Effective Carbon Dioxide Capture Using Two-Dimensional Ionic Liquids
A new technology for CO2 capture, utilization, and storage has attracted broad attention in the context of global concern about climate change and greenhouse gas…
2D Materials
MIT Physicists Discover a Family of “Magic” Superconducting Graphene Structures
The discovery could inform the design of practical superconducting devices. When it comes to graphene, it appears that superconductivity runs in the family. Graphene is…
Scientists Develop a New Family of ‘2D’ Materials With Promising Applications
Researchers say the material has promising applications, such as advanced electronics and high-capacity batteries. Tulane University’s School of Science and Engineering has created a new…
On-Chip Photodetection: 2D Material Heterojunctions for “Post-Moore Era” Microelectronics
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) use photons as information carriers and feature ultra-high transmission speed, low delay, and anti-electromagnetic crosstalk. These advantages are expected to solve…
Producing High-Quality Graphene Cheaply Using Carbon Monoxide
Researchers have proposed the first graphene synthesis technique that utilizes carbon monoxide as the carbon source. It is a fast and cheap way to produce…
Measuring the “Wettability” of Graphene and Other 2D Materials at the Molecular Level
Microscopic measurement of wettability can be achieved at the molecular level using ‘vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy’ (VSFG). Wettability of the material is the ability of…
Breakthrough Discovery of the One-Way Superconductor – Thought To Be Impossible
Associate professor Mazhar Ali and his research group at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) have discovered one-way superconductivity without magnetic fields, something that was…
Graphene Quantum Magic Delivers a New Class of Superconducting Material
Superconductors are materials that conduct electrical current with almost no electrical resistance at all. This property makes them particularly appealing for a variety of applications,…
Discovery of Strong Electron Correlation in a 2D Material Could Help Engineer Unconventional Superconductivity
Physicists find direct evidence of strong electron correlation in a 2D material for the first time. The discovery could help researchers engineer exotic electrical states…
Quantum Memory: 2D Material Identified That Can Store Quantum Information at Room Temperature
Researchers have identified a two-dimensional material that could be used to store quantum information at room temperature. Quantum memory is a major building block to…
“Seeing” Non-Uniformities in 2D Materials May Lead to Tiny New Medical Sensors
A novel and better approach at detecting non-uniformities in the optical properties of two-dimensional materials could potentially open the door to new uses for these…
Magnetic Memory Breakthrough: Physicists Observe an Exotic “Multiferroic” State in an Atomically Thin Material
Discovery shows for the first time that multiferroic properties can exist in a two-dimensional material; could lead to more efficient magnetic memory devices. MIT physicists…
Ultrathin Materials Lead to Big Advance in Quantum Computing
Using ultrathin materials to reduce the size of superconducting qubits may pave the way for personal-sized quantum devices. Like the transistors in a classical computer,…
Shrinking Superconducting Qubits for Quantum Computing With Atom-Thin Materials
Using 2D materials, researchers have built superconducting qubits that are a fraction of the size of previous qubits, paving the way for smaller quantum computers….
High-Speed Ionic Synaptic Memory: Simulating Brain Synapses in Computers With 2D Materials
Researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stanford University have fabricated a material for computer components that enable the commercial viability of computers that…
Impossible Material Made Possible Inside a Graphene Sandwich – “These Are Truly Exciting Times!”
The design of new materials allows for either improved efficiency of known applications or totally new applications that were out of reach with the previously…
Magnetic Surprise Revealed in “Magic-Angle” Graphene – Potential Quantum Computing Applications
Magnets and superconductors don’t normally get along, but a new study shows that ‘magic-angle’ graphene is capable of producing both superconductivity and ferromagnetism, which could…
Using Defects To Turn Inert Materials Into Useful, Active Ones
Demonstrating that a material thought to be always chemically inert, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), can be turned chemically active holds potential for a new class…
