Rate My Professor Joshua Robinson

Robinson's research specializes in the synthesis and properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials, exploring process/property/performance relationships for applications in high-frequency electronics, quantum computing, quantum communications, chemical/biological sensing, catalysis, energy storage, and beyond-silicon CMOS technologies. His group employs a vertically integrated approach to chemical vapor deposition-grown 2D materials and pioneered confinement heteroepitaxy (CHet) to stabilize traditionally three-dimensional materials in 2D form. He has authored over 250 research articles, including highly cited works such as "Recent advances in two-dimensional materials beyond graphene" (ACS Nano, 2015), "Two-dimensional gallium nitride realized via graphene encapsulation" (Nature Materials, 2016), "Atomically thin half-van der Waals metals enabled by confinement heteroepitaxy" (Nature Materials, 2020), and "Transition metal dichalcogenides and beyond: synthesis, properties, and applications of single- and few-layer nanosheets" (Accounts of Chemical Research, 2015). Robinson has delivered more than 150 invited talks and received prestigious awards, including the NSF CAREER Award (2015), Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal for Engineering (2021), Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award (2012), National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (2002-2005), and Alan Berman Research Publication Award (2007). His contributions have significantly advanced the field of 2D materials for next-generation technologies.