Publications

To request reprints, please contact Nan Jiang: njiang@uic.edu.

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Nanoscopy and Nanospectroscopy (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group)

Andrey Krayev, Jeremy F. Schultz, Nan Jiang, Sreetosh Goswami, Agnès Tempez, Sharad Ambardar, Dmitri V. Voronine, Naresh Kumar, Kaiyuan Yao, Shuai Zhang, Emanuil Yanev, Kathleen McCreary, Hsun-Jen Chuang, Matthew R. Rosenberger, Thomas Darlington, Berend T. Jonker, James C. Hone, D. N. Basov, P. James Schuck, Avinash Patsha, “Chapter 6: Near-Field Nano-spectroscopy and Tip Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (TERS)“. (2023)

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Recent developments in plasmon supported Raman spectroscopy (World Scientific)

N. Chiang, G. Goubert, E. A. Pozzi, M. O. McAnally, C. Chapman, N. Jiang, G. C. Schatz, and R. P. Van Duyne, Book Chapter, “Ultra-High Vacuum Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy” pp. 231-253 (2018).

† Equal Contribution

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Optical Spectroscopic Probing and Atomic Visualization of the Motion of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes on Ag(111)

L. Li, J. F. Schultz, S. Mahapatra, D. Liu, X. Zhang, and N. Jiang, ACS Nano, in press (2025).

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Atomistic Insights into Elemental Two-dimensional Materials and Their Heterostructures

S. Rajak, J. F Schultz, L. Li, and N. Jiang, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 76, 4, 1-20 (2025).

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Single-molecule spectroscopic probing of N-heterocyclic carbenes on a two-dimensional metal

L. Li, S. Mahapatra, J. F Schultz, X. Zhang and N. Jiang, Chem, 11, 202290 (2025).

[UIC Today News “Studying new 2D materials, one molecule at a time”]

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Chemically Interrogating N-Heterocyclic Carbenes at the Single-Molecule Level Using Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

L. Li, S. Mahapatra, J. F. Schultz, X. Zhang, and N. Jiang, ACS Nano, 18, 32118–32125 (2024).

[Cover] 

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Charge Recognition in Ru(bpy)₃²⁺ on a Metal Surface via Ultrahigh Vacuum Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

S. Mahapatra, C. Siribaddana, L. Li, S. Rajak, X. Zhang, and N. Jiang, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 128, 13900-13908 (2024).

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Borophene: Synthesis, Chemistry, and Electronic Properties

K. Wang, S. Choyal, J. F Schultz, J. McKenzie, L. Li, X. Liu, and N. Jiang, ChemPlusChem, e202400333 (2024).

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Nanoscale Chemical Probing of Metal-Supported Ultrathin Ferrous Oxide via Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

D. Liu, L. Li, and N. Jiang, Chemical & Biomedical Imaging, 2, 345-351 (2024).

[Cover]

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Substrate Effects in the Self-Assembling of N,N-Diphenylquinodimethyl Thioamide on Transition Metals

K. Wang†, D. Liu†, M. K. Manna, G. Yang, L. Li, X. Zhang, A. J-l. Ayitou, and N. Jiang, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 127, 16339-16345 (2023).

[Cover]

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Atomic-Scale Insights into the Interlayer Characteristics and Oxygen Reactivity of Bilayer Borophene

L. Li, J. F. Schultz, S. Mahapatra, X. Liu, X. Zhang, M. Hersam, and N. Jiang, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 62, e2023065 (2023).

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Advances in probing single biomolecules: from DNA bases to glycans

B. Hou, T. Zhang, H. Yang, X. Han, L. Liu, L. Li, X. Wu, N. Jiang, and Y. Wang, Interdisciplinary Materials, 2, 511-528 (2023).

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Localized Surface Plasmon Controlled Chemistry at and beyond the Nanoscale

S. Mahapatra, D. Liu, C. Siribaddana, K. Wang, L. Li, and N. Jiang, Chemical Physics Reviews, 4, 021301 (2023).

[Featured Article][Cover]

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The selective blocking of potentially catalytically-active sites on surface-supported iron oxide catalysts

D. Liu, L. Li, B. S. A. Gedara, M. Trenary, and N. Jiang, Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 7, 476-482 (2023).

[Emerging Investigator Series]

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Precise Tracking of Tip-Induced Structural Variation at the Single-Chemical-Bond Limit

S. Mahapatra and N. Jiang, Light: Science & Applications, 12, 21 (2023).

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Parabolic Potential Surfaces Localize Charge Carriers in Non-blinking Long-lifetime “Giant” Colloidal Quantum Dots

M. Pálmai, J. Beckwith, N. Emerson, T. Zhao, E. Kim, S. Yin, P. Parajuli, K. Tomczak, K. Wang, B. Sapkota, M. Tien, N. Jiang, R. Klie, H. Yang, and P. Snee, Nano Letters, 22, 9470-9476 (2022).

