Yuewen Sheng

Dr Yuewen Sheng joined the electron Bio-Imaging Centre (eBIC) in December 2019 as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate (PDRA) to expand his knowledge in cryogenic electron microscopy (CryoEM) and explore ways to utilise CVD-grown graphene in biological applications. In particular, Yuewen has been working on developing a novel sample preparation method with home-made graphene grids and the latest picolitre volume dispensing technology, designed in a timed and automated manner. Yuewen also has regular local contact duties to support external users throughout sample preparation, data acquisition and structure analysis using the latest generation of Cryo-electron microscopes.

Before moving to the eBIC team, Yuewen completed his DPhil degree from the Department of Materials, University of Oxford in 2017, and then worked as a postdoc in the same research group for another 2 years. His research was focused on the synthesis and characterisation of graphene and other two-dimensional (2D) materials, as well as the fabrication of 2D heterostructures for optoelectronics such as LEDs and solar cells.

Research Interests

1. Synthesis and characterisation of graphene and other 2D materials

2. van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures for ultrathin electronics and optoelectronics

3. CVD-grown graphene for biological applications: CryoEM sample prep, SPA and Cryo-ET

Yanan Zhu, Christopher W. Koo, C. Keith Cassidy, Matthew C. Spink, Tao Ni, Laura C. Zanetti-Domingues, Benji Bateman, Marisa L. Martin-Fernandez, Juan Shen, Yuewen Sheng, Yun Song, Zhengyi Yang, Amy C. Rosenzweig and Peijun Zhang. Structure and Activity of Particulate Methane Monooxygenase Arrays in Native Methanotrophs. Nature Commun., 2022, 13, 5221.

Yuewen Sheng, Kyle Morris, Julika Radecke and Peijun Zhang. Cryo-Electron Tomography Remote Data Collection and Subtomogram Averaging. J. Vis. Exp., 2022, 185, e63923.

Yuewen Sheng, Peter J. Harrison, Vinod Vogirala, Zhengyi Yang, Claire Strain-Damerell, Thomas Frozio, Benjamin A. Himes, C. Alistair Siebert, Peijun Zhang and Daniel K Clare. Application of Super-resolution and Correlative Double Sampling in Cryo-electron Microscopy. Faraday Discussions, 2022, 240, 261-276.

Tao Ni, Thomas Frosio, Luiza Mendonça, Yuewen Sheng, Daniel Clare, Benjamin A. Himes, and Peijun Zhang. High-resolution in situ structure determination by cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram averaging using emClarity. Nature Protocols, 2022, 17, 421–444.

Yang Lu, Tongxin Chen, Nhlakanipho Mkhize, Ren-Jie Chang, Yuewen Sheng, Philip Holdway, Harish Bhaskaran, and Jamie H. Warner. GaS:WS2 Heterojunctions for Ultrathin Two-Dimensional Photodetectors with Large Linear Dynamic Range across Broad Wavelengths. ACS Nano, 2021, 15, 19570–19580.

Luiza Mendonça, Andrew Howe, James B. Gilchrist, Yuewen Sheng, Dapeng Sun, Michael L. Knight, Laura C. Zanetti-Domingues, Benji Bateman, Anna-Sophia Krebs, Long Chen, Julika Radecke, Vivian D. Li, Tao Ni, Ilias Kounatidis, Mohamed A. Koronfel, Marta Szynkiewicz, Maria Harkiolaki, Marisa L. Martin-Fernandez, William James, and Peijun Zhang. Correlative multi-scale cryo-imaging unveils SARS-CoV-2 assembly and egress. Nature Commun., 2021, 12, 4629.

Martin E. P. Tweedie, Chit Siong Lau, Linlin Hou, Xiaochen Wang, Yuewen Sheng, and Jamie H. Warner. Transparent ultrathin all-two-dimensional lateral Gr:WS2:Gr photodetector arrays on flexible substrates and their strain induced failure mechanisms. Materials Today Advances, 2020, 6, 100067.

Sapna Sinha, Taishan Zhu, Arthur France-Lanord, Yuewen Sheng, Jeffrey C. Grossman, Kyriakos Porfyrakis, and Jamie H. Warner. Atomic structure and defect dynamics of monolayer lead iodide nanodisks with epitaxial alignment on graphene. Nat. Commun., 2020, 11, 823.

Yang Lu, Jun Chen, Tongxin Chen, Yu Shu, Ren-Jie Chang, Yuewen Sheng, Viktoryia Shautsova, Nhlakanipho Mkhize, Philip Holdway, Harish Bhaskaran, and Jamie H. Warner. Controlling Defects in Continuous 2D GaS Films for High-Performance Wavelength-Tunable UV Discriminating Photodetectors. Adv. Mater., 2020, 1, 1906958.

