Alex Zettl Explained

Alex Zettl
Work Institution:Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Alma Mater:B.A. University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Known For:Nanoscale constructs

Alex K. Zettl (born Oct. 11, 1956) is an American experimental physicist, educator, and inventor.

He is a professor of the Graduate School in Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Zettl is a leading expert in the synthesis, characterization, and application of low dimensional materials. He has synthesized and studied new materials, notably those based on carbon, boron and nitrogen, and has made numerous inventions in the field of electronic materials and nano-electromechanical systems. Zettl and his research team were the first to synthesize boron nitride nanotubes,[1] and created carbon nanotube chemical sensors.[2] He and his team built the world's smallest synthetic electrically powered rotational nanomotor,[3] the smallest fully integrated FM radio receiver,[4] [5] a nanomechanical mass balance with single-atom sensitivity,[6] voltage-controllable nanoscale relaxation oscillators,[7] [8] and a nanoscale thermal rectifier[9] useful for phononic circuitry He and his team invented the nanomanipulator,[10] [11] suspended graphene grid,[12] [13] and the graphene liquid cell[14] and graphene flow cell,[15] all of which have greatly advanced transmission electron microscopy.

Early life and education

Zettl was born in San Francisco, California. He attended Sir Francis Drake High School (now Archie Williams High School), the University of California, Berkeley (A.B. 1978) and the University of California, Los Angeles (M.S. 1980, Ph.D. 1983). His doctoral field of study was experimental condensed matter physics. His Ph.D. advisor was Prof. George Grüner.

Career

As a graduate student, Zettl closely collaborated with two-time Physics Nobel Laureate John Bardeen. Bardeen had developed a new theory of macroscopic quantum tunneling of charge density waves, and Zettl performed experiments to test the theory.[16] [17] After completing his Ph.D., Zettl immediately assumed a faculty position in the Physics Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and has remained there throughout his academic career (Assistant Professor, 1983–86; Associate Professor, 1986–1988; Professor, 1988–2022; Professor of the Graduate School in Physics, 2022–present).

At the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Zettl led the superconductivity program from 1990 to 2002, and the sp2-bonded materials program from 1997 to 2022. From 2004 to 2014 he directed the National Science Foundation funded Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems. The Center brought together approximately 25 research teams from four institutions (UC Berkeley, Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, and UC Merced) and fostered highly interdisciplinary nanoelectromechanical research. The center also developed numerous educational outreach programs. From 2013 to 2015 Zettl was co-director (along with Carolyn Bertozzi), and from 2015 to 2022 Director, of the Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute (BNNI), an umbrella organization for expanding and coordinating Berkeley research and educational activities in nanoscale science and engineering.

Zettl has advised approximately 50 graduate students (including those earning Ph.D. degrees in chemistry, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and materials science), and approximately 40 postdoctoral researchers.

Selected research accomplishments

Access to Zettl's 600+ research publications, supplementary materials, and research highlights can be found at https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jode/index.html.

Charge density wave statics and nonlinear dynamics

Zettl discovered chaotic response[18] and period doubling routes to chaos[19] in dynamic charge density wave (CDW) systems driven by an rf field, and found that mode locking completely freezes out all internal fluctuations of the collective mode condensate.[20] [21] He identified phase slip centers as the origin of so-called switching in CDWs.[22] He discovered unusual electro-elastic coupling in CDW systems, and studied the evolution of the CDW order parameter as sample sizes approached the nm scale.[23] For the 2D static CDW system TaS2, Zettl used cryogenic STM measurements to fully characterize domain structure,[24] and to contrast bulk CDW parameters determined via x-ray scattering to surface CDW parameters established by STM.[25]

High temperature superconductors and fullerenes

Zettl performed seminal isotope effect measurements in high temperature superconductors, including substituting oxygen,[26] [27] barium,[28] and copper[28] isotopes in Y-Ba-Cu-O, substituting oxygen isotopes in La-Sr-Cu-O,[29] and substituting carbon and alkali isotopes[30] [31] in A3C60. These measurements placed severe constraints on the superconductivity mechanism, and revealed that superconductivity in the copper oxides was likely not phonon-mediated, but likely was phonon mediated in the fullerenes. Zettl was the first to intercalate high-Tc superconductors with foreign molecules[32] which allowed Cu-O planes to be physically and electronically separated. Zettl also produced high quality single crystals[33] of fullerene superconductors which facilitated a host of detailed transport and thermodynamic measurements. Zettl revealed the elastic properties of high-Tc materials,[34] and determined the effective dimensionality of fullerene superconductors via paraconductivity measurements.[35]

Carbon and boron nitride nanotubes and related nanostructures

Zettl has performed extensive studies on the mechanical and electronic properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs). He created electronic devices from CNTs, including a rectifier[36] and chemical sensor.[37] From thermal conductivity measurements[38] he extracted the linear-T behavior expected from the quantum of thermal conductance. He created a highly robust CNT-based electron field emission source. Zettl discovered that CNTs could be stable in a fully collapsed state,[39] which led to a refined quantification[40] of the interlayer interaction energy in graphite; this important parameter had previously been surprisingly ill-defined experimentally.

