Do the Twist: Making 2D Quantum Materials Using Curved Surfaces
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered a way to control the growth of twisting, microscopic spirals of materials just one atom thick. The…
2D Materials
Discovery of “Magic” Chemical That Makes Perfect Edges in 2D-Materials
Ultrathin materials such as graphene promise a revolution in nanoscience and technology. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have now made an important advance…
Liquid Metals Come to the Rescue of Semiconductors: Overcoming Moore’s Law With Fast-Switching, Ultra-Low Energy Electronics
Possible pathway to fast-switching, ultra-low energy electronics based on 2D materials. Moore’s law is an empirical suggestion describing that the number of transistors doubles every…
Electrons Caught Behaving Collectively in Experiments With Twisted 2D Materials
Scientists can have ambitious goals: curing disease, exploring distant worlds, clean-energy revolutions. In physics and materials research, some of these ambitious goals are to make…
Super-Micro Haptic Touch Sensor Works by Static Electricity
Two-dimensional crumpled nanostructure with 40% higher efficiency. Super-micro, low-power sensors and devices that can send and receive signals and information anytime, anywhere will become an…
The New SQUID: A Tiny Instrument to Measure the Faintest Magnetic Fields
David Indolese, a Physicist at the University of Basel, shortly explains the new SQUID – a minuscule instrument able to detect extremely faint magnetic fields….
Revolutionary Computer Technology: Metallic Carbon Circuit Element Enables Work on Faster, Efficient Carbon-Based Transistors
Metal wires of carbon complete toolbox for carbon-based computers. Transistors based on carbon rather than silicon could potentially boost computers’ speed and cut their power…
Spin Wave Detective Story Redux: More Surprising Behavior Discovered in a 2D Magnet
A few months ago, a team of scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reported something surprising about a 2D magnetic material:…
Ultrathin Flat Lenses for High Resolution Imaging Using Monolayer Transition Metal
Lenses are one of the most commonly used optical components in daily life, including eyeglasses, microscopic objectives, magnifying glass, and camera lenses. Conventional lenses are…
Stack and Twist: Physicists Accelerate the Hunt for Revolutionary New Materials
Bath scientists take an important step towards understanding the interaction between layers of atomically thin materials arranged in stacks. Scientists at the University of Bath…
Counterintuitive Discovery Leads to New MXene Material With Extraordinary Electromagnetic Shielding Ability
Drexel and KIST researchers report material can absorb EMI from electronic devices. As we welcome wireless technology into more areas of life, the additional electronic…
New Material Can Generate Hydrogen From Fresh, Salt, or Polluted Water by Exposure to Sunlight
Researchers developed a new 2D material to produce hydrogen, which is the basis of alternative energy; the material efficiently generates hydrogen molecules from fresh, salt,…
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…
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…