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50Metallic 2D Janus SNbSe layers driven by a structural phase change. Wu, C., Sayyad, M. Y., Sailus, R. E., Dey, D., Xie, J., Hays, P., Kopaczek, J., Ou, Y., Susarla, S., Esqueda, I. S., Botana, A. S., Tongay, S. A. Nanoscale, 17, 7801-7812, 2025. doi:10.1039/D4NR04059G
49Anisotropic Ferroelectricity in Polar Vortices. Behera, P., Ross, A. M., Shanker, N., Meisenheimer, P., Manna, M., Lin, C., Hsu, S., Harris, I., Kavle, P., Husain, S., Ojha, S. K., Das, S., Raja, A., Martin, L. W., Susarla, S., Salahuddin, S., Chen, L., Ramesh, R. Advanced Materials, 37(1), 2410149, 2025.
48Interface effects in the phase determination of Hf0. 5Zr0. 5O2 epitaxial thin films. Schimpf, J., Zhang, W., Manna, M., Susarla, S., Lu, X., Rondinelli, J. M., Martin, L. W. APL Materials, 13(1), 2025.
47Overcoming the surface paradox: Buried perovskite quantum dots in wide-bandgap perovskite thin films. Zhang, H., Pasha, A., Metcalf, I., Zhou, J., Staunstrup, M., Zhu, Y., Liao, S., Ssennyimba, K., Chen, J., Reddy, S. P., Thébaud, S., Hou, J., Shuai, X., Mandani, F., Sidhik, S., Jones, M. R., Ma, X., Balakrishna, R. G., Susarla, S., Ginger, D. S., Katan, C., Kanatzidis, M. G., Bawendi, M. G., Natelson, D., Tamarat, P., Lounis, B., Even, J., Mohite, A. D. https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06061, 2025.
46High-Yield Delamination of Hydrothermally-Etched V2CT x. Snyder, R. M., Sankar, S., Bhatt, P., Riaz, A. A., Thakur, P. K., Lee, T., Regoutz, A., Susarla, S., Birkel, C. S. Inorganic chemistry, 64(10), 4761–4765, 2025.
45Electric-Field-Driven Reversal of Ferromagnetism in (110)-Oriented, Single Phase, Multiferroic Co-Substituted BiFeO3 Thin Films. Itoh, T., Shigematsu, K., Das, H., Meisenheimer, P., Maeda, K., Lee, K., Manna, M., Reddy, S. P., Susarla, S., Stevenson, P., Ramesh, R., Azuma, M. Advanced Materials, 2419580, 2025.
44Manipulating chiral spin transport with ferroelectric polarization. Huang, X., Chen, X., Li, Y., Mangeri, J., Zhang, H., Ramesh, M., Taghinejad, H., Meisenheimer, P., Caretta, L., Susarla, S., Jain, R., Klewe, C., Wang, T., Chen, R., Hsu, C., Harris, I., Husain, S., Pan, H., Yin, J., Shafer, P., Qiu, Z., Rodrigues, D. R., Heinonen, O., Vasudevan, D., \'I\~niguez, J., Schlom, D. G., Salahuddin, S., Martin, L. W., Analytis, J. G., Ralph, D. C., Cheng, R., Yao, Z., Ramesh, R. Nature materials, 23(7), 898–904, 2024.
43Structural and angle-resolved optical and vibrational properties of chiral trivial insulator InSeI. Erdi, M., Kapeghian, J., Hays, P., Dandu, M., Blach, D. D., Sayyad, M., Kopaczek, J., Sailus, R., Raja, A., Susarla, S., Botana, A. S., Tongay, S. A. Applied Physics Reviews, 11(4), 041422, 2024. doi:10.1063/5.0219184
42Uncovering polar vortex structures by inversion of multiple scattering with a stacked Bloch wave model. Zeltmann, S. E., Hsu, S., Brown, H. G., Susarla, S., Ramesh, R., Minor, A. M., Ophus, C. Ultramicroscopy, 250, 113732, 2023.
41Imaging the electron charge density in monolayer MoS2 at the \AAngstrom scale. Martis, J., Susarla, S., Rayabharam, A., Su, C., Paule, T., Pelz, P., Huff, C., Xu, X., Li, H., Jaikissoon, M., Chen, V., Pop, E., Saraswat, K., Zettl, A., Aluru, N. R., Ramesh, R., Ercius, P., Majumdar, A. Nature communications, 14(1), 4363, 2023.
