[2] He returned to America in 1994, starting at Cuyahoga community college and eventually transferring to Case Western Reserve University to study electrical engineering and applied physics.

[3] He was accepted to Stanford University as a graduate student, working on the electronic properties of carbon-based materials.

[8][9] In 2011 he published the first textbook on Carbon Nanotube and Graphene Device Physics with Prof. Philip Wong of Stanford University.

[12] Akinwande in collaboration with Alessandro Molle's group at CNR, Italy, achieved this by evaporating silicon onto a crystal of silver, monitoring the growth in real-time using scanning tunnelling microscopy.

[15] Subsequently, the graphene tattoos were developed as a wearable platform for monitoring blood pressure continuously using the bio-impedance modality published in Nature Nanotechnology in 2022.

[16] He demonstrated the first atomristor by investigating nonvolatile resistance switching using a 2D atomic sheet of molybdenum disulfide.

[18] The devices can be as thin as 1.5 nm and have applications in 5G and future 6G[19] smartphones as zero-static power radio-frequency switches, internet of things and artificial intelligence circuits.