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Professor Sir Andre GEIM, Nobel Prize-winning physicist behind the advent of graphene and 2D materials, is a Chair Professor under the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science.

Professor Andre Geim’s research interests are not confined to a particular field but are instead guided by the search for unexpected phenomena. Over the years, he has explored a broad spectrum of problems in condensed-matter physics and beyond, often through simple but original experiments that open new directions. Much of his recent work has centred on low-dimensional systems, especially graphene, other atomically thin materials, and van der Waals heterostructures, with an emphasis on their electronic and quantum properties, while also extending to molecular and proton transport phenomena.

1. "Electric Field Effect in Atomically Thin Carbon Films", K. S. Novoselov, A. K. Geim, S. V. Morozov, D. Jiang, Y. Zhang, S. V. Dubonos, I. V. Grigorieva, and A. A. Firsov, Science, 306(5696), 666-669 (2004)
2. "Two-dimensional Gas of Massless Dirac Fermions in Graphene", K. S. Novoselov, A. K. Geim, S. V. Morozov, D. Jiang, M. I. Katsnelson, I. V. Grigorieva, S. V. Dubonos & A. A. Firsov, Nature, 438(7065), 197-200 (2005)
   
   
3. "The Rise of Graphene", A. K. Geim & K. S. Novoselov, Nature Materials, 6(3), 183-191 (2007)
   
   
4. "Two-dimensional Atomic Crystals", K. S. Novoselov, D. Jiang, F. Schedin, T. J. Booth, V. V. Khotkevich, S. V. Morozov, and A. K. Geim, PNAS, 102(30), 10451-10453 (2005)
   
   
5. "Van der Waals Heterostructures", A. K. Geim & I. V. Grigorieva, Nature, 499(7459), 419-425 (2013)
   
   
6. "Unimpeded Permeation of Water Through Helium-Leak-Tight Graphene-Based Membranes", R. R. Nair, H. A. Wu, P. N. Jayaram, I. V. Grigorieva, and A. K. Geim, Science, 335(6067), 442-444 (2012)
   
   
7. "Size-selective Ion Sieving Through Angstrom-scale Slits", A.Esfandiar, B. Radha F. C. Wang, Q. Yang, S. Hu, S. Garaj, R. R. Nair, A. K. Geim, and K. Gopinadhan, Nature, 549(7671), 250-253 (2017)
   
   
8. "Proton Transport through One-Atom-Thick Crystals", S. Hu, M. Lozada-Hidalgo, F. C. Wang, A. Mishchenko, F. Schedin, R. R. Nair, E. W. Hill, D. W. Boukhvalov, M. I. Katsnelson, R. A. W. Dryfe, I. V. Grigorieva, H. A. Wu and A. K. Geim, Nature, 516(7530), 227-230 (2014)
   
   
9. "Of Flying Frogs and Levitrons", M. V. Berry and A. K. Geim, European Journal of Physics, 18(4), 307 (1997)
   
   
10. "Microfabricated Adhesive Mimicking Gecko Foot-hair", A. K. Geim, S. V. Dubonos, I. V. Grigorieva, K. S. Novoselov, A. A. Zhukov & S. Yu. Shapoval, Nature Materials, 2(7), 461-463 (2003)