OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of npj 2D Materials and Applications is 16. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Bandgap engineering of two-dimensional semiconductor materials	537
2D materials for spintronic devices	272
Prospects challenges and stability of 2D MXenes for clean energy conversion and storage applications	170
Recent advances of MXenes as electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction	137
Intercalation as a versatile tool for fabrication, property tuning, and phase transitions in 2D materials	113
Broadband optical properties of monolayer and bulk MoS2	113
2D boron nitride nanosheets for polymer composite materials	112
Efficient Ohmic contacts and built-in atomic sublayer protection in MoSi2N4 and WSi2N4 monolayers	103
Application of Raman spectroscopy to probe fundamental properties of two-dimensional materials	76
Naturally occurring van der Waals materials	75
Electron-beam-irradiated rhenium disulfide memristors with low variability for neuromorphic computing	70
Synthesis of epitaxial monolayer Janus SPtSe	57
Giant persistent photoconductivity in monolayer MoS2 field-effect transistors	57
Discrete interactions between a few interlayer excitons trapped at a MoSe2–WSe2 heterointerface	56
2D graphene oxide–aptamer conjugate materials for cancer diagnosis	55
Copper single-atoms embedded in 2D graphitic carbon nitride for the CO2 reduction	55
Self-driven WSe2 photodetectors enabled with asymmetrical van der Waals contact interfaces	55
2D semiconductors for specific electronic applications: from device to system	54
WSe2/SnSe2 vdW heterojunction Tunnel FET with subthermionic characteristic and MOSFET co-integrated on same WSe2 flake	50
Improving stability of organometallic-halide perovskite solar cells using exfoliation two-dimensional molybdenum chalcogenides	49
Magnetic order and critical temperature of substitutionally doped transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers	49
Layer-dependent optical and dielectric properties of centimeter-scale PdSe2 films grown by chemical vapor deposition	45
Origins of genuine Ohmic van der Waals contact between indium and MoS2	43
Deep learning model to predict fracture mechanisms of graphene	43
Sub-picosecond photo-induced displacive phase transition in two-dimensional MoTe2	43

Superlubricity under ultrahigh contact pressure enabled by partially oxidized black phosphorus nanosheets	40
Large-scale epitaxy of two-dimensional van der Waals room-temperature ferromagnet Fe5GeTe2	38
Robust ferromagnetism in wafer-scale monolayer and multilayer Fe3GeTe2	38
Ab initio perspective of ultra-scaled CMOS from 2D-material fundamentals to dynamically doped transistors	38
Tellurium as a successor of silicon for extremely scaled nanowires: a first-principles study	38
The resurrection of tellurium as an elemental two-dimensional semiconductor	38
Excitons and light-emission in semiconducting MoSi2X4 two-dimensional materials	37
Efficient water desalination with graphene nanopores obtained using artificial intelligence	36
Ultra-broad spectral photo-response in FePS3 air-stable devices	36
Dual-phase MoS2/MXene/CNT ternary nanohybrids for efficient electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution	36
Preferential out-of-plane conduction and quasi-one-dimensional electronic states in layered 1T-TaS2	34
Boosting proximity spin–orbit coupling in graphene/WSe2 heterostructures via hydrostatic pressure	34
Indirect to direct band gap crossover in two-dimensional WS2(1−x)Se2x alloys	34
In-plane anisotropic optical and mechanical properties of two-dimensional MoO3	33
All inkjet-printed electronics based on electrochemically exfoliated two-dimensional metal, semiconductor, and dielectric	33
Direct visualization of out-of-equilibrium structural transformations in atomically thin chalcogenides	31
2D-MoS2 goes 3D: transferring optoelectronic properties of 2D MoS2 to a large-area thin film	31
Direct observation of ferroelectricity in two-dimensional MoS2	31
Electron–phonon coupling in superconducting 1T-PdTe2	30
Multilevel artificial electronic synaptic device of direct grown robust MoS2 based memristor array for in-memory deep neural network	30
Gas-mediated liquid metal printing toward large-scale 2D semiconductors and ultraviolet photodetector	29