Zettl was the first to synthesize boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs),[1] for which (in sharp contrast to CNTs), the electronic and optical properties are relatively insensitive to wall number, diameter, and chirality. Zettl also found different ways to efficiently synthesize[41] [42] [43] [44] [45] BNNTs, along with related BN-based nanomaterials such as BN nanococoons and BN aerogels.[46] He also developed methods to functionalize the outer surfaces of BNNTs,[47] [48] [49] and fill them with foreign chemical species[50] [51] creating new structures including silocrystals.[52] Zettl showed experimentally that an electric field could be used to modulate the electronic band gap of BNNTs (giant Stark effect).[53]

Nanoelectromechanical systems and advances in transmission electron microscopy

Zettl developed the transmission electron microscope (TEM) nanomanipulator,[10] [11] which allowed electrical and mechanical stimulation of nanoscale samples while they were being imaged inside the TEM. The nanomanipulator could be configured as a mechanical and/or electrical probe placed with atomic precision, as a scanning tunneling microscope, or as an atomic force microscope with simultaneous force measurement capability.[54] Zettl used the nanomanipulator to prove that multi-wall CNT were composed of nested concentric cylinders rather than scrolls,[11] and he determined the fundamental frictional forces between the cylinders.[11] This led to his invention of the rotational nanomotor that employed nanotube bearings. Other inventions by Zettl that resulted were surface-tension-powered relaxation oscillators, tunable resonators,[55] nanocrystal-powered linear motors,[56] a fully integrated nanoradio receiver, a nanoballoon actuator,[57] and nano-scale electrical[58] and thermal[59] rheostats. Zettl used the nanomanipulator to perform the first electron holography experiments[60] on nanoscale materials, which quantified quantum mechanical field emission from CNTs. Using an architecture similar to that of his nanoradio, Zettl created a nanoelectromechanical “balance” which had single atom mass sensitivity, and with which he observed atomic shot noise for the first time. He developed a suspended graphene membrane that allowed for nearly real-time TEM imaging of individual carbon atom dynamics, and other isolated atomic and molecular species. Zettl's development of the TEM graphene liquid cell and graphene flow cell brought ultra-high-resolution real-time liquid phase imaging to the TEM world. Zettl also developed nanomechanical biological probes,[61] tailored nanopores,[62] [63] [64] and highly efficient wideband graphene-based mechanical energy transducers.[65] [66]

2D materials

Zettl has made key contributions to the synthesis and characterization of a host of 2D materials, including TaS2,[24] [25] MoS2,[67] [68] alloyed NbS2,[69] NbSe2,[70] and 2D quasicrystals.[71] Zettl recently discovered a means to enhance and control quantum light emission in hexagonal-BN heterostructures,[72] with implications for quantum information transmission and management.

Isolation of 1D chains and topological materials

In analogy to the isolation of 2D graphene from graphite, Zettl developed a method by which single or few chains of quasi 1D materials could be isolated and studied.[73] [74] He did this by synthesizing the materials in the confined (and protective) interior of CNTs and BNNTs. The method has yielded structures unknown in “bulk”, with often interesting electronic properties (such as sharp metal-to-insulator transitions[75]) and non-trivial topological properties.[76] Atomically precise ultra-narrow nanoribbons[77] were also created by Zettl via this confined growth method.

Liquid electronics

Using conducting nanoparticles softly “jammed” at the interface between two immiscible liquids, Zettl constructed electronic devices and “circuitry”, thus realizing an effective paradigm for “all liquid electronics”.[78] Such constructs could facilitate easier reconfiguration or complete recycling of constituents once the circuit architecture becomes obsolete.

