Scientists have found that nanoripples in graphene make it a strong catalyst, even though it was expected to be chemically inert. Their research, published in…
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The new study provides significant insights into how superconductivity can arise in materials with nearly “frozen” electrons. A new mechanism that gives rise to superconductivity…
Physicists at Ohio State University have learned more about the potential of graphene to be a superconductor of electricity. Scientists identify quantum geometry as crucial…
MIT physicists have found a new way to switch superconductivity on and off in magic-angle graphene. This figure shows a device with two graphene layers…
The idealized structure of LDHs. Credit: Mingfei Shao, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing New achievements of layered…
The ultrahigh CO2 adsorption capacity of two-dimensional ionic liquids. Credit: IPE A new technology for CO2 capture, utilization, and storage has attracted broad attention in…
An illustration showing superconducting Cooper pairs in magic-angle multilayer graphene family. The adjacent layers are twisted in an alternating fashion. Credit: Ella Maru Studio The…
Figure 1. Schematic of the waveguide-integrated van der Waals PN heterojunction photodetector. Credit: Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS…
Snowflakes etched in graphene at Skoltech. The light areas are graphene, and the dark ones are oxidized copper. The snowflake pattern emerged as the surrounding…
Water contact angle measurements of graphene give information about macroscopic wettability. On the other hand, the VSFG experiment can provide information about the microscopic structure…
Artist Impression of a superconducting chip. Credit: TU Delft Associate professor Mazhar Ali and his research group at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) have…
Nematic order in twisted bilayer graphene. Credit: Seiichiro Onari Superconductors are materials that conduct electrical current with almost no electrical resistance at all. This property…
Artistic rendition of isolated spins on hexagonal boron nitride under an optical microscope. Credit: Qiushi Gu Researchers have identified a two-dimensional material that could be…
A molecule of the cancer medication doxorubicin (foreground), detected using the van der Waals vertical heterostructure biosensor (background). The background is an actual nanoscale scattering…
This artistic rendering shows the nanoscale spin spirals that enable the emergence of a multiferroic state in 2D material NiI2. Credit: Ella Maru Studio Discovery…
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,…
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…
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…
Defects in the lattice structure of hexagonal boron nitride can be detected with photoluminescence. Researchers shine a light with a color or energy on the…
Artistic visualization of interband collective excitations in twisted bilayer graphene. Credit: ICFO/Matteo Ceccanti An international team of researchers reports in Nature Physics on how light…