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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Physics in Spain Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering theoretical research on the novel properties of graphene
  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Francisco Guinea is affiliated with the IMDEA Nanoscience Institute in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on subfields including Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work covers major topics such as Graphene research and applications, Quantum and electron transport phenomena, Topological Materials and Phenomena, 2D Materials and Applications, Surface and Thin Film Phenomena, Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism, and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures.

Francisco Guinea has contributed numerous publications across several venues. Frequent publication outlets include arXiv (Cornell University), Physical Review B, Advanced Materials, Physical Review Letters, and Nature Communications.

Recent notable papers include:

  • Colloquium: Spintronics in graphene and other two-dimensional materials (2020), published in Reviews of Modern Physics
  • Charge-polarized interfacial superlattices in marginally twisted hexagonal boron nitride (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • Band structure and insulating states driven by Coulomb interaction in twisted bilayer graphene (2020), published in Physical Review B
  • Coulomb interaction, phonons, and superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Superconductivity and correlated phases in non-twisted bilayer and trilayer graphene (2023), published in Nature Reviews Physics

Frequent collaborators in research are Pierre A. Pantaleón, Zhen Zhan, Jose Ángel Silva-Guillén, Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo, and Tommaso Cea.

In terms of book publications, Francisco Guinea has contributed to a book titled Valores ético-jurídicos para el siglo XXI, Una propuesta a través del cine. published by Dykinson eBooks in 2023.

The scientist has been recognized by membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 2017 and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), with the fellowship awarded for pioneering theoretical research on the novel properties of graphene.

Best Publications

  • The electronic properties of graphene

    A. H. Castro Neto;F. Guinea;N. M. R. Peres;K. S. Novoselov

  • Science and technology roadmap for graphene, related two-dimensional crystals, and hybrid systems

    Andrea C. Ferrari;Francesco Bonaccorso;Francesco Bonaccorso;Vladimir Fal'ko;Konstantin S. Novoselov

  • Substrate-induced bandgap opening in epitaxial graphene

    S. Y. Zhou;G.-H. Gweon;G.-H. Gweon;A. V. Fedorov;P. N. First

  • Substrate-induced band gap opening in epitaxial graphene

    S. Y. Zhou;G. H. Gweon;A. V. Fedorov;P. N. First

  • Biased Bilayer Graphene: Semiconductor with a Gap Tunable by the Electric Field Effect

    Eduardo V. Castro;K. S. Novoselov;S. V. Morozov;N. M. R. Peres

  • Energy gaps and a zero-field quantum Hall effect in graphene by strain engineering

    F. Guinea;M. I. Katsnelson;A. K. Geim

  • Strain-Induced Pseudo–Magnetic Fields Greater Than 300 Tesla in Graphene Nanobubbles

    N. Levy;S. A. Burke;K. L. Meaker;M. Panlasigui

  • Electronic properties of disordered two-dimensional carbon

    N. M. R. Peres;N. M. R. Peres;F. Guinea;F. Guinea;A. H. Castro Neto

  • Universal features of the equation of state of metals

    James H. Rose;James H. Rose;John R. Smith;John R. Smith;Francisco Guinea;John Ferrante

  • Cloning of Dirac fermions in graphene superlattices

    L. A. Ponomarenko;R. V. Gorbachev;G. L. Yu;D. C. Elias

  • Electron-Electron Interactions in Graphene: Current Status and Perspectives

    Valeri N. Kotov;Bruno Uchoa;Vitor M. Pereira;F. Guinea

  • Local strain engineering in atomically thin MoS2.

    Andres Castellanos-Gomez;Rafael Roldán;Emmanuele Cappelluti;Michele Buscema

  • Polaritons in layered two-dimensional materials

    Tony Low;Andrey Chaves;Joshua D. Caldwell;Anshuman Kumar;Anshuman Kumar

  • Dynamical polarization of graphene at finite doping

    B Wunsch;B Wunsch;T Stauber;F Sols;F Guinea

  • Spin-orbit coupling in curved graphene, fullerenes, nanotubes, and nanotube caps

    Daniel Huertas-Hernando;F. Guinea;Arne Brataas

  • Damping pathways of mid-infrared plasmons in graphene nanostructures

    Hugen Yan;Tony Low;Wenjuan Zhu;Yanqing Wu

  • Dirac cones reshaped by interaction effects in suspended graphene

    D. C. Elias;R. V. Gorbachev;A. S. Mayorov;S. V. Morozov

  • Gauge fields in graphene

    M.A.H. Vozmediano;M.I. Katsnelson;F. Guinea

  • Missing Atom as a Source of Carbon Magnetism

    M. M. Ugeda;I. Brihuega;F. Guinea;J. M. Gómez-Rodríguez

  • Biased bilayer graphene: semiconductor with a gap tunable by electric field effect

    Eduardo V. Castro;J.M.B. Lopes dos Santos;N.M.R. Peres;K.S. Novoselov

Frequent Co-Authors

A. H. Castro Neto
A. H. Castro Neto National University of Singapore
Nuno M. R. Peres
Nuno M. R. Peres University of Minho
Mikhail I. Katsnelson
Mikhail I. Katsnelson Radboud University
Andre K. Geim
Andre K. Geim University of Manchester
Tony Low
Tony Low University of Minnesota
Fernando Flores
Fernando Flores Autonomous University of Madrid
Vladimir I. Fal'ko
Vladimir I. Fal'ko University of Manchester
Luis Martín-Moreno
Luis Martín-Moreno University of Zaragoza
Irina V. Grigorieva
Irina V. Grigorieva University of Manchester
Fengnian Xia
Fengnian Xia Yale University

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