Selected books, book chapters, and review articles

Contemporary Concepts of Condensed Matter Science, Volume 3, Pages 1–215 (2008)

Awards and honors

IBM Pre–doctoral Fellowship (1982–1983); Presidential Young Investigator Award (1984–1989); Sloan Foundation Fellowship (1984–1986); IBM Faculty Development Award (1985–1987); Miller Professorship (1995); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Outstanding Performance Award (1995); Lucent Technologies Faculty Award (1996); Fellow of the American Physical Society (1999); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Outstanding Performance Award (2004); R&D 100 Award (2004); APS James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials (Shared with Hongjie Dai) (2006), Miller Professorship (2007); R&D 100 Award (2010); Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology, Experimental (2013); Membership, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014); R&D 100 Award (2015); Clarivate Citation Laureate (2020)

Personal life

Zettl is an outdoor enthusiast. He is an avid sea and whitewater kayaker and a whitewater rafter. He has guided numerous whitewater raft trips on class 5 rivers throughout California, and has guided wilderness descents of the Tatshenshini and Alsek Rivers in Alaska and a mid-winter descent of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Zettl enjoys backcountry skiing and mountaineering, especially expedition climbing. He has led or co-led numerous climbing expeditions to the Alaska Range, the Saint Elias Range (Alaska and the Yukon), and the Andes of Ecuador, Peru, and Argentina. He has climbed technical routes on Denali, and completed a ski descent of Mt. Logan, Canada's highest peak. He has climbed extensively in the Sierra Nevada of California, the Cascades of the Pacific Northwest, the volcanoes of Mexico, the Alps of Germany, France, Switzerland, and Italy, the peaks of Morocco and Tanzania, the Alps of Japan and New Zealand, and in the Himalaya and Karakoram of Nepal and Pakistan. Zettl also enjoys designing and constructing amateur electronics, and building and operating off-road vehicles.

