Draft:Graham Cross
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Comment: He has made a good start to his career, but it is WP:TOOSOON. His most cited paper is a team effort from postdoc work; he has no really major papers from work he has led. Awards are very minor (and should not be included), and page contains significant WP:Peacock. He needs a few years more, his cites per year are not encouraging. Ldm1954 (talk) 15:20, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
- Comment: h-index is 27. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 13:12, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
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Graham Cross | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of Victoria McGill University |
| Known for | Graphene self-tearing Atomic-scale plasticity Polymer confinement effects Diamond nanofabrication |
| Title | Professor of Physics |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Nanomechanics, Condensed Matter Physics |
| Institutions | Trinity College Dublin |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Grutter |
| Website | TCD Nanomechanics Group |
Graham Cross is a physicist specializing in nanomechanics and condensed matter physics. He is currently a Professor in the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), where he leads a research group focused on the mechanics of materials at the nanoscale.[1] He is also a Principal Investigator at AMBER and CRANN, Ireland’s national centres for advanced materials and nanotechnology research. Cross is known for his work on nanoscale materials mechanics, two-dimensional materials, polymer physics, and diamond nanofabrication.[2] He is a founding director and Chief Scientific Officer of the semiconductor metrology company Adama Innovations.[3][4][5]
Education
[edit]Cross earned a BSc in Physics from the University of Victoria on Vancouver Island, Canada. He completed a Master’s degree in high-energy physics at McGill University from 1992 to 1995, contributing to the B-factory project based at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC).[1] He went on to complete a PhD in condensed matter physics at McGill in 2000 under the supervision of Peter Grutter.[6]
Career
[edit]From 1999 to 2001, Cross was a postdoctoral fellow at IBM Research in Zürich, Switzerland, supported by an FCAR fellowship.[1] In 2002, he joined the SFI Nanoscience Laboratory at Trinity College Dublin, working within the Nanomechanics Group led by John Pethica. From 2002 to 2008, he served as a research fellow at TCD, before being appointed Assistant Professor in 2008.[2] He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014 and full Professor of Physics in 2024.[1]
Cross has made a number of notable contributions to nanomechanics. One of his most cited works, published in Nature, describes the spontaneous self-tearing and peeling of graphene ribbons from a substrate, revealing key interactions between graphene, the substrate, and itself.[7] This discovery has important implications for the fabrication and patterning of devices based on two-dimensional materials.
In a separate study published in Nature Materials, Cross and collaborators demonstrated atomic-scale plasticity under sharp indentation, providing new insights into the mechanical behavior of materials at atomic dimensions.[8]
Other scientific contributions include the demonstration of confinement effects in polymer melt flow at sub-molecular scales (Science, 2008), and the development of high-performance diamond nanofabrication methods, which led to the formation of Adama Innovations.[9]
He currently leads a research team within the Nanomechanics Group at TCD where his work spans atomic-scale materials design, soft matter mechanics, and device-scale nanofabrication technologies.[10][11][12]
Entrepreneurship
[edit]Cross is the founding director and Chief Scientific Officer of Adama Innovations, a technology spin-out from Trinity College Dublin.[4] The company specializes in nanoscale metrology products and has commercialized novel diamond-based probe technologies for use in advanced semiconductor manufacturing.[3]
Honours and awards
[edit]- Trinity Innovation Award – Winner in the Founders Category (2021), awarded February 22, 2022[12]
- Flaherty Visiting Scholar, Irish-Canadian University Foundation (ICUF), July–August 2018, University of British Columbia, Vancouver[1][13]
- Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, awarded 2013[1]
- Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, Government of Québec (FCAR), 2000–2001 – for research at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g "Graham Cross'Trinity Research". Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ^ a b "Graham Cross". Amber Centre. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ^ a b "About us". Adama Innovations. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ^ a b Gorey, Colm (2014). "Irish nanoscience firm receives €750,000 in seed funding".
- ^ Darmody, Jenny (2022). "8 Trinity start-ups turning research into innovation".
- ^ Graham Cross Thesis - Supervised by Peter Grutter https://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~peter/theses/cross.pdf
- ^ Annett, James; Cross, Graham L. W. (2016). "Self-assembly of graphene ribbons by spontaneous self-tearing and peeling from a substrate". Nature. 535 (7611): 271–275. Bibcode:2016Natur.535..271A. doi:10.1038/nature18304. ISSN 1476-4687.
- ^ "G. L. W. Cross". Nature Materials. 5: 370–376. 2016.
- ^ Rowland, Harry D.; King, William P.; Pethica, John B.; Cross, Graham L. W. (2008-10-31). "Molecular Confinement Accelerates Deformation of Entangled Polymers During Squeeze Flow". Science. 322 (5902): 720–724. Bibcode:2008Sci...322..720R. doi:10.1126/science.1157945. PMID 18832609.
- ^ "Cross Nanomechanics - School of Physics". Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ^ "Graham Cross Trinity Physics | Nanotechnology research | Dublin, Ireland". mysite. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ^ a b "Leading researchers and inventors celebrated at Trinity Innovation Awards". Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ^ admin (2017-10-11). "Graham Cross". Ireland Canada University Foundation. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
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