Haozhe Wang
Duke University, NC·Materials Science·Early-career
Some materials are only a few atoms thick yet conduct electricity very well, interact strongly with light and bend without breaking. MXenes are one such family of two-dimensional materials.
- Fields
Materials Science
Engineering
Chemistry
- Topics
MXenes
2D materials
atomically thin materials
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Apr 2030
What they work on
- Develop plasma-assisted atomic layer etching and chemical vapor deposition to fabricate pristine MXenes, atomically thin metal carbides, with controlled surface chemistry and large crystalline domains.
- Build machine learning tools integrated with large language models to rapidly analyze MXene structure and properties during materials development.
- Measure electron transport and light-matter interactions in pristine MXenes to establish benchmark intrinsic properties and reveal how surface chemistry shapes their behavior.
- Use pristine MXenes' intrinsic properties to enable new types of electronic devices and soft robots.
More about the research
They are made of layered metal carbides or nitrides, and they are promising for flexible electronics and soft robots. Today's manufacturing methods leave MXene surfaces messy and poorly controlled. As a result, nobody knows how well these materials can really perform. This project asks what pristine MXenes can do once their surfaces are made clean and controlled.
Why it matters
Clean, well-controlled MXenes could become reliable materials for flexible electronics, light-based energy conversion and soft robotics. Benchmark measurements of their intrinsic properties could guide device engineers and manufacturers in choosing and processing these atomically thin materials for next-generation electronic and robotic systems.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Yeonwoong Jung
University of Central Florida, FL·Materials Science·Early-career
Uncover how capillary forces drive the peeling (delamination) and placement (lamination) of 2D layered materials, using experiments together with computational modeling.
Yingchao Yang
University of Missouri-Columbia, MO·Materials Science·Early-career
Synthesize single-layer and multilayer two-dimensional high entropy materials containing at least five elements, using solid-state reaction and chemical vapor deposition.
Anhar Bhuiyan
University of Massachusetts-Lowell, MA·Engineering
Establish a low-pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) growth platform that produces thick, lightly silicon-doped β-Ga₂O₃ layers with high electron mobility and very few unwanted background charge carriers.
The school
Duke University: 61 labs on PI Pages, $1.6B a year on research, 417 research doctorates a year.
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