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Overview

José Avila is affiliated with Synchrotron SOLEIL in France. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and engineering, with a significant emphasis on materials chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering. Their expertise extends into atomic and molecular physics, optics, as well as biomedical engineering.

Avila's work covers multiple specialized topics, including:

  • 2D materials and applications
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Chalcogenide semiconductor thin films
  • Quantum dots synthesis and properties
  • Topological materials and phenomena
  • MXene and MAX phase materials
  • Nanowire synthesis and applications

The publication record includes frequently contributing to venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nano Letters
  • Physical Review B
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Physical Review Letters

Recent papers from José Avila's collaborations include:

  • "Layer-controlled single-crystalline graphene film with stacking order via Cu-Si alloy formation," 2020, Nature Nanotechnology
  • "Programming twist angle and strain profiles in 2D materials," 2023, Science
  • "Dimensionality-Mediated Semimetal-Semiconductor Transition in Ultrathin PtTe2 Films," 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • "Large-area epitaxial growth of curvature-stabilized ABC trilayer graphene," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Visualizing electron localization of WS2/WSe2 moiré superlattices in momentum space," 2021, Science Advances

José Avila has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Pavel Dudin
  • Emmanuel Lhuillier
  • Debora Pierucci
  • M. C. Asensio
  • Abdelkarim Ouerghi

Best Publications

  • Silicene: Compelling Experimental Evidence for Graphenelike Two-Dimensional Silicon

    Patrick Vogt;Patrick Vogt;Paola De Padova;Claudio Quaresima;Jose Avila

  • Band Alignment and Minigaps in Monolayer MoS2-Graphene van der Waals Heterostructures

    Debora Pierucci;Hugo Henck;Jose Avila;Adrian Balan;Adrian Balan

  • Towards high quality CVD graphene growth and transfer

    G. Deokar;J. Avila;I. Razado-Colambo;J.-L. Codron

  • Black Arsenic: A Layered Semiconductor with Extreme In-Plane Anisotropy

    Yabin Chen;Chaoyu Chen;Robert Kealhofer;Huili Liu;Huili Liu

  • DYNAMICAL FLUCTUATIONS AS THE ORIGIN OF A SURFACE PHASE TRANSITION IN SN/GE(111)

    J. Avila;J. Avila;A. Mascaraque;E. G. Michel;M. C. Asensio;M. C. Asensio

  • Quasicrystalline 30° twisted bilayer graphene as an incommensurate superlattice with strong interlayer coupling.

    Wei Yao;Eryin Wang;Changhua Bao;Yiou Zhang

  • Evidence of Dirac fermions in multilayer silicene

    Paola De Padova;Patrick Vogt;Andrea Resta;Jose Avila

  • Evaluation of food consumption and dietary patterns in Spain by the Food Consumption Survey: updated information

    G Varela-Moreiras;J M Avila;C Cuadrado;S del Pozo

  • Direct Observation of Interlayer Hybridization and Dirac Relativistic Carriers in Graphene/MoS2 van der Waals Heterostructures

    Horacio Coy Diaz;José Avila;Chaoyu Chen;Rafik Addou

  • Charge Density Wave State Suppresses Ferromagnetic Ordering in VSe2 Monolayers

    Paula Mariel Coelho;Kien Nguyen Cong;Manuel Bonilla;Sadhu Kolekar

  • Observation of a two-dimensional liquid of Fröhlich polarons at the bare SrTiO3 surface

    Chaoyu Chen;José Avila;Emmanouil Frantzeskakis;Anna Levy

  • Self-aligned silicon quantum wires on Ag(110)

    C. Leandri;G. Le Lay;B. Aufray;C. Girardeaux

  • Polycrystalline graphene with single crystalline electronic structure.

    Lola Brown;Edward B. Lochocki;José Avila;Cheol-Joo Kim

  • Chitosan-coated mesoporous MIL-100(Fe) nanoparticles as improved bio-compatible oral nanocarriers.

    T. Hidalgo;M. Giménez-Marqués;E. Bellido;J. Avila

  • Topology of the Pseudogap and Shadow Bands in Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8+δ at Optimum Doping

    N. L. Saini;J. Avila;A. Bianconi;A. Lanzara

  • MISTRAL: a transmission soft X-ray microscopy beamline for cryo nano-tomography of biological samples and magnetic domains imaging.

    Andrea Sorrentino;Josep Nicolás;Ricardo Valcárcel;Francisco Javier Chichón

  • Atomic structure of the √3 × √3 phase of silicene on Ag(111)

    Seymur Cahangirov;Veli Ongun Özçelik;Lede Xian;Jose Avila

  • Diamond-like carbon coating under oleic acid lubrication: Evidence for graphene oxide formation in superlow friction.

    Maria Isabel De Barros Bouchet;Jean Michel Martin;José Avila;Makoto Kano

  • Layer-controlled single-crystalline graphene film with stacking order via Cu–Si alloy formation

    Van Luan Nguyen;Dinh Loc Duong;Sang Hyub Lee;José Avila

  • GraftFast Surface Engineering to Improve MOF Nanoparticles Furtiveness

    Mónica Giménez-Marqués;Mónica Giménez-Marqués;Mónica Giménez-Marqués;Elena Bellido;Thomas Berthelot;Teresa Simón-Yarza;Teresa Simón-Yarza

  • Exploring electronic structure of one-atom thick polycrystalline graphene films: A nano angle resolved photoemission study

    José Avila;Ivy Razado;Stéphane Lorcy;Romain Fleurier

  • Correction: Corrigendum: Multiple π-bands and Bernal stacking of multilayer graphene on C-face SiC, revealed by nano-Angle Resolved Photoemission

    Leif I. Johansson;Rickard Armiento;Jose Avila;Chao Xia

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria C. Asensio
Maria C. Asensio Spanish National Research Council
Guy Le Lay
Guy Le Lay Aix-Marseille University
Lorena Gómez-Aparicio
Lorena Gómez-Aparicio Spanish National Research Council
D.P. Woodruff
D.P. Woodruff University of Warwick
Alessandra Lanzara
Alessandra Lanzara University of California, Berkeley
G. D. Gu
G. D. Gu Brookhaven National Laboratory
Young Hee Lee
Young Hee Lee Sungkyunkwan University
Emmanuel Lhuillier
Emmanuel Lhuillier Sorbonne University
Patricia Horcajada
Patricia Horcajada IMDEA Energy Institute
Peter A. Dowben
Peter A. Dowben University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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