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Alexander A. Puretzky is affiliated with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and engineering, with a significant concentration on materials chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering. The scientist's work extends into subfields such as atomic and molecular physics, optics, biomedical engineering, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

The main topics in Puretzky's research include 2D materials and applications, MXene and MAX phase materials, graphene research and applications, perovskite materials and applications, quantum dots synthesis and properties, chalcogenide semiconductor thin films, and topological materials and phenomena.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Puretzky include David B. Geohegan, Kai Xiao, Liangbo Liang, Christopher M. Rouleau, and Yiling Yu.

Alexander A. Puretzky has published multiple papers in notable scientific venues. These include:

  • Low Energy Implantation into Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers to Form Janus Structures, 2020, ACS Nano
  • Excitonic Dynamics in Janus MoSSe and WSSe Monolayers, 2021, Nano Letters
  • Enhancement of van der Waals Interlayer Coupling through Polar Janus MoSSe, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Two-Dimensional Palladium Diselenide with Strong In-Plane Optical Anisotropy and High Mobility Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Piezoelectric domain walls in van der Waals antiferroelectric CuInP2Se6, 2020, Nature Communications

These publications have appeared frequently in venues such as ACS Nano, Advanced Materials, arXiv (Cornell University), Nano Letters, and Nature Communications.

Best Publications

  • Synthesis of Novel Thin-Film Materials by Pulsed Laser Deposition

    Douglas H. Lowndes;D. B. Geohegan;A. A. Puretzky;D. P. Norton

  • PdSe2: Pentagonal Two-Dimensional Layers with High Air Stability for Electronics.

    Akinola D. Oyedele;Shize Yang;Liangbo Liang;Alexander A. Puretzky

  • Nonlinear Fano-Resonant Dielectric Metasurfaces.

    Yuanmu Yang;Wenyi Wang;Abdelaziz Boulesbaa;Ivan I. Kravchenko

  • Time-resolved imaging of gas phase nanoparticle synthesis by laser ablation

    David B. Geohegan;Alex A. Puretzky;Gerd Duscher;Stephen J. Pennycook

  • In situ measurements and modeling of carbon nanotube array growth kinetics during chemical vapor deposition

    Alexander A Puretzky;Alexander A Puretzky;David B Geohegan;Stephen Jesse;Ilia N Ivanov;Ilia N Ivanov

  • Anisotropic Electron-Photon and Electron-Phonon Interactions in Black Phosphorus

    Xi Ling;Shengxi Huang;Eddwi H. Hasdeo;Liangbo Liang

  • Two-channel model for ultralow thermal conductivity of crystalline Tl3VSe4.

    Saikat Mukhopadhyay;Saikat Mukhopadhyay;David S. Parker;Brian C. Sales;Alexander A. Puretzky

  • Interlayer Coupling in Twisted WSe2/WS2 Bilayer Heterostructures Revealed by Optical Spectroscopy

    Kai Wang;Bing Huang;Bing Huang;Mengkun Tian;Frank Ceballos

  • Controlled Vapor Phase Growth of Single Crystalline, Two-Dimensional GaSe Crystals with High Photoresponse

    Xufan Li;Ming Wei Lin;Alexander A. Puretzky;Juan C. Idrobo

  • Two-dimensional GaSe/MoSe2 misfit bilayer heterojunctions by van der Waals epitaxy

    Xufan Li;Ming-Wei Lin;Junhao Lin;Bing Huang

  • Perovskite Solar Cells with Near 100% Internal Quantum Efficiency Based on Large Single Crystalline Grains and Vertical Bulk Heterojunctions

    Bin Yang;Ondrej Dyck;Jonathan Poplawsky;Jong Keum

  • Ultrathin nanosheets of CrSiTe3: a semiconducting two-dimensional ferromagnetic material

    Ming Wei Lin;Houlong L. Zhuang;Jiaqiang Yan;Jiaqiang Yan;Thomas Zac Ward

  • Dynamics of laser ablation plume penetration through low pressure background gases

    David B. Geohegan;Alexander A. Puretzky

  • Patterned arrays of lateral heterojunctions within monolayer two-dimensional semiconductors.

    Masoud Mahjouri-Samani;Ming-Wei Lin;Kai Wang;Andrew R. Lupini

  • Interaction of carbon nanohorns with plants: Uptake and biological effects

    Mohamed H. Lahiani;Jihua Chen;Fahmida Irin;Alexander A. Puretzky

  • Low Energy Implantation into Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers to Form Janus Structures

    Yu-Chuan Lin;Chenze Liu;Yiling Yu;Eva Zarkadoula

  • Dynamics of single-wall carbon nanotube synthesis by laser vaporization

    A.A. Puretzky;D.B. Geohegan;X. Fan;S.J. Pennycook

  • In-Plane Optical Anisotropy of Layered Gallium Telluride

    Shengxi Huang;Yuki Tatsumi;Xi Ling;Huaihong Guo

  • Low-Frequency Interlayer Raman Modes to Probe Interface of Twisted Bilayer MoS2

    Shengxi Huang;Liangbo Liang;Xi Ling;Alexander A. Puretzky

  • Dynamics of Plume Propagation and Splitting during Pulsed-Laser Ablation

    R. F. Wood;Kuan-Ren Chen;J. N. Leboeuf;A. A. Puretzky

  • Low-Frequency Interlayer Breathing Modes in Few-Layer Black Phosphorus

    Xi Ling;Liangbo Liang;Shengxi Huang;Alexander A. Puretzky

Frequent Co-Authors

David B. Geohegan
David B. Geohegan Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Christopher M. Rouleau
Christopher M. Rouleau Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Kai Xiao
Kai Xiao Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ilia N. Ivanov
Ilia N. Ivanov Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Gyula Eres
Gyula Eres Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Gerd Duscher
Gerd Duscher University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Liangbo Liang
Liangbo Liang Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Bobby G. Sumpter
Bobby G. Sumpter Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Mina Yoon
Mina Yoon Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Douglas H. Lowndes
Douglas H. Lowndes Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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