Wenshuo Xu, Daichi Kozawa, Yingqiu Zhou, Yizhi Wang, Yuewen Sheng, Tian Jiang, Michael S Strano, and Jamie H. Warner. Controlling Photoluminescence Enhancement and Energy Transfer in WS2:hBN:WS2 Vertical Stacks by Precise Interlayer Distances. Small, 2019, 16, 1905985.

Viktoryia Shautsova, Sapna Sinha, Linlin Hou, Qianyang Zhang, Martin Tweedie, Yang Lu, Yuewen Sheng, Benjamin F Porter, Harish Bhaskaran, and Jamie H Warner. Direct Laser Patterning and Phase Transformation of 2D PdSe2 Films for On-Demand Device Fabrication. ACS Nano, 2019, 13, 14162-14171.

Tongxin Chen, Yang Lu, Yuewen Sheng, Yu Shu, Xuan Li, Ren-Jie Chang, Harish Bhaskaran, and Jamie H Warner. Ultrathin All-2D Lateral Graphene/GaS/Graphene UV Photodetectors by Direct CVD Growth. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2019, 11, 48172-48178.

Linlin Hou, Qianyang Zhang, Martin Tweedie, Viktoryia Shautsova, Yuewen Sheng, Yingqiu Zhou, Hefu Huang, Tongxin Chen, and Jamie H. Warner. Photocurrent Direction Control and Increased Photovoltaic Effects in All-2D Ultrathin Vertical Heterostructures Using Asymmetric h-BN Tunneling Barriers. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2019, 11, 40274-40282.

Ren-Jie Chang, Yuewen Sheng, Gyeong Hee Ryu, Nhlakanipho Mkhize, Tongxin Chen, Yang Lu, Jun Chen, Ja Kyung Lee, Harish Bhaskaran, and Jamie H. Warner. Postgrowth Substitutional Tin Doping of 2D WS2 Crystals Using Chemical Vapor Deposition. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2019, 11, 24279-24288.

Ren-Jie Chang, Yuewen Sheng, Tongxin Chen, Nhlakanipho Mkhize, Yang Lu, Harish Bhaskaran, and Jamie H. Warner. Morphology Control of Two-Dimensional Tin Disulfide on Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Using Chemical Vapor Deposition for Nanoelectronic Applications. ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 2019, 2, 4222-4231.

Ja Kyung Lee, Ibrahim Bulut, Michel Rickhaus, Yuewen Sheng, Xiang Li, Grace. G. D. Han, G. Andrew D. Briggs, Harry L. Anderson, and Jamie H. Warner. Metal Atom Markers for Imaging Epitaxial Molecular Self-Assembly on Graphene by Scanning Transmission Electron Micro­scopy. ACS Nano, 2019, 13, 7252-7260.

Yuewen Sheng, Tongxin Chen, Yang Lu, Ren-Jie Chang, Sapna Sinha, and Jamie H. Warner. High Performance WS2 Monolayer Light Emitting Tunneling Devices using 2D Materials Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition. ACS Nano, 2019, 13, 4530-4537.

Jiwoong Yang, Moon Kee Choi, Yuewen Sheng, Jaebong Jung, Karen Bustillo, Tongxin Chen, Seung-Wuk Lee, Peter Ercius, Ji Hoon Kim, Jamie H. Warner, Emory M. Chan, and Haimei Zheng. MoS2 Liquid Cell Electron Microscopy Through Clean and Fast Polymer-Free MoS2 Transfer. Nano Lett., 2019, 19, 1788-1795.

Tongxin Chen, Yuewen Sheng, Yingqiu Zhou, Ren-jie Chang, Xiaochen Wang, Hefu Huang, Qianyang Zhang, Linlin Hou, and Jamie H. Warner. High Photoresponsivity in Ultrathin 2D Lateral Graphene:WS2:Graphene Photodetectors Using Direct CVD Growth. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2019, 11, 6421-6430.

Yingqiu Zhou, Wenshuo Xu, Yuewen Sheng, Hefu Huang, Qianyang Zhang, Linlin Hou, Viktoryia Shautsova, and Jamie H. Warner. Symmetry-Controlled Reversible Photovoltaic Current Flow in Ultrathin All 2D Vertically Stacked Graphene/MoS2/WS2/Graphene Devices. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2019, 11, 2234-2242.

Yang Lu, Tongxin Chen, Gyeong Hee Ryu, Hefu Huang, Yuewen Sheng, Ren-Jie Chang, and Jamie H. Warner. Self-Limiting Growth of High-Quality 2D Monolayer MoS2 by Direct Sulfurization Using Precursor-Soluble Substrates for Advanced Field-Effect Transistors and Photodetectors. ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 2019, 2, 369-378.

