Engineers Invented a New Way to Store Data Using Atomically-Thin 2D Materials Instead of Silicon Chips
Researchers have invented a way to slide atomically-thin layers of 2D materials over one another to store more data, in less space and using less…
2D Materials
Dirac Electrons Come Back to Life in Magic-Angle Graphene – Unusual Breaking of Symmetry
A new symmetry-broken parent state discovered in twisted bilayer graphene. In 2018 it was discovered that two layers of graphene twisted one with respect to…
Chemists Achieve Breakthrough in the Synthesis of Graphene Nanoribbons
Graphene Nanoribbons might soon be much easier to produce. An international research team led by Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), the University of Tennessee and…
Magnetic and Electronic Phase Transitions in 2D-Materials Probed by Nanomechanical Resonators
Phase transitions play an important role in materials. However, in two-dimensional materials, the most famous of which is graphene, phase transitions can be very difficult…
New High-Precision Technology Cuts Atom-Sized Patterns Into 2D Materials
EPFL researchers have developed a high-precision technology that enables them to carve nanometric patterns into two-dimensional materials. With their pioneering nanotechnology, EPFL researchers have achieved…
Manipulating the Flow of Light in Extreme Ways Using “Magic Angle” Twistronics
‘Twisted’ layers of 2D materials produce photonic topological transition at ‘magic’ rotation angles. Monash researchers are part of an international collaboration applying ‘twistronics’ concepts (the…
Progressing Electronics Beyond Moore’s Law With Graphene and 2D Materials
A team of researchers based in Manchester, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland and the USA has published a new review on a field of computer…
Some Precious Metals – Such As Gold and Silver – Lose Their Conductive Property, If They Are Thin Enough
For the first time, it is possible to produce crystalline layers of precious metals that consist of a single atomic layer and which are semiconducting….
Controlling Two-Dimensional Superconductors With Terahertz Light
New theoretical study shows how to use Terahertz light to peep in the secrets of two-dimensional superconductors A researcher at the Center for Theoretical Physics…
One Atom Thick Graphene Light Sail Could Speed Journey to Other Star Systems
A tiny sail made of the thinnest material known – one carbon-atom-thick graphene – has passed initial tests designed to show that it could be…
Physics Process Yielding Nanolasers in 2D Semiconductors Could Be Game-Changer for High Speed Communications
When something just works, that’s usually a good thing. But for scientists and engineers, when something works and they don’t understand the mechanism behind it,…
2D Nano Sandwich Is Deliciously Useful for Detecting Biomolecules
Rice University engineers adapt 2D ‘sandwich’ for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. A sandwich of molybdenum, sulfur, and selenium turns out to be deliciously useful for detecting…
Making Quantum ‘Waves’ in Ultrathin Materials – Plasmons Could Power a New Class of Technologies
Study co-led by Berkeley Lab reveals how wavelike plasmons could power up a new class of sensing and photochemical technologies at the nanoscale. Wavelike, collective…
Graphene Nanomesh: New Nanotechnology ‘Brick’ for Modern Micromachines
Researchers at Japan advanced institute of science and technology (JAIST) have successfully fabrication the suspended graphene nanomesh in a large area by the helium ion…
Faster Electrons From Flatter Graphene
Bumps on a road slow down our pace, so do corrugations in graphene to traveling electrons. By flattening the corrugations out, we help electrons move…
A Profound Leap Forward: Pushing the Limits of 2D Supramolecules
Scientists at the University of South Florida have reached a new milestone in the development of two-dimensional supramolecules – the building blocks that make areas…
Reinventing the Mirror to Transform Antennas, Wireless and Cell Phone Communications
Electronically controlled 2-D reflector promises improved microwave communications, beam steering without moving pieces, and one-way microwave mirrors. Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory are…
Accurate 3D Maps of 2D Materials Pinpoint Coordinates of Single Atoms
Scientists develop innovative technique to pinpoint coordinates of single atoms. A UCLA-led research team has produced in unprecedented detail experimental three-dimensional maps of the atoms…