Wrapping up 2024 with a cool paper by Kutay Ozyurt on the inhomogeneity of friction and conductivity on graphite terraces! Congratulations, Kutay and all the best as you embark on the next leg of your academic journey in Spain 🔬 mdpi.com/2075-4442/12/1…

Our collaborative work with Ashlie Martini on the effect of strain and defects on Mo2C surface electronics, published in JPCC! doi.org/10.1021/acs.jp…

Looking forward to visiting Berkeley MSE tomorrow! #AFM #MSE #UC

Excited to give a seminar at TOBB ETÜ’s Materials Science and Nanotechnology Engineering Department! I’ll be discussing atomic-scale defects and strain effects in Mo₂C using C-AFM & KPFM. Baykara Lab March 7, 2025 | 12:45 PM #Nanotechnology #AFM

I had the opportunity to give a seminar at Izmir Institute of Technology, where I completed my B.S. and M.S. It was a great experience to share my PhD research on strain and defect-driven electronic changes in transition metal carbides using scanning probe microscopy Baykara Lab

I’ll be giving an oral presentation at 2025 MRS in Seattle, WA! *Multi-Modal Atomic Force Microscopy Reveals Strain-Induced Modulation of Surface Electronics in Thin Mo₂C Crystals 🗓 April 9, 2025 at 9:00 am 📍Seattle Convention Center Summit, Room 345 #S25MRS Baykara Lab

We had the pleasure of contributing to this exciting work led by Elif Okay from Göknur Büke's group at TOBB, focusing on graphene-driven growth of ultrathin Mo2C crystals without the use of carbon-carrying gases. More details here: doi.org/10.1007/s41127…

Memories from my Doctor of Philosophy graduation today! This will always rank among the proudest achievements of my life! #PhDone #PhD

The final piece of Wai Hnin Oo's doctoral work has just been published in PRR. Please take a look if you're interested in how structural superlubricity scales with speed: journals.aps.org/prresearch/abs…

Gökay Adabaşı will be defending his PhD thesis on June 26 🎖️ Please join us if you're interested in how defects and strain affect emerging electronic materials, from thin TMC crystals all the way to atomically-thin oxides 📷🔬

Hi All! We are looking for an Assistant Professor of Teaching in Aerospace Engineering to join our department UC Merced. Please share with those you think could be interested. aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF01999

Gokay passed his PhD defense with amazing atomic-resolution images of emerging electronic materials. Congratulations Gökay Adabaşı; we will miss you!

Our Perspective article on the scanning probe microscopy of MXenes has just been published in Nano Futures. Congratulations, Dr. Gökay Adabaşı! dx.doi.org/10.1088/2399-1…

Please join us for an exciting webinar by Prof. Robert (Drew) Fleming (University of Arkansas) on Aug. 18 (M) at 3:00 PM EST. To register for the webinar, please click here: lnkd.in/g4mQSXEF

Paper out in Nature Communications! It was a pleasure to collaborate with Tobin Filleter's group, using our atomic-resolution C-AFM to show chemical treatment leads to a drastic improvement in the electronic uniformity of monolayer MoS2 🔬 Read more here: doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Flexible smartphones. Ultra-efficient transistors. Wearable sensors. All closer to reality thanks to a simple chemical treatment that makes MoS₂ stronger and more reliable. UC Merced researchers helped make it possible. 🔗 ucm.edu/071rg1

Applications are now open for the University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (UC-PPFP). Please contact me if you are interested in applying to this program and be a part of our research group UC Merced, pushing the boundaries of AFM🔬 📖 🏅

New Group Picture! #baykaralab #fall2025 #ucmerced

Congratulations to lab members Andrew Grishko, Noah Kim, and Diego Garibay who received undergraduate research fellowships from the NSF-funded VISION (Venture for Innovation in Self-assembly and Integration of Optoelectronic Nanostructures) center UC Merced 🥳🥳🥳

The rapid rise of UC Merced continues in rankings! We are now No. 25 among public univierstities in the USA and No. 57 overall. While we all know rankings have their limitations, it is nearly miraculous for a 20-yar-old university to be ranked so highly on different platforms.