National University of Singapore

Department of Physics and Biomedical Engineering

Garaj Lab

Hard vs. Soft Matter

Research

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List of publications

Structure and exfoliation mechanism of two-dimensional boron nanosheets
Jing-Yang Chung, Yanwen Yuan, Tara P. Mishra, Pieremanuele Canepa, El Hadi Sadki, Silvija Gradecak*, Slaven Garaj*
Nature Communications accepted  (2024)
Impact Factor: 17.7 || doi:…

Universal approximation for conductance blockade in thin nanopore
Arjav Shah, Shakul Pathak, Slaven Garaj, Martin Bazant, Ankur Gupta, Patrick Doyle
Nano Letters under review  (2024)
Impact Factor: 12.2 || doi:…
arXiv:2312.11278

Origin of oxygen in graphene oxide revealed by 17O and 18O isotopic labelling
Christian E. Halbig, Bristy Mukherjee, Siegfried Eigler, Slaven Garaj
J. Am. Chem. Soc. accepted  (2024)
Impact Factor: 16.4 || doi:…

Elastocapillarity-driven 2D nano-switches enable zeptoliter-scale liquid encapsulation
Nathan Ronceray, Massimo Spina, Vanessa Hui Yin Chou, Chwee Teck Lim, Andre K. Geim, and Slaven Garaj*
Nature Communications 15, 185 (2024)
Impact Factor: 17.7 || doi:10.1038/s41467-023-44200-3
arXiv:2311.08748 

Metrology of Individual Small Viruses
Kun Li, Arjav Shah, Rajesh Kumar Sharma, Raymond Adkins, Tihomir Marjanovic, Patrick S. Doyle*, Slaven Garaj*
Advanced Materials Interfaces 10, 2300385 (2023)
Impact Factor: 6.4 || doi:10.1002/admi.202300385

High performance and durable graphene-grafted cathode for electro-Fenton degradation of tetramethyldecynediol
Wang Zuxin, Olvera-Vargas Hugo) Vinicius Surmani Martins Marcos, Garcia-Rodriguez Orlando, Slaven Garaj*, and Lefebvre Olivier*
Chemical Engineering Journal 455, 140643  (2023)
Impact Factor: 16.8 || doi:10.1038/s41699-022-00330-8

Global cytotoxicity survey of commercial graphene materials
Ritika Malhotra, Christian Eberhard Halbig, Yu Fan Sim, Chwee Teck Lim, David Tai Wei Leong, A. H. Castro Neto*, Slaven Garaj*, Vinicius Rosa*
npj 2D Materials and Applications 6, 65 (2022)
Impact Factor: 11.1 // doi:10.1038/s41699-022-00330-8

Defect-rich Molybdenum Sulfide Quantum Dots for Amplified Photoluminescence and Photonics Driven Reactive Oxygen Species Generation
Houjuan Zhu, Wenyan Zou, Xianguang Ding, Zibiao Li, Yue-Wen Mu, Slaven Garaj*, Tai Wei David Leong*
Advanced Materials 34, 2200004 (2022)
Impact Factor: 32.1 // doi: 10.1002/adma.202200004

Modulation of Spin Dynamics in 2D Transition‐Metal Dichalcogenide via Strain‐Driven Symmetry Breaking
Tao Liu, Du Xiang, Hong Kuan Ng, Zichao Han, Kedar Hippalgaonkar, Ady Suwardi, Jens Martin*, Slaven Garaj*, Jing Wu*
Advanced Science 220081(2022)
Impact Factor: 17.2 // doi:ac10.1002/advs.202200816

Controlling covalent chemistry on graphene oxide
Shi Guo, Slaven Garaj, Alberto Bianco, and Cécilia Ménard-Moyon
Nature Review Physics 4, 247–262 (2022)
Impact Factor: 36.3 // doi:10.1038/s42254-022-00422-w

DNA Knot Malleability in Single-Digit Nanopores
Rajesh Kumar Sharma, Ishita Agrawal, Liang Dai, Patrick Doyle, and Slaven Garaj
Nano Letters 21, 3772–3779 (2021)
Impact Factor: 12.3 // doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c05142

Tunable Optical Properties of Thin Films Controlled by the Interface Twist Angle
Hae Yeon Lee, Mohammed M. Al Ezzi, Nimisha Raghuvanshi, Jing Yang Chung, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Slaven Garaj, Shaffique Adam, and Silvija Gradečak
Nano Letters 21, 2832–2839 (2021)
Impact Factor: 12.3 // doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04924

Complex DNA knots detected with a nanopore sensor
Rajesh Kumar Sharma, Ishita Agrawal, Liang Dai, Patrick S. Doyle, Slaven Garaj
Nature Communications 10, 4473 (2019)
Impact Factor: 17.9 // doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-12358-4

