Publication

2025

[59] Van der Waals-integrated crossbar arrays with adjustable atomic-scale channels for ultralow-power imaging
Y. Hu, M. Tamtaji, M. Dai, T. W. Tang, J. Shen, J. Wang, Z. Gao, N. Zhang, L. An, Z. Luo*, Matter, Accepted, 2025

[58] An Electronic Platform for Rapid Detection of Steroids in Clinical Plasma
B. Guo, F. Lin, Y. Liu, J. Jiang, B. Yuan, T. Huang, Y. Lin, C. Cong, S. Xiong, Z. Gao, Y. Qin, D. Han, Ye Lu*, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement, Accepted, 2025

[57] Light-Up Nanostructures with Allosterically Controlled Fluorogenic DNA Aptamers
T. Zhang*, X. Qian, J. Zhang, H. Cui, T. Bai, W. Wang, Z. Gao*, D. Han*, W. Zeng*, B. Wei*, Advanced Materials, e14306, 2025 [Link]

[56] Emergent moiré fringes in direct-grown quasicrystals
J. Li, K. Bao, H. Sun, X. Yan*, T. Huang, Q. Zhang, Y. Zhou, Y. Huang, Z. Liu, P. M. Das, J. You, J. Zhao, J. Xu, X. Pan, Y. Mi, J. Zhu*, Z. Gao*, Physical Review B, vol.111 , p. 235449, 2025 [Link]

[55] Next‐Generation Image Sensors Based on Low‐Dimensional Semiconductor Materials
Y. Hu, Z. Gao*, Z. Luo*, L. An*, Advanced Materials, vol. 37, p. 2408961, 2025 [Link]

[54] 2D Materials‐Based Field‐Effect Transistor Biosensors for Healthcare
J. Li, L. Wijaya, D. W. Jang, Y. Hu, J. You, Y. Cai, Z. Gao, Y. Mi, Z. Luo*, Small, vol. 21, p. 2408961, 2025 [Link]

[53] Magnetoelastic Sensing: A Study of Flexible Magnetoelastic Strain Sensors for Highly Deformed Posture Perception
J. Shu, J. Wang, Y. Su, M. Liu, Y. Li, H. Lu, M. M. Alam, C. E. Ti, S. F. Tong, Z. Gao, Z. Guo, Z. Li, R. K. Tong*, Advanced Materials Technologies, vol. 10, p. 2401496, 2025 [Link]

[52] Commercial Strip‐Inspired One‐Pot CRISPR‐Based Chip for Multiplexed Detection of Respiratory Viruses
H. Zhang, X. Hu, X. Bao, W. Tu, Q. Wan, Z. Yu, J. Xie, X. Qiu, Wei Gu, Z. Gao, Y. Wang, C. Wang*, Y. Luo*, Small Methods, vol. 9, p. 2400917, 2025 [Link]

2024

[51] Rapid miRNA Detection Enhanced by Exponential Hybridization Chain Reaction in Graphene Field-Effect Transistors
T. Huang, J. Li, . Chen, H. Sun, D. Jang, M. M. Alam, K. Yeung, Q. Zhang, H. Xia, L. Duan, C. Mao*, Z. Gao*, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, vol. 266, p. 116695, 2024 [Link]

[50] Flexible strain sensors based on silver nanowires and UV-curable acrylate elastomers for wrist movement monitoring
S. Li, W. Wu, Y. Chang, W. Chen; Y. Liu, Z. He, Y. Pu, I. S. Babichuk, T. T. Ye, Z. Gao, J. Yang* RSC Applied Interfaces, vol. 1, pp. 684-688, 2024 [Link]

[49] Catalysis-mediated dynamic ligand presentation regulates mechanosensing–metabolism coupling of stem cells
X. Wang, X. Xie, Z. Li, X. Zhang, B. Yang, H. Kang, P. S.-h. Yung, Z. Gao, S. H. D. Wong*; L. Bian*, K. Zhang*, Nano Todays, vol. 57, p. 102363, 2024 [Link]

