While these materials hold many interesting properties, scientists have long wanted to probe thin 2D metals. Now, researchers ...

Sheets of bismuth, gallium, indium, tin and lead can now be made just a few atoms thick by crushing them at a high ...

Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi, a physicist who studies 2D materials at the University of California, Irvine, likens the ...

maintaining their superior properties beyond the 2D limit remains a formidable challenge,” said first author Yinming Shao, assistant professor of physics at Penn State, explaining that such materials ...

A new carbon-based material, monolayer amorphous carbon (MAC), is revolutionizing materials science. Unlike graphene, which ...

Scientists discover how defects in the surface of two-dimensional sheets alter ripple effects, even freezing the sheet’s ...

Along with the introduction of the Atom in 2008, Intel coined the term "netbook" for small, entry-level Atom-based notebooks. Atom chips are used in a variety of Windows tablets. Available in 32 ...

and X is a chalcogen atom (S, Se, or Te). These materials consist of one layer of M atoms sandwiched