40The emergence of three-dimensional chiral domain walls in polar vortices. Susarla, S., Hsu, S., G\'omez-Ortiz, F., Garc\'\ia-Fern\'andez, P., Savitzky, B. H., Das, S., Behera, P., Junquera, J., Ercius, P., Ramesh, R., Ophus, C. Nature communications, 14(1), 4465, 2023.
39Engineering relaxor behavior in (BaTiO3) n/(SrTiO3) n superlattices. Lupi, E., Wexler, R. B., Meyers, D., Zahradnik, A., Jiang, Y., Susarla, S., Ramesh, R., Martin, L. W., Rappe, A. M. Advanced Materials, 35(51), 2302012, 2023.
38Large spin--orbit torque in bismuthate-based heterostructures. Edgeton, A. L., Harris, I. A., Campbell, N. G., Chai, Y., Mazur, M. M., Gurung, G., Huang, X., Susarla, S., Tsymbal, E. Y., Ralph, D. C., Nan, T., Rzchowski, M. S., Ramesh, R., Eom, C. Nature Electronics, 6(12), 973–980, 2023.
37Experimental and Theoretical Studies of the Surface Oxidation Process of Rare‐Earth Tritellurides. Kopaczek, J., Yumigeta, K., Ibrahim, A., Sayyad, M. Y., Sinha, S., Sailus, R., Hays, P., Moosavy, S. T. R., Susarla, S., Ataca, C. Advanced Electronic Materials, 9(5), 2201129, 2023.
36Emergent Ferroelectric Switching Behavior from Polar Vortex Lattice. Behera, P., Parsonnet, E., Gómez-Ortiz, F., Srikrishna, V., Meisenheimer, P., Susarla, S., Kavle, P., Caretta, L., Wu, Y., Tian, Z., Fernandez, A., Martin, L. W., Das, S., Junquera, J., Hong, Z., Ramesh, R. Advanced Materials, 35(23), 2208367, 2023. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202208367
35Hyperspectral imaging of exciton confinement within a moir\'e unit cell with a subnanometer electron probe. Susarla, S., Naik, M. H., Blach, D. D., Zipfel, J., Taniguchi, T., Watanabe, K., Huang, L., Ramesh, R., da Jornada, F. H., Louie, S. G., Ercius, P., Raja, A. Science, 378(6625), 1235–1239, 2022.

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34Enabling ultra-low-voltage switching in BaTiO3. Jiang, Y., Parsonnet, E., Qualls, A., Zhao, W., Susarla, S., Pesquera, D., Dasgupta, A., Acharya, M., Zhang, H., Gosavi, T., Lin, C., Nikonov, D. E., Li, H., Young, I. A., Ramesh, R., Martin, L. W. Nature Materials, 21(7), 779–785, 2022. doi:10.1038/s41563-022-01266-6
33Chiral structures of electric polarization vectors quantified by X-ray resonant scattering. Kim, K. T., McCarter, M. R., Stoica, V. A., Das, S., Klewe, C., Donoway, E. P., Burn, D. M., Shafer, P., Rodolakis, F., Gon\ccalves, M. A. P., G\'omez-Ortiz, F., \'I\~niguez, J., Garc\'ia-Fern\'andez, P., Junquera, J., Susarla, S., Lovesey, S. W., van der Laan, G., Park, S. Y., Martin, L. W., Freeland, J. W., Ramesh, R., Lee, D. R. Nature Communications, 13(1), 1769, 2022. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-29359-5
32Electric field control of chirality. Behera, P., May, M. A., G\'omez-Ortiz, F., Susarla, S., Das, S., Nelson, C. T., Caretta, L., Hsu, S., McCarter, M. R., Savitzky, B. H., Barnard, E. S., Raja, A., Hong, Z., Garc\'ia-Fernandez, P., Lovesey, S. W., van der Laan, G., Ercius, P., Ophus, C., Martin, L. W., Junquera, J., Raschke, M. B., Ramesh, R. Science Advances, 8(1), eabj8030, 2022. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abj8030
31Low temperature CVD growth of WSe2 enabled by moisture-assisted defects in the precursor powder. Sassi, L. M., Krishnamoorthy, A., Hachtel, J. A., Susarla, S., Apte, A., Castro-Pardo, S., Ajnsztajn, A., Vajtai, R., Vashishta, P., Tiwary, C. S., Puthirath, A. B., Ajayan, P. M. 2D Materials, 9(4), 045026, 2022.
