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  1. Samuel Olson, Otto Zietz, Joshua Tracy, Yanlong Li, Chenggang Tao, Jiao Jun, Low-temperature Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of Graphene Films Enabled by Ultrathin Alloy Catalysts, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B 38, 032202 (2020)
       
  2. Husong Zheng,Yichul Choi, Fazel Baniasadi, Dake Hu, Liying Jiao, Kyungwha Park, Chenggang Tao, Visualization of Point Defects in Ultrathin Layered 1T-PtSe2, 2D Materials 6, 041005 (2019)
             
  3. Fan Zhang, Zhe Wang, Jiyu Dong, Anmin Nie, Jianyong Xiang, Wenguang Zhu, Zhongyuan Liu, Chenggang Tao, Atomic-Scale Observation of Reversible Thermally Driven Phase Transformation in 2D In2Se3, ACS Nano 13, 8004 (2019)
                  
  4. Zhihui Cheng, Hattan Abuzaid, Yifei Yu, Fan Zhang, Yanlong Li, Steven G. Noyce, Nicholas Williams, Yuh-Chen Lin, Jay Doherty, Chenggang Tao, Linyou Cao, Aaron D. Franklin, Convergent Ion Beam Alteration of 2D Materials and Metal-2D Interfaces, 2D Materials 6, 034005 (2019)
                       
  5. Dake Hu, Tianqi Zhao, Xiaofan Ping, Husong Zheng, Lei Xing, Xiaozhi Liu, Jingying Zheng, Lifei Sun, Lin Gu, Chenggang Tao, Dong Wang, Liying Jiao, Unveiling the Layer-Dependent Catalytic Activity of PtSe2 Atomic Crystals for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction, Angewandte Chemie 58, 6977 (2019)
           
  6. Yanlong Li, Xiaoyang Liu, Chuanhui Chen, James Duchamp, Rong Huang, Ting-Fung Chung, Maxwell Young, Tarek Chalal, Yong P. Chen, James R. Heflin, Harry Dorn, Chenggang Tao, Differences in Self-Assembly of Spherical C60 and Planar PTCDA on Rippled Graphene Surfaces, Carbon 145, 549 (2019)
           
  7. W. C. Yang, Y. T. Xie, X. Sun, X. H. Zhang, K. Park, S. C. Xue, Y. L. Li, C. G. Tao, Q. X. Jia, Y. Losovyj, H. Wang, J. J. Heremans, S. X. Zhang, Stoichiometry control and electronic and transport properties of pyrochlore Bi2Ir2O7 thin films, Physical Review Materials 2, 114206 (2018)  
           
  8. Fan Zhang, Zhixing Lu, Yichul Choi, Haining Liu, Husong Zheng, Liming Xie, Kyungwha Park, Liying Jiao, Chenggang Tao, Atomically Resolved Observation of Continuous Interfaces between an As-grown MoS2 Monolayer and a WS2/MoS2 Heterobilayer on SiO2, ACS Applied Nano Materials 1, 2041 (2018)
           
  9. Yanlong Li, Chuanhui Chen, John Burton, Kyungwha Park, James R. Heflin, Chenggang Tao, Self-Assembled PCBM Bilayers on Graphene and HOPG Examined by AFM and STM, Nanotechnology 29, 185703 (2018)  
           
  10. Chuanhui Chen, Adam Mills, Husong Zheng, Yanlong Li, Chenggang Tao, Preparation and Characterization of C60/Graphene Hybrid Nanostructures, Journal of Visualized Experiments 135, e57257 (2018)
              
  11. Husong Zheng, Salvador Valtierra, Nana Ofori-Opoku, Chuanhui Chen, Lifei Sun, Shuaishuai Yuan, Liying Jiao, Kirk H. Bevan, Chenggang Tao, Electrical Stressing Induced Monolayer Vacancy Island Growth on TiSe2, Nano Letters 18, 2179 (2018)
        
