Bio

Boran Kumral is a postdoctoral scholar in Prof. Eric Pop's group in the Department of Electrical Engineering, where he focuses on nanoelectronics based on 2D semiconductors. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto (2025), where he studied defect and strain engineering of 2D materials as an FRQ Doctoral Scholar, and a B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University (2018). He spent over a year working in industry between his undergraduate and graduate studies.

Professional Education

  • Ph.D., University of Toronto (2025)
  • B.Eng., McGill University (2018)

Stanford Advisors

  • Eric Pop, Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor

Contact

  • Academic
    bkumral@stanford.edu
    University - Scholar Department: Electrical Engineering Position: Postdoctoral Scholar

Additional Info

Links

All Publications

  • Substoichiometric Atomically Thin Gallium Oxide as a Defect-Tunable Multifunctional Oxide ACS APPLIED ELECTRONIC MATERIALS Akibul Islam, M., Jeong, U., Barri, N., Jannat, A., Guo, X., Kumral, B., Zavabeti, A., Hong, S., Filleter, T. 2026; 8 (15): 6324-6334

    View details for DOI 10.1021/acsaelm.6c00656

    View details for Web of Science ID 001839385300001

  • Strain-Induced Electrical Conductivity in Diamond Nanowires NANO LETTERS Pieshkov, T. S., Barri, N., Zhou, Y., Shin, B., Islam, M., Kumral, B., Serles, P., Steinbach, D., Murukeshan, J., Biswas, A., Li, C., Lou, J., Han, Y., Filleter, T., Vajtai, R., Avila, R., Ajayan, P. M. 2026; 26 (14): 4906-4912

    View details for DOI 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6c01348

    View details for Web of Science ID 001731000300001

  • Quasi-Static to Supersonic Energy Absorption of Nanoarchitected Tubulanes and Schwarzites ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS Serles, P., Maguire, A., Butruille, T., Lem, J., Yang, S., Demingos, P., Choukir, S., Hache, M., Kumral, B., Jia, K., Jia, C., Zou, Y., Singh, C., Portela, C. M., Lou, J., Ajayan, P. M., Filleter, T. 2026; 36 (39)

    View details for DOI 10.1002/adfm.202526595

    View details for Web of Science ID 001696372900001

  • Direct evidence and atomic-scale mechanisms of reduced dislocation mobility in ZnS under illumination SCRIPTA MATERIALIA Li, M., Luo, K., Ma, X., Kumral, B., Gao, P., Filleter, T., An, Q., Zou, Y. 2026; 271

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2025.117028

    View details for Web of Science ID 001597557900001

  • Electrostatically Enhanced Buried Interface Binding of Self-Assembled Monolayers for Efficient And Stable Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells ADVANCED MATERIALS Huang, C., Yang, Y., Liu, C., Chen, H., Chaudhuri, S., Jeon, W., Li, M., Rolston, N., Bati, A. S. R., Gilley, I. W., Kumral, B., Serles, P., Filleter, T., Schatz, G. C., Kanatzidis, M. G., Chen, B., Chen, L. X., Sargent, E. H. 2025; 37 (43)

    View details for DOI 10.1002/adma.202508740

    View details for Web of Science ID 001546737300001

  • Mechanically reliable and electronically uniform monolayer MoS<sub>2</sub> by passivation and defect healing NATURE COMMUNICATIONS Kumral, B., Barri, N., Demingos, P. G., Adabasi, G., Grishko, A., Wang, G., Kawase, J., Onodera, M., Machida, T., Baykara, M. Z., Singh, C. V., Filleter, T. 2025; 16 (1)

    View details for DOI 10.1038/s41467-025-62370-0

    View details for Web of Science ID 001543149300019

  • Nanoscale fletching of liquid-like polydimethylsiloxane with single perfluorocarbons enables sustainable oil-repellency NATURE COMMUNICATIONS Au, S., Gauthier, J. R., Kumral, B., Filleter, T., Mabury, S., Golovin, K. 2025; 16 (1)

    View details for DOI 10.1038/s41467-025-62119-9

    View details for Web of Science ID 001535226600016

  • Leveraging self-passivation of quantum dots <i>via</i> nitrogen-doping for multifunctional biopolymer nanocomposites JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A Tuccitto, A. V., Aguiar, R., Sansone, N. D., Chehrehsaz, Y., Kumral, B., Serles, P., Filleter, T., Park, C. B., Lee, P. C. 2025; 13 (11): 7973-7988

    View details for DOI 10.1039/d4ta07202b

    View details for Web of Science ID 001421712000001

  • Ultrahigh Specific Strength by Bayesian Optimization of Carbon Nanolattices ADVANCED MATERIALS Serles, P., Yeo, J., Hache, M., Demingos, P., Kong, J., Kiefer, P., Dhulipala, S., Kumral, B., Jia, K., Yang, S., Feng, T., Jia, C., Ajayan, P. M., Portela, C. M., Wegener, M., Howe, J., Singh, C., Zou, Y., Ryu, S., Filleter, T. 2025; 37 (14)