[48] Drift‐Aware Feature Learning Based on Autoencoder Preprocessing for Soft Sensors
J. Wang, J. Shu, M. M. Alam, Z. Gao, Z. Li, K. Tong*, Advanced Intelligent Systems, vol. 6, p. 2300486, 2024 [Link]

[47] Flexible Piezoelectric Sensors Based on Ionic Liquid‐doped Poly (L‐Lactic Acid) for Human Coughing Recognition
Z. He, Y. Liu, I. S. Babichuk, Z. Zhou, Z. Liu, X. Yang, R. Zhou, Y. Pu, S. Li, Y. Chang, T. Ye, Z. Gao, J. Yang*, Advanced Materials Technologies, vil. 9, p. 2400386, 2024 [Link]

[46] Minimizing Contact Resistance and Flicker Noise in Micro Graphene Hall Sensors Using Persistent Carbene Modified Gold Electrodes
H. Sun, T. Huang, M. M. Alam, J. Li, D. W. Jang, T. Wang, H. Chen, Y.-P. Ho, Z. Gao*, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, vol. 16, pp. 31473–31479, 2024 [Link]

[45] Electrically Tunable Magnetoconductance of Close-Packed CVD Bilayer Graphene Layer Stacking Walls
Q. Zhang, S. Wang, Z. Gao, S. H.-Parra, J. Berry, Z. Addison, P. M. Das, W. M Parkin, M. Drndic, J. M Kikkawa, F. Wang, E. J Mele, AT Johnson, Z. Luo, arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.06867. [Link]

[44] Epitaxial Growth of Two-Dimensional MoO₂–MoSe₂ Metal–Semiconductor Heterostructures for Schottky Diodes
T. Kang, J. You, J. Wang, Y. Li, Y. Hu, T. W. Tang, X. Lin, Y. Li, L. Liu, Z. Gao, Y. Liu, Z. Luo*, Nano Letters, vol. 24, pp. 8369−8377, 2024 [Link]

2023

[43] Epitaxial Growth of 1D Te/2D MoSe₂ Mixed-Dimensional Heterostructures for High-Efficient Self-Powered Photodetector
J You, Z Jin, Y Li, T Kang, K Zhang, W Wang, M Xu, Z Gao, J Wang, J-K Kim, and Z Luo*, Advanced Functional Materials, vol. n/a, p. 2311134, 2023 [Link]

[42] Skin‐Adhesive Flexible Force Sensors Based on Piezoelectric Poly(l‐lactic acid) for Human Behavior Recognition
C. Lin, W. Wu, H. Zhu, Y. Qiu, S. Cui, W. Chen, I. S. Babichuk, T. T. Ye*, Z. Gao*, and J. Yang*, Advanced Materials Technologies, vol. 8, p. 2202142, 2023 [Link]

[41] Highly Stable Integration of Graphene Hall Sensors with Microfluidics for Sensing in Whole Blood
N. Shah, V. Iyer, Z. Zhang, Z. Gao, J. Park, V. Yelleswarapu, F. Aflatouni, A. T. Charlie Johnson, and D. Issadore*, Microsystems & Nanoengineering, vol. 9, p. 71, 2023 [Link]

[40] Transmission-matrix Quantitative Phase Profilometry for Accurate and Fast Thickness Mapping of 2D Materials
Y. Nie, N. Zhou, L. Tao, J. Zhu, Z. Gao, J. Xu, and R. Zhou*, ACS Photonics, vol. 10, pp. 1084-1092, 2023 [Link]

2022

[39] Salt-Assisted Selective Growth of H-phase Monolayer VSe₂ with Apparent Hole Transport Behavior
J. You, J. Pan, S.-L. Shang, X. Xu, Z. Liu, J. Li, H. Liu, T. Kang, M. Xu, S. Li, D. Kong, W. Wang*, Z. Gao, X. Zhou, T. Zhai, Z.-K. Liu, J.-K. Kim*, and Z. Luo*, Nano Letters, vol. 22, pp. 10167-10175, 2022 [Link]

