Aaron Franklin, Ph.D.

About

Dr. Aaron Franklin is the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Chemistry at Duke, where he is also the Senior Associate Dean in the Pratt School of Engineering. Dr. Franklin received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 2008 and then spent six years on the research staff at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. In 2014, he joined the faculty at Duke where his group explores the use of 1D and 2D nanomaterials for high-performance nanoscale devices, low-cost printed and recyclable electronics, and biomedical sensing systems. He is most widely known for his work on low-dimensional nanoelectronics with specific emphasis on carbon nanotube (CNT) transistors, including device scal

Education

• B.S.E. Arizona State University, 2004
• Ph.D. Purdue University, 2008
• Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Senior Associate Dean in the Pratt School of Engineering
• Professor of Chemistry

Selected publications

• Lu Q, Wu S, Liu Y, Huang Z, Zhou Y, Dong B, et al. Autonomous driving chips. Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering. 2026 Aug 13;
• Livieri A, Doherty JL, Smith BN, Urper Bayram GM, Franklin AD, Wiesner MR, et al. Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of nano-enabled all-carbon recyclable electronic (ACRE) materials. Rsc Sustainability. 2026 Jul 1;4(7):3024u201339.
• Malhotra K, Smith BN, Holmes SK, Doherty JL, Franklin AD. Width-Spreading Effect in Printed Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Transistors and Its Impact on Device Performance. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 2026 May 15;9(19):8781u20138.
• Urper-Bayram GM, Doherty JL, Livieri A, Bossa N, Hristozov D, Franklin AD, et al. Life cycle assessment of recyclable all-carbon thin-film transistors for LCD displays: toward sustainable nano-enabled electronics. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy. 2026 May 1;28(5).
• Holmes SK, Zhang B, Ravel VM, Doherty JL, Smith BN, Franklin AD. Influence of Ar ion beam on WSe2 and resulting contact interfaces in 2D field-effect transistors. Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B. 2026 May 1;44(3).
• Ravel VM, Evans SR, Holmes SK, Doherty JL, Rahman MS, Roy T, et al. Impact of Contact Gating on Scaling of Monolayer 2D Transistors Using a Symmetric Dual-Gate Structure. ACS nano. 2026 Mar;20(8):7127u201336.
• Dziewior CS, Cole B, Qian Y, Coaker K, Nackley AG, Franklin AD, et al. Thermally Driven Release of Oxycodone from Poly(ester urea) Thin Films by Printed Microheaters for Transdermal Delivery. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2025 Dec 17;17(50):67559u201371.
• Silva-Quinones D, Hu X, Cole B, Bethke A, Hool A, Zhao Y, et al. Surface termination engineering of 2D titanium carbides for light-activated soft robotics applications. Matter. 2025 Nov 5;8(11).
• Smith BN, Albarghouthi FM, Doherty JL, Pei X, Macfarlane Q, Salfity M, et al. Capillary Flow Printing of Submicron Carbon Nanotube Transistors. Nature electronics. 2025 Nov;8(11):1027u201337.
• Yang J, Yin RA, Jiang C, Hu Y, Zhu X, Hu X, et al. Zero-Shot Autonomous Microscopy for Scalable and Intelligent Characterization of 2D Materials. ACS nano. 2025 Oct;19(40):35493u2013502.