Welcome to Bo's Lab

Bo Tian

Research Fellow at NTU

Bo Tian has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) since January 2024. He received his BSc in Physics from Xiamen University in 2015 and earned his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in 2022. In 2023, Dr. Tian was awarded the Outstanding PhD Thesis Award of the Carbon Journal Prize by Elsevier. From 2023 to 2024, he served as a research associate and visiting scientist at KAUST.
Dr. Tian has published over 20 research papers in prestigious journals, including Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, and Advanced Science. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Carbon and a referee for more than 20 peer-reviewed journals in ACS, Elsevier, Wiley, and Nature Publishing Group. Currently, his research interests encompass physics, CVD growth, 2D materials, van der Waals heterostructures, and artificial intelligence.

Experiences

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Nanyang Technological University

January 2024 - Present, Singapore

School of Materials Science and Engineering

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Augest 2018 - December 2023, Saudi Arabia

Division of Physical Science and Engineering

Visiting Scientist

July 2023 - December 2023

Research Fellow

January 2023 - June 2023

PhD Researcher

Augest 2018 - December 2022

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Chief Scientist
Eleven-Dimensional Nanomaterial Research Institute

2018 - 2022, China

Founder
Eleven-Dimensional Technology Co., Ltd.

2015 - 2022, China

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Undergraduate Research Assistant
Xiamen University

Augest 2012 - July 2015, China

Education
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
2018-2022
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering
Xiamen University
2011-2015
B.Sc. in Physics

Research Interests

Graphene and 2D Materials

Graphene and 2D Materials.

Graphene hBN 2D
Van der Waals Heterostructures

Van der Waals Heterostructures

vdWs # #
Neural-networks Nanodevices

Neural-networks Nanodevices.

AI # #

Awards & Honors

Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award, Carbon Journal Prize
Carbon，Elsevier 2023

First-Class Scholarship, Xiamen University
Xiamen University 2012 - 2015

Outstanding Student Award, Xiamen University
Xiamen University 2012 - 2015

China National Scholarship
Ministry of Education, PRC 2012

(Highest scholarship given by Chinese government, top 0.1%)

Recent Publications

Ultraflat Cu(111) foils by surface acoustic wave assisted annealing
Nature Communications, 15(1), 9488. (2024) [*Corresponding authors] 2024
Tian, B*. Li, J., Wang, Q., Samad, A., Yuan, Y., Hedhili, M., Jangir, A., Gruenewald, M., Lanza, M., Schwingenschlögl, U., Fritz, T., Zhang, X*. and Liu, Z*.

2024 Cu(111) substrate engineering
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Single-crystal hBN monolayers from aligned hexagonal islands
Nature Communications, 15(1), 8589. (2024) [*Corresponding authors] 2024
Li, J., Samad, A., Yuan, Y., Wang, Q., Hedhili, M., Lanza, M., Schwingenschlögl, U., Abate, I., Akinwande, D., Liu, Z., Tian, B*. and Zhang, X*.

2024 hBN wafer-scale morphology engineering
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Nonepitaxial wafer-scale single-crystal 2D materials on insulators
Advanced Materials, 2310921. (2023) [*Corresponding authors] 2023
Li, J., Yuan, Y., Lanza, M., Abate, I., Tian, B*. and Zhang, X*.

2023 graphene nonepitaxial insulating substrate
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Wafer-scale single-crystal monolayer graphene grown on sapphire substrate
Nature Materials, 21(7), 740–747. (2022) [*Corresponding authors] 2022
Li, J., Chen, M., Samad, A., Dong, H., Ray, A., Zhang, J., Jiang, X., Schwingenschlögl, U., Domke, J., Chen, C., Han, Y., Fritz, T., Ruoff, R. S., Tian, B*. and Zhang, X*.

2022 graphene wafer-scale insulating substrate
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Morphology-control growth of graphene islands by nonlinear carbon supply
Advanced Materials, 34(44), 2206080. (2022) [*Corresponding authors] 2022
Li, J., Samad, A., Schwingenschlögl, U., Tian, B*., Lanza, M*., Zhang, X*.

2022 graphene shape-control carbon supply
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Production of large-area nucleus-free single-crystal graphene-mesh metamaterials with zigzag edges
Advanced Materials, 34(48), 2201253. (2022) [*Corresponding authors] 2022
Tian, B*., Li, J., M., Samad, Schwingenschlögl, U., Lanza, M. and Zhang, X*.

2022 graphene C13 zigzag
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Synthesizing single-crystal graphene/hBN/graphene trilayer van der Waals heterostructures with AAB-stacking mode by in situ CVD
Advanced Science, 9(21), 2201324. (2022) [*Corresponding authors] 2022
Tian, B*., Li, J., Chen, M., Dong, H. and Zhang, X*.

2022 graphene hBN van der Waals
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Fractal‐Theory‐Based Control of the Shape and Quality of CVD‐Grown 2D Materials
Advanced Materials, 31(35), 1902431. (2019) (Cover Paper) [*Corresponding authors] 2019
Li, J., Chen, M., Zhang, C., Dong, H., Lin, W., Zhuang, P., Wen, Y., Tian, B*., Cai, W*. Zhang, X*.

2019 graphene Fractal shape-control
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