  12. Jianyong Xiang, Shanghuai Feng, Ruilong Yang, Wentao Hu, Zhiyan Jia, Weiming Lv, Lei Li, Congpu Mu, Fusheng Wen, Bo Xu, Zhisheng Zhao, Zhongming Zeng, Chenggang Tao, Yongjun Tian, Zhongyuan Liu, Size-dependent Photoluminescence in Monolayer WS2 Crystals Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 9, 34071 (2017)
        
  13. Lifei Sun, Chuanhui Chen , Qinghua Zhang, Christian Sohrt, Tianqi Zhao, Guanchen Xu, Jinghui Wang, Dong Wang, Kai Rossnagel, Lutz Kipp, Lin Gu, Chenggang Tao, Liying Jiao, Suppression of Charge Density Wave State in Two-dimensional 1T-TiSe2 by Atmospheric Oxidation, Angewandte Chemie 56, 8981 (2017) 
        
  14. Wencao Yang, Yuantao Xie, Kyungwha Park, Aiping Chen, Yaroslav Losovyj, Wenka Zhu, Zhen Li, Haoming Liu, Matthew Starr, Jaime A. Acosta, Chenggang Tao, Nan Li, Quanxi Jia, Jean J. Heremans, Shixiong Zhang, Epitaxial Thin Films of Pyrochlore Iridate Bi2+xIr2-yO7-d: Structure, Defects and Transport Properties, Scientific Reports 7, 7740 (2017)
        
  15. Adam Mills, Yifei Yu, Chuanhui Chen, Bevin Huang, Linyou Cao, Chenggang Tao, Ripples Near Edge Terminals in MoS2 Few Layers and Pyramid Nanostructures, Applied Physics Letters 108, 081601 (2016) (cover article)
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  16. Jingyi Wang§, Husong Zheng§, Lifei Sun, Guanchen Xu, Dake Hu, Zhixing Lu, Lina Liu, Chenggang Tao*, Liying Jiao*, Controlled Synthesis of Two-Dimensional 1T-TiSe2 with Charge Density Wave Transition by Chemical Vapor Transport, Journal of the American Chemical Society 138, 16216 (2016) 
           
  17. Chuanhui Chen, Husong Zheng, Adam Mills, James R. Heflin, amd Chenggang Tao, Temperature Evolution of Quasi-one-dimensional C60 Nanostructures on Rippled Graphene, Scientific Reports 5, 14336 (2015) 
           
  18. Xiaowei Zhang, O. Yazyev, Juanjuan Feng, Liming Xue, Chenggang Tao, Yen-Chia Chen, Liying Jiao, Z. Pedramrazi, Alex Zettl, Steven G. Louie, Hongjie Dai, Michael F. Crommie, Experimentally engineering the edge termination of graphene nanoribbons, ACS Nano 7, 198 (2013)
             
  19. Chenggang Tao, Liying Jiao, O. Yazyev, Yen-Chia Chen, Juanjuan Feng, Xiaowei Zhang, Rodrigo B. Capaz, James M. Tour, Alex Zettl, Steven G. Louie, Hongjie Dai, Michael F. Crommie, Spatially resolving spin-split edge states of chiral graphene nanoribbons, Nature Physics 7, 616 (2011)
           
  20. Chenggang Tao, W. G. Cullen, E. D. Williams, Visualizing the electron scattering force in nanostructures, Science 328, 736 (2010)
         
  21. Chenggang Tao, Jibin Sun, Xiaowei Zhang, Ryan Yamachika, Daniel Wegner, Yasaman Bahri, Georgy Samsonidze, Marvin L. Cohen, Steven G. Louie, T. Don Tilley, Rachel A. Segalman, Michael F. Crommie, Spatial resolution of a type II heterojunction in a single bipolar molecule, Nano Letters 9, 3963 (2009)
         
