Mauricio Terrones

Willaman Professor of Physics; Professor of Chemistry and of Materials Science & Engineering

Mauricio Terrones

Research Summary

The Physics and Chemistry of materials at the nanoscale

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Most Recent Publications

Rational design of high-efficiency interfacial solar evaporator with low evaporation enthalpy based on biomass-derived materials and silica aerogel

Linyi Wu, Shuchang Guan, Wen Si, Binghua Zhou, Jie Wang, Shien Guo, Guozhen Zhu, Mingxi Wang, Gan Jet Hong Melvin, Hironori Ogata, Josue Ortiz-Medina, Masaki Tanemura, Yoong Ahm Kim, Mauricio Terrones, Morinobu Endo, Zhipeng Wang, 2025, Gas Separation and Purification

Thermo-optical properties of luminescent carbon dots produced from biomass of Orbignya speciosa (babassu coconut)

Maykol Christian Damasceno Oliveira, Adriano Almeida Silva, Tânia Patrícia Silva-Silva, Jhaemely Gabrielly Vieira Silva, José Ferreira da Silva Júnior, David Sanchez, Maria José Valenzuela Bell, Hans Anderson Garcia, Bartolomeu Cruz Viana, Mauricio Terrones, Rubens Silva Costa, Francisco Eroni Paz Santos, 2025, Journal of Molecular Liquids

Substitutional doping of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides for device applications: Current status, challenges and prospects

Rajeev Kumar, Amit Kumar Shringi, Hannah Jane Wood, Ivy M. Asuo, Seda Oturak, David Emanuel Sanchez, Tata Sanjay Kanna Sharma, Rajneesh Chaurasiya, Avanish Mishra, Won Mook Choi, Nutifafa Y. Doumon, Ismaila Dabo, Mauricio Terrones, Fei Yan, 2025, Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports

Improving luminescence properties of WSe<sub>2</sub> monolayers via vanadium incorporation during CVD growth

A. N. Barbosa, S. Zhang, R. G. Costa, Z. Yu, M. Terrones, M. E. Araujo, A. Safonova, N. Daldosso, G. Mariotto, F. L. Freire, 2025, Applied Surface Science

Downscaling of Non-Van der Waals Semimetallic W<sub>5</sub>N<sub>6</sub> with Resistivity Preservation

Hongze Gao, Da Zhou, Lu Ping, Zifan Wang, Nguyen Tuan Hung, Jun Cao, Michael Geiwitz, Gabriel Natale, Yuxuan Cosmi Lin, Kenneth Stephen Burch, Riichiro Saito, Mauricio Terrones, Xi Ling, 2025, ACS Nano on p. 3362-3371

Raman Signature of Stripe Domains in Monolayer W<sub>x</sub>Mo<sub>1-x</sub>S<sub>2</sub> Alloys

Natalya Sheremetyeva, Na Zhang, David Emanuel Sanchez, Zhuohang Yu, Michael Lamparski, Mauricio Terrones, Vincent Meunier, 2025, ACS applied materials & interfaces on p. 5430-5438

Experimental Realization of Fluoroborophene

Mukul M. Morey, Rohan Bahadur, Zhixuan Li, Nithinraj P. Dharmarajan, Mohammed Fawaz, Arkamita Bandyopadhyay, Sumit Chahal, Solomon Ansah, R. K. Singh Raman, Mauricio Terrones, Prashant Kumar, Ajayan Vinu, 2025, Small

Exploring PtAg onto silanized biogenic silica as an electrocatalyst for H<sub>2</sub> evolution: A combined experimental and theoretical investigation

Naveen Kumar Reddy Bogireddy, Abdel Ghafour El Hachimi, Christian A. Celaya, Jesús Muñiz, Tijin Thomas, Ana Laura Elias, Yu Lei, Mauricio Terrones, Vivechana Agarwal, 2025, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science on p. 271-283

Giant Valley Zeeman Splitting in Vanadium-Doped WSe<sub>2</sub> Monolayers

Frederico B. Sousa, Matheus J.S. Matos, Bruno R. Carvalho, Mingzu Liu, Alessandra Ames, Da Zhou, Geovani C. Resende, Zhuohang Yu, Lucas Lafeta, Marcos A. Pimenta, Mauricio Terrones, Marcio D. Teodoro, Helio Chacham, Leandro M. Malard, 2024, Small

A substitutional quantum defect in WS<sub>2</sub> discovered by high-throughput computational screening and fabricated by site-selective STM manipulation

John C. Thomas, Wei Chen, Yihuang Xiong, Bradford A. Barker, Junze Zhou, Weiru Chen, Antonio Rossi, Nolan Kelly, Zhuohang Yu, Da Zhou, Shalini Kumari, Edward S. Barnard, Joshua A. Robinson, Mauricio Terrones, Adam Schwartzberg, D. Frank Ogletree, Eli Rotenberg, Marcus M. Noack, Sinéad Griffin, Archana Raja, David A. Strubbe, Gian Marco Rignanese, Alexander Weber-Bargioni, Geoffroy Hautier, 2024, Nature Communications

Most-Cited Papers

Recent Advances in Two-Dimensional Materials beyond Graphene

Ganesh R. Bhimanapati, Zhong Lin, Vincent Meunier, Yeonwoong Jung, Judy Cha, Saptarshi Das, Di Xiao, Youngwoo Son, Michael S. Strano, Valentino R. Cooper, Liangbo Liang, Steven G. Louie, Emilie Ringe, Wu Zhou, Steve S. Kim, Rajesh R. Naik, Bobby G. Sumpter, Humberto Terrones, Fengnian Xia, Yeliang Wang, Jun Zhu, Deji Akinwande, Nasim Alem, Jon A. Schuller, Raymond E. Schaak, Mauricio Terrones, Joshua A. Robinson, 2015, ACS Nano on p. 11509--11539

