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Rafik Addou is affiliated with The University of Texas at Dallas in the United States. Their research primarily spans materials science and engineering, with a focus on materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

Their work extensively covers topics such as 2D materials and applications, MXene and MAX phase materials, graphene research and applications, catalytic processes in materials science, advanced photocatalysis techniques, electron and X-ray spectroscopy techniques, and chalcogenide semiconductor thin films.

Frequently publishing in several scientific journals, Rafik Addou has contributed to these venues multiple times:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • ACS Applied Nano Materials
  • Surface Science Spectra
  • npj Materials Degradation

Some of the recent papers include:

  • Enhanced Visible-Light-Driven Hydrogen Production through MOF/MOF Heterojunctions, 2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Effect of Ambient Conditions on Radiation-Induced Chemistries of a Nanocluster Organotin Photoresist for Next-Generation EUV Nanolithography, 2020, ACS Applied Nano Materials
  • In situ exfoliated 2D molybdenum disulfide analyzed by XPS, 2020, Surface Science Spectra
  • Origins of Fermi Level Pinning between Tungsten Dichalcogenides (WS2, WTe2) and Bulk Metal Contacts: Interface Chemistry and Band Alignment, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Molecular-scale investigation of the oxidation behavior of chromia-forming alloys in high-temperature CO2, 2021, npj Materials Degradation

Co-authorship frequently appears alongside several researchers, notably:

  • Gregory S. Herman
  • Radwan Elzein
  • Robert M. Wallace
  • J. Trey Diulus
  • Christopher M. Smyth

Best Publications

  • Near-unity photoluminescence quantum yield in MoS2

    Matin Amani;Der-Hsien Lien;Daisuke Kiriya;James Bullock

  • Defect-Dominated Doping and Contact Resistance in MoS2

    Stephen McDonnell;Rafik Addou;Creighton Buie;Robert M. Wallace

  • Atomically thin resonant tunnel diodes built from synthetic van der Waals heterostructures

    Yu Chuan Lin;Ram Krishna Ghosh;Rafik Addou;Ning Lu

  • Manganese Doping of Monolayer MoS2: The Substrate Is Critical

    Kehao Zhang;Simin Feng;Junjie Wang;Angelica Azcatl

  • Covalent Nitrogen Doping and Compressive Strain in MoS2 by Remote N2 Plasma Exposure.

    Angelica Azcatl;Xiaoye Qin;Abhijith Prakash;Chenxi Zhang

  • Surface Defects on Natural MoS2

    Rafik Addou;Luigi Colombo;Robert M. Wallace

  • Impact of Intrinsic Atomic Defects on the Electronic Structure of MoS2 Monolayers

    Santosh Kc;Roberto C Longo;Rafik Addou;Robert M Wallace

  • Recombination Kinetics and Effects of Superacid Treatment in Sulfur- and Selenium-Based Transition Metal Dichalcogenides.

    Matin Amani;Matin Amani;Peyman Taheri;Rafik Addou;Geun Ho Ahn;Geun Ho Ahn

  • Impurities and Electronic Property Variations of Natural MoS2 Crystal Surfaces.

    Rafik Addou;Stephen McDonnell;Diego Barrera;Zaibing Guo

  • HfSe2 Thin Films: 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

    Ruoyu Yue;Adam T. Barton;Hui Zhu;Angelica Azcatl

  • Realizing Large-Scale, Electronic-Grade Two-Dimensional Semiconductors

    Yu Chuan Lin;Bhakti Jariwala;Brian M. Bersch;Ke Xu

  • MoS2 functionalization for ultra-thin atomic layer deposited dielectrics

    Angelica Azcatl;Stephen McDonnell;K C Santosh;Xin Peng

  • Monolayer graphene growth on Ni(111) by low temperature chemical vapor deposition

    Rafik Addou;Arjun Dahal;Peter Sutter;Matthias Batzill

  • Hole contacts on transition metal dichalcogenides: interface chemistry and band alignments.

    Stephen McDonnell;Angelica Azcatl;Rafik Addou;Cheng Gong

  • 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

  • Tuning the Electronic and Photonic Properties of Monolayer MoS2 via In Situ Rhenium Substitutional Doping

    Kehao Zhang;Brian M. Bersch;Jaydeep Joshi;Rafik Addou

  • Atomically thin heterostructures based on single-layer tungsten diselenide and graphene.

    Yu Chuan Lin;Chih Yuan S Chang;Ram Krishna Ghosh;Jie Li

  • Contact Metal–MoS2 Interfacial Reactions and Potential Implications on MoS2-Based Device Performance

    Christopher M. Smyth;Rafik Addou;Stephen McDonnell;Christopher L. Hinkle

  • Defects and Surface Structural Stability of MoTe2 Under Vacuum Annealing.

    Hui Zhu;Qingxiao Wang;Lanxia Cheng;Rafik Addou

  • Nucleation and growth of WSe2: enabling large grain transition metal dichalcogenides

    Ruoyu Yue;Yifan Nie;Lee A. Walsh;Rafik Addou

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert M. Wallace
Robert M. Wallace The University of Texas at Dallas
Christopher L. Hinkle
Christopher L. Hinkle University of Notre Dame
Moon J. Kim
Moon J. Kim The University of Texas at Dallas
Kyeongjae Cho
Kyeongjae Cho The University of Texas at Dallas
Jiyoung Kim
Jiyoung Kim The University of Texas at Dallas
Stephen McDonnell
Stephen McDonnell University of Virginia
Joshua A. Robinson
Joshua A. Robinson Pennsylvania State University
Qingxiao Wang
Qingxiao Wang King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Luigi Colombo
Luigi Colombo The University of Texas at Dallas
Gregory S. Herman
Gregory S. Herman Oregon State University

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