Sustainable supercapacitor with a natural rubber-based electrolyte and natural graphite-based electrodes (2023)
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Perera, K., Vidanapathirana, K., Adams, L. J., & Balakrishnan, N. (2023). Sustainable supercapacitor with a natural rubber-based electrolyte and natural graphite-based electrodes. Electrochemical Science Advances, Article e2300025. https://doi.org/10.1002/elsa.202300025

Supercapacitors are at the forefront of energy storage devices due to their ability to fulfill quick power requirements. However, safety and cost are important parameters for their real-world applications. Green materials-based electrodes and electro... Read More about Sustainable supercapacitor with a natural rubber-based electrolyte and natural graphite-based electrodes.

Ferroelectric semiconductor junctions based on graphene/In2Se3/graphene van der Waals heterostructures (2021)
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Xie, S., Dey, A., Yan, W., Kudrynskyi, Z., Balakrishnan, N., Kovalyuk, Z., …Patane, A. (2021). Ferroelectric semiconductor junctions based on graphene/In2Se3/graphene van der Waals heterostructures. 2D Materials, 8(4), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/ac1ada

The miniaturization of ferroelectric devices offers prospects for non-volatile memories, low-power electrical switches and emerging technologies beyond existing Si-based integrated circuits. An emerging class of ferroelectrics is based on van der Waa... Read More about Ferroelectric semiconductor junctions based on graphene/In2Se3/graphene van der Waals heterostructures.

Tunable van Hove singularities and correlated states in twisted monolayer–bilayer graphene (2021)
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Xu, S., Al Ezzi, M. M., Balakrishnan, N., Garcia-Ruiz, A., Tsim, B., Mullan, C., …Shi, Y. (2021). Tunable van Hove singularities and correlated states in twisted monolayer–bilayer graphene. Nature Physics, 17, 619–626. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-021-01172-9

Understanding and tuning correlated states is of great interest and significance to modern condensed matter physics. The recent discovery of unconventional superconductivity and Mott-like insulating states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBL... Read More about Tunable van Hove singularities and correlated states in twisted monolayer–bilayer graphene.