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• Investigated the nanoscale topology of artificial lattices assembled using atomic manipulation• Studied the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of novel molecular systems using low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and non-contact atomic force microscopy (nc-AFM) including the Kondo effect on molecular machines and the atomic scale tribological effects of sexiphenyl.

• Studied the electronic properties of mono- to few layer MoS2 as a function of strain, substrate, defects, thickness and rotational orientation using low-temperature (milli-Kelvin) STM.• Designed a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) system for the growth of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides.

• Used CVD to grow single layer graphene utilizing wet and dry transfer techniques to fabricate tunnel junction devices for chemical sensing applications using inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy.• Investigated the viability of HPCVD-grown MgB2 for flexible superconducting coaxial cables.

Synthesized and studied magnetic and molecular films characterizing them using the synchrotron X-ray scanning tunneling microscope (SX-STM) at the advanced photon source (APS).