Hefu Huang, Yuewen Sheng, Yingqiu Zhou, Qianyang Zhang, Linlin Hou, Tongxin Chen, Ren-Jie Chang, and Jamie H Warner. 2D-Layer-Dependent Behavior in Lateral Au/WS2/Graphene Photodiode Devices with Optical Modulation of Schottky Barriers. ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 2018, 1, 6874-6881.

Achim Harzheim, Jean Spiece, Charalambos Evangeli, Edward McCann, Vladimir Falko, Yuewen Sheng, Jamie H Warner, G. Andrew D. Briggs, Jan A. Mol, Pascal Gehring, and Oleg V. Kolosov. Geometrically Enhanced Thermoelectric Effects in Graphene Nanoconstrictions. Nano Lett., 2018, 18, 7719-7725.

Martin E. P. Tweedie, Yuewen Sheng, Syed Ghazi Sarwat, Wenshuo Xu, Harish Bhaskaran, and Jamie H. Warner. Inhomogeneous Strain Release during Bending of WS2 on Flexible Substrates. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2018, 10, 39177-39186.

Hefu Huang, Wenshuo Xu, Tongxin Chen, Ren-Jie Chang, Yuewen Sheng, Qianyang Zhang, Linlin Hou, and Jamie H. Warner. High-Performance Two-Dimensional Schottky Diodes Utilizing Chemical Vapour Deposition-Grown Graphene-MoS2 Heterojunctions. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2018, 10, 37258-37266.

Sapna Sinha, Yuewen Sheng, Ian Griffiths, Neil P. Young, Si Zhou, Angus I. Kirkland, Kyriakos Porfyrakis, and Jamie H. Warner. In Situ Atomic-Level Studies of Gd Atom Release and Migration on Graphene from a Metallofullerene Precursor. ACS Nano, 2018, 12, 10439-10451.

Paweł Puczkarski, Qingqing Wu, Hatef Sadeghi, Songjun Hou, Amin Karimi, Yuewen Sheng, Jamie H. Warner, Colin J. Lambert, G. Andrew D. Briggs, and Jan A. Mol. Low-Frequency Noise in Graphene Tunnel Junctions. ACS Nano, 2018, 12, 9451-9460.

Xiaochen Wang, Yuewen Sheng, Ren-Jie Chang, Ja Kyung Lee, Yingqiu Zhou, Sha Li, Tongxin Chen, Hefu Huang, Benjamin F. Porter, Harish Bhaskaran, and Jamie H. Warner. Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of Two-Dimensional Monolayer Gallium Sulfide Crystals Using Hydrogen Reduction of Ga2S3. ACS Omega, 2018, 3, 7897-7903.

Yingqiu Zhou, Haijie Tan, Yuewen Sheng, Ye Fan, Wenshuo Xu, and Jamie H. Warner. Utilizing Interlayer Excitons in Bilayer WS2 for Increased Photovoltaic Response in Ultrathin Graphene Vertical Cross-Bar Photodetecting Tunneling Transistors. ACS Nano, 2018, 12, 4669-4677.

Ren-Jie Chang, Haijie Tan, Xiaochen Wang, Benjamin Porter, Tongxin Chen, Yuewen Sheng, Yingqiu Zhou, Hefu Huang, Harish Bhaskaran, and Jamie H. Warner. High Performance All-2D Layered Tin Disulfide:Graphene Photodetecting Transistors with Thickness Controlled Interface Dynamics. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2018, 10, 13002-13010.

Syed Ghazi Sarwat, Martin Tweedie, Benjamin F. Porter, Yingqiu Zhou, Yuewen Sheng, Jan Mol, Jamie H. Warner, and Harish Bhaskaran. Revealing Strain-Induced Effects in Ultrathin Heterostructures at the Nanoscale. Nano Lett., 2018, 18, 2467-2474.

Wenshuo Xu, Daichi Kozawa, Yu Liu, Yuewen Sheng, Ke Wei, Volodymyr B Koman, Shanshan Wang, Xiaochen Wang, Tian Jiang, Michael S. Strano, and Jamie H. Warner. Determining the Optimized Interlayer Separation Distance in Vertical Stacked 2D WS2:hBN:MoS2 Heterostructures for Exciton Energy Transfer. Small, 2018, 14, 1703727.

Tongxin Chen, Yingqiu Zhou, Yuewen Sheng, Xiaochen Wang, Si Zhou, and Jamie H Warner. Hydrogen-Assisted Growth of Large-Area Continuous Films of MoS2 on Monolayer Graphene. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2018, 10, 7304-7314.