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Nanophotonics for Chemical Imaging and Spectroscopy

P. El-Khoury, N. Jiang, and Z. Schultz, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 126, 17471-17473 (2022).

[Cover]

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Characterizations of Two-Dimensional Materials with Cryogenic Ultrahigh Vacuum Near-Field Optical Microscopy in the Visible Range

J. F. Schultz and N. Jiang, JVST A: Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology, 40, 040801 (2022).

[Featured Article]

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Chemical Characterization of a Three-Dimensional Double-Decker Molecule on Surface via Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Based Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

S. Mahapatra, J. F. Schultz, L. Li, X.  Zhang, and N. Jiang, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 126, 8734-8741 (2022).

[Cover]

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Chemically identifying single adatoms with single-bond sensitivity during oxidation reactions of borophene

L. Li, J. F. Schultz, S. Mahapatra, Z. Lu, X.  Zhang, and N. Jiang, Nature Communications, 13, 1796 (2022).

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Chemically imaging nanostructures formed by the covalent assembly of molecular building blocks on a surface with ultrahigh vacuum tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

J. F. Schultz, L. Li,  S. Mahapatra, and N. Jiang, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 34, 204008 (2022).

[Emerging_Leaders 2021 Special Issue] 

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Controlling Localized Plasmons via an Atomistic Approach: Attainment of Site-Selective Activation inside a Single Molecule

S. Mahapatra, J. F. Schultz,  L. Li,  X. Zhang, and N. Jiang, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144, 5, 2051-2055 (2022).

[Cover] 

[C&EN News Article]

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Reconfigurable perovskite nickelate electronics for artificial intelligence

H.-T. Zhang, T. J. Park, A. N. M. N. Islam, D. S. J. Tran, S. Manna, Q. Wang, S. Mondal, H. Yu, S. Banik, S. Cheng, H. Zhou, S. Gamage, S. Mahapatra, Y. Zhu, Y. Abate, N. Jiang, S. K. R. S. Sankaranarayanan, A. Sengupta, C. Teuscher, and S. Ramanathan, Science, 375, 533-539 (2022).

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Noble Metal Substrate Identity Effects on the Self-Assembly, Dynamics, and Dehydrocyclization Reaction of Octaethylporphyrin Molecules

J. F. Schultz and N. Jiang, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 125, 23680-23687 (2021).

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Radical-Driven Decomposition of Graphitic Carbon Nitride Nanosheets: Light Exposure Matters

M. Li, D. Liu,  X. Chen, Z. Yin, H. Shen, A. Aiello, K. McKenzie, N. Jiang, X. Li, M. Wagner, D. Durkin, H. Chen, D. Shuai, Environmental Science & Technology, 55, 12414–12423 (2021).

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Angstrom-Scale Spectroscopic Visualization of Interfacial Interactions in an Organic/Borophene Vertical Heterostructure

L. Li, J. F. Schultz,  S. Mahapatra, X. Liu, C. Shaw, X. Zhang, M. Hersam, and N. Jiang, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 143, 15624–15634 (2021).

[Cover] 

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Proximity and single-molecule energetics

L. Li and N. Jiang, Science, 373, 392-393 (2021). (Reprint)

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On-Surface Synthesis and Molecular Engineering of Carbon-Based Nanoarchitectures

L. Li, S. Mahapatra, D. Liu, Z. Lu, and N. Jiang, ACS Nano, 15, 3578-3585 (2021).

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Methods to Fabricate and Recycle Plasmonic Probes for Ultrahigh Vacuum Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Based Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

S. Mahapatra, L. Li, J. F. Schultz, and N. Jiang, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 52,  573-580 (2021).

[Top Cited Article 2021-2022]

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On-surface formation of metal-organic coordination networks with C···Ag···C and C=O···Ag interactions assisted by precursor self-assembly

J. F. Schultz, B. Yang, and N. Jiang, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 154, 044703 (1-20) (2021).

[Featured Article][2020 JCP Emerging Investigators Special Collection]

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Optical scanning tunneling microscopy based chemical imaging and spectroscopy

J. F. Schultz, S. Li, S. Jiang, and N. Jiang, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 32, 463001 (1-24) (2020).

[Cover]

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The Expanding Frontiers of Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

J. F. Schultz, S. Mahapatra, L. Li, and N. Jiang, Applied Spectroscopy, 74(11), 1313-1340 (2020).

[Highlighted in Cover in Memory of Prof. Richard Van Duyne]

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Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy: Chemical Analysis with Nanoscale to Angstrom Scale Resolution

S. Mahapatra, L. Li, J. F. Schultz, and N. Jiang, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 153, 010902 (1-10) (2020).