30Pervasive beyond Room-Temperature Ferromagnetism in a Doped van der Waals Magnet. Chen, X., Shao, Y., Chen, R., Susarla, S., Hogan, T., He, Y., Zhang, H., Wang, S., Yao, J., Ercius, P., Muller, D. A., Ramesh, R., Birgeneau, R. J. Phys. Rev. Lett., 128, 217203, 2022. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.217203
29Inherent Spin–Polarization Coupling in a Magnetoelectric Vortex. Das, S., Laguta, V., Inzani, K., Huang, W., Liu, J., Chatterjee, R., McCarter, M. R., Susarla, S., Ardavan, A., Junquera, J., Griffin, S. M., Ramesh, R. Nano Letters, 22(10), 3976–3982, 2022. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c00496
28Room-temperature skyrmion lattice in a layered magnet ((Fe$_0. 5$Co$_0.5$)$_5$GeTe$_2$). Zhang, H., Raftrey, D., Chan, Y., Shao, Y., Chen, R., Chen, X., Huang, X., Reichanadter, J. T., Dong, K., Susarla, S., Caretta, L., Chen, Z., Yao, J., Fischer, P., Neaton, J. B., Wu, W., Muller, D. A., Birgeneau, R. J., Ramesh, R. Science Advances, 8(12), eabm7103, 2022. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abm7103
27A room temperature polar magnetic metal. Zhang, H., Shao, Y., Chen, R., Chen, X., Susarla, S., Raftrey, D., Reichanadter, J. T., Caretta, L., Huang, X., Settineri, N. S., Chen, Z., Zhou, J., Bourret-Courchesne, E., Ercius, P., Yao, J., Fischer, P., Neaton, J. B., Muller, D. A., Birgeneau, R. J., Ramesh, R. Phys. Rev. Mater., 6, 044403, 2022. doi:10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.044403
26Novel spin--orbit torque generation at room temperature in an all-oxide epitaxial La0. 7Sr0. 3MnO3/SrIrO3 system. Huang, X., Sayed, S., Mittelstaedt, J., Susarla, S., Karimeddiny, S., Caretta, L., Zhang, H., Stoica, V. A., Gosavi, T., Mahfouzi, F., Sun, Q., Ercius, P., Kioussis, N., Salahuddin, S., Ralph, D. C., Ramesh, R. Advanced Materials, 33(24), 2008269, 2021.
25Corrosion Resistance of Sulfur–Selenium Alloy Coatings. Susarla, S., Chilkoor, G., Kalimuthu, J. R., Saadi, M. A. S. R., Cui, Y., Arif, T., Tsafack, T., Puthirath, A. B., Sigdel, P., Jasthi, B., Sudeep, P. M., Hu, L., Hassan, A., Castro-Pardo, S., Barnes, M., Roy, S., Verduzco, R., Kibria, M. G., Filleter, T., Lin, H., Solares, S. D., Koratkar, N., Gadhamshetty, V., Rahman, M. M., Ajayan, P. M. Advanced Materials, 33(51), 2104467, 2021. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202104467
24Structure, Properties and Applications of Two-Dimensional Hexagonal Boron Nitride. Roy, S., Zhang, X., Puthirath, A. B., Meiyazhagan, A., Bhattacharyya, S., Rahman, M. M., Babu, G., Susarla, S., Saju, S. K., Tran, M. K., Sassi, L. M., Saadi, M. A. S. R., Lai, J., Sahin, O., Sajadi, S. M., Dharmarajan, B., Salpekar, D., Chakingal, N., Baburaj, A., Shuai, X., Adumbumkulath, A., Miller, K. A., Gayle, J. M., Ajnsztajn, A., Prasankumar, T., Harikrishnan, V. V. J., Ojha, V., Kannan, H., Khater, A. Z., Zhu, Z., Iyengar, S. A., Autreto, P. A. D. S., Oliveira, E. F., Gao, G., Birdwell, A. G., Neupane, M. R., Ivanov, T. G., Taha-Tijerina, J., Yadav, R. M., Arepalli, S., Vajtai, R., Ajayan, P. M. Advanced Materials, 33(44), 2101589, 2021. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202101589
23Mapping modified electronic levels in the moir\'e patterns in MoS2/WSe2 using low-loss EELS. Susarla, S., M. Sassi, L., Zobelli, A., Woo, S. Y., Tizei, L. H., St\'ephan, O., Ajayan, P. M. Nano letters, 21(9), 4071–4077, 2021.