Haijie Tan, Wenshuo Xu, Yuewen Sheng, Chit S. Lau, Ye Fan, Qu Chen, Martin Tweedie, Xiaochen Wang, Yingqiu Zhou, and Jamie H. Warner. Lateral Graphene-Contacted Vertically Stacked WS2/MoS2 Hybrid Photodetectors with Large Gain. Adv. Mater., 2017, 29, 1702917.

Pascal Gehring, Achim Harzheim, Jean Spiece, Yuewen Sheng, Gregory Rogers, Aadarsh Mishra, Benjamin Robinson, Kyriakos Porfyrakis, Jamie H. Warner, Oleg Kolosov, G. Andrew. D. Briggs, and Jan A. Mol. Field-effect Control of Single-molecule, Carbon-based Thermoelectric Nanodevices. Nano Lett., 2017, 11, 7055-7061.

Ren-Jie Chang, Xiaochen Wang, Shanshan Wang, Yuewen Sheng, Ben Porter, Harish Bhaskaran, and Jamie H. Warner. Growth of Large Single-Crystalline Monolayer Hexagonal BN by Oxide-Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition. Chem. Mater., 2017, 29, 6252-6260.

Yuewen Sheng, Haijie Tan, Xiaochen Wang, and Jamie H. Warner. Hydrogen Addition for Centimeter-sized Monolayer Tungsten Disulfide Continuous Films by Ambient Pressure Chemical Vapour Deposition. Chem. Mater., 2017, 29, 4904-4911.

Pascal Gehring, Jakub Sowa, Jonathan Cremers, Qingqing Wu, Hatef Sadeghi, Yuewen Sheng, Jamie H. Warner, Colin Lambert, G. Andrew D. Briggs, and Jan Mol. Distinguishing Lead and Molecule States in Graphene-based Single-electron Transistors. ACS Nano, 2017, 11, 5325-5331.

Yuewen Sheng, Xiaochen Wang, Wenshuo Xu, Yingqiu Zhou, Siqi Ying, Mercè Pacios, Youmin Rong, Zhengyu He, Harish Bhaskaran, Alexander M. Korsunsky, and Jamie H. Warner. Photoluminescence Segmentation within Individual Hexagonal Monolayer Tungsten Disulfide Domains Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2017, 9, 15005-15014.

Xiaochen Wang, Thomas N. Hooper, Amit Kumar, Isobel K. Priest, Yuewen Sheng, Thomas O. M. Samuels, Shanshan Wang, Alex W. Robertson, Mercè Pacios, Harish Bhaskaran, Andrew S. Weller, and Jamie H. Warner. Oligomeric Aminoborane Precursors for the Chemical Vapour Deposition Growth of Few-Layer Hexagonal Boron Nitride. CrystEngComm, 2017, 19, 285-294.

Zhengyu He, Xiaochen Wang, Wenshuo Xu, Yingqiu Zhou, Yuewen Sheng, Youmin Rong, Jason M. Smith, and Jamie H. Warner. Revealing Defect-State Photoluminescence in Monolayer WS2 by Cryogenic Laser Processing. ACS Nano, 2016, 10, 5847-5855.

Zhengyu He, Wenshuo Xu, Yingqiu Zhou, Xiaochen Wang, Yuewen Sheng, Youmin Rong, Shaoqiang Guo, Junying Zhang, Jason M. Smith, and Jamie H. Warner. “Biexciton Formation in Bilayer Tungsten Disulfide. ACS Nano, 2016, 10, 2176–2183.

Yuewen Sheng, Wenshuo Xu, Xiaochen Wang, Zhengyu He, Youmin Rong, and Jamie H. Warner. Mixed Multilayered Vertical Heterostructures utilizing Strained Monolayer WS2. Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 2639-2647.

Youmin Rong, Yuewen Sheng, Mercè Pacios, Xiaochen Wang, Zhengyu He, Harish Bhaskaran, and Jamie H. Warner. Electroluminescence Dynamics across Grain Boundary Regions of Monolayer WS2. ACS Nano, 2015, 10, 1093–1100.

Yuewen Sheng, Youmin Rong, Zhengyu He, Ye Fan, and Jamie H. Warner. Uniformity of Large-Area Bilayer Graphene Grown by Chemical Vapour Deposition. Nanotechnology, 2015, 26, 395601.

Zhengyu He, Yuewen Sheng, Youmin Rong, Gun-Do Lee, Ju Li, and Jamie H. Warner. Layer-Dependent Modulation of Tungsten Disulfide Photoluminescence by Lateral Electric Fields. ACS Nano, 2015, 9, 2740–2748.