (2011).
  • Roman V. Gorbachev, Ibtsam Riaz, Rahul R. Nair, Rashid Jalil, Liam Britnell, Branson D. Belle, Ernie W. Hill, Kostya S. Novoselov, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Andre K. Geim & Peter Blake, “Hunting for monolater boron nitride: optical and raman signatures” Small  (2011).

2010

  • U. Bangert, C. T. Pan, R. R. Nair & M. H. Gass, “Structure of hydrogen-dosed graphene deduced from low electron energy loss characteristics and density functional calculations” Appl. Phys. Lett.  (2010).
  • R. R. Nair, W. Ren, R. Jalil, I. Riaz, V. G. Kravets, L. Britnell, P. Blake, F. Schedin, A. S. Mayorov, S. Yuan, M. I. Katsnelson, H.-M. Cheng, W. Strupinski, L. G. Bulusheva, A. V. Okotrub, I. V. Grigorieva, A. N. Grigorenko, K. S. Novoselov & A. K. Geim,“Fluorographene: A two-dimensional counterpart of Teflon” Small (2010).
  • M. Sepioni, R. R. Nair, S. Rablen, J. Narayanan, F. Tuna, R. Winpenny, A. K. Geim & I. V. Grigorieva, “Limits on intrinsic magnetism in graphene” Phys. Rev. Lett.  (2010).
  • Z. H. Ni, L. A. Ponomarenko, R. R. Nair, R. Yang, S. Anissimova, I. V. Grigorieva, F. Schedin, P. Blake, Z. X. Shen, E. H. Hill, K. S. Novoselov & A. K. Geim “On resonant scatterers as a factor limiting carrier mobility in graphene” Nano Lett.  (2010).
  • R. R. Nair, P. Blake, J. R. Blake, R. Zan, S. Anissimova, U. Bangert, A. P. Golovanov, S. V. Morozov, A. K. Geim & K. S. Novoselov “Graphene as a transparent conductive support for studying objects by transmission electron microscopy” Appl. Phy. Lett.  (2010).
  • V. G. Kravets, A. N. Grigorenko, R. R. Nair, P. Blake, S. Anissimova, K. S. Novoselov & A. K. Geim “Spectroscopic ellipsometry of graphene and an exciton-shifted van Hove peak in absorption” Phys. Rev. B  (2010).
  • C. Faugeras, B. Faugeras, M. Orlita, M. Potemski, R. R. Nair & A. K. Geim “Thermal conductivity of graphene in corbino membrane geometry” ACS Nano  (2010).

2009

  • T. Gokus, R. R. Nair, A. Bonetti, M. Bohmler, A. Lombardo, K. S. Novoselov, A. K. Geim, A. C. Ferrari & A. Hartschuh “Making graphene luminescent by oxygen plasma treatment” ACS Nano  (2009).
  • A. J Pollard, R. R. Nair,  S. N. Sabki, C. R. Staddon, L. M. A. Perdigao, C. H. Hsu, J. M. Garfitt, S. Gangopadhyay, H. F. Gleeson, A. K. Geim & P. H. Beton “Formation of monolayer graphene by annealing sacrificial nickel thin films” J. Phys. Chem. C  (2009).
  • U. Bangert, M. H. Gass, A. L. Bleloch, R. R. Nair & J. Eccles “Nanotopography of graphene” Physica Status Solidi A – Applications and Materials Science  (2009).
  • P. Blake, R. Yang, S. V. Morozov, F. Schedin, L. A. Ponomarenko, A. A. Zhukov, R. R. Nair, I. V. Grigorieva, K. S. Novoselov & A. K. Geim “Influence of metal contacts and charge inhomogeneity on transport properties of graphene near the neutrality point” Solid State Communications  (2009).
  • U. Bangert, M. H. Gass, A. L. Bleloch, R. R. Nair & A. K. Geim “Manifestation of ripples in free-standing graphene in lattice images obtained in an aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope” Physica Status Solidi A – Applications and Materials Science (2009).
  • T. M. G. Mohiuddin, A. Lombardo, R. R. Nair, A. Bonetti, G. Savini, R. Jalil, N. Bonini, D. M. Basko, C. Galiotis, N. Marzari, K. S. Novoselov, A. K. Geim & A. C. Ferrari “Uniaxial strain in graphene by Raman spectroscopy: G peak splitting, Gruneisen parameters and sample orientation” Phys. Rev. B  (2009).
  • 39. D. C. Elias*, R. R. Nair*, T. M. G. Mohiuddin, S. V. Morozov, P. Blake, M. P. Halsall, A. C. Ferrari, D. W. Boukhvalov, M. I. Katsnelson, A. K. Geim & K. S. Novoselov “Control of graphene’s properties by reversible hydrogenation” Science  (2009). (* Both authors have equal contribution
  • Rahul Nair, B. Premlal, Anindya Das & A. K. Sood “Enhanced field emission from carbon nanotube-conducting polymer composites with low loading” Solid State Communications  (2009).

2008

  • Mhairi H. Gass, Ursel Bangert, Andrew L. Bleloch, Peng Wang, Rahul R. Nair & A. K. Geim “Free standing graphene at atomic resolution” Nature Nanotechnology  (2008).
  • U. Bangert, T. Eberlein, R. R. Nair, R. Jones, M. Gass, A. L. Bleloch, K. S. Novoselov, A. Geim & P. R. Briddon “STEM plasmon spectroscopy of free standing graphene” Physica Status Solidi A – Applications and Materials Science (2008).
  • T. J. Booth, P. Blake, R. R. Nair, D. Jiang, E. W. Hill, U. Bangert, A. Bleloch, M. Gass, K. S. Novoselov, M. I. Katsnelson & A. K. Geim “Macroscopic graphene membranes and their extraordinary stiffness” Nano Lett. (2008).
  • T. Eberlein, U. Bangert, R. R. Nair, R. Jones, M. Gass, A. L. Bleloch, K. S. Novoselov, A. Geim & P. R. Briddon “Plasmon spectroscopy of free-standing graphene films” Phys. Rev. B  (2008).
  • Peter Blake, Paul D. Brimicombe, Rahul R. Nair, Tim J. Booth, Da Jiang, Fred Schedin, Leonid A. Ponomarenko, Sergey V. Morozov, Helen F. Gleeson, Ernie W. Hill, Andre K. Geim & Kostya S. Novoselov “Graphene-based liquid crystal device” Nano Lett.  (2008).
  • R. R. Nair, P. Blake, A. N. Grigorennko, K. S. Novoselov, T. J. Booth, T. Stauber, N. M. R. Peres & A. K. Geim “Fine structure constant defines visual transparency of graphene” Science  (2008).