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Printable Two-Dimensional Superconducting Monolayers

NUS scientists have developed a scalable electrochemical exfoliation method to synthesise two-dimensional (2D) superconducting material for use in printing technologies.

16 Nov 2020

Manchester scientists discover new family of quasiparticles in graphene-based materials

A group of researchers led by Sir Andre Geim and Dr Alexey Berdyugin at The University of Manchester have discovered and characterized a new family of quasiparticles named ‘Brown-Zak fermions’ in graphene-based superlattices.

13 Nov 2020

Rice Researchers Expand Theory on Converting Graphene into 2D Diamond

Marrying two layers of graphene is an easy route to the blissful formation of nanoscale diamond, but sometimes thicker is better.

2 Nov 2020

Integrating 2D Material into Specially Developed Glass Fibers

At the latest since the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for research on graphene in 2010, 2D materials - nanosheets with atomic thickness - have been a hot topic in science.

8 Oct 2020

Magnetic Properties of Ultrathin Materials can be Studied Using New Nano-Microscope

Australian researchers and their colleagues from Russia and China have shown that it is possible to study the magnetic properties of ultrathin materials directly, via a new microscopy technique that opens the door to the discovery of more two-dimensional magnetic materials, with all sorts of potential applications.

21 Sep 2020

New 2D Nanomaterial may Help with High-Speed Electronics, Quantum Devices

Purdue University researchers have passed another significant milestone as they work to take a new two-dimensional nanomaterial to market for use in nanoelectronics, quantum devices and infrared technology used in national defense tools and biochemical sensors.

3 Sep 2020

New Study to Accelerate Mass Production of 2D Materials like Graphene, MOS2

Materials scientists at Rice University and the University of Pennsylvania are calling for a collective, global effort to fast-track the mass production of 2D materials like graphene and molybdenum disulfide.

28 Jul 2020

Researchers Engineer 2D Graphene Nanomaterial to Create Novel Cathode

The rapid development of renewable energy resources has triggered tremendous demands in large-scale, cost-efficient and high-energy-density stationary energy storage systems.

7 Jul 2020

New 2D Compounds with Similar Atomic Lattice Could Form Excitons

Mixing and matching computational models of 2D materials led scientists at Rice University to the realization that excitons -- quasiparticles that exist when electrons and holes briefly bind -- can be manipulated in new and useful ways.

16 Jun 2020

New Strategy to Resolve Contact Resistance Problem in 2D Semiconductors

Driven by the ever-increasing desires of the consumer market for smaller, lighter and smarter devices, the size of consumer electronics such as smartphones, tablets and laptops, have been continually shrinking while becoming more powerful in terms of performance over the years.

4 Jun 2020