Research Summary
Our research is best described as materials theory, broadly defined. We use a variety of techniques chosen to suit the problem at hand, ranging from first-principles density functional theory to dynamical mean field theory, empirical interatomic potentials, photonic bandstructures or effective continuum theories such as Landau-Ginzburg.In the News
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Recent Publications
Strain-Induced 2H to 1T′ Phase Transition in Suspended MoTe2 Using Electric Double Layer Gating
Awate, S. S., Xu, K., Liang, J., Katz, B., Muzzio, R., Crespi, V. H., Katoch, J. & Fullerton-Shirey, S. K., Nov 28 2023, In: ACS nano. 17, 22, p. 22388-22398 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
High-entropy oxides: Harnessing crystalline disorder for emergent functionality
Kotsonis, G. N., Almishal, S. S. I., Marques dos Santos Vieira, F., Crespi, V. H., Dabo, I., Rost, C. M. & Maria, J. P., Oct 2023, In: Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 106, 10, p. 5587-5611 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Classical triangular lattice antiferromagnetic Ising model as a free-fermion/superconductor system
Nourhani, A., Crespi, V. H. & Lammert, P. E., May 19 2023, In: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. 56, 20, 205001.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Three-dimensional topological magnetic monopoles and their interactions in a ferromagnetic meta-lattice
Rana, A., Liao, C. T., Iacocca, E., Zou, J., Pham, M., Lu, X., Subramanian, E. E. C., Lo, Y. H., Ryan, S. A., Bevis, C. S., Karl, R. M., Glaid, A. J., Rable, J., Mahale, P., Hirst, J., Ostler, T., Liu, W., O’Leary, C. M., Yu, Y. S., Bustillo, K., & 11 others , Mar 2023, In: Nature nanotechnology. 18, 3, p. 227-232 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Step engineering for nucleation and domain orientation control in WSe2 epitaxy on c-plane sapphire
Zhu, H., Nayir, N., Choudhury, T. H., Bansal, A., Huet, B., Zhang, K., Puretzky, A. A., Bachu, S., York, K., Mc Knight, T. V., Trainor, N., Oberoi, A., Wang, K., Das, S., Makin, R. A., Durbin, S. M., Huang, S., Alem, N., Crespi, V. H., van Duin, A. C. T., & 1 others , Nov 2023, In: Nature nanotechnology. 18, 11, p. 1295-1302 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Theoretical Studies of Furan and Thiophene Nanothreads: Structures, Cycloaddition Barriers, and Activation Volumes
Chen, B., Crespi, V. H. & Hoffmann, R., May 25 2022, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144, 20, p. 9044-9056 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Mechanistic insights into the pressure-induced polymerization of aryl/perfluoroaryl co-crystals
Gerthoffer, M. C., Xu, B., Wu, S., Cox, J., Huss, S., Oburn, S. M., Lopez, S. A., Crespi, V. H., Badding, J. V. & Elacqua, E., Feb 3 2022, In: Polymer Chemistry. 13, 10, p. 1359-1368 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Shape Entropy of a Reconfigurable Ising Surface
Katz, B. N., Krainov, L. & Crespi, V., Aug 26 2022, In: Physical review letters. 129, 9, 096102.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Confined Monolayer Ag As a Large Gap 2D Semiconductor and Its Momentum Resolved Excited States
Lee, W., Wang, Y., Qin, W., Kim, H., Liu, M., Nunley, T. N., Fang, B., Maniyara, R., Dong, C., Robinson, J. A., Crespi, V. H., Li, X., Macdonald, A. H. & Shih, C. K., Oct 12 2022, In: Nano letters. 22, 19, p. 7841-7847 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Direct observation of topological magnetic monopoles using soft x-ray vector ptychography at 10 nm resolution
Liao, C. T., Rana, A., Iacocca, E., Zou, J., Pham, M., Lu, X., Subramanian, E. E. C., Lo, Y. H., Ryan, S. A., Bevis, C. S., Karl, R. M., Glaid, A. J., Rable, J., Mahale, P., Hirst, J., Ostler, T., Liu, W., Leary, C. M. O., Yu, Y. S., Bustillo, K., & 11 others , 2022, In: Optics InfoBase Conference Papers. JTh6A.3.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review
Mutual information and breakdown of the Perron-Frobenius scenario in zero-temperature triangular Ising antiferromagnets on cylinders
Nourhani, A., Crespi, V. H. & Lammert, P. E., Apr 2022, In: Physical Review E. 105, 4, 044105.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Photochemically Mediated Polymerization of Molecular Furan and Pyridine: Synthesis of Nanothreads at Reduced Pressures
Oburn, S. M., Huss, S., Cox, J., Gerthoffer, M. C., Wu, S., Biswas, A., Murphy, M., Crespi, V. H., Badding, J. V., Lopez, S. A. & Elacqua, E., Dec 7 2022, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144, 48, p. 22026-22034 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
ZrTe2/CrTe2: an epitaxial van der Waals platform for spintronics
Ou, Y., Yanez, W., Xiao, R., Stanley, M., Ghosh, S., Zheng, B., Jiang, W., Huang, Y. S., Pillsbury, T., Richardella, A., Liu, C., Low, T., Crespi, V. H., Mkhoyan, K. A. & Samarth, N., Dec 2022, In: Nature communications. 13, 1, 2972.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Nonstoichiometric Salt Intercalation as a Means to Stabilize Alkali Doping of 2D Materials
Wang, Y., Crespi, V. H., Cohen, M. L. & Nourhani, A., Dec 23 2022, In: Physical review letters. 129, 26, 266401.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Theory of Borazine-Derived Nanothreads: Enumeration, Reaction Pathways, and Piezoelectricity
Wang, T., Xu, E. S., Chen, B., Hoffmann, R. & Crespi, V. H., Oct 25 2022, In: ACS nano. 16, 10, p. 15884-15893 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review