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@article{WOS:001714968000001,
title = {Resonant Field Emission from Noble-Metal/Graphene Heterostructures},
author = {Maxim Trushin},
doi = {10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c06054},
times_cited = {0},
issn = {1530-6984},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-03-01},
journal = {NANO LETTERS},
volume = {26},
number = {11},
pages = {3760-3767},
publisher = {AMER CHEMICAL SOC},
address = {1155 16TH ST, NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20036 USA},
abstract = {Field emission from metals underpinned early vacuum-tube technology, and
recent nanoscale engineering made field-emission devices compatible with
modern silicon platforms. However, the limited tunability of electron
transport in metals has restricted their applicability. Here, we show
that noble metals coated with graphene exhibit clean nonmonotonic I-V
characteristics arising from resonant tunneling through the electronic
states of graphene, enabled by the atomic thinness and weak electronic
hybridization of graphene with noble metals. Our approach combines ab
initio interface parameters with exact solutions of the Schrodinger
equation for electron transmission across the interface. We analyze two
experimentally relevant geometries: a vertical configuration with a flat
suspended emitter and a coplanar configuration with sharp electrodes
allowing for strong field enhancement and gating. These results
establish a practical route to tunable electron transport in metal
heterostructures, positioning them as competitive components for
air-channel field-emission nanoelectronics.},
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pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}

@article{WOS:001659391900003,
title = {Electrical Generation of Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Plasmonic
Heterostructures},
author = {Maxim Trushin},
doi = {10.1103/q59q-m9q1},
times_cited = {0},
issn = {0031-9007},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-01-01},
journal = {PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS},
volume = {136},
number = {1},
publisher = {AMER PHYSICAL SOC},
address = {ONE PHYSICS ELLIPSE, COLLEGE PK, MD 20740-3844 USA},
abstract = {Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) can be understood as two-dimensional
light confined to a conductordielectric interface via plasmonic
excitations. While low-energy SPPs behave similarly to photons,
higherfrequency SPPs resemble surface plasmons. Electrically generating
midrange SPPs is particularly challenging because it requires
compensating for momentum mismatch, a process conventionally achieved
through inelastic electron transport in nanostructures. Here, we
theoretically demonstrate that electrical SPP generation is possible by
directly coupling electron-hole dipoles to the quantized SPP field
across an insulating spacer without accompanying electron transport.
This approach can be realized in plasmonic van der Waals
heterostructures composed of strongly biased monolayer graphene as the
emitter, few-layer hexagonal boron nitride as the spacer, and silver (or
gold) as the plasmonic material. In this configuration, graphene's
remarkable ability to support a strongly nonequilibrium steady-state
electron-hole population results in nonthermal, bias-tunable SPP
emission that is uniform along the hBN/Ag interface, achieving a power
conversion efficiency of up to 1% and a Purcell factor of up to 100.
These findings pave the way for integrating photonic and electronic
functionalities within a single two-dimensional heterostructure.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}

@article{WOS:001546846300001,
title = {Structure and flow of low-dimensional water},
author = {Maxim Trushin and Daria V Andreeva and Francois M Peeters and Kostya S Novoselov},
doi = {10.1038/s42254-025-00857-x},
times_cited = {9},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-09-01},
journal = {NATURE REVIEWS PHYSICS},
volume = {7},
number = {9},
pages = {502-513},
publisher = {NATURE PORTFOLIO},
address = {HEIDELBERGER PLATZ 3, BERLIN, 14197, GERMANY},
abstract = {When water flows through 1D or 2D channels, its behaviour deviates
substantially from the well-established principles of hydrodynamics.
This is because reducing the dimensionality of any interacting physical
system amplifies interaction effects that are beyond the reach of
traditional hydrodynamic equations. In low-dimensional water, hydrogen
bonds can become stable enough to arrange water molecules into an
ordered state, causing water to behave not only like a liquid but also
like a solid in certain respects. In this Review, we explore the
relationship between the molecular ordering of water and its ability to
flow in low-dimensional channels, using viscosities of bulk water,
vapour, and ice as benchmarks. We also provide a brief overview of the
key theoretical approaches available for such analyses and discuss ionic
transport, which is heavily influenced by the molecular structure of
water. The dynamic interaction between low-dimensional water transport
and ion-coupled structural features lies at the heart of recent advances
in the design and investigation of angstrom-scale biomimetic and
neuromorphic channels.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}