  22. T. J. Stasevich, Chenggang Tao, W. G. Cullen, E. D. Williams, and T. L. Einstein, Impurity decoration for crystal shape control: C60 on Ag(111), Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 085501 (2009)
         
  23. Chenggang Tao, Qiang Liu, Blake Riddick, W. G. Cullen, Janice Reutt-Robey, John D. Weeks and E. D. Williams, Dynamic interfaces in an organic thin film, Proceeding of National Academy of Science 105, 16418 (2008)
         
  24. E. D. Williams, O. Bondarchuk, Chenggang Tao, W. Yan, W. G. Cullen, P. J. Rous and T. Bole, Temporal step fluctuations on a conductor surface: Electromigration force, surface resistivity and low-frequency noise, New J. Phys. 9, 387 (2007)
         
  25. Chenggang Tao, W. G. Cullen and E. D. Williams, Surface morphological evolution and step fluctuations on Ag nanowires, Surf. Sci. 601, 4939 (2007)
         
  26. Chenggang Tao, T. J. Stasevich, William G. Cullen, T. L. Einstein and Ellen D. Williams, Metal/molecule interface fluctuations, Nano Letters 7, 1495 (2007) (cover article) (see also: “highlights” in Nature 446, 472 (2007)) 


  27. Chenggang Tao, W.G. Cullen, E.D. Williams, C. Dasgupta, Generalized survival in step fluctuations, Phys. Rev. E 76, 021601 (2007)
         
  28. Chenggang Tao, T. J. Stasevich, T. L. Einstein, and E. D. Williams, Step fluctuations on Ag(111) surfaces with C60, Phys. Rev. B 73, 125436 (2006)
     
  29. Bo Xu, Chenggang Tao, Ellen D Williams, Janice E Reutt-Robey, Coverage dependent supramolecular structures: C60:ACA monolayers on Ag(111), J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 8493 (2006)
         
  30. Bo Xu, Chenggang Tao, William G Cullen, Janice E Reutt-Robey, Ellen D Williams, Chiral symmetry breaking in two-dimensional C60-ACA intermixed systems, Nano Letters 5, 2207 (2005) (cover article) 


  31. D. B. Dougherty, Chenggang Tao, O. Bondarchuk, W. G. Cullen, E. D. Williams, M. Constantin, C. Dasgupta, and S. Das Sarma, Sampling-time effects for persistence and survival in step structural fluctuations, Phys. Rev. E 71, 021602 (2005)

  32. J. Cao, Z. Hao, H. Park, Chenggang Tao, D. Kau and L. Blaszczyk, Femtosecond Electron Diffraction for Direct Measurement of Ultrafast Atomic Motions, Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 1044 (2003)

  33. Shimin Hou, Chenggang Tao, Hongwen Liu, Xingyu Zhao, Weimin Liu, Zengquan Xue, Study on gold nanoclusters and gold nanowires on the surface of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite, Acta Physica Sinica 50, 223 (2001)

  34.  Shimin Hou, Chenggang Tao, G. M. Zhang, X. Y. Zhao, Z. Q. Xue, S. Z. Shi, Z. N. Gu, Ultrahigh Vacuum Scanning Probe Microscopy Studies of Carbon Onion, Physica E 9, 303 (2001)

  35. Shimin Hou, Chenggang Tao, Hongwen Liu, Xingyu Zhao, Weimin Liu, Zengquan Xue, One-dimensional chains of gold clusters on the surface of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite, Science in China 44, 398 (2001)

  36. Shimin Hou, Chenggang Tao, Hongwen Liu, Jianchang Li, Xingyu Zhao, Weimin Liu,  Zaoli Zhang, Lianmao Peng, Zujin Shi, Zhennan Gu, Electrical Properties of bucky onions, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology 20, 47 (2000)

Book chapters

  1. Ruchirej Yongsunthon, Chenggang Tao, Philip Rous, Ellen D. Williams, “Nanophenomena at Surfaces”, Springer (2011)