On a Saturday afternoon in the fall of 2021, Silvio Decurtins was leafing through a paper with a title that could have been pulled from a comic book for mathematically inclined teens: “Plato’s Cube ...

Here we have a square, a circle and a triangle. We're going to use them to form a pattern. This is the pattern formed by the shapes.

An international team of surface scientists has now developed a simple method to produce large and very clean 2D samples from a range of materials using three different substrates. Ever since the ...

The Scotch tape method, also known as micromechanical cleavage or mechanical exfoliation, is a simple yet powerful technique used to isolate thin layers of two-dimensional (2D) materials from their ...

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, materials that can conduct electricity and are only a few atoms thick, are promising alternatives to the conventional silicon-based semiconductors currently used ...