Maya Narayanan Nair, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Nanoscience Initiative
Facility Staff, Nanofabrication Facility, Surface Science Facility

After completing Master’s degree in Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology from The University of Hull, UK, Dr. Maya Narayanan Nair pursued her Ph.D thesis under the supervision of Dr. Laurent Simon at the Institute of Material Science in Mulhouse, France, working on the subject of the functionalization of epitaxial graphene by metal intercalation and molecules using LT-STM and ARPES. Subsequently, she joined in high resolution photoemission spectroscopy group of Dr. Amina Taleb and Dr. Antonio Tejeda at Synchrotron SOLEIL, France for pursuing her postdoctoral research, where she focused on different ways to open a bandgap in graphene. After completing four years at SOLEIL, in 2018, with Department of Science and Technology National Fellowship from India, she joined in the lab of Prof. D.D. Sarma at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, where she aimed to study the modification of electronic properties of MoS2 by chemical doping using spectroscopic methods. Then in early 2019, with Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Research Fellowship, she joined in the group of Prof. Lino Pereira at KU Leuven, Belgium where she worked on the dilute magnetism in graphene and other 2D materials induced by substitutional and intercalated dopants using low energy ion implantation. Then November 2019, she joined at Nanoscience initiative at ASRC as research assistant professor where she continues to study on 2D materials.

Research Interests

I am interested in investigating the electronic properties of two-dimensional materials such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). These materials are among the most promising 2D materials for next generation of nano and opto-electronic and spintronic devices. In particular, my focus is on modifying the electronic properties of these materials by intercalation or by deposition of metal atoms or molecules, making their heterostructures and characterizing them by a plethora of surface science tools and synchrotron based x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES).

Job History

November 2019 – Present: Research Assistant Professor, Nanoscience Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center, CUNY
January 2019 – December 2019: Marie-Curie early career research Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of KU Leuven, Belgium
January 2018 – December 2018: DST postdoctoral Fellow Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
January 2014 – December 2017: Postdoctoral Fellow, Cassiopée beamline, Synchrotron SOLEIL, France
October 2010 – September 2013: Ph.D. Physics (experimental condensed matter) University of Haute Alsace Mulhouse, France

Publications

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M. Fang, C. Tang, S. Chen, Z. Tang, M. Choi, J. Jang, H. Chung, M. Narayanan Nair, W. Jin, E. Yang, Proximity-induced antisymmetric humps in Hall resistivity in Fe-doped monolayer WSe2, AIP Publishing, 2025
A. Dey, E. Naranjo, R. Saha, S. Zhang, M. Narayanan Nair, T. Li, X. Chen, and R. V. Ulijn, Water-Vapor Responsive Metallo-Peptide Nanofibers. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2024.
K. Barriales, S. Khandaker, A. Jain, D. Sementa, M. N. Nair, T. Wang, J. Tang, C. DelRe, and R.V. Ulijn, Aqueous Graphene Dispersion and Biofunctionalization via Enzymatic Oxidation of Tripeptides, Small, 2024.
M.N. Nair, I. Palacio, Y. Ohtsubo, A. Taleb-Ibrahimi, E. Michel, A. Mascaraque, A. Tejeda, Electronic Structure Evolution in the Temperature Range of Metal–Insulator Transitions on Sn/Ge(111). Phys. Status Solidi - Rapid Res. Lett. 2024, 2400041.
M.N. Nair, I. Palacio, A. Mascaraque, E.G. Michel, A. Taleb-Ibrahimi, A. Tejeda, C. González, A. Martín-Rodero, J. Ortega, and F. Flores, Giant electron-phonon interaction for a prototypical semiconductor interface: Sn/Ge(111)-(3 × 3), Phys. Rev. B, 2023, 107, 045303.
I. Palacio, J. Obando-Guevara, L. Chen, M.N. Nair, M.A. González Barrio, E. Papalazarou, P. Le Fèvrea, A. Taleb-Ibrahimi, E.G. Michel, A. Mascaraque, A. Tejeda, Fermi surface of LaSb2 and direct observation of a CDW transition, Appl. Surf. Sci., 2022, 610, 155477.
A. Jain, S.A. McPhee, T. Wang, M. Narayanan Nair, D. Kroiss, T.Z. Jia, and R.V. Ulijn, Tractable Molecular Adaptation Patterns in a Designed Complex Peptide System, Chem, 2022, in press.
M.S. Choi, A. Nipane, B.S.Y. Kim, M. Ziffer, I. Datta, A. Borah, Y. Jung, B. Kim, D. Rhodes, A. Jindal, Z.A. Lamport, M. Lee, A. Zangiabadi, M.N. Nair, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, I. Kymissis, A. Pasupathy, M. Lipson, X. Zhu, W.J. Yoo, J. Hone, and J.T. Teherani, High carrier mobility in graphene doped using a monolayer of tungsten oxyselenide, Nat. Electron., 2021, 4, 731-739, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-021-00657-y.
S. Bawari, M.N. Nair, J. Mondal, and T. Narayanan, Elucidating the Mechanism of Nitrogen Doping in Graphene Oxide: Structural Evolution of Dopants and Role of Oxygen, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c06270.
R. Villarreal, P-C. Lin, F. Faraji, N. Hassani, H. Bana, Z. Zarkua, M.N. Nair, H-C. Tsai, M. Auge, F. Junge, H. Hofsass, S. De Gendt, M. Auge, S. de Feyter, S. Brems, E.H. Åhlgren, E.C. Neyts, L. Covaci, F.M. Peeters, M. Neek-Amal, and L.M.C. Pereira, Breakdown of universal scaling for nanometer-sized bubbles in graphene, Nano Letters, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c02470.

