Welcome to Zhiwen Shi Group!
We are a highly interdisciplinary research group in low-dimensional materials and nano-optics. Our research interests lie in probing light-matter interactions in condensed matter systems, with an emphasis on novel physical phenomena emerging in low-dimensional materials, such as graphene, carbon nanotubes, hexagonal boron nitride and TMDs, as well as in nanoscale electro-optical devices made from such low-dimensional materials. We develop advanced near-field optical nano-imaging and spectroscopy technique that enables probing light-matter interactions at deep sub-wavelength scale.
We are affiliated with the School of Physics and Astronomy at Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures and Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science.
If you see any common interests, please drop a line! We would love to hear from you!
News & Highlights
June 2024: Shuo have successfully passed her PhD thesis defense. Congratulations! And wish Shuo the best of luck in her new advantures at Yangtze Memory Technologies！
April 2024: Our paper on "Collapse of carbon nanotubes due to local high-pressure from van der Waals encapsulation" has been published on Nature Communications. Congratulations to Cheng, Jiajun, Xianliang and Yufeng!
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March 2024: Our paper on "Graphene nanoribbons grown in hBN stacks for high-performance electronics" has been published in Nature. Excellent work! Congratulations to Bosai, Jiajun, Shuo, Peiyue, Jingxu and our collaborators!
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February 2024: Shuo's review paper titled "Graphene nanoribbons: current status, challenges and opportunities" has been published in Quantum Frontiers. Congratulations to Shuo! Link News
January 2024: Xianliang's paper on "Pressure-induced flat bands in one-dimensional moiré superlattices of collapsed chiral carbon nanotubes" has been published in Physical Review B. Congratulations to Xianliang!
December 2023: Our paper on "Tip Growth of Quasi-Metallic Bilayer Graphene Nanoribbons with Armchair Chirality" has been published in Nano Letters. Congratulations to Shuo, Bosai, Jiajun and Xianliang!
May 2023: Cheng and Jiajun have successfully passed their PhD thesis defense. Congratulations to Cheng and Jiajun! And wish them the best of luck in their new advantures at Huawei！
March 2023: Peiyue's paper on Quick identification of ABC trilayer graphene at nanoscale resolution via a near-field optical route has been published on Materials Futures. Congratulations to Peiyue! Link
March 2023: Cheng's paper on "in-situ twistable bilayer graphene" has been selected as "the Top 100 Physics Scientific Reports papers published in 2022", and has been included in the collection "Twistronics and heterolayers". Congratulations to Cheng!
March 2023: Shuo's paper on Tunable growth of one-dimensional graphitic materials has been published on Scientific Reports. Congratulations to Shuo! LInk
January 2023: Kunqi's Invited review paper paper has been published in Acta Physica Sinica. Congratulations to Kunqi! Link
June 2022: Saiqun and Aolin's invited review paper has been published in Acta Physica Sinica. Congratulations to Saiqun and Aolin! Link
June 2022: Our Zhiyuan Scholar Honors Program is awarded the Second Prize of 2022 (Top 3) . Congratulations to the collaborating team (Xinyue, Yongbo, Yulong and Yi)!
June 2022: Xinyue is awarded the "Excellent Bachelor Thesis" award of Shanghai Jiao Tong University(Top 1%). Congratulations to Xinyue!
May 2022, Bosai, Jiajun and Shuo's paper on catalytic growth of ultralong graphene nanoribbons on insulating substrates has been published on Advanced Materials. Congratulation to the the productive team! Link Highlight1 Highlight2
April 2022, Xianliang's work on bandgap openning in 1D moire superlattice is now appear in Physical Review B. Congratulations to Xianliang! Link
March 2022, Aolin and Bosai have passed their PhD thesis defense. Congratulations to Aolin and Bosai! And good luck on their new advanture！
January 2022, Bosai was awarded the Development Scholarship for Outstanding Pd.D. of Shanghai Jiao Tong Unversity. Congratulations to Bosai!
January 2022, Cheng's paper on in-situ twistable bilayer graphene has been published in Scientific Reports. Congratulations to Cheng! Link
December 2021, Aolin and Cheng are awarded the outstanding graduates of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Congratulations!
November 2021, Aolin's paper on non-local gating effect in graphene has been published in Small. Congratulations! Link
November 2021, Dr. Kunqi Xu joint our group as a postdoc scholar. Welcome!
October 2021, Aolin won the Mulan Chu Chao Scholarship. Congrats!
September 2021: Cheng, Aolin and Peiyue's paper on direct imaging of coupled symmetric and anti-symmetric plasmon modes has been published in Nanoscale. Congratulations! Link
August 2021: Jingxu has left for his PhD study in UC Berkeley. Congratulations and good luck!
August 2021: Tongyao has left for his PhD study in University of Florida. Congratulations and good luck!
