Professor Elisa Riedo

Elisa Riedo is Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at New York University, Tandon School of Engineering as well as Professor of Physics at the same university.

Her research includes subjects such as engineering for Health - Biosensors and Tissue Engineering, 2D Materials & Phase Transformation - Graphene, 2D Diamond, and beyond, Nanomechanics - Å-Indentation and Understanding Nanoscale Friction and Thermal scanning probe lithography (tSPL) - Harnessing heat to nanofabricate with unprecedented resolution.

Elisa Riedo

Recent AFM-related papers:

• Rejhon M., Lavini F., Khosravi A., Shestopalov M., Kunc J., Tosatti E. & Riedo E. (2022) Relation between interfacial shear and friction force in 2D materials, Nature Nanotechnology 17, 1280–1287

• Liu X., Zanut A., Sladkova-Faure M., Xie L., Weck M., Zheng X., Riedo E. & de Peppo G. M. (2021) Cost and Time Effective Lithography of Reusable Millimeter Size Bone Tissue Replicas With Sub‐15 nm Feature Size on A Biocompatible Polymer, Advanced Functional Materials, 31, 19

• Cellini F., Gao Y. & Riedo E., (2019) Å-Indentation for non-destructive elastic moduli measurements of supported ultra-hard ultra-thin films and nanostructures, Scientific Reports 9 (4075)

• Zheng X., Calò A., Albisetti E., Liu X., Alharbi A. S. M., Arefe G., Liu X., Spieser M., Yoo W. J., Taniguchi T., Watanabe K., Aruta C., Ciarrocchi A., Kis A., Lee B. S., Lipson M., Hone J., Shahrjerdi D. & Riedo E. (2019) Patterning metal contacts on monolayer MoS2 with vanishing Schottky barriers using thermal nanolithography, Nature Electronics 2, 17–25

Biography: Elisa graduated summa cum laude in Physics at the University of Milano, and obtained a Ph.D. in Physics in 2000 with a joint thesis between the University of Milano, and the European Synchrotron Research Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France. She then worked as postdoctoral fellow at the Ecole Polytechnic Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Elisa was Professor of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 2003 to 2015. She is particularly well known for her pioneering work in thermal scanning probe lithography (tSPL), a novel and sustainable nanofabrication technique  with applications in nanomedicine, nanoelectronics, and magnetic materials. She has also made fundamental contributions in nanomechanics, graphene, diamene, 2D materials, and nano-confined water. She is widely published, and has received multiple grants from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Twitter: @RiedoLab

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisa-riedo-919753111/

Websites: https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/elisa-riedo  

https://www.picoforcelab.org/

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