Professor
Mechanical and Materials
Engineering
W348 Nebraska HallLincoln, NE 68588
(402) 472-2465
esutter@unl.edu
Education
- Ph.D., Condensed Matter Physics, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria
- M.Sc., Physics, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria
Research Interests
- Novel Materials and Materials for Energy Applications
- 2D/layered crystals and heterostructures
- Self-assembled and hybrid nanomaterials
- Real-time TEM of processes in liquid environments
Honors and Awards
- 2015 Battelle Inventor of the Year Award
- 2015 Long Island Technology Hall of Fame: Patent of the Year, Category: Innovation in Industry
- 2013 Guest Professor (1 month, November 2013): Sorbonne/Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.
- 2011 Sapphire Prize, Springer and Journal of Materials Science
- 2010 Thompson Reuters feature – Highly Cited Paper on Epitaxial Graphene
- 2007 Scientific American 50 Award for leading Contributions to Science and Technology
- 2004 American Physical Society Top Physics Discoveries of the Year
Selected Publications
- P. Sutter and E. Sutter, “Real-Time Electron Microscopy of Nanocrystal Synthesis, Transformations, and Self-Assembly in Solution”, Accounts of Chem. Research, special issue on “Transformative Inorganic Nanocrystals” 54, 11 (2021).
- P. Sutter, J. S. French, L. Khosravi Khorashad, C. Argyropoulos, and E. Sutter, “Optoelectronics and Nanophotonics of Vapor-Liquid-Solid Grown GaSe van der Waals Nanoribbons”, Nano Letters 21, 4335 (2021).
- E. Sutter, J. S. French, and P. Sutter, “Tunable Layer Orientation and Morphology in Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth of One-Dimensional GeS van der Waals Nanostructures”, Chem. Mater. 33, 3980 (2021).
- S. Golze, S. Porcu, C. Zhu, E. Sutter, P. C. Ricci, E. Kinzel, R. Hughes, S. Neretina, “Sequential Symmetry-Breaking Events as a Synthetic Pathway for Chiral Gold Nanostructures with Spiral Geometries”, Nano Letters 21, 2919 (2021).
- P. Sutter, H.P. Komsa, H. Lu, A. Gruverman, and E. Sutter, “Few-Layer SnS: Controlled Synthesis, Thickness Dependent Vibrational Properties, and Ferroelectricity”, Nano Today 37, 101082 (2021).
- P. Sutter, B. Zhang, and E. Sutter, “Single-Strand DNA-Nanorod Conjugates - Tunable Anisotropic Colloids for On-Demand Self-Assembly”, J. of Colloid and Interface Science 586, 847 (2021).
- P. Sutter, L. Khosravi Khorashad , C. Argyropoulos, and E. Sutter, “Nanometer-Scale Electron Beam Excitation and Spectroscopy of Ultrathin, Twisted van der Waals Nanoribbon Waveguides”, Advanced Materials 33, 2006649 (2021).
- P. Sutter, J.C. Idrobo, and E. Sutter, “Van der Waals Nanowires with Continuously Variable Interlayer Twist and Twist Homojunctions”, Advanced Functional Mater. 31, 2006421 (2021).
- E. Sutter, J. French, S. Sutter, J. C. Idrobo Tapia, and P. Sutter, “Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth and Optoelectronics of Gallium Sulfide van der Waals Nanowires”, ACS Nano 14, 6117 (2020).
- E. Sutter, J. Wang, and P. Sutter, “Lateral Heterostructures of Multilayer GeS and SnS van der Waals Crystals”, ACS Nano 14, 12248 (2020).
- E. Sutter, J. Wang, and P. Sutter, “Surface Passivation by Excess Sulfur for Controlled Synthesis of Large, Thin SnS Flakes”, Chem. Mater. 32, 8034 (2020).
- E. Sutter, B. Zhang, and P. Sutter, “DNA-Mediated Three-Dimensional Assembly of Hollow Au-Ag Alloy Nanocages as Plasmonic Crystals”, ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 3, 8068 (2020).
- E. Sutter, J. C. Idrobo Tapia, and P. Sutter, “Synthesis and Optoelectronic Properties of Ultrathin Ga2O3 Nanowires”, J. Mater. Chem. C 8, 11555 (2020).
- Y. Huang, P. Sutter, E. Sutter, et al., “Universal mechanical exfoliation of large-area 2D crystals”, Nature Comm. 11, 2453 (2020).
- P. Sutter, S. Wimer, E. Sutter, "Chiral Twisted van der Waals Nanowires", Nature 570, 354 (2019).
- E. Sutter, B. Zhang, M. Sun, and P. Sutter, “Few-Layer Germanium (II) Sulfide: Synthesis, Structure, Stability, and Optoelectronics”, ACS Nano 13, 9352 (2019).