[38] Curvature-Induced One-Dimensional Phonon Polaritons at Edges of Folded Boron Nitride Sheets
X. Yan, J. Li, L. Gu, C. A. Gadre, S. L. Moore, T. Aoki, S. Wang, G. Zhang, Z. Gao, D. N. Basov, R. Wu, and X. Pan*, Nano Letters, vol. 22, pp. 9319-93262022, 2022 [Link]

[37] Raman mapping of piezoelectric poly (L-Lactic acid) films for force sensors
I. S. Babichuk, C. Lin, Y. Qiu, H. Zhu, T. T. Ye*, Z. Gao*, and J. Yang*, RSC Advances, vol. 12, pp. 27687-27697, 2022 [Link]

[36] Aptasensors Based on Graphene Field-Effect Transistors for Arsenite Detection
J. Li, A. Tyagi, T. Huang, H. Liu, H. Sun, J. You, M. M. Alam, X. Li, and Z. Gao*, ACS Applied Nano Materials, vol. 5, pp. 12848-12854, 2022 [Link]

[35] Utilizing Gradient Porous Graphene Substrate as the Solid-Contact Layer to Enhance Wearable Electrochemical Sweat Sensor Sensitivity
K. K. Yeung, J. Li, T. Huang, I. I. Hosseini, R. Al Mahdi, M. M. Alam, H. Sun, S. Mahshid, J. Yang*, T. T. Ye*, and Z. Gao*, Nano Letters, vol. 22, pp. 6647-6654, 2022 [Link]

[34] Simultaneously Stiffening and Toughening Epoxy by Urea Treated Hydroxylated Halloysite Nanotubes Polymer
S. Zeng, Z. Hou, C. So, H. Wai, D. Jang, W. Lai, L. Sun*, and Z. Gao*, Polymer, p. 125194, 2022 [Link]

[33] Graphene-Based Ion-Selective Field-Effect Transistor for Sodium Sensing
T. Huang, K. K. Yeung, J. Li, H. Sun, M. M. Alam, and Z. Gao*, Nanomaterials, vol. 12, p. 2620, 2022 [Link]

[32] Coherent Heterostructure Mesh Grown by Gap-Filling Epitaxial Chemical Vapor Deposition
H. Liu, Z. Liu, X. Cai, H. Wong, M. Huang, M. Amjadian, J. Wang, M. Tamtaji, J. Li, T. Kang, T. W. Tang, Y. Cai, M. Xu, K. Zhang, T. Xu, M. Xu, X. Sun, G. Chen, Z. Gao, N. Wang, Z. Luo, Chemistry of Materials, vol. 34, pp. 4765–4773, 2022 [Link]

[31] Structure evolution of hBN grown on molten Cu by regulating precursor flux during chemical vapor deposition
H. Liu, W. He, Z. Liu, I. H. Abidi, Y. Ding, P. R. Galligan, M. Tamtaji, J. Li, Y. Cai, T. Kang, H. Wong, Z. Li, P. Zhao, Z. Gao, Y. Mi, Z. Xu, Z. Luo, 2D Materials, vol. 9, p. 015004, 2022 [Link]

2021

[30] Quantum-Well Bound States in Graphene Heterostructure Interfaces
Z. Dai, Z. Gao, S. Pershoguba, N. Tiwale, A. Subramanian, Q. Zhang, C. Eads, S. A. Tenney, R. M. Osgood, C. Nam, J. Zang, A. T. C. Johnson, J. T. Sadowski, Physical Review Letters, vol. 127, p. 086805, 2021 [Link]

[29] Synergistic enhancement of photoluminesent intensity in monolayer molybdenum disulfide embedded with plasmonic nanostructures for catalytic sensing
M. Jalali, Z. Gao*, Y. Yu, R. S. Moakhar, Y. Ding, M. Zhuang, N Zhou, T. König, A. Fery, S. Mahshid, Z. Luo*, 2D Materials, vol. 8 , p. 035049, 2021 [Link]

[28] Recent Advances in Electrochemical Sensors for Wearable Sweat Monitoring: A Review
K.K. Yeung, T. Huang, Y. Hua, K. Zhang*, M.M.F. Yuen*, Z. Gao*, IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 21, no. 13, pp. 14522-14539, 2021 [Link]

[27] Scalable Chemical Vapor Deposited Graphene Field-Effect Transistors for Bio/Chemical assay
Rajesh, Z. Gao, A. T. C. Johnson, N. Puri, A. Mulchandani, and D. K. Aswal, Applied Physics Reviews, vol. 8, p. 011311, 2021 [Link]

[26] The C-terminus of the mu opioid receptor is critical in G protein interaction as demonstrated by a novel graphene biosensor
C. Wen, B. Selling, A. Yeliseev, J. Xi, J. M. Perez-Aguilar, Z. Gao, J. G. Saven, A. T. C. Johnson, and R. Liu, IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 21, pp. 5758-5762, 2021 [Link]

2020

[25] Recent Advances in the Properties and Synthesis of Bilayer Graphene and Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Z.Gao*, M-Q. Zhao*, M.M.A. Ashik, and A. T. C. Johnson*, Journal of Physics: Materials, vol. 3, p. 042003, 2020 [Link]

[24] Large-Area Epitaxial Growth of Curvature-Stabilized ABC Trilayer Graphene
Z. Gao*, S. Wang, J. Berry, Q. Zhang, J. Gebhardt, W.M. Parkin, J. Avila, H. Yi, C. Chen, S. Hurtado-Parra, M. Drndić, A. M. Rappe, D. J. Srolovitz, J. M. Kikkawa, Z. Luo, M. C. Asensio, F. Wang*, and A. T. C. Johnson*, Nature Communications, vol. 11, p. 546, 2020 [Link]

2023

[23] Exchange Coupling Effects on the Magnetotransport Properties of Ni-Nanoparticle-Decorated Graphene
E. Arguello Cruz, P. Ducos, Z. Gao, A. T. C. Johnson, and D. Niebieskikwiat, Nanomaterials, vol. 13, p. 1861, 2023 [Link]

2020

[22] Controlled Doping of Graphene by Means of Impurity Charge Screening Via a Polarized Ferroelectric Polymer
K.S. Figueroa, N.J. Pinto, S.V. Mandyam, M-Q Zhao, C. Wen, P.M. Das, Z. Gao, M. Drndić, and A. T. C. Johnson, Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 127, p. 125503, 2020 [Link]

[21] Graphene transistor arrays functionalized with genetically engineered antibody fragments for Lyme disease diagnosis
Z. Gao, P. Ducos, H. Ye, J. Zauberman, A. Sriram, X. Yang, Z. Wang, M.W. Mitchell, D. Lekkas, D. Brisson, and A.T.C. Johnson, 2D Materials, vol. 7, p. 024001, 2020 [Link]

2019

[20] Controlled Growth of Large-Area Bilayer Tungsten Diselenides with Lateral P-N Junctions
S. V. Mandyam, M. Q. Zhao, P. M. Das, Q. Zhang, C. C. Price, Z. Gao, V. B. Shenoy, M. Drndić, and A. T. C. Johnson, ACS Nano, vol. 13, pp. 10490-10498, 2019 [Link]

[19] Origin of Nanoscale Friction Contrast between Supported Graphene, MoS₂, and a Graphene/MoS₂ Heterostructure
M. R. Vazirisereshk, H. Ye, A. O. Roza, Z. Ye, M. Zhao, Z. Gao, A. T. C. Johnson, E. R. Johnson, R. W. Carpick, and A. Martini, Nano Letters, vol. 19, pp. 5496-5505, 2019 [Link]

2018

[18] Detection of Sub-fM DNA with Target Recycling and Self-Assembly Amplification on Graphene Field Effect Biosensors
Z. Gao, H. Xia, J. Zauberman, M. Tomaiuolo, J. Ping, Q. Zhang, P. Ducos, H. Ye, S. Wang, X. Yang, F. Lubna, Z. Luo, L. Ren, and A. T. C. Johnson, Nano Letters, vol. 18, pp. 3509-3515, 2018 (Reported by Penn Today and The Graphene Council) [Link]

[17] Crystalline Bilayer Graphene with Preferential Stacking from Ni-Cu Gradient Alloy
Z. Gao, Q. Zhang, C. H. Naylor, Y. Kim, I. H. Abidi, J. Ping, P. Ducos, J. Zauberman, M.-Q. Zhao, A. M. Rappe, Z. Luo, L. Ren, and A. T. C. Johnson, ACS Nano, vol. 12, pp. 2275-2282, 2018 [Link]

[16] Modular Functionalization of Crystalline Graphene by Recombinant Proteins: A Nanoplatform for Probing Biomolecules
A. Tyagi, X. Liu, I. H. Abidi, Z. Gao, B. M. Park, X. Zeng, X. Ou, A. A. Cagang, M. Zhuang, M. D. Hossain, K. Zhang, L. T. Weng, F. Sun, and Z. Luo, Nanoscales, vol. 10, pp. 22572-22582, 2018 [Link]

[15] New Approach to Unveiling Individual Atomic Layers of 2D Materials and Their Heterostructures
I. H. Abidi, L.-T. Weng, C. P. J. Wong, A. Tyagi, L. Gan, Y. Ding, M. Li, Z. Gao, R. Xue, M. D. Hossain, M. Zhuang, X. Ou, and Z. Luo, Chemistry of Materials, vol. 30, pp. 1718-1728, 2018 [Link]

2017

[14] Recoil Effect and Photoemission Splitting of Trions in Monolayer MoS₂
Q. Zhang, C. H. Naylor, Z. Gao, R. Wu, I. H. Abidi, M.-Q. Zhao, Y. Ding, A. A. Cagang, M. Zhuang, X. Ou, and Z. Luo, ACS Nano, vol. 11, pp. 10808-10815, 2017 [Link]

[13] Scalable Graphene Aptasensors for Drug Quantification
R. Vishnubhotla, J. Ping, Z. Gao, A. Lee, O. Saouaf, A. Vrudhula, and A. T. C. Johnson, AIP Advances, vol. 7, p. 115111, 2017 [Link]

[12] Synthesis and Physical Properties of Phase-Engineered Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayer Heterostructures
C. H. Naylor, W. M. Parkin, Z. Gao, J. Berry, S. Zhou, Q. Zhang, J. B. McClimon, L. Z. Tan, C. E. Kehayias, M.-Q. Zhao, R. S. Gona, R. W. Carpick, A. M. Rappe, D. J. Srolovitz, M. Drndic, and A. T. C. Johnson, ACS Nano, vol. 11, pp. 8619-8627, 2017 [Link]

[11] pH Sensing Properties of Flexible, Bias-Free Graphene Microelectrodes in Complex Fluids: From Phosphate Buffer Solution to Human Serum
J. Ping, J. E. Blum, R. Vishnubhotla, A. Vrudhula, C. H. Naylor, Z. Gao, J. G. Saven, and A. T. C. Johnson, Small, vol. 13. 2017 [Link]

[10] Large-Area Synthesis of High-Quality Monolayer 1T’-WTe₂ Flakes
C. Naylor, W. Parkin, Z. Gao, H Kang, M. Noyan, R. Wexler, L. Tan, Y. Kim, C. Kehayias, F. Streller, Y. Zhou, R. Carpick, Z. Luo, Y. Park, A. Rappe, M. Drndic, J. Kikkawa, and A. T. C. Johnson, 2D Materials, vol. 4, pp. 021008, 2017 (Highlighted by Nature Nanotechnology) [Link]

