海角社区

Head of Department (physics.head@warwick.ac.uk)

Research Interests

Professor in condensed matter physics, , Department of Physics, University of 海角社区

Current Research

My interest is in correlating atomic and mesoscale structure with physical properties in nanomaterials, with an emphasis on quantitative measurements. My current research is mainly on the structural, mechanical, electronic and electrical properties of graphene and other two dimensional materials (2DMs). I am a fan of microARPES, particularly to reveal the electronic structure of 2DMs and 2D heterostructures (collaboration with the Cobden and Xu groups at the University of Washington at Seattle, the group of Professor Roman Gorbachev at the National Graphene Institute at Manchester University, and Dr Matthew Watson of Diamond Light Source) and this closely links to theory work at 海角社区 and elsewhere. I have worked on chemically modified graphene in collaboration with . I have developed graphene and graphene oxide based TEM supports for high resolution imaging of molecular and macromolecular species (this has led to the ). I have an interest in molecular microscopy on graphene and have worked with on graphene based gas sensors. I also specialise in scanning probe based measurements and this crosses over into work on other carbon based materials such as diamond and polymeric and molecular semiconductors.

Selected Publications

I am listed on , and on . Selected highlights:

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  YP Ghimirey, L Nagireddy, C Cacho, NR Wilson, MD Watson
  npj 2D Materials and Applications 10 (1), 26 2026

• L Nagireddy, SJ Magorrian, MD Watson, YP Ghimirey, M Walker, C Cacho, ...

  2D Materials 12 (4), 045017 2025

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  Matthew D Watson et al.
  npj 2D Materials and Applications 8 (1), 54 2024
• AJ Graham, H Park, PV Nguyen, J Nunn, V Kandyba, M Cattelan, ... and NR Wilson

  Nano Letters 24 (17), 5117-5124 2024

• JE Nunn, A McEllistrim, A Weston, A Garcia-Ruiz, MD Watson, ... and NR Wilson

  Nano Letters 23 (11), 5201-5208 2023

• AJ Marsden, M Skilbeck, M Healey, HR Thomas, M Walker, RS Edwards, ... and NR Wilson

  Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 24 (4), 2318-2331 2022

• PV Nguyen, NC Teutsch, NP Wilson, J Kahn, X Xia, AJ Graham, ... and NR Wilson

  Nano Letters 21 (24), 10532-10537 2021

• AJ Graham, J Zultak, MJ Hamer, V Zolyomi, S Magorrian, A Barinov, ... and NR Wilson

  2D Materials 8 (1), 015016 2020

• Visualizing electrostatic gating effects in two-dimensional heterostructures
  PV Nguyen, NC Teutsch, NP Wilson, J Kahn, X Xia, V Kandyba, A Barinov, ... and NR Wilson

  volume 572, pages 220鈥�223 2019

• Indirect to Direct Gap Crossover in Two-Dimensional InSe Revealed by Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy
  MJ Hamer, J Zultak, AV Tyurnina, V Z贸lyomi, D Terry, A Barinov, A Garner, ... and NR Wilson

  ACS nano 13 (2), 2136-2142 2019

• Determination of band offsets, hybridization, and exciton binding in 2D semiconductor heterostructures
  NR Wilson, PV Nguyen, K Seyler, P Rivera, AJ Marsden, ZPL Laker, ...

  Science advances 3 (2), e1601832 2017
  

• Effect of the orientation of graphene-based nanoplatelets upon the Young's modulus of nanocomposites
  Z Li, RJ Young, NR Wilson, IA Kinloch, C Vall茅s, Z Li
  Composites Science and Technology 123, 125-133
• Growth of Large Crystalline Grains of Vanadyl鈥怭hthalocyanine without Epitaxy on Graphene
  AJ Marsden, LA Rochford, D Wood, AJ Ramadan, ZPL Laker, TS Jones, ... and NR Wilson