Transition metal dichalcogenides and beyond: Synthesis, properties, and applications of single- and few-layer nanosheets

Ruitao Lv, Joshua A. Robinson, Raymond E. Schaak, Du Sun, Yifan Sun, Thomas E. Mallouk, Mauricio Terrones, 2015, Accounts of Chemical Research on p. 56-64

Defect engineering of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

Zhong Lin, Bruno R. Carvalho, Ethan Kahn, Ruitao Lv, Rahul Rao, Humberto Terrones, Marcos A. Pimenta, Mauricio Terrones, 2016, 2D Materials

Fast and Efficient Preparation of Exfoliated 2H MoS<sub>2</sub> Nanosheets by Sonication-Assisted Lithium Intercalation and Infrared Laser-Induced 1T to 2H Phase Reversion

Xiaobin Fan, Pengtao Xu, Dekai Zhou, Yifan Sun, Yuguang C. Li, Minh An T. Nguyen, Mauricio Terrones, Thomas E. Mallouk, 2015, Nano Letters on p. 5956-5960

Beyond Graphene: Progress in Novel Two-Dimensional Materials and van der Waals Solids

Saptarshi Das, Joshua A. Robinson, Madan Dubey, Humberto Terrones, Mauricio Terrones, 2015, Annual Review of Materials Research on p. 1-27

Three-dimensionally bonded spongy graphene material with super compressive elasticity and near-zero Poisson's ratio

Yingpeng Wu, Ningbo Yi, Lu Huang, Tengfei Zhang, Shaoli Fang, Huicong Chang, Na Li, Jiyoung Oh, Jae Ah Lee, Mikhail Kozlov, Alin C. Chipara, Humberto Terrones, Peishuang Xiao, Guankui Long, Yi Huang, Fan Zhang, Long Zhang, Xavier Lepró, Carter Haines, Márcio Dias Lima, Nestor Perea Lopez, Lakshmy P. Rajukumar, Ana L. Elias, Simin Feng, Seon Jeong Kim, N. T. Narayanan, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Mauricio Terrones, Ali Aliev, Pengfei Chu, Zhong Zhang, Ray H. Baughman, Yongsheng Chen, 2015, Nature Communications

2D materials advances: From large scale synthesis and controlled heterostructures to improved characterization techniques, defects and applications

Zhong Lin, Amber McCreary, Natalie Briggs, Shruti Subramanian, Kehao Zhang, Yifan Sun, Xufan Li, Nicholas J. Borys, Hongtao Yuan, Susan K. Fullerton-Shirey, Alexey Chernikov, Hui Zhao, Stephen McDonnell, Aaron M. Lindenberg, Kai Xiao, Brian J. Le Roy, Marija Drndić, James C.M. Hwang, Jiwoong Park, Manish Chhowalla, Raymond E. Schaak, Ali Javey, Mark C. Hersam, Joshua Robinson, Mauricio Terrones, 2016, 2D Materials on p. 042001

Carbon Nanotubes and Related Nanomaterials: Critical Advances and Challenges for Synthesis toward Mainstream Commercial Applications

Rahul Rao, Cary L. Pint, Ahmad E. Islam, Robert S. Weatherup, Stephan Hofmann, Eric R. Meshot, Fanqi Wu, Chongwu Zhou, Nicholas Dee, Placidus B. Amama, Jennifer Carpena-Nuñez, Wenbo Shi, Desiree L. Plata, Evgeni S. Penev, Boris I. Yakobson, Perla B. Balbuena, Christophe Bichara, Don N. Futaba, Suguru Noda, Homin Shin, Keun Su Kim, Benoit Simard, Francesca Mirri, Matteo Pasquali, Francesco Fornasiero, Esko I. Kauppinen, Michael Arnold, Baratunde A. Cola, Pavel Nikolaev, Sivaram Arepalli, Hui Ming Cheng, Dmitri N. Zakharov, Eric A. Stach, Jin Zhang, Fei Wei, Mauricio Terrones, David B. Geohegan, Benji Maruyama, Shigeo Maruyama, Yan Li, W. Wade Adams, A. John Hart, 2018, ACS Nano on p. 11756-11784

Manganese Doping of Monolayer MoS <sub>2</sub>: The Substrate Is Critical

Kehao Zhang, Simin Feng, Junjie Wang, Angelica Azcatl, Ning Lu, Rafik Addou, Nan Wang, Chanjing Zhou, Jordan Lerach, Vincent Bojan, Moon J. Kim, Long Qing Chen, Robert M. Wallace, Mauricio Terrones, Jun Zhu, Joshua A. Robinson, 2015, Nano Letters on p. 6586-6591

Effective NaCl and dye rejection of hybrid graphene oxide/graphene layered membranes

Aaron Morelos-Gomez, Rodolfo Cruz-Silva, Hiroyuki Muramatsu, Josue Ortiz-Medina, Takumi Araki, Tomoyuki Fukuyo, Syogo Tejima, Kenji Takeuchi, Takuya Hayashi, Mauricio Terrones, Morinobu Endo, 2017, Nature Nanotechnology on p. 1083-1088