Dr Reza Kashtiban

Biography

I am an experimental physicist and materials scientist with a specific interest in studying the structural and compositional properties of nanomaterials using advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM). From 2007 to 2010, I worked as a visiting researcher at the UK's mid-range electron microscopy facilities at Daresbury Lab (SuperSTEM), where I used the Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS) technique to study semiconductor nanostructured materials. My current research focuses on the growth and engineering of properties, as well as the chemical characteristics, of encapsulated composite nanomaterials. I am also interested in studying 1D radial Van der Waals (VdW) heterostructures, 2D materials, as well as characterising beam-sensitive porous materials and functionalised carbon-based materials.

Current Research Interests

-Composite photovoltaic nanostructures

-Encapsulated structures

-1D Van der Waals Heterostructures

-2D materials

-Atomic scale local characterisation

Selected Publications

Picoperovskites: the Smallest Conceivable Isolated Halide Perovskite Structures Formed Within Carbon Nanotubes, Advanced Materials (2023)

R.J. Kashtiban, C. E. Patrick, Q. Ramasse, R. I. Walton and J. Sloan

Linear and Helical Caesium Iodide Atomic Chains in Ultra-Narrow Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Reza J. Kashtiban, Maria Burdanova, Andrij Vasylenko, Jamie Wynn, Paulo V. C. Meideros, Quentin Ramasse, Andrew J. Morris, David Quigley, James Lloyd-Hughes and Jeremy Sloan,ACS Nano15(2021), pp 13389-13398

Ultrafast Optoelectronic Processes in 1D Radial van der Waals Heterostructures:Carbon, Boron Nitride, and MoS₂Nanotubes with Coexisting Excitons and Highly Mobile Charge

Maria G Burdanova,Reza J Kashtiban, Yongjia Zheng, Rong Xiang, Shohei Chiashi, Jack Matthew Woolley, Michael Staniforth, Emily Sakamoto-Rablah, Xue Xie, Matthew Broome, Jeremy Sloan, Anton Anisimov, Esko I Kauppinen, Shigeo Maruyama and James Lloyd-Hughes,Nano Lett.20(2020) pp3560–3567

Towards a 3D GeSbTe phase change memory with integrated selector by non-aqueous electrod

Ruomeng Huang, Gabriela P Kissling,Reza Kashtiban, Yasir J Noori, Katarina Cicvarić, Wenjian Zhang, Andrew L Hector, Richard Beanland, David C Smith, Gillian Reid, Philip N Bartlett, CH Kees de Groot,Faraday Discuss.213(2019) pp 339-355

Compliance-Free ZrO₂/ZrO₂− x/ZrO₂Resistive Memory with Controllable Interfacial Multistate Switching Behaviour.

R. Huag, X. Yan, S. Ye,R. J. Kashtiban, R. Beanland, K. A. Morgan, M. D. B. Charlton, C. H. de Groot,Nanoscale Research Letts. 12(2017)

Atomically Resolved Imaging of Highly Ordered Alternating Fluorinated Graphene

R. J Kashtiban, M. A. Dyson, R. R Nair, R. Zan, S. L Wong, Q. Ramasse, A. K Geim, U. Bangert, J. Sloan,Nature Comm., 5 (2014) 4902

Teaching

Physics BSc Projects

Physics MPhys Project

Midlands Physics Alliance Graduate School (MPAGS)

                   1D canonical CsI atomic chain in a SWCNT bridge

                    STEM-ABF image of chromite-Brighter oxygen
                        compared to heavy atomic columns

                         Alan Turing/ Warwick Innovation 
                     National Value Proposition-2023 cohort

Research Highlights

Phase of chair-C₂F

CNT/BN/MoS₂Radial 1D VdW 
Heterostructure

GST memory cell device

Templated Bi₂Te₃ Nanowires

STEM-ADF of La_0.5Sm_0.5CrO₃

Unzipping graphene in TEM

Pd catalyst particles 
on TiO₂

Contact:

Dr Reza Kashtiban
Associate Professor

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Department of Physics
University of Warwick
Gibbet Hill Road
Coventry CV4 7AL
UK

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