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Notes and References

  1. Chopra . Nasreen G. . Luyken . R. J. . Cherrey . K. . Crespi . Vincent H. . Cohen . Marvin L. . Louie . Steven G. . Zettl . A. . Boron Nitride Nanotubes . Science . 18 August 1995 . 269 . 5226 . 966–967 . 10.1126/science.269.5226.966. 17807732 . 28988094 .
  2. Collins . Philip G. . Bradley . Keith . Ishigami . Masa . Zettl . A. . 10 March 2000 . Extreme Oxygen Sensitivity of Electronic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes . Science . 287 . 5459 . 1801–1804 . 10.1126/science.287.5459.1801. 10710305 .
  3. Fennimore . A. M. . Yuzvinsky . T. D. . Han . Wei-Qiang . Fuhrer . M. S. . Cumings . J. . Zettl . A. . July 2003 . Rotational actuators based on carbon nanotubes . Nature . 424 . 6947 . 408–410 . 10.1038/nature01823. 12879064 . 2200106 .
  4. Jensen . K. . Weldon . J. . Garcia . H. . Zettl . A. . 1 November 2007 . Nanotube Radio . Nano Letters . 7 . 11 . 3508–3511 . 10.1021/nl0721113. 17973438 .
  5. Regis . Ed . The World's Smallest Radio . Scientific American . 2009 . 300 . 3 . 40–45 . 10.1038/scientificamerican0309-40 . 19253772.
  6. Jensen . K. . Kim . Kwanpyo . Zettl . A. . September 2008 . An atomic-resolution nanomechanical mass sensor . Nature Nanotechnology . 3 . 9 . 533–537 . 10.1038/nnano.2008.200. 18772913 . 0809.2126 . 11406873 .
  7. Regan . B. C. . Aloni . S. . Ritchie . R. O. . Dahmen . U. . Zettl . A. . April 2004 . Carbon nanotubes as nanoscale mass conveyors . Nature . 428 . 6986 . 924–927 . 10.1038/nature02496. 15118721 . 4430369 .
  8. Regan . B. C. . Aloni . S. . Jensen . K. . Zettl . A. . 21 March 2005 . Surface-tension-driven nanoelectromechanical relaxation oscillator . Applied Physics Letters . 86 . 12 . 123119 . 10.1063/1.1887827. free .
  9. Chang . C. W. . Okawa . D. . Majumdar . A. . Zettl . A. . 17 November 2006 . Solid-State Thermal Rectifier . Science . 314 . 5802 . 1121–1124 . 10.1126/science.1132898. 17110571 . 19495307 .
  10. Cumings . John . Collins . Philip G. . Zettl . A. . Peeling and sharpening multiwall nanotubes . Nature . August 2000 . 406 . 6796 . 586 . 10.1038/35020698. 10949291 . 33223709 .
  11. Cumings . John . Zettl . A. . Low-Friction Nanoscale Linear Bearing Realized from Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes . Science . 28 July 2000 . 289 . 5479 . 602–604 . 10.1126/science.289.5479.602. 10915618 .
  12. Meyer . Jannik C. . Kisielowski . C. . Erni . R. . Rossell . Marta D. . Crommie . M. F. . Zettl . A. . 12 November 2008 . Direct Imaging of Lattice Atoms and Topological Defects in Graphene Membranes . Nano Letters . 8 . 11 . 3582–3586 . 10.1021/nl801386m. 18563938 .
  13. Girit . Çağlar Ö. . Meyer . Jannik C. . Erni . Rolf . Rossell . Marta D. . Kisielowski . C. . Yang . Li . Park . Cheol-Hwan . Crommie . M. F. . Cohen . Marvin L. . Louie . Steven G. . Zettl . A. . 27 March 2009 . Graphene at the Edge: Stability and Dynamics . Science . 323 . 5922 . 1705–1708 . 10.1126/science.1166999. 19325110 . 24762146 .
  14. Yuk . Jong Min . Park . Jungwon . Ercius . Peter . Kim . Kwanpyo . Hellebusch . Daniel J. . Crommie . Michael F. . Lee . Jeong Yong . Zettl . A. . Alivisatos . A. Paul . 6 April 2012 . High-Resolution EM of Colloidal Nanocrystal Growth Using Graphene Liquid Cells . Science . 336 . 6077 . 61–64 . 10.1126/science.1217654. 22491849 . 12984064 .
  15. Dunn . Gabriel . Adiga . Vivekananda P. . Pham . Thang . Bryant . Christopher . Horton-Bailey . Donez J. . Belling . Jason N. . LaFrance . Ben . Jackson . Jonathan A. . Barzegar . Hamid Reza . Yuk . Jong Min . Aloni . Shaul . Crommie . Michael F. . Zettl . Alex . 25 August 2020 . Graphene-Sealed Flow Cells for In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy of Liquid Samples . ACS Nano . 14 . 8 . 9637–9643 . 10.1021/acsnano.0c00431. 32806056 . 221164696 .
  16. Grüner . G. . Zettl . A. . Clark . W.G. . Bardeen . John . 15 December 1981 . Field and frequency dependence of charge-density-wave conduction in NbSe3 . Physical Review B . 24 . 7247 . 7247–7257 . 10.1103/PhysRevB.24.7247.
  17. Bardeen . J. . Ben-Jacob . E. . Zettl . A. . Grüner . G. . 16 August 1982 . Current Oscillations and Stability of Charge-Density-Wave Motion in NbSe3 . Physical Review Letters . 49 . 493 . 493–496 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.493.