M. Fang, C. Tang, S. Chen, Z. Tang, M. Choi, J. Jang, H. Chung, M. Narayanan Nair, W. Jin, E. Yang, Proximity-induced antisymmetric humps in Hall resistivity in Fe-doped monolayer WSe2, AIP Publishing, 2025

A. Dey, E. Naranjo, R. Saha, S. Zhang, M. Narayanan Nair, T. Li, X. Chen, and R. V. Ulijn, Water-Vapor Responsive Metallo-Peptide Nanofibers. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2024.

K. Barriales, S. Khandaker, A. Jain, D. Sementa, M. N. Nair, T. Wang, J. Tang, C. DelRe, and R.V. Ulijn, Aqueous Graphene Dispersion and Biofunctionalization via Enzymatic Oxidation of Tripeptides, Small, 2024.

M.N. Nair, I. Palacio, Y. Ohtsubo, A. Taleb-Ibrahimi, E. Michel, A. Mascaraque, A. Tejeda, Electronic Structure Evolution in the Temperature Range of Metal–Insulator Transitions on Sn/Ge(111). Phys. Status Solidi - Rapid Res. Lett. 2024, 2400041.

M.N. Nair, I. Palacio, A. Mascaraque, E.G. Michel, A. Taleb-Ibrahimi, A. Tejeda, C. González, A. Martín-Rodero, J. Ortega, and F. Flores, Giant electron-phonon interaction for a prototypical semiconductor interface: Sn/Ge(111)-(3 × 3), Phys. Rev. B, 2023, 107, 045303.

I. Palacio, J. Obando-Guevara, L. Chen, M.N. Nair, M.A. González Barrio, E. Papalazarou, P. Le Fèvrea, A. Taleb-Ibrahimi, E.G. Michel, A. Mascaraque, A. Tejeda, Fermi surface of LaSb2 and direct observation of a CDW transition, Appl. Surf. Sci., 2022, 610, 155477.

A. Jain, S.A. McPhee, T. Wang, M. Narayanan Nair, D. Kroiss, T.Z. Jia, and R.V. Ulijn, Tractable Molecular Adaptation Patterns in a Designed Complex Peptide System, Chem, 2022, in press.

M.S. Choi, A. Nipane, B.S.Y. Kim, M. Ziffer, I. Datta, A. Borah, Y. Jung, B. Kim, D. Rhodes, A. Jindal, Z.A. Lamport, M. Lee, A. Zangiabadi, M.N. Nair, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, I. Kymissis, A. Pasupathy, M. Lipson, X. Zhu, W.J. Yoo, J. Hone, and J.T. Teherani, High carrier mobility in graphene doped using a monolayer of tungsten oxyselenide, Nat. Electron., 2021, 4, 731-739, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-021-00657-y.

S. Bawari, M.N. Nair, J. Mondal, and T. Narayanan, Elucidating the Mechanism of Nitrogen Doping in Graphene Oxide: Structural Evolution of Dopants and Role of Oxygen, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c06270.

R. Villarreal, P-C. Lin, F. Faraji, N. Hassani, H. Bana, Z. Zarkua, M.N. Nair, H-C. Tsai, M. Auge, F. Junge, H. Hofsass, S. De Gendt, M. Auge, S. de Feyter, S. Brems, E.H. Åhlgren, E.C. Neyts, L. Covaci, F.M. Peeters, M. Neek-Amal, and L.M.C. Pereira, Breakdown of universal scaling for nanometer-sized bubbles in graphene, Nano Letters, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c02470.

Phone Number

212.413.3347

Email

mnair@gc.cuny.edu

Web Site

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KjVlBhsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao