Dr Yiwei Sun
BSc, PhD, FHEA
All Publications
2026
- Microscale-patterned SERS substrates with exceptional uniformity: Addressing reproducibility challenges
Kolankada Kalathil D, Sun YW, Liu C, Stamp M, Collins D, Goldberg Oppenheimer P
Talanta, Elsevier Bv vol. 305, 129527-129527.
01-08-2026 - Atmospheric water and graphite lubrication: Insights into surface intercalation and nanoscale confined spaces
Sun YW, Leiner T, Gehringer D, Humphreys CJ, Dunstan DJ, Holec D
Physical Review Materials, American Physical Society (Aps) vol. 10 (3)
01-03-2026
2025
- Using Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis to Identify At‐Risk Students in Engineering Mathematics Prerequisites
Sun Y
Computer Applications in Engineering Education, Wiley vol. 34 (1)
19-12-2025
2024
- Unveiling the Sorption Properties of Graphene Oxide-M13 Bacteriophage Aerogels for Advanced Sensing and Environmental Applications
Stokes K, Sun Y, Passaretti P, White H, Goldberg Oppenheimer P
Acs Applied Materials &Amp; Interfaces, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 16 (51), 70804-70817.
11-12-2024 - Advancing Graphene Imaging for Clear Identification of Lattice Defects: The Application of Revolve Sphere Levelling to Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy Images
Bandyopadhyay D, Sun Y, Griffin R, Lee LY
Acs Omega, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 9 (43), 43447-43452.
14-10-2024 - Bandgap Engineering of 2D Materials toward High-Performing Straintronics
Boland CS, Sun Y, Papageorgiou DG
Nano Letters, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 24 (41), 12722-12732.
02-10-2024 - Conductivity optimisation of graphene oxide-M13 bacteriophage nanocomposites: towards graphene-based gas micronano-sensors
Stokes K, Sun Y, Thomas JL, Passaretti P, White H, Goldberg Oppenheimer P
Discover Nano, Springer Nature vol. 19 (1)
18-09-2024 - Thermonanomechanics of graphene oxide-M13 bacteriophage nanocomposites -towards graphene-based nanodevices
Stokes K, Sun Y, Zhang H, Passaretti P, White H, Goldberg Oppeneheimer P
Carbon Trends, Elsevier Bv vol. 15, 100343-100343.
01-06-2024
2023
- Optimisation of GraPhage13 macro-dispersibility via understanding the pH-dependent ionisation during self-assembly: towards the manufacture of graphene-based nanodevices
Stokes K, Sun Y, Passaretti P, White H, Goldberg Oppenheimer P
Nanoscale, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 15 (32), 13304-13312.
01-01-2023
2022
- Graphene on silicon: Effects of the silicon surface orientation on the work function and carrier density of graphene
Sun YW, Holec D, Gehringer D, Li L, Fenwick O, Dunstan DJ, Humphreys CJ
Physical Review B, American Physical Society (Aps) vol. 105 (16)
01-04-2022 - Significant interlayer coupling in bilayer graphene and double-walled carbon nanotubes: A refinement of obtaining strain in low-dimensional materials
Sun YW, Gehringer D, Holec D, Papageorgiou DG, Fenwick O, Qureshi SM, Humphreys CJ, Dunstan DJ
Physical Review B, American Physical Society (Aps) vol. 105 (2)
01-01-2022 - Utilising buckling modes for the determination of the anisotropic mechanical properties of As 2 S 3 nanosheets
Dong M, Sun Y, Dunstan DJ, Papageorgiou DG
Nanoscale, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 14 (21), 7872-7880.
01-01-2022
2021
- Mechanical properties of graphene
Sun YW, Papageorgiou DG, Humphreys CJ, Dunstan DJ, Puech P, Proctor JE, Bousige C, Machon D et al.
Applied Physics Reviews, Aip Publishing vol. 8 (2)
19-04-2021 - Erratum: Unexpected softness of bilayer graphene and softening of A-A stacked graphene layers [Phys. Rev. B 101, 125421 (2020)]
Sun YW, Holec D, Gehringer D, Fenwick O, Dunstan DJ, Humphreys CJ
Physical Review B vol. 103 (11), 119901-119901.
01-03-2021 - High thermal conductivity states and enhanced figure of merit in aligned polymer thermoelectric materials
Degousée T, Untilova V, Vijayakumar V, Xu X, Sun Y, Palma M, Brinkmann M, Biniek L et al.
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 9 (29), 16065-16075.
