Chemists have discovered that pointy gold tetrahedrons self-assemble into 2D chiral superlattices. The structures could be useful metamaterials. Tetrahedron-shaped nanoparticles are interesting enough ...

A team reports that carefully constructed stacks of graphene -- a 2D form of carbon -- can exhibit highly correlated electron properties. The team also found evidence that this type of collective ...

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 ordinary-sounding ...

HOUSTON - (June 15, 2020) - Mixing and matching computational models of 2D materials led scientists at Rice University to the realization that excitons -- quasiparticles that exist when electrons and ...

However, even high-quality 2D materials can have atomic defects, like missing sulfur or selenium atoms, which affect ...

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The development of 2D materials has been driven by the need for materials that can operate at the nanoscale while maintaining high performance. Boron, in its 2D form, has shown exceptional stability ...

Graphene first burst onto the scientific scene when it was introduced to the world by Geim and Novoselov in 2004, who isolated it in monolayer form using graphite as the base material. The concept ...