22Atomic scale crystal field mapping of polar vortices in oxide superlattices. Susarla, S., Garc\'\ia-Fern\'andez, P., Ophus, C., Das, S., Aguado-Puente, P., McCarter, M., Ercius, P., Martin, L. W., Ramesh, R., Junquera, J. Nature communications, 12(1), 6273, 2021.
212D electrets of ultrathin moO2 with apparent piezoelectricity. Apte, A., Mozaffari, K., Samghabadi, F. S., Hachtel, J. A., Chang, L., Susarla, S., Idrobo, J. C., Moore, D. C., Glavin, N. R., Litvinov, D., Sharma, P., Puthirath, A. B., Ajayan, P. M. Advanced Materials, 32(24), 2000006, 2020.
20Atomic-level alloying of sulfur and selenium for advanced lithium batteries. Susarla, S., Puthirath, A. B., Tsafack, T., Salpekar, D., Babu, G., Ajayan, P. M. ACS applied materials \& interfaces, 12(1), 1005–1013, 2019.
19Interface and defect engineering of hybrid nanostructures toward an efficient HER catalyst. Ozden, S., Bawari, S., Vinod, S., Martinez, U., Susarla, S., Narvaez, C., Joyner, J., Tiwary, C. S., Narayanan, T. N., Ajayan, P. M. Nanoscale, 11(26), 12489–12496, 2019.
18High-K dielectric sulfur-selenium alloys. Susarla, S., Tsafack, T., Owuor, P. S., Puthirath, A. B., Hachtel, J. A., Babu, G., Apte, A., Jawdat, B. I., Hilario, M. S., Lerma, A., Calderon, H. A., Hernandez, F. C. R., Tam, D. W., Li, T., Lupini, A. R., Idrobo, J. C., Lou, J., Wei, B., Dai, P., Tiwary, C. S., Ajayan, P. M. Science advances, 5(5), eaau9785, 2019.
17Two-Dimensional Lateral Epitaxy of 2H (MoSe₂)--1T'(ReSe₂) Phases. Apte, A., Krishnamoorthy, A., Hachtel, J. A., Susarla, S., Yoon, J., Bharadwaj, P., Tour, J. M., Idrobo, J. C., Kalia, R. K., Nakano, A., Vashishta, P., Tiwary, C., Ajayan, P. Nano Letters, 19(9), 2019.
16Strain-induced structural deformation study of 2D MoxW (1-x) S2. Susarla, S., Manimunda, P., Jaques, Y. M., Hachtel, J. A., Idrobo, J. C., Asif, S. S., Galv\~ao, D. S., Tiwary, C. S., Ajayan, P. M. Advanced materials interfaces, 6(5), 1801262, 2019.
15Fiber Reinforced Layered Dielectric Nanocomposite. Rahman, M. M., Puthirath, A. B., Adumbumkulath, A., Tsafack, T., Robatjazi, H., Barnes, M., Wang, Z., Kommandur, S., Susarla, S., Sajadi, S. M., Salpekar, D., Yuan, F., Babu, G., Nomoto, K., Islam, S. M., Verduzco, R., Yee, S. K., Xing, H. G., Ajayan, P. M. Advanced Functional Materials, 29(28), 1900056, 2019. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201900056
14Interconnecting Bone Nanoparticles by Ovalbumin Molecules to Build a Three-Dimensional Low-Density and Tough Material. Owuor, P. S., Tsafack, T., Hwang, H. Y., Sajadi, M., Jung, S., Li, T., Susarla, S., Wei, B., Vajtai, R., Lou, J., Bhowmick, S., Tiwary, C. S., Ajayan, P. M. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 10(48), 41757–41762, 2018. doi:10.1021/acsami.8b13681
13Soft-Lithographic Patterning of Luminescent Carbon Nanodots Derived from Collagen Waste. Meiyazhagan, A., Aliyan, A., Ayyappan, A., Moreno-Gonzalez, I., Susarla, S., Yazdi, S., Cuanalo-Contreras, K., Khabashesku, V. N., Vajtai, R., Mart\'i, A. A., Ajayan, P. M. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 10(42), 36275–36283, 2018. doi:10.1021/acsami.8b13114
12Porous graphene current collectors filled with silicon as high-performance lithium battery anode. Ababtain, K., Babu, G., Susarla, S., Gullapalli, H., Masurkar, N., Ajayan, P. M., Arava, L. M. R. Materials Research Express, 5(1), 014004, 2018.