Imaging and identification of point defects in PtTe2	29
Chemical vapor deposition-grown nitrogen-doped graphene’s synthesis, characterization and applications	29
Direct growth of orthorhombic Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 thin films for hysteresis-free MoS2 negative capacitance field-effect transistors	28
Electric field induced giant valley polarization in two dimensional ferromagnetic WSe2/CrSnSe3 heterostructure	27
Hybrid architecture based on two-dimensional memristor crossbar array and CMOS integrated circuit for edge computing	27
Ising ferromagnetism and robust half-metallicity in two-dimensional honeycomb-kagome Cr2O3 layer	26
Growth of high-quality semiconducting tellurium films for high-performance p-channel field-effect transistors with wafer-scale uniformity	26
Uncovering topographically hidden features in 2D MoSe2 with correlated potential and optical nanoprobes	25
2D materials-based nanoscale tunneling field effect transistors: current developments and future prospects	25
Engineering MoSe2/MoS2 heterojunction traps in 2D transistors for multilevel memory, multiscale display, and synaptic functions	25
On electrically tunable stacking domains and ferroelectricity in moiré superlattices	23
Universal superlattice potential for 2D materials from twisted interface inside h-BN substrate	23
Atomically-thin single-photon sources for quantum communication	23
Facilely synthesized nitrogen-doped reduced graphene oxide functionalized with copper ions as electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction	22
Carrier photodynamics in 2D perovskites with solution-processed silver and graphene contacts for bendable optoelectronics	22
The band-edge excitons observed in few-layer NiPS3	22
Nanomechanical probing and strain tuning of the Curie temperature in suspended Cr2Ge2Te6-based heterostructures	21
Reactive plasma cleaning and restoration of transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers	21
Two-dimensional forms of robust CO2 reduction photocatalysts	20
Strong and tunable spin–orbit interaction in a single crystalline InSb nanosheet	20
Large area chemical vapour deposition grown transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers automatically characterized through photoluminescence imaging	20
Temperature dependent moiré trapping of interlayer excitons in MoSe2-WSe2 heterostructures	20
Spiking neural networks based on two-dimensional materials	20
Cross-field optoelectronic modulation via inter-coupled ferroelectricity in 2D In2Se3	20
Anomalous valley Hall effect in antiferromagnetic monolayers	19
Dipole-induced Ohmic contacts between monolayer Janus MoSSe and bulk metals	19
Photoelectroactive artificial synapse and its application to biosignal pattern recognition	18
Electron irradiation-induced defects for reliability improvement in monolayer MoS2-based conductive-point memory devices	18
High-throughput bandstructure simulations of van der Waals hetero-bilayers formed by 1T and 2H monolayers	18

Elastic flow instabilities and macroscopic textures in graphene oxide lyotropic liquid crystals	18
Visualization of defect induced in-gap states in monolayer MoS2	18
Ultrafast hot carrier transfer in WS2/graphene large area heterostructures	17
2D transistors rapidly printed from the crystalline oxide skin of molten indium	17
Synthesis of high-quality monolayer tungsten disulfide with chlorophylls and its application for enhancing bone regeneration	17
Controllable potential barrier for multiple negative-differential-transconductance and its application to multi-valued logic computing	17
Spin filtering effect in all-van der Waals heterostructures with WSe2 barriers	16
Terahertz optics-driven phase transition in two-dimensional multiferroics	16
Exploration of sub-bandgap states in 2D halide perovskite single-crystal photodetector	16
Elimination of the internal electrostatic field in two-dimensional GaN-based semiconductors	16
Inkjet-printed low-dimensional materials-based complementary electronic circuits on paper	16
Theory of nonvolatile resistive switching in monolayer molybdenum disulfide with passive electrodes	16
Titanium disulfide as Schottky/ohmic contact for monolayer molybdenum disulfide	16
Gate energy efficiency and negative capacitance in ferroelectric 2D/2D TFET from cryogenic to high temperatures	16