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Richard Martel is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada, focusing primarily on materials science and engineering. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics within these fields, with significant attention to materials chemistry and electronic engineering subfields.

Their main areas of study include materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, as well as molecular biology. The scientist's research topics cover:

  • Graphene research and applications
  • Carbon nanotubes in composites
  • 2D materials and applications
  • Graphene and nanomaterials applications
  • Molecular junctions and nanostructures
  • Boron and carbon nanomaterials research
  • Diamond and carbon-based materials research

Richard Martel has coauthored numerous papers with collaborators including Charlotte Allard, Étienne Gaufrès, Luc Stafford, Annick Loiseau, and P. Desjardins. Their frequent coauthors have contributed to advancing knowledge mainly in nanomaterials and related engineering applications.

Publications by Richard Martel appear predominantly in venues such as ECS Meeting Abstracts, Journal of Physics D Applied Physics, Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, arXiv (Cornell University), and Materials Horizons. Their contributions to these venues reflect a sustained engagement with materials science and related disciplines.

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Banning carbon nanotubes would be scientifically unjustified and damaging to innovation," published in 2020 in Nature Nanotechnology
  • "Reproducible graphene synthesis by oxygen-free chemical vapour deposition," published in 2024 in Nature
  • "Confinement of Dyes inside Boron Nitride Nanotubes: Photostable and Shifted Fluorescence down to the Near Infrared," published in 2020 in Advanced Materials
  • "Preferential self-healing at grain boundaries in plasma-treated graphene," published in 2020 in Nature Materials
  • "Advanced 1D heterostructures based on nanotube templates and molecules," published in 2024 in Chemical Society Reviews

Best Publications

  • Single- and multi-wall carbon nanotube field-effect transistors

    R. Martel;T. Schmidt;H. R. Shea;T. Hertel

  • Carbon nanotubes as schottky barrier transistors.

    S. Heinze;J. Tersoff;R. Martel;V. Derycke

  • Carbon Nanotube Inter- and Intramolecular Logic Gates

    V. Derycke;R. Martel;J. Appenzeller;Ph. Avouris

  • Photooxidation and quantum confinement effects in exfoliated black phosphorus

    Alexandre Favron;Etienne Gaufrès;Frédéric Fossard;Anne-Laurence Phaneuf-L'Heureux

  • Electrically Induced Optical Emission from a Carbon Nanotube FET

    J. A. Misewich;R. Martel;Ph. Avouris;J. C. Tsang

  • Ambipolar electrical transport in semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes.

    R. Martel;V. Derycke;C. Lavoie;J. Appenzeller

  • Vertical scaling of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors using top gate electrodes

    S. J. Wind;J. Appenzeller;R. Martel;V. Derycke

  • Carbon nanotube electronics

    P. Avouris;J. Appenzeller;R. Martel;S.J. Wind

  • Controlling doping and carrier injection in carbon nanotube transistors

    V. Derycke;R. Martel;J. Appenzeller;Ph. Avouris

  • Photoconductivity of Single Carbon Nanotubes

    M. Freitag;Y. Martin;J. A. Misewich;R. Martel

  • Current Saturation and Electrical Breakdown in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

    Philip G. Collins;M. Hersam;M. Arnold;R. Martel

  • Atomic force microscope tip-induced local oxidation of silicon: kinetics, mechanism, and nanofabrication

    Phaedon Avouris;Tobias Hertel;Richard Martel

  • Field-modulated carrier transport in carbon nanotube transistors.

    J. Appenzeller;J. Knoch;V. Derycke;R. Martel

  • Manipulation of Individual Carbon Nanotubes and Their Interaction with Surfaces

    Tobias Hertel;Richard Martel;Phaedon Avouris

  • Methodology for electrically induced selective breakdown of nanotubes

    Phaedon Avouris;Philip G. Collins;Vincent Stephane Derycke;Richard Martel

  • Carbon nanotubes: nanomechanics, manipulation, and electronic devices

    Ph Avouris;T Hertel;R Martel;T Schmidt

  • Probing charge transfer at surfaces using graphene transistors.

    Pierre L Levesque;Shadi S Sabri;Carla M Aguirre;Jonathan Guillemette

  • The Role of the Oxygen/Water Redox Couple in Suppressing Electron Conduction in Field-Effect Transistors

    Carla M. Aguirre;Pierre L. Levesque;Matthieu Paillet;François Lapointe

  • Method of fabricating self-aligned nanotube field effect transistor

    Joerg Appenzeller;Phaedon Avouris;Kevin K. Chan;Philip G. Collins

  • Rings of single-walled carbon nanotubes

    Richard Martel;Herbert R. Shea;Phaedon Avouris

Frequent Co-Authors

Phaedon Avouris
Phaedon Avouris IBM (United States)
Joerg Appenzeller
Joerg Appenzeller Purdue University West Lafayette
Vincent Derycke
Vincent Derycke University of Paris-Saclay
Kevin K. Chan
Kevin K. Chan IBM (United States)
Annick Loiseau
Annick Loiseau University of Paris-Saclay
Tobias Hertel
Tobias Hertel University of Würzburg
Fabio Cicoira
Fabio Cicoira Polytechnique Montréal
Joachim Knoch
Joachim Knoch RWTH Aachen University
Herbert Shea
Herbert Shea École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Michael S. Arnold
Michael S. Arnold University of Wisconsin–Madison

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