April 2021: Jing and Bosai's work on detection of local strain in bilayer graphene, in collaboration with Prof. Weidong Luo and Wanfei Shan, has been published as an Express Letter in Chinese Physics Letters. Congratulations! Link
January 2021: Xingdong is now promoted to a PhD candidate with Prof. Zi Cai. Congrats and Good Luck!
October 2020: Congratulations to Cheng on his National scholarship for doctoral students!
September 2020: Peiyue and Saiqun joined our group. Welcome new members!
July 2020: Peiyue is awarded "Excellent Bachelor Thesis" of Shanghai Jiao Tong University(Top 1%). Congratulations!
July 2020: Qiang, Jiajun and Bosai's paper on detection of chirality of single-walled carbon nanotubes on hexagonal boron nitride has been published in Applied Physics Letters. Congratulations to this collaborative team! Link
June 2020: Xingdong and Qiang have passed their thesis defense. Congratulations to the two fresh masters!
March 2020: Yiran and Cheng's paper on tunable Cherenkov radiation of phonon polaritons has been published on Nano Letters. Congratulations to Yiran and Cheng! Link Hightlight
March 2020: Our collaboration paper "Tunable Correlated Chern Insulator and Ferromagnetism in Trilayer Graphene/Boron Nitride Moiré Superlattice" is published on Nature. Congrats! Link
January 2020: Xingdong, Cheng, Bosai, and Liu's paper on reflection phase shift of 1D polaritons has been published in Physical Review B. Congratulations to them! Link
January 2020: Lele's paper on near-field optical identification of metallic and semiconducting carbon nanotubes has been published in Chinese Physics Letters. Congratulations! Link
January 2020: Lele has passed her thesis defense for master degree. Congratulations to the fresh master!
October 2019: Prof. Zhiwen Shi is awarded the "Shuguang Scholar"!
October 2019: Bosai is awarded the National prize for graduate students.
September 2019: Our invited review paper "Scaling and Reflection Behaviors of Polaritons in Low-dimensional Materials" is out in Advanced Optical Materials. Congratulations to everyone! Link
September 2019: Xianliang and Shuo joined our group. Welcome new members!
August 2019: Our collaboration paper "Aggregation-Induced Multilength Scaled Morphology Enabling 11.76% Efficiency in All-Polymer Solar Cells Using Printing Fabrication" was published in Advanced Materials. Link
August 2019: Our Nano Letters paper about nano-imaging of local strain in 2D materials was highlighted by the Advanced Light Source. Link
July, 2019: Our collaboration paper "Signatures of Gate-Tunable Superconductivity in Trilayer Graphene/Boron Nitride Moiré Superlattice" was published in Nature! Link
Feb, 2019: Our paper " Phonon Polariton-assisted Infrared Nanoimaging of Local Strain in Hexagonal Boron Nitride" was published in Nano Letters. Congratulations to Bosai! Link, Highlight
Feb. 22, 2019: Zhe has passed his thesis defense for master's degree . Well done! Congratulations to the fresh master!
Jan, 2019: Our paper "Superlubricity enabled dry transfer of non-encapsulated graphene" was published in Chinese Physics B. Congratulations to Zhe! Link
Jan, 2019: Our collaborated paper "Evidence of a gate-tunable Mott insulator in a trilayer graphene moiré superlattice" was published in Nature Physics! Link
Dec, 2018: Our paper " Electrode-Free Anodic Oxidation Nanolithography of Low-Dimensional Materials" was published in Nano Letters. Congratulations to Hongyuan! Link News
November, 2018: Prof. Enge Wang from Peking University visited our group. Welcome and Thanks!
Sept, 2018: Jiajun and Jing joined our group. Welcome!
August, 2018: Prof. Feng Wang from UC Berkeley visited our group. Welcome and Thanks!
June, 2018: Our collaborated paper "Terahertz Streaking of Few-Femtosecond Relativistic Electron Beams" was published in Physical Reveiw X. Link
June, 2018: Haoran, Peiyue, Xiangmin, Zhiyang, Xinlei and Yiyang were selected the ZIRC Zhiyuan Scholar Program. Congratulations!
March, 2018: Zhiwen is elected "Shanghai 1000 Talents Program".
Jan, 2018: Our paper Manipulation of domain-wall solitons in bi- and trilayer graphene is published in Nature Nanotechnology. Congrats! Link
November, 2017: Cheng received the 2017 CICAM "Outstanding Graduate admission scholarship". Congratulations!
July, 2017: Prof. Feng Wang from UC Berkeley visited our group. Welcome and Thanks!
July, 2017: Cheng, Hongyuan, Qiang, Xingdong joined our team. Welcome!
May, 2017: Zhiwen is elected National Thousand Young Talents Program. Congrats!
November, 2016: Bosai received the 2016 CICAM "Outstanding Graduate admission scholarship". Congratulations! Link
Sept, 2016: Aolin, Zhe, Lele, Bosai Joined the group. Welcome!
May, 2016: Zhiwen was awarded the "Eastern Scholar" of Shanghai.
March, 2016: Zhiwen officially started at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.