  18. Sherwin . M. . Hall . R. . Zettl . A. . Chaotic ac Conductivity in the Charge-Density-Wave State of (TaSe4)2I . Physical Review Letters . 53 . 1387 . 1 October 1984. 1387–1390 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.1387.
  19. Sherwin . M.S. . Zettl . A. . Chaotic response of NbSe3: Evidence for a new charge-density-wave phase . Physical Review Letters . 53 . 1387 . 1 October 1984 . 1387 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.1387.
  20. Sherwin . M.S. . Zettl . A. . 15 October 1985 . Complete charge density-wave mode locking and freeze-out of fluctuations in NbSe3 . Physical Review B . 32 . 5536(R) . 5536–5539 . 10.1103/PhysRevB.32.5536. 9937795 .
  21. Hall . R.P. . Hundley . M.F. . Zettl . A. . 2 June 1986 . Switching and Phase-Slip Centers in Charge-Density-Wave Conductors . Physical Review Letters . 56 . 2399 . 2399–2402 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.2399. 10032976 .
  22. Bourne . L.C. . Sherwin . M.S. . Zettl . A. . 5 May 1986 . Elastic Properties of Charge-Density-Wave Conductors: ac-dc Electric Field Coupling . Physical Review Letters . 56 . 1952 . 1952–1955 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.1952. 10032819 .
  23. Onishi . Seita . Jamei . Mehdi . Zettl . Alex . Narrowband noise study of sliding charge density waves in NbSe3 nanoribbons . New Journal of Physics . 1 February 2017 . 19 . 2 . 023001 . 10.1088/1367-2630/aa5912. free .
  24. Burke . B. . Thomson . R.E. . Zettl . A. . Clarke . John . Charge-density-wave domains in 1T-TaS2 observed by satellite structure in scanning-tunneling-microscopy images . Physical Review Letters . 1991 . 66 . 23 . 3040–3043 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.66.3040. 10043683 .
  25. Burk . B. . Thomson . R. E. . Clarke . John . Zettl . A. . Surface and Bulk Charge Density Wave Structure in 1 T-TaS2 . Science . 17 July 1992 . 257 . 5068 . 362–364 . 10.1126/science.257.5068.362. 17832831 . 8530734 .
  26. Bourne . L. C. . Crommie . M. F. . Zettl . A. . Loye . Hans-Conrad zur . Keller . S. W. . Leary . K. L. . Stacy . Angelica M. . Chang . K. J. . Cohen . Marvin L. . Morris . Donald E. . Search for Isotope Effect in Superconducting Y-Ba-Cu-O . Physical Review Letters . 1 June 1987 . 58 . 22 . 2337–2339 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.58.2337. 10034719 .
  27. Hoen . S. . Creager . W. N. . Bourne . L. C. . Crommie . M. F. . Barbee . T. W. . Cohen . Marvin L. . Zettl . A. . Bernardez . Luis . Kinney . John . Oxygen isotope study of YBa2Cu3O7 . Physical Review B . 1 February 1989 . 39 . 4 . 2269–2278 . 10.1103/physrevb.39.2269. 9948464 .
  28. Bourne . L. C. . Zettl . A. . Barbee . T. W. . Cohen . Marvin L. . Complete absence of isotope effect in Y Ba 2 Cu 3 O 7 : Consequences for phonon-mediated superconductivity . Physical Review B . 1 September 1987 . 36 . 7 . 3990–3993 . 10.1103/physrevb.36.3990. 9943360 .
  29. Faltens . Tanya A. . Ham . William K. . Keller . Steven W. . Leary . Kevin J. . Michaels . James N. . Stacy . Angelica M. . zur Loye . Hans-Conrad . Morris . Donald E. . Barbee III . T. W. . Bourne . L. C. . Cohen . Marvin L. . Hoen . S. . Zettl . A. . Observation of an oxygen isotope shift in the superconducting transition temperature of La1.85Sr0.15CuO4 . Physical Review Letters . 24 August 1987 . 59 . 8 . 915–918 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.915. 10035905 .
  30. Fuhrer . M.S. . Cherrey . K. . Zettl . A. . Carbon isotope effect in single-crystal Rb3C60 . Physica C: Superconductivity . August 1997 . 282-287 . 1917–1918 . 10.1016/S0921-4534(97)01010-1.
  31. Burk . B. . Crespi . Vincent H. . Zettl . A. . Cohen . Marvin L. . Rubidium isotope effect in superconducting Rb3C60 . Physical Review Letters . 6 June 1994 . 72 . 23 . 3706–3709 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.3706. 10056269 .
  32. Xiang . X-D. . McKernan . S. . Vareka . W. A. . Zettl . A. . Corkill . J. L. . Barbee . T. W. . Cohen . Marvin L. . Iodine intercalation of a high-temperature superconducting oxide . Nature . November 1990 . 348 . 6297 . 145–147 . 10.1038/348145a0. 4369061 .
  33. Xiang . X. -D. . Hou . J. G. . Briceño . G. . Vareka . W. A. . Mostovoy . R. . Zettl . A. . Crespi . Vincent H. . Cohen . Marvin L. . Synthesis and Electronic Transport of Single Crystal K3C60 . Science . 22 May 1992 . 256 . 5060 . 1190–1191 . 10.1126/science.256.5060.1190. 17795215 . 11537235 .