  Advanced Functional Materials 26 (8), 1188-1196

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  GE Wood, AJ Marsden, JJ Mudd, M Walker, M Asensio, J Avila, K Chen, ... and NR Wilson
  2D Materials 2 (2), 025003 2015
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  D Wood, I Hancox, TS Jones, and NR Wilson
  The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 119 (21), 11459-11467 2015
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  HR Thomas, AJ Marsden, M Walker, NR Wilson, and JP Rourke
  Angewandte Chemie International Edition 53 (29), 7613-7618 2014
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  NR Wilson, AJ Marsden, M Saghir, CJ Bromley, R Schaub, G Costantini, ... and NR Wilson
  Nano Research 6 (2), 99-112 2013
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  JP Patterson, AM Sanchez, N Petzetakis, TP Smart, TH Epps III, I Portman, ... and NR Wilson
  Soft Matter 8 (12), 3322-3328 2012
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  JP Rourke, PA Pandey, JJ Moore, M Bates, IA Kinloch, RJ Young, and NR Wilson
  Angewandte Chemie 123 (14), 3231-3235 2011
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  PA Pandey, GR Bell, JP Rourke, AM Sanchez, MD Elkin, BJ Hickey, ... and NR Wilson
  Small 7 (22), 3202-3210 2010
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  NR Wilson, PA Pandey, R Beanland, RJ Young, IA Kinloch, L Gong, Z Liu, ...
  ACS Nano 3 (9), 2547-2556 2009
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  NR Wilson, JV Macpherson
  Nature Nanotechnology 4 (8), 483-491 2009

Group

I currently supervise 1 graduate student: Yogal Prasad Ghimirey (2023 start). Past PhD and MPhys students include Priyanka Pandey (PhD, 2008-2012), Grace Wood (MScR, 2013-2014, passed with distinction), Alex Marsden (PhD, 2011-2015), Zac Laker (2014-2018), Natalie Teutsch (2015-2019), Xue Xia (2016-2020), Abi Graham (2018-2022), James Nunn (2020-2024), Matteo Borghi (2019-2024), Laxman Nagi-Reddy (2020-2024), Vaishnavi Ravi (MScR jointly with Alex Robertson, finished 2025), and Mujahid Shiffa (PhD 2021-2025). I jointly supervised Mark Skilbeck (2012-2016) with Dr Rachel Edwards, Ultrasound group, and Dawn Wood (2012-2016) with Professor Tim Jones, Chemistry department. I have supervised or co-supervised many summer project students and final year project students.

If you are interested in working with me please contact me!

Background

I graduated from the Natural Sciences Tripos at Pembroke College Cambridge in 1999. I won a Thouron scholarship to study for a Masters in Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, working with Professors Charlie Kane and Gene Mele on the theory behind STM images of individual quantum states in short carbon nanotubes. I returned to the UK in 2000 for a PhD with Boris Muzykantskii and David Cobden. I completed my PhD in the Physics Department of the University of 海角社区 in 2004, graduating in 2005. My PhD thesis on "Electronic Transport in Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes, and their Application as Scanning Probe Microscopy tips" is available here. I stayed in 海角社区 to follow-up on the work started in my thesis, doing three years on postdoctoral projects with in the mainly on the electrical and electrochemical properties of single walled carbon nanotubes. In October 2007 I was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at 海角社区 University, in 2012 I was made Associate Professor and in 2019 I was made Professor.

I was a member of the Institute of Physics science advisory committee, of the scanning probe microscopy section and of the RMS outreach committee of the Royal Microscopical Society (RMS), a winner of the RMS mid-career scientific achievement award in 2020, and of the Diamond Light Source i05 peer review panel. I am currently on the IOP 2D Materials editorial board.

Teaching and administration

This year I am teaching the first year PX157 Electricity and Magnetism course and covering tutorials, but mainly getting to grips with being Head of Department.

Outreach

We regularly demonstrate the microscopy facilities to school children, and I have prepared lectures on nanotechnology and microscopy suitable for presenting at schools or to the general public. If you would like more information please contact me. I also have an interest in the Art of Science - the intrinsic beauty of the physical world expressed through visual representations. Nanostructures in particular can have startling and surprising elegance in form. These 'art' works can also spark the imagination and help in the engagement with science. I will add some examples from my own work (click here), along with explanations of how they can be used to express important scientific concepts. In 2010 I helped organise the Snapshots of Science, see the website for more information. I was a member of the RMS Outreach committee.