    View details for DOI 10.1002/adma.202410651

    View details for Web of Science ID 001404501300001

  • Multi-Functional Silole Hole Transport Layer for Efficient and Stable Lead-Tin Perovskite and Tandem Solar Cells ADVANCED MATERIALS Cai, Y., Maxwell, A., Li, C., Jung, E., Zeng, L., Kumral, B., Serles, P., Tan, Z., Yu, R., Boccia, S., Chen, M., Jiang, C., Chen, D., Liu, Y., Wang, Z., Grater, L. 2024; 36 (46)

    View details for DOI 10.1002/adma.202411968

    View details for Web of Science ID 001318867600001

  • Strain Driven Electrical Bandgap Tuning of Atomically Thin WSe<sub>2</sub> ADVANCED ELECTRONIC MATERIALS Islam, M., Nicholson, E., Barri, N., Onodera, M., Starkov, D., Serles, P., He, S., Kumral, B., Zavabeti, A., Shahsa, H., Cui, T., Wang, G., Machida, T., Singh, C. V., Filleter, T. 2024

    View details for DOI 10.1002/aelm.202400225

    View details for Web of Science ID 001258428800001

  • Cyclic Wear Reliability of 2D Monolayers ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES Barri, N., Rastogi, A., Islam, M., Kumral, B., Demingos, P., Onodera, M., Machida, T., Singh, C., Filleter, T. 2024; 16 (21): 27979-27987

    View details for DOI 10.1021/acsami.4c04495

    View details for Web of Science ID 001226120700001

  • Carbon film produced from microwave-driven methane pyrolysis CARBON TRENDS Dadsetan, M., Latham, K. G., Kumral, B., Khan, M., Scott, M., Mitra, T., Naseri, A., Manzoor, S., Bobicki, E. R., Filleter, T., Titirici, M., Thomson, M. J. 2023; 12

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.cartre.2023.100283

    View details for Web of Science ID 001165443300001

  • Fatigue Behavior of Polymer Encapsulated Graphene to Mitigate Interfacial Fatigue Damage ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS Islam, M., Kumral, B., Wang, G., Cui, T., Hou, Y., Pan, P., Liu, X., Filleter, T. 2023

    View details for DOI 10.1002/adem.202300336

    View details for Web of Science ID 001013788100001

  • Peltier cooling for the reduction of carbon contamination in scanning electron microscopy MICRON San Gabriel, M., Yu, D., Mekuz, I., Kumral, B., Nikbin, E., Filleter, T., Howe, J. Y. 2023; 172

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.micron.2023.103499

    View details for Web of Science ID 001031981400001

  • Defect Engineering of Graphene for Dynamic Reliability. Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) Kumral, B., Demingos, P. G., Cui, T., Serles, P., Barri, N., Singh, C. V., Filleter, T. 2023: e2302145

    Abstract

    The interface between two-dimensional (2D) materials and soft, stretchable polymeric substrates is a governing criterion in proposed 2D materials-based flexible devices. This interface is dominated by weak van der Waals forces and there is a large mismatch in elastic constants between the contact materials. Under dynamic loading, slippage, and decoupling of the 2D material is observed, which then leads to extensive damage propagation in the 2D lattice. Herein, graphene is functionalized through mild and controlled defect engineering for a fivefold increase in adhesion at the graphene-polymer interface. Adhesion is characterized experimentally using buckling-based metrology, while molecular dynamics simulations reveal the role of individual defects in the context of adhesion. Under in situ cyclic loading, the increased adhesion inhibits damage initiation and interfacial fatigue propagation within graphene. This work offers insight into achieving dynamically reliable and robust 2D material-polymer contacts, which can facilitate the development of 2D materials-based flexible devices.

    View details for DOI 10.1002/smll.202302145

    View details for PubMedID 37291948

  • Exfoliation mechanisms of 2D materials and their applications APPLIED PHYSICS REVIEWS Islam, M., Serles, P., Kumral, B., Demingos, P., Qureshi, T., Meiyazhagan, A., Puthirath, A. B., Abdullah, M., Faysal, S., Ajayan, P. M., Panesar, D., Singh, C., Filleter, T. 2022; 9 (4)

    View details for DOI 10.1063/5.0090717

    View details for Web of Science ID 000892439100001

  • Mechanical reliability of monolayer MoS2 and WSe2 MATTER Cui, T., Mukherjee, S., Onodera, M., Wang, G., Kumral, B., Islam, A., Shayegannia, M., Krishnan, G., Barri, N., Serles, P., Zhang, X., Sassi, L. M., Tam, J., Bassim, N., Kherani, N. P., Ajayan, P. M., Machida, T., Singh, C., Sun, Y., Filleter, T. 2022; 5 (9): 2975-2989

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.matt.2022.06.014

    View details for Web of Science ID 000863107300002

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8417-7257