  34. Hoen . S. . Bourne . L. C. . Kim . Choon M. . Zettl . A. . Elastic response of polycrystalline and single-crystal Y Ba2Cu3O7 . Physical Review B . 1 December 1988 . 38 . 16 . 11949–11951 . 10.1103/physrevb.38.11949. 9946111 .
  35. Xiang . X.-D. . Hou . J. G. . Crespi . Vincent H. . Zettl . A. . Cohen . Marvin L. . Three-dimensional fluctuation conductivity in superconducting single crystal K3C60 and Rb3C60 . Nature . January 1993 . 361 . 6407 . 54–56 . 10.1038/361054a0. 4342464 .
  36. Collins . Philip G. . Zettl . A. . Bando . Hiroshi . Thess . Andreas . Smalley . R. E. . Nanotube Nanodevice . Science . 3 October 1997 . 278 . 5335 . 100–102 . 10.1126/science.278.5335.100.
  37. Sahoo . Satyaprakash . Chitturi . Venkateswara Rao . Agarwal . Radhe . Jiang . Jin-Wu . Katiyar . Ram S. . Thermal Conductivity of Freestanding Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Sheet by Raman Spectroscopy . ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces . 26 November 2014 . 6 . 22 . 19958–19965 . 10.1021/am505484z. 25350877 .
  38. Collins . Philip G. . Zettl . A. . A simple and robust electron beam source from carbon nanotubes . Applied Physics Letters . 23 September 1996 . 69 . 13 . 1969–1971 . 10.1063/1.117638.
  39. Chopra . Nasreen G. . Benedict . Lorin X. . Crespi . Vincent H. . Cohen . Marvin L. . Louie . Steven G. . Zettl . A. . Fully collapsed carbon nanotubes . Nature . September 1995 . 377 . 6545 . 135–138 . 10.1038/377135a0. 4351651 .
  40. Benedict . Lorin X . Chopra . Nasreen G . Cohen . Marvin L . Zettl . A . Louie . Steven G . Crespi . Vincent H . Microscopic determination of the interlayer binding energy in graphite . Chemical Physics Letters . April 1998 . 286 . 5–6 . 490–496 . 10.1016/S0009-2614(97)01466-8.
  41. Han . Wei-Qiang . Cumings . John . Zettl . Alex . Pyrolytically grown arrays of highly aligned BxCyNz nanotubes . Applied Physics Letters . 30 April 2001 . 78 . 18 . 2769–2771 . 10.1063/1.1369620.
  42. Cumings . John . Zettl . A. . Mass-production of boron nitride double-wall nanotubes and nanococoons . Chemical Physics Letters . January 2000 . 316 . 3–4 . 211–216 . 10.1016/S0009-2614(99)01277-4.
  43. Han . Wei-Qiang . Cumings . John . Huang . Xiaosheng . Bradley . Keith . Zettl . Alex . Synthesis of aligned BxCyNz nanotubes by a substitution-reaction route . Chemical Physics Letters . October 2001 . 346 . 5–6 . 368–372 . 10.1016/S0009-2614(01)00993-9.
  44. Han . Wei-Qiang . Mickelson . W. . Cumings . John . Zettl . A. . Transformation of BxCyNz nanotubes to pure BN nanotubes . Applied Physics Letters . 5 August 2002 . 81 . 6 . 1110–1112 . 10.1063/1.1498494.
  45. Fathalizadeh . Aidin . Pham . Thang . Mickelson . William . Zettl . Alex . Scaled Synthesis of Boron Nitride Nanotubes, Nanoribbons, and Nanococoons Using Direct Feedstock Injection into an Extended-Pressure, Inductively-Coupled Thermal Plasma . Nano Letters . 13 August 2014 . 14 . 8 . 4881–4886 . 10.1021/nl5022915. 25003307 .
  46. Rousseas . Michael . Goldstein . Anna P. . Mickelson . William . Worsley . Marcus A. . Woo . Leta . Zettl . Alex . Synthesis of Highly Crystalline sp2-Bonded Boron Nitride Aerogels . ACS Nano . 22 October 2013 . 7 . 10 . 8540–8546 . 10.1021/nn402452p. 24011289 .
  47. Han . Wei-Qiang . Zettl . Alex . Functionalized Boron Nitride Nanotubes with a Stannic Oxide Coating: A Novel Chemical Route to Full Coverage . Journal of the American Chemical Society . 1 February 2003 . 125 . 8 . 2062–2063 . 10.1021/ja0292501. 12590530 .
  48. Ikuno . T. . Sainsbury . T. . Okawa . D. . Fréchet . J.M.J. . Zettl . A. . Amine-functionalized boron nitride nanotubes . Solid State Communications . June 2007 . 142 . 11 . 643–646 . 10.1016/j.ssc.2007.04.010.
  49. Sainsbury . Toby . Ikuno . Takashi . Okawa . David . Pacilé . Daniela . Fréchet . Jean M. J. . Zettl . Alex . Self-Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles at the Surface of Amine- and Thiol-Functionalized Boron Nitride Nanotubes . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C . 1 September 2007 . 111 . 35 . 12992–12999 . 10.1021/jp072958n.
  50. Han . Wei-Qiang . Zettl . A. . Nanocrystal cleaving . Applied Physics Letters . 5 April 2004 . 84 . 14 . 2644–2645 . 10.1063/1.1695635. free .