2016

[9] Scalable Production of Sensor Arrays Based on High-Mobility Hybrid Graphene Field Effect Transistors
Z. Gao, H. Kang, C. H. Naylor, F. Streller, P. Ducos, M. D. Serrano, J. Ping, J. Zauberman, Rajesh, R. W. Carpick, Y.-J. Wang, Y. W. Park, Z. Luo, L. Ren, and A. T. C. Johnson, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, vol. 8, pp. 27546-27552, 2016 [Link]

[8] Genetically Engineered Antibody Functionalized Platinum Nanoparticles Modified CVD-Graphene Nanohybrid Transistor for the Detection of Breast Cancer Biomarker, HER3
Rajesh, Z. Gao, R. Vishnubhotla, P. Ducos, M. D. Serrano, J. Ping, M. K. Robinson, and A. T. C. Johnson, Advanced Materials Interfaces, vol. 3, p. 1600124, 2016 [Link]

[7] Monolayer Single-Crystal 1T’-MoTe₂ Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition Exhibits Weak Antilocalization Effect
C. H. Naylor, W. M. Parkin, J. Ping, Z. Gao, Y. R. Zhou, Y. Kim, F. Streller, R. W. Carpick, A. M. Rappe, M. Drndić, J. M. Kikkawa, and A. T. C. Johnson, Nano Letters, vol. 16, pp. 4297-4304, 2016 [Link]

2015

[6] Growth of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays on Al Substrates through Controlled Diffusion of Catalyst
Z. Gao, X. Zhang, K. Zhang, and M. M. F. Yuen, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 119, pp. 15636-15642, 2015 [Link]

[5] A Novel Method for the Fabrication of a High-Density Carbon Nanotube Microelectrode Array
A. Khalifa, Z. Gao, A. Bermak, Y. Wangi, and L. Chan, Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research, vol. 5, pp. 1-7, 2015 [Link]

2014

[4] Exceptional thermal interface properties of a three-dimensional graphene foam
X. Zhang, K. K. Yeung, Z. Gao, J. Li, H. Sun, H. Xu, K. Zhang, M. Zhang, Z. Chen, M. M. F. Yuen, and S. Yang, Carbon, vol. 66, pp. 201-209, 2014 [Link]

2013

[3] Thermal Chemical Vapor Deposition Grown Graphene Heat Spreader for Thermal Management of Hot Spots
Z. Gao, Y. Zhang, Y. Fu, M. M. F. Yuen and J. Liu, Carbon, vol. 61, pp. 342-348, 2013 (Reported by SciTechDaily, Electronics Cooling, ScienceDaily and Techfragments) [Link]

[2] Highly conductive die attach adhesive from percolation control and its applications in light-emitting device thermal management
X. Zhang, K. Zhang, M. Zhang, C. Yang, H. Sun, Z. Gao, M. M. F. Yuen, and S. Yang, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 102, pp. 014101-5, 2013 [Link]

2011

[1] Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube Thermal Interface Material on Aluminum Alloy Substrates with Low Pressure CVD
Z. Gao, K. Zhang, and M. M. F. Yuen, Nanotechnology, vol. 22, p. 265611, 2011 [Link]

Graphene-Enabled DNA Biosensors with Enhanced Specificity
U.S. Provisional Application No. 62/640,753, A. T. Johnson, Jr., Z. Gao and H. Xia, 2018, [Link]

Three-Dimensional Interconnected Porous Graphene-Based Thermal Interface Materials
Patent US9605193B2, M. M. F. Yuen, X. Zhang, K. K. Yeung, Z. Gao, K. Zhang, M. Zhang, Hu. XU, 2017, Patent Granted [Link]