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2026
H. Shen, H. Zhou, X. Zheng, J. Liu, J. He, F. Xue, K. Zhang, E. Shi, Y. Guo. Macroscopic Janus transition metal dichalcogenide single crystals with enhanced piezoelectricity and carrier mobility. Advanced Materials 38 (14), e18117 (2026). Article
2025
K. Zhang†, T.-Y. Lee†, S.-J. Yang, T. Bhagde, M. Iwai, L. Lam, K. K. Niyogi, G. R. Fleming. Probing exciton diffusion in photosynthetic supercomplexes via exciton-exciton annihilation. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 162 (16), 164201 (2025). (Featured Article) Article
K. Zhang*, M. Dandu, N. T. Hung, T. Zhang, E. Barré, R. Saito, J. Kong, A. Raja, S. Huang*. Optomechanical tuning of second harmonic generation anisotropy in Janus MoSSe/MoS2 heterostructures. ACS Nano, 19 (44), 38371–38380 (2025). Article
K. Zhang, R. A. Maniyara, Y. Wang, A. Jain, M. T. Wetherington, T. Mai, T. Bowen, C. Dong, S. V. Rotkin, A. R. Hight Walker, V. Crespi, J. Robinson, S. Huang. Tunable phononic quantum interference induced by two-dimensional metals. Science Advances, 11, eadw1800 (2025). Article
K. Zhang†, C. Fu†, S. Kelly, L. Liang, S.-H. Kang, J. Jiang, R. Zhang, Y. Wang, G. Wan, P. Siriviboon, M. Yoon, P. Ye, W. Wu, M. Li, S. Huang. Thickness-dependent polaron crossover in tellurene. Science Advances, 11 (2), eads4763 (2025). Article
X. Zheng†, K. Zhang†, X. Zhao, J. Zhou, J. Kong, Y. Guo. Achieving high-yield conversion of Janus transition metal dichalcogenides on diverse substrates. ACS Nano, 19 (22), 20744–20752 (2025). Article
2024
N. Zhang†, K. Zhang†, J. Zou, R. A. Maniyara, T. A. Bowen, J. Schrecengost, A. Jain, D. Zhou, C. Dong, Z. Yu, H. Liu, N. C. Giebink, J. A. Robinson, W. Hu, S. Huang, M. Terrones. Tuning the Fermi level of graphene by two-dimensional metals for Raman detection of molecules. ACS Nano, 18 (12), 8876–8884 (2024). Article
2023
N. T. Hung†, K. Zhang†, V. V. Thanh, Y. Guo, A. A. Puretzky, D. B. Geohegan, J. Kong, S. Huang, R. Saito. Nonlinear optical responses of Janus MoSSe/MoS2 heterobilayers optimized by stacking order and strain. ACS Nano, 17 (20), 19877–19886 (2023). Article
H. Zhu, N. Nayir, T. H. Choudhury, A. Bansal, B. Huet, K. Zhang, A. Puretzky, S. Bachu, K. York, T. V. Mc Knight, et al. Step engineering for nucleation and domain orientation control in WSe2 epitaxy on c-plane sapphire. Nature Nanotechnology 18 (11), 1295–1302 (2023). Article
Y.-C. Lin, R. Torsi, R. Younas, C. L. Hinkle, A. F. Rigosi, H. M. Hill, K. Zhang, S. Huang, C. E. Shuck, C. Chen, et al. Recent advances in 2D material theory, synthesis, properties, and applications. ACS Nano, 17 (11), 9694–9747 (2023). Article
Z. Wang, Y. C. Lin, K. Zhang, W. Wu, S. Huang. Measuring complex refractive index through deep-learning-enabled optical reflectometry. 2D Materials, 10, 025025 (2023). Article
2022
K. Zhang, Z. Wang, H. Liu, N. Perea-López, J. C. Ranasinghe, G. Bepete, A. M. Minns, R. M. Rossi, S. E. Lindner, X. Huang, M. Terrones, S. Huang. Understanding the excitation wavelength dependence and thermal stability of the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain using surface-enhanced Raman scattering and machine learning. ACS Photonics, 9 (9), 2963–2972 (2022). Article