  51. Pham . Thang . Fathalizadeh . Aidin . Shevitski . Brian . Turner . Sally . Aloni . Shaul . Zettl . Alex . A Universal Wet-Chemistry Route to Metal Filling of Boron Nitride Nanotubes . Nano Letters . 13 January 2016 . 16 . 1 . 320–325 . 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03874. 26707874 .
  52. Mickelson . W. . Aloni . S. . Han . Wei-Qiang . Cumings . John . Zettl . A. . Packing C60 in Boron Nitride Nanotubes . Science . 18 April 2003 . 300 . 5618 . 467–469 . 10.1126/science.1082346. 12702871 . 206507202 .
  53. Ishigami . Masa . Sau . Jay Deep . Aloni . Shaul . Cohen . Marvin L. . Zettl . A. . Observation of the Giant Stark Effect in Boron-Nitride Nanotubes . Physical Review Letters . 10 February 2005 . 94 . 5 . 056804 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.056804. 15783676 .
  54. Kis . A. . Jensen . K. . Aloni . S. . Mickelson . W. . Zettl . A. . Interlayer Forces and Ultralow Sliding Friction in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes . Physical Review Letters . 11 July 2006 . 97 . 2 . 025501 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.025501. 16907454 .
  55. Jensen . K. . Girit . Ç. . Mickelson . W. . Zettl . A. . Tunable Nanoresonators Constructed from Telescoping Nanotubes . Physical Review Letters . 31 May 2006 . 96 . 21 . 215503 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.215503. 16803247 .
  56. Regan . B. C. . Aloni . S. . Jensen . K. . Ritchie . R. O. . Zettl . A. . Nanocrystal-Powered Nanomotor . Nano Letters . 1 September 2005 . 5 . 9 . 1730–1733 . 10.1021/nl0510659. 16159214 .
  57. Barzegar . Hamid Reza . Yan . Aiming . Coh . Sinisa . Gracia-Espino . Eduardo . Dunn . Gabriel . Wågberg . Thomas . Louie . Steven G. . Cohen . Marvin L. . Zettl . Alex . Electrostatically Driven Nanoballoon Actuator . Nano Letters . 9 November 2016 . 16 . 11 . 6787–6791 . 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b02394. 27704855 .
  58. Cumings . John . Zettl . Alex . Resistance of Telescoping Nanotubes . AIP Conference Proceedings . 2002 . 633 . 227–230 . 10.1063/1.1514111.
  59. Chang . C. W. . Okawa . D. . Garcia . H. . Yuzvinsky . T. D. . Majumdar . A. . Zettl . A. . Tunable thermal links . Applied Physics Letters . 7 May 2007 . 90 . 19 . 193114 . 10.1063/1.2738187.
  60. Cumings . John . Zettl . A. . McCartney . M. R. . Spence . J. C. H. . Electron Holography of Field-Emitting Carbon Nanotubes . Physical Review Letters . 18 January 2002 . 88 . 5 . 056804 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.056804. 11863765 .
  61. Chen . Xing . Kis . Andras . Zettl . A. . Bertozzi . Carolyn R. . A cell nanoinjector based on carbon nanotubes . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 15 May 2007 . 104 . 20 . 8218–8222 . 10.1073/pnas.0700567104. 17485677 . 1895932 . free .
  62. Pham . Thang . Gibb . Ashley L. . Li . Zhenglu . Gilbert . S. Matt . Song . Chengyu . Louie . Steven G. . Zettl . Alex . Formation and Dynamics of Electron-Irradiation-Induced Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride at Elevated Temperatures . Nano Letters . 9 November 2016 . 16 . 11 . 7142–7147 . 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b03442. 27685639 .
  63. Gilbert . S. Matt . Dunn . Gabriel . Azizi . Amin . Pham . Thang . Shevitski . Brian . Dimitrov . Edgar . Liu . Stanley . Aloni . Shaul . Zettl . Alex . Fabrication of Subnanometer-Precision Nanopores in Hexagonal Boron Nitride . Scientific Reports . 8 November 2017 . 7 . 1 . 15096 . 10.1038/s41598-017-12684-x. 29118413 . 5678191 .
  64. Gilbert . S Matt . Pham . Thang . Dogan . Mehmet . Oh . Sehoon . Shevitski . Brian . Schumm . Gabe . Liu . Stanley . Ercius . Peter . Aloni . Shaul . Cohen . Marvin L . Zettl . Alex . Alternative stacking sequences in hexagonal boron nitride . 2D Materials . 28 March 2019 . 6 . 2 . 021006 . 10.1088/2053-1583/ab0e24. 1810.04814 . 119216315 .
  65. Zhou . Qin . Zettl . A. . Electrostatic graphene loudspeaker . Applied Physics Letters . 3 June 2013 . 102 . 22 . 223109 . 10.1063/1.4806974. 1303.2391 . 29754669 .
  66. Zhou . Qin . Zheng . Jinglin . Onishi . Seita . Crommie . M. F. . Zettl . Alex K. . Graphene electrostatic microphone and ultrasonic radio . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 21 July 2015 . 112 . 29 . 8942–8946 . 10.1073/pnas.1505800112. 26150483 . 4517232 . free .