11Differences in the mechanical properties of monolayer and multilayer WSe2/MoSe2. Jaques, Y. M., Manimunda, P., Nakanishi, Y., Susarla, S., Woellner, C., Bhowmick, S., Asif, S., Galv\~ao, D., Tiwary, C., Ajayan, P. MRS advances, 3(6-7), 373–378, 2018.
10Deformation mechanisms of vertically stacked WS2/MoS2 heterostructures: the role of interfaces. Susarla, S., Manimunda, P., Morais Jaques, Y., Hachtel, J. A., Idrobo, J. C., Syed Amnulla, S. A., Galv\~ao, D. S., Tiwary, C. S., Ajayan, P. M. ACS nano, 12(4), 4036–4044, 2018.
9Molecular simulation of MoS2 exfoliation. Zhou, G., Rajak, P., Susarla, S., Ajayan, P. M., Kalia, R. K., Nakano, A., Vashishta, P. Scientific reports, 8(1), 16761, 2018.
8Achieving Self-Stiffening and Laser Healing by Interconnecting Graphene Oxide Sheets with Amine-Functionalized Ovalbumin. Owuor, P. S., Tsafack, T., Schara, S., Hwang, H., Jung, S., Salvatierra, R. V., Li, T., Susarla, S., Ren, M., Wei, B., Vajtai, R., Tour, J. M., Lou, J., Tiwary, C. S., Ajayan, P. M. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 5(20), 1800932, 2018.
7Telluride-based atomically thin layers of ternary two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide alloys. Apte, A., Krishnamoorthy, A., Hachtel, J. A., Susarla, S., Idrobo, J. C., Nakano, A., Kalia, R. K., Vashishta, P., Tiwary, C. S., Ajayan, P. M. Chemistry of Materials, 30(20), 7262–7268, 2018.
6Thermally Induced 2D Alloy-Heterostructure Transformation in Quaternary Alloys. Susarla, S., Hachtel, J. A., Yang, X., Kutana, A., Apte, A., Jin, Z., Vajtai, R., Idrobo, J. C., Lou, J., Yakobson, B. I., Tiwary, C. S., Ajayan, P. M. Advanced Materials, 30(45), 1804218, 2018. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201804218
5Re Doping in 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides as a New Route to Tailor Structural Phases and Induced Magnetism. Kochat, V., Apte, A., Hachtel, J. A., Kumazoe, H., Krishnamoorthy, A., Susarla, S., Idrobo, J. C., Shimojo, F., Vashishta, P., Kalia, R., Nakano, A., Tiwary, C. S., Ajayan, P. M. Advanced Materials, 29(43), 1703754, 2017. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201703754
4Nanoscale deformation and friction characteristics of atomically thin WSe2 and heterostructure using nanoscratch and Raman spectroscopy. Manimunda, P., Nakanishi, Y., Jaques, Y., Susarla, S., Woellner, C., Bhowmick, S., Asif, S., Galv\~ao, D., Tiwary, C., Ajayan, P. 2D Materials, 4(4), 045005, 2017.
3Quaternary 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with tunable bandgap. Susarla, S., Kutana, A., Hachtel, J. A., Kochat, V., Apte, A., Vajtai, R., Idrobo, J. C., Yakobson, B. I., Tiwary, C. S., Ajayan, P. M. Advanced Materials, 29(35), 1702457, 2017.
2Lightweight Hexagonal Boron Nitride Foam for CO$_2$ Absorption. Owuor, P., Park, O., Woellner, C., Jalilov, A., Susarla, S., Joyner, J., Ozden, S., Duy, L., Salvatierra, R., Vajtai, R., Tour, J., Lou, J., Galv\~ao, D., Tiwary, C., Ajayan, P. ACS Nano, 11(9), 8944–8952, 2017. doi:10.1021/acsnano.7b03291
1Phase segregation behavior of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide binary alloys induced by dissimilar substitution. Susarla, S., Kochat, V., Kutana, A., Hachtel, J. A., Idrobo, J. C., Vajtai, R., Yakobson, B. I., Tiwary, C. S., Ajayan, P. M. Chemistry of Materials, 29(17), 7431–7439, 2017.