Raymond Unocic

Associate Professor

Raymond Unocic, Ph.D., earned his doctorate in Materials Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2008 and a master’s in Materials Science and Engineering from Lehigh University in 2003. Before NC State, Raymond was an Alvin M. Weinberg Fellow, Senior R&D Staff Scientist, and Group Leader for the Materials MicroÅnalysis Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory since 2009. He has published nearly 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, authored four book chapters, and holds five U.S. Patents. His awards include the National Collegiate Inventors Award, the MicroAnalysis Society’s Birks Award, two R&D 100 awards, and several ORNL-UT Battelle Research Team Awards.

Raymond’s research expertise lies in aberration-corrected, analytical, cryo, and in situ/operando scanning transmission electron microscopy. His research program is dedicated to pioneering novel microscopy-based characterization methods for nanoscience research to probe atomic-scale structure, chemistry, and dynamic behavior of materials to establish structure-property-function correlations.

Areas of Research:

  • Electronic, Optical, and Magnetic Materials
  • Energy Materials
  • Catalysis
  • Materials Characterization
  • Nanomaterials
  • Structural Materials

Publications

Autonomous fabrication of tailored defect structures in 2D materials using machine learning-enabled scanning transmission electron microscopy
Wu, Z., Roccapriore, K. M., Ghosh, A., Xiao, K., Unocic, R. R., Jesse, S., … Boebinger, M. G. (2026, April 27), Npj Computational Materials, Vol. 4. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-026-02025-w
Ultrasensitive soft vibration sensors based on atomically thin metal dichalcogenide ribbon networks
Xu, C., Li, X., Michalek, L. F., Park, J., Kim, E., Zhang, Z., … Bao, Z. (2026, March 20), Science Advances. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aeb6733
A Panoramic View of MXenes via an Atomic Coordination‐Based Design Strategy
Oyeniran, N., Chowdhury, O., Hu, C., Dumitrica, T., Ganesh, P., Jakowski, J., … Huang, J. (2025, August 8), Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 8. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202508047
In-situ Monitoring of Automated Defect Formation in STEM
Boebinger, M. G., Wu, Z., Roccapriore, K. M., Ghosh, A., Ziatdinov, M., Kalinin, S. V., & Unocic, R. R. (2025, July 1), Microscopy and Microanalysis, Vol. 7. https://doi.org/10.1093/mam/ozaf048.912
Investigating the impact of preparation routes on the properties of copper-decorated silicon particles as anode materials for lithium-ion batteries
Araño, K. G., Armstrong, B. L., Tomich, A. W., Chambers, M. S., Quinn, J., Meyer, H. M., … Veith, G. M. (2025, June 18), Next Energy, Vol. 8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nxener.2025.100335
Direct Fabrication of Atomically Defined Pores in MXenes Using Feedback‐Driven STEM
Boebinger, M. G., Yilmaz, D. E., Ghosh, A., Misra, S., Mathis, T. S., Kalinin, S. V., … Unocic, R. R. (2024), Small Methods, 5. https://doi.org/10.1002/smtd.202400203
Double Hydroxide Nanocatalysts for Urea Electrooxidation Engineered toward Environmentally Benign Products
Yang, Y., Yuwono, J. A., Whittaker, T., Ibáñez, M. M., Wang, B., Kim, C., … Bedford, N. M. (2024), Advanced Materials, 7. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202403187
In Situ Liquid Electron Microscope Cells Strongly Attenuate Electrochemical Behavior
Wittman, R. M., Sacci, R. L., Unocic, R. R., & Zawodzinski, T. A. (2024, November 22), Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 171. https://doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/ad963a
Nitrogen‐Doped Graphene‐Like Carbon Intercalated MXene Heterostructure Electrodes for Enhanced Sodium‐ and Lithium‐Ion Storage
Liang, K., Wu, T., Misra, S., Dun, C., Husmann, S., Prenger, K., … Naguib, M. (2024), Advanced Science, 6. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202402708
Selected Area Manipulation of MoS2 via Focused Electron Beam-Induced Etching for Nanoscale Device Editing
Lasseter, J., Gellerup, S., Ghosh, S., Yun, S. J., Vasudevan, R., Unocic, R. R., … Rack, P. D. (2024), ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 16(7), 9144–9154. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c17182

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Raymond Unocic