  67. Yan . Aiming . Velasco . Jairo . Kahn . Salman . Watanabe . Kenji . Taniguchi . Takashi . Wang . Feng . Crommie . Michael F. . Zettl . Alex . Direct Growth of Single- and Few-Layer MoS 2 on h-BN with Preferred Relative Rotation Angles . Nano Letters . 14 October 2015 . 15 . 10 . 6324–6331 . 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b01311. 26317240 . 1504.06641 . 24396802 .
  68. Yan . Aiming . Chen . Wei . Ophus . Colin . Ciston . Jim . Lin . Yuyuan . Persson . Kristin . Zettl . Alex . Identifying different stacking sequences in few-layer CVD-grown Mo S 2 by low-energy atomic-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy . Physical Review B . 25 January 2016 . 93 . 4 . 041420 . 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.041420. free .
  69. Azizi . Amin . Dogan . Mehmet . Cain . Jeffrey D. . Lee . Kyunghoon . Yu . Xuanze . Shi . Wu . Glazer . Emily C. . Cohen . Marvin L. . Zettl . Alex . Experimental and Theoretical Study of Possible Collective Electronic States in Exfoliable Re-Doped NbS 2 . ACS Nano . 23 November 2021 . 15 . 11 . 18297–18304 . 10.1021/acsnano.1c07526. 34739204 . 243801788 .
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  71. Cain . Jeffrey D. . Azizi . Amin . Conrad . Matthias . Griffin . Sinéad M. . Sinéad Griffin . Zettl . Alex . Layer-dependent topological phase in a two-dimensional quasicrystal and approximant . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 20 October 2020 . 117 . 42 . 26135–26140 . 10.1073/pnas.2015164117. 33020263 . 7584993 . free .
  72. Su . Cong . Zhang . Fang . Kahn . Salman . Shevitski . Brian . Jiang . Jingwei . Dai . Chunhui . Ungar . Alex . Park . Ji-Hoon . Watanabe . Kenji . Taniguchi . Takashi . Kong . Jing . Tang . Zikang . Zhang . Wenqing . Wang . Feng . Crommie . Michael . Louie . Steven G. . Aloni . Shaul . Zettl . Alex . Tuning colour centres at a twisted hexagonal boron nitride interface . Nature Materials . August 2022 . 21 . 8 . 896–902 . 10.1038/s41563-022-01303-4. 35835818 . 1906698 . 250535073 .
  73. Pham . Thang . Oh . Sehoon . Stetz . Patrick . Onishi . Seita . Kisielowski . Christian . Cohen . Marvin L. . Zettl . Alex . Torsional instability in the single-chain limit of a transition metal trichalcogenide . Science . 20 July 2018 . 361 . 6399 . 263–266 . 10.1126/science.aat4749. 30026223 . 1803.02866 . 49896559 .
  74. Stonemeyer . Scott . Cain . Jeffrey D. . Oh . Sehoon . Azizi . Amin . Elasha . Malik . Thiel . Markus . Song . Chengyu . Ercius . Peter . Cohen . Marvin L. . Zettl . Alex . Stabilization of NbTe3, VTe3, and TiTe3 via Nanotube Encapsulation . Journal of the American Chemical Society . 31 March 2021 . 143 . 12 . 4563–4568 . 10.1021/jacs.0c10175. 33258601 . 2009.10869 . 221856719 .
  75. Meyer . Scott . Pham . Thang . Oh . Sehoon . Ercius . Peter . Kisielowski . Christian . Cohen . Marvin L. . Zettl . Alex . Metal-insulator transition in quasi-one-dimensional HfTe 3 in the few-chain limit . Physical Review B . 9 July 2019 . 100 . 4 . 041403 . 10.1103/PhysRevB.100.041403. 1903.00464 . 118830779 .
  76. Pham . Thang . Oh . Sehoon . Stonemeyer . Scott . Shevitski . Brian . Cain . Jeffrey D. . Song . Chengyu . Ercius . Peter . Cohen . Marvin L. . Zettl . Alex . Emergence of Topologically Nontrivial Spin-Polarized States in a Segmented Linear Chain . Physical Review Letters . 20 May 2020 . 124 . 20 . 206403 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.206403. 32501077 . 2001.06565 . 210839580 .
  77. Cain . Jeffrey D. . Oh . Sehoon . Azizi . Amin . Stonemeyer . Scott . Dogan . Mehmet . Thiel . Markus . Ercius . Peter . Cohen . Marvin L. . Zettl . Alex . Ultranarrow TaS 2 Nanoribbons . Nano Letters . 14 April 2021 . 21 . 7 . 3211–3217 . 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00481. 33818102 . 2012.05399 . 233029041 .
  78. Popple . Derek . Shekhirev . Mikhail . Dai . Chunhui . Kim . Paul . Wang . Katherine Xiaoxin . Ashby . Paul . Helms . Brett A. . Gogotsi . Yury . Russell . Thomas P. . Zettl . Alex . All‐Liquid Reconfigurable Electronics Using Jammed MXene Interfaces . Advanced Materials . 27 October 2022 . 35 . 13 . 2208148 . 10.1002/adma.202208148. 36302090 . free .

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