@article{WOS:001548594700007,
title = {Milli-Tesla quantization enabled by tuneable Coulomb screening in
large-angle twisted graphene},
author = {I Babich and I Reznikov and I Begichev and A E Kazantsev and S Slizovskiy and D Baranov and M Siskins and Z Zhan and P A Pantaleon and M Trushin and J Zhao and S Grebenchuk and K S Novoselov and K Watanabe and T Taniguchi and V I Fal'ko and A Principi and A I Berdyugin},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-025-62492-5},
times_cited = {3},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-08-01},
journal = {NATURE COMMUNICATIONS},
volume = {16},
number = {1},
publisher = {NATURE PORTFOLIO},
address = {HEIDELBERGER PLATZ 3, BERLIN, 14197, GERMANY},
abstract = {The electronic quality of graphene has improved significantly over the
past two decades, revealing novel phenomena. However, even
state-of-the-art devices exhibit substantial spatial charge fluctuations
originating from charged defects inside the encapsulating crystals,
limiting their performance. Here, we overcome this issue by assembling
devices in which graphene is encapsulated by other graphene layers while
remaining electronically decoupled from them via a large twist angle
(similar to 10-30 degrees). Doping of the encapsulating graphene layer
introduces strong Coulomb screening, maximized by the sub-nanometer
distance between the layers, and reduces the inhomogeneity in the
adjacent layer to just a few carriers per square micrometre. The
enhanced quality manifests in Landau quantization emerging at magnetic
fields as low as similar to 5 milli-Tesla and enables resolution of a
small energy gap at the Dirac point. Our encapsulation approach can be
extended to other two-dimensional systems, enabling further exploration
of the electronic properties of ultrapure devices.},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}

@article{WOS:001186210500001,
title = {Fibrillation of Pristine 2D Materials by 2D-Confined Electrolytes},
author = {Hui Li Tan and Katarzyna Z Donato and Mariana C F Costa and Alexandra Carvalho and Maxim Trushin and Pei Rou Ng and Xin Hui Yau and Gavin K W Koon and Jakub Tolasz and Zuzana Nemeckova and Petra Ecorchard and Ricardo K Donato and Antonio Castro H Neto},
doi = {10.1002/adfm.202315038},
times_cited = {1},
issn = {1616-301X},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-07-01},
journal = {ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS},
volume = {34},
number = {29},
publisher = {WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH},
address = {POSTFACH 101161, 69451 WEINHEIM, GERMANY},
abstract = {2D materials are solid microscopic flakes with a-few-Angstrom thickness
possessing some of the largest surface-to-volume ratios known. Altering
their conformation state from a flat flake to a scroll or fiber offers a
synergistic association of properties arising from 2D and 1D
nanomaterials. However, a combination of the long-range electrostatic
and short-range solvation forces produces an interlayer repulsion that
has to be overcome, making scrolling 2D materials without disrupting the
pristine structure a challenging task. Herein, a facile method is
presented to alter the 2D materials' inter-layer interactions by
confining organic salts onto their basal area, forming 2D-confined
electrolytes. The confined electrolytes produce local charge
inhomogeneities, which can conjugate across the interlayer gap, binding
the two surfaces. This allows the 2D-confined electrolytes to behave as
polyelectrolytes within a higher dimensional order (2D -> 1D) and form
robust nanofibers with distinct electronic properties. The method is not
material-specific and the resulting fibers are tightly bound even though
the crystal structure of the basal plane remains unaltered.},
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pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}