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Gerd Duscher is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a focus on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Surfaces, Coatings and Films.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques

Duscher's recent publications demonstrate their engagement with advanced materials and nanoscale structures. Selected papers include:

  • "Low Energy Implantation into Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers to Form Janus Structures," 2020, published in ACS Nano
  • "Excitonic Dynamics in Janus MoSSe and WSSe Monolayers," 2021, published in Nano Letters
  • "Two-Dimensional Palladium Diselenide with Strong In-Plane Optical Anisotropy and High Mobility Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition," 2020, published in Advanced Materials
  • "Effect of interstitial oxygen and nitrogen on incipient plasticity of NbTiZrHf high-entropy alloys," 2020, published in Acta Materialia
  • "Non-Equilibrium Synthesis of Highly Active Nanostructured, Oxygen-Incorporated Amorphous Molybdenum Sulfide HER Electrocatalyst," 2020, published in Small

Their frequent co-authors include David B. Geohegan, Austin Houston, Chenze Liu, Kai Xiao, and Utkarsh Pratiush, indicating collaborative work across multiple projects and disciplines.

Duscher's work is commonly published in venues such as:

  • Microscopy and Microanalysis
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Advanced Materials
  • ACS Nano
  • Nano Letters

Best Publications

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

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

  • Surface plasmon resonance in conducting metal oxides

    Crissy Rhodes;Stefan Franzen;Jon Paul Maria;Mark Losego

  • Void formation during early stages of passivation: Initial oxidation of iron nanoparticles at room temperature

    C. M. Wang;D. R. Baer;L. E. Thomas;J. E. Amonette

  • Bismuth-induced embrittlement of copper grain boundaries

    Gerd Duscher;Matthew F. Chisholm;Uwe Alber;Manfred Rühle

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

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Synthesis of Millimeter-Size Hexagon-Shaped Graphene Single Crystals on Resolidified Copper

    Ali Mohsin;Lei Liu;Peizhi Liu;Wan Deng

  • Nonstoichiometry and the electrical activity of grain boundaries in SrTiO3.

    Miyoung Kim;Miyoung Kim;Gerd Duscher;Gerd Duscher;Nigel D. Browning;Karl Sohlberg

  • Transition layers at the SiO2∕SiC interface

    Tsvetanka Zheleva;Aivars Lelis;Gerd Duscher;Fude Liu

  • Structure and Formation Mechanism of Black TiO2 Nanoparticles

    Mengkun Tian;Masoud Mahjouri-Samani;Gyula Eres;Ritesh Sachan

  • Topological defects: origin of nanopores and enhanced adsorption performance in nanoporous carbon.

    Junjie Guo;Junjie Guo;James R. Morris;James R. Morris;Yungok Ihm;Cristian I. Contescu

  • Tailoring Vacancies Far Beyond Intrinsic Levels Changes the Carrier Type and Optical Response in Monolayer MoSe2-x Crystals.

    Masoud Mahjouri-Samani;Liangbo Liang;Akinola Oyedele;Akinola Oyedele;Yong-Sung Kim;Yong-Sung Kim;Yong-Sung Kim

  • Universal Formation of Compositionally Graded Bulk Heterojunction for Efficiency Enhancement in Organic Photovoltaics

    Zhengguo Xiao;Yongbo Yuan;Bin Yang;Jeremy VanDerslice

  • Direct observation of dislocation dissociation and Suzuki segregation in a Mg–Zn–Y alloy by aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy

    Zhiqing Yang;Zhiqing Yang;Zhiqing Yang;Matthew F. Chisholm;Gerd Duscher;Gerd Duscher;Xiuliang Ma

  • Excitonic Dynamics in Janus MoSSe and WSSe Monolayers

    Ting Zheng;Ting Zheng;Yu-Chuan Lin;Yu-Chuan Lin;Yiling Yu;Pavel Valencia-Acuna

  • Photoluminescence from gas-suspended SiOx nanoparticles synthesized by laser ablation

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

  • Pulsed Laser Deposition of Photoresponsive Two‐Dimensional GaSe Nanosheet Networks

    Masoud Mahjouri-Samani;Ryan Gresback;Mengkun Tian;Kai Wang

  • Focused helium-ion beam irradiation effects on electrical transport properties of few-layer WSe2: enabling nanoscale direct write homo-junctions.

    Michael G. Stanford;Pushpa Raj Pudasaini;Alex Belianinov;Nicholas Cross

  • High-performance multilayer WSe 2 field-effect transistors with carrier type control

    Pushpa Raj Pudasaini;Pushpa Raj Pudasaini;Akinola Oyedele;Akinola Oyedele;Cheng Zhang;Cheng Zhang;Michael G. Stanford

  • Impurity-Induced Structural Transformation of a MgO Grain Boundary

    Y. Yan;M. F. Chisholm;G. Duscher;G. Duscher;A. Maiti;A. Maiti

  • LowEnergy Implantation into Transition-Metal DichalcogenideMonolayers to Form Janus Structures

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

  • Bismuth Induced Embrittlement of Copper Grain Boundaries

    M. F. Chisholm;G. Duscher

Frequent Co-Authors

David B. Geohegan
David B. Geohegan Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Alexander A. Puretzky
Alexander A. Puretzky Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Christopher M. Rouleau
Christopher M. Rouleau Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Sokrates T. Pantelides
Sokrates T. Pantelides Vanderbilt University
Kai Xiao
Kai Xiao Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Stephen J. Pennycook
Stephen J. Pennycook University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Matthew F. Chisholm
Matthew F. Chisholm Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Philip D. Rack
Philip D. Rack University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Gyula Eres
Gyula Eres Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Nigel D. Browning
Nigel D. Browning University of Liverpool

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