Local surface conductivity mapping of single-layer graphene subject to low energy argon bombardment: Energy loss mechanism and defect induction efficiency.
Tanmoy Basu, Milan Blaskovic,  Sudhiranjan Tripathy, Feng Tian, Ranveer Singh, Tapobrata Som, Slaven Garaj, Jeroen Anton van Kan
Materials Letters 256, 126638 (2019)
doi: 10.1016/j.matlet.2019.126638

Toxicity of Two-Dimensional Layered Materials and their Heterostructures
Eveline Tan, Banglin Li, Katsuhiko Ariga, Chwee Teck Lim, Slaven Garaj, David Tai Leong
Bioconjugate Chem. 30, 2287-2299 (2019)
doi: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.9b00502

Nanopores in 2D MoS2: Defect-Mediated Formation and Density Modulation
Jian-An Ke, Slaven Garaj, Silvija Gradečak
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 11, 26228-26234 (2019)
Impact Factor: 10.4 // doi: 10.1021/acsami.9b03531

Crested two-dimensional transistors
Tao Liu, Song Liu, Kun-Hua Tu, Henrik Schmidt, Leiqiang Chu, Du Xiang, Jens Martin, Goki Eda, Caroline A. Ross, Slaven Garaj
Nature Nanotechnology 14, 223–226 (2019).
Impact Factor: 39.2 // doi: 10.1038/s41565-019-0361-x

Chemically activated MoS2 for efficient hydrogen production
Pei Zhang, HaiyanXiang, Li Tao, Hongjie Dong, Yige Zhou, Travis Shihao Hu, Xuli Chen, Song Liu, Shuangyin Wang, Slaven Garaj
Nano Energy 56, 535-541 (2019).
Impact Factor: 17.9 // doi: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2018.12.045

Defect engineered bioactive transition metals dichalcogenides quantum dots
Xianguang Ding, Fei Peng, Jun Zhou, Wenbin Gong, Slaven Garaj, Kian Ping Loh, Chwee Teck Lim & David Tai Leong
Nature Comm. 10, 41 (2019).
Impact Factor: 17.9 // doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-07835-1

MoxW1−xS2 Graded Alloys: Growth and Optical Properties
Kevin Bogaert, Song Liu, Tao Liu, Na Guo, Chun Zhang, Silvija Gradečak, Slaven Garaj
Scientific Reports 8, 12889 (2018).
doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-31220-z

Size effect in ion transport through angstrom-scale slits
A. Esfandiar, B. Radha, F. C. Wang, Q. Yang, S. Hu, S. Garaj, R. R. Nair, A. K. Geim, K. Gopinadhan
Science 358, 511-513 (2017).
Impact Factor: 59.9 // doi: 10.1126/science.aan5275

Directing Assembly and Disassembly of 2D MoS2 Nanosheets with DNA for Drug Delivery
Bang Lin Li, Magdiel I. Setyawati, Linye Chen, Jianping Xie, Katsuhiko Ariga, Chwee-Teck Lim, Slaven Garaj , and David Tai Leong
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 9, 15286–15296 (2017).
Impact Factor: 10.4 // doi: 10.1021/acsami.7b02529

Scalable Graphene-based Membranes for Ionic Sieving with Ultrahigh Charge Selectivity
Seunghyun Hong, Charlotte Constans, Marcos Vinicius Surmani Martins, Yong Chin Seow, Juan Alfredo Guevara Carrió, Slaven Garaj
Nano Letters 17, 728–732 (2017).
Impact Factor: 12.3 // doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b03837

Molecular transport through capillaries made with atomic-scale precision
B. Radha, A. Esfandiar, F. C. Wang, A. P. Rooney, K. Gopinadhan, A. Keerthi, A. Mishchenko, A. Janardanan, P. Blake, L. Fumagalli, M. Lozada-Hidalgo, S. Garaj, S. J. Haigh, I. V. Grigorieva, H. A. Wu, A. K. Geim
Nature 538, 222–225 (2016).
Impact Factor: 69.5 // doi: 10.1038/nature19363

Low-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanostructures Based Sensors
Bang Lin Li, Jinping Wang, Hao Lin Zou, Slaven Garaj, Chwee Teck Lim, Jianping Xie, Nian Bing Li, David Tai Leong
Advanced Functional Materials 26, 7034–7056 (2016).
Impact Factor: 19.9 // doi: 10.1002/adfm.201602136

Diffusion-Mediated Synthesis of MoS2/WS2 Lateral Heterostructures
Kevin Bogaert, Song Liu, Jordan Chesin, Denis Titow, Silvija Gradecak, Slaven Garaj
Nano Letters 16, 5129−5134 (2016).
Impact Factor: 12.3 // doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b02057

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