Z. Wang, J. Ye, K. Zhang, L. Ding, T. Granzier-Nakajima, J. C. Ranasinghe, Y. Xue, S. Sharma, I. Biase, M. Terrones, S. H. Choi, C. Ran, R. E. Tanzi, S. X. Huang, C. Zhang, S. Huang. Rapid biomarker screening of Alzheimer’s disease by interpretable machine learning and graphene-assisted Raman spectroscopy. ACS Nano, 16 (4), 6426–6436 (2022). Article
J. Ye, Y.-T. Yeh, Y. Xue, Z. Wang, N. Zhang, H. Liu, K. Zhang, R. Ricker, Z. Yu, A. Roder, et al. Accurate virus identification with interpretable Raman signatures by machine learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (23), e2118836119 (2022). Article
J. C. Ranasinghe, A. Jain, W. Wu, K. Zhang, Z. Wang, S. Huang. Engineered 2D materials for optical bioimaging and path towards therapy and tissue engineering. Journal of Materials Research, 37, 1689–1713 (2022). Article
2021
K. Zhang, Y. Guo, D.T. Larson, Z. Zhu, S. Fang, E. Kaxiras, J. Kong, S. Huang. Spectroscopic signatures of interlayer coupling in Janus MoSSe/MoS2 heterostructures. ACS Nano, 15 (9), 14394–14403 (2021). Article
B. Chitara, K. Zhang, M. Y. G. Cervantes, T. B. Limbu, B. Adhikari, S. Huang, F. Yan. Probing charge transfer in 2D MoS2/tellurene type-II p–n heterojunctions. MRS Communications, 11 (6), 868–872 (2021). Article
Y. Guo, Y. Lin, K. Xie, B. Yuan, J. Zhu, P.-C. Shen, A.-Y. Lu, C. Su, E. Shi, K. Zhang, et al. Designing artificial two-dimensional landscapes via atomic-layer substitution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (32), e2106124118 (2021). Article
2020
K. Zhang†, Y. Guo†, Q. Ji†, A.-Y. Lu, C. Su, H. Wang, A. A. Puretzky, D. Geohegan, X. Qian, S. Fang, E. Kaxiras, J. Kong, and S. Huang. Enhancement of van der Waals interlayer coupling through polar Janus MoSSe. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142 (41), 17499–17507 (2020). Article
K. Zhang, T. Wang, X. Pang, F. Han, S.-L. Shang, N.T. Hung, Z.-K. Liu, M. Li, R. Saito, S. Huang. Anisotropic Fano resonance in the Weyl semimetal candidate LaAlSi. Physical Review B, 102 (23), 235162 (2020). Article
K. Zhang, X. Pang, T. Wang, F. Han, S.-L. Shang, N. T. Hung, A. R. T. Nugraha, Z.-K. Liu, M. Li, R. Saito, S. Huang. Anomalous phonon-mode dependence in polarized Raman spectroscopy of the topological Weyl semimetal TaP. Physical Review B, 101 (1), 014308 (2020). Article
Q. Qian, R. Zu, Q. Ji, G. S. Jung, K. Zhang, Y. Zhang, M. J. Buehler, J. Kong, V. Gopalan, S. Huang. Chirality-dependent second harmonic generation of MoS2 nanoscroll with enhanced efficiency. ACS Nano, 14 (10), 13333–13342 (2020). Article
Q. Qian, X. Shen, D. Luo, L. Jia, M. Kozina, R. Li, M.-F. Lin, A. Reid, S. Weathersby, J. Yang, Y. Zhou, K. Zhang, et al. Coherent lattice wobbling and out-of-phase intensity oscillations of Friedel pairs observed by ultrafast electron diffraction. ACS Nano, 14 (7), 8449–8458 (2020). Article
T. Nguyen, F. Han, N. Andrejevic, R. Pablo-Pedro, A. Apte, Y. Tsurimaki, Z. Ding, K. Zhang, A. Alatas, E. E. Alp, et al. Topological singularity induced chiral Kohn anomaly in a Weyl semimetal. Physical Review Letters, 124 (23), 236401 (2020). Article
Q. Qian, L. Peng, N. Perea-Lopez, K. Fujisawa, K. Zhang, X. Zhang, T. Choudhury, J. Redwing, M. Terrones, X. Ma, S. Huang. Defect creation in WSe2 with microsecond photoluminescence lifetime by focused ion beam irradiation. Nanoscale, 12 (3), 2047–2056 (2020). Article