01-01-2021
2020
- Nanomechanics of graphene oxide-bacteriophage based self-assembled porous composites
Sun Y, Passaretti P, Hernandez I, Gonzalez J, Liu W, Rodriguez F, Dunstan DJ, Goldberg Oppenheimer P et al.
Scientific Reports, Springer Science and Business Media Llc vol. 10 (1)
24-09-2020 - Determination and characterisation of the surface charge properties of the bacteriophage M13 to assist bio-nanoengineering
Passaretti P, Sun Y, Dafforn TR, Oppenheimer PG
Rsc Advances vol. 10 (42), 25385-25392.
03-07-2020 - Unexpected softness of bilayer graphene and softening of A-A stacked graphene layers
Sun YW, Holec D, Gehringer D, Fenwick O, Dunstan DJ, Humphreys CJ
Physical Review B, American Physical Society (Aps) vol. 101 (12)
01-03-2020
2019
- 3D Strain in 2D Materials: To What Extent is Monolayer Graphene Graphite?
Sun YW, Liu W, Hernandez I, Gonzalez J, Rodriguez F, Dunstan DJ, Humphreys CJ
Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society (Aps) vol. 123 (13)
25-09-2019 - Manipulating the Optical Properties of Carbon Dots by Fine‐Tuning their Structural Features
Luo H, Papaioannou N, Salvadori E, Roessler MM, Ploenes G, van Eck ERH, Tanase LC, Feng J et al.
Chemsuschem, Wiley vol. 12 (19), 4432-4441.
10-09-2019 - Effect of humidity on the interlayer interaction of bilayer graphene
Qadir A, Sun YW, Liu W, Oppenheimer PG, Xu Y, Humphreys CJ, Dunstan DJ
Physical Review B, American Physical Society (Aps) vol. 99 (4)
01-01-2019 - Multifunctional graphene oxide-bacteriophage based porous three-dimensional micro-nanocomposites
Passaretti P, Sun Y, Khan I, Chan K, Sabo R, White H, Dafforn TR, Oppenheimer PG
Nanoscale, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 11 (28), 13318-13329.
01-01-2019
2018
- Graphite under compression: shift of layer breathing and shear modes frequencies with interlayer spacing
Sun YW, Holec D, Xu Y, Dunstan DJ
Journal of Physics Communications, IOP Publishing vol. 2 (4)
03-04-2018 - All-Two-Dimensional-Material Hot Electron Transistor
Guo H, Li L, Liu W, Sun Y, Xu L, Ali A, Liu Y, Wu C et al.
IEEE Electron Device Letters vol. 39 (4), 634-637.
28-02-2018
2017
- From mesoscale to nanoscale mechanics in single-wall carbon nanotubes
Torres-Dias AC, Cerqueira TFT, Cui W, Marques MAL, Botti S, Machon D, Hartmann MA, Sun Y et al.
Carbon, Elsevier vol. 123, 145-150.
01-10-2017 - Ab initio electronic transport study of two-dimensional silicon carbide-based p–n junctions
Zhou H, Lin X, Guo H, Lin S, Sun Y, Xu Y
Journal of Semiconductors vol. 38 (3), 033002-033002.
01-03-2017
2016
- Significance of Bundling Effects on Carbon Nanotubes’ Response to Hydrostatic Compression
Sun YW, Hernández I, González J, Scott K, Donovan KJ, Sapelkin A, Rodríguez F, Dunstan DJ
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 120 (3), 1863-1870.
20-01-2016
2015
- Graphite under uniaxial compression along the c axis: A parameter to relate out-of-plane strain to in-plane phonon frequency
Sun YW, Holec D, Dunstan DJ
Physical Review B, American Physical Society (Aps) vol. 92 (9)
01-09-2015
2014
- Resonance Raman spectroscopy of carbon nanotubes: Pressure effects on G-mode
Sun YW, Hernández I, Ghandour AJ, Rice C, Crowe IF, Halsall MP, Sapelkin A, Gonzalez J et al.
High Pressure Research vol. 34 (2), 191-197.
03-04-2014
2013
- Nanomechanics of Carbon Nanotubes
Sun YW, Dunstan DJ, Hartmann MA, Holec D
Pamm, Wiley vol. 13 (1), 7-10.
29-11-2013 - Pressure coefficients of Raman modes of carbon nanotubes resolved by chirality: Environmental effect on graphene sheet
Ghandour AJ, Crowe IF, Proctor JE, Sun YW, Halsall MP, Hernandez I, Sapelkin A, Dunstan DJ
Physical Review B, American Physical Society (Aps) vol. 87 (8)
13-02-2013