[2020 JCP Editors’ Choice Award]

[Cover] 

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Direct Observation of the Geometric Isomer Selectivity of a Reaction Controlled via Adsorbed Bromine

J. F. Schultz, B. Yang, and N. Jiang, Nanoscale, 12, 2726-2731 (2020).

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Defining Multiple Configurations of Rubrene on a Ag(100) Surface with 5 Angstrom Spatial Resolution via Ultrahigh Vacuum Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

J. F. Schultz, L. Li, S. Mahapatra, C. Shaw, X. Zhang, and N. Jiang, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 124, 2420-2426 (2020).

[Cover]

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Probing Surface Mediated Configurations of Nonplanar Regioisomeric Adsorbates using Ultrahigh Vacuum Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

S. Mahapatra, J. F. Schultz, Y. Ning, J. -L. Zhang, and N. Jiang, Nanoscale, 11, 19877-19883 (2019).

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Plasmon-induced Hot Electron Transfer in Au–ZnO Heterogeneous Nanorods for Enhanced SERS

J. Zhou, J. Zhang, H. Yang, Z. Wang, J. Shi, W. Zhou, N. Jiang, G. Xian, Q. Qi, Y. Weng, C. Shen, Z. Cheng, and S. He, Nanoscale, 11, 11782-11788 (2019).

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Angstrom Scale Chemical Analysis of Metal Supported Trans- and Cis-Regioisomers by Ultrahigh Vacuum Tip-Enhanced Raman Mapping

S. Mahapatra, Y. Ning, J. F. Schultz, L. Li, J. -L. Zhang, and N. Jiang, Nano Letters, 19, 3267-3272 (2019).

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Tuning Thermal Transport through Atomically Thin Ti3C2Tz MXene by Current-Annealing in Vacuum

Z. Hemmat, P. Yasaei, J. Schultz, L. Hong, L. Majidi, A. Behranginia, L. Verger, N. Jiang, M. W. Barsoum, R. F. Klie, and A. Salehi-Khojin, Advanced Functional Materials, 29, 1805693 (2019).

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Dual Binding Configurations of Subphthalocyanine on Ag(100) Substrate Characterized by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory

P. J. Whiteman, J. F. Schultz, Z. D. Porach, H. Chen, and N. Jiang, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 122, 5489-5495 (2018).

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Probing Intermolecular Vibrational Symmetry Breaking in Self-Assembled Monolayers with Ultrahigh Vacuum Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

N. Chiang†, N. Jiang†, L. R. Madison†, E. A. Pozzi, M. R. Wasielewski, M. A. Ratner, M. C. Hersam, T. Seideman, G. C. Schatz, and R. P. Van Duyne, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139, 18664-18669 (2017).

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Ultrahigh Vacuum Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

E. A. Pozzi, G. Goubert, N. Chiang, N. Jiang, C. T. Chapman, M. McAnally, A. Henry, T. Seieman, G. C. Schatz, M. C. Hersam, and R. P. Van Duyne, Chemical Reviews, 117, 4961-4982 (2017).

[Cover]

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Conformational Contrast of Surface-Mediated Molecular Switches Yields Angstrom-Scale Spatial Resolution in Ultrahigh Vacuum Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

N. Chiang, X. Chen, G. Goubert, D. V. Chulhai, X. Chen, E. A. Pozzi, N. Jiang, M. C. Hersam, T. Seieman, L. Jensen, and R. P. Van Duyne, Nano Letters, 16, 7774-7778 (2016).

[C&EN News Article]

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Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy: From Concepts to Practical Applications

N. Jiang, D. Kurouski, E. A. Pozzi, N. Chiang,  M. C. Hersam, and R. P. Van Duyne, Chemical Physics Letters, 659, 16-24 (2016).

[Frontiers Article]

[Cover]

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Operational Regimes in Picosecond and Femtosecond Pulse-Excited Ultrahigh Vacuum SERS

E. A. Pozzi, N. L. Gruenke, N. Chiang, D. Zhdanov, N. Jiang, T. Seideman, G. C. Schatz, M. C. Hersam, and R. P. Van Duyne, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 7, 2971-2976 (2016).

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Nanoscale Chemical Imaging of a Dynamic Molecular Phase Boundary with Ultrahigh Vacuum Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

N. Jiang, N. Chiang, L. R. Madison, E. A. Pozzi, M. R. Wasielewski, T. Seideman, M. A. Ratner, M. C. Hersam, G. C. Schatz, and R. P. Van Duyne, Nano Letters, 16, 3898-3904 (2016).

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Plasmon Mediated Electron Transport in Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopic Junctions

P. P. Pal, N. Jiang, M. D. Sonntag, N. Chiang, E. T. Foley, M. C. Hersam, R. P. Van Duyne, and T. Seideman, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 6, 4210-4218 (2015).

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Molecular-Resolution Interrogation of Porphyrin Monolayer by Ultrahigh Vacuum Tip-Enhanced Raman and Fluorescence Spectroscopy

N. Chiang, N. Jiang, D. Chulhai, E. Pozzi, M. Hersam, L. Jensen, T. Seideman, and R. P. Van Duyne, Nano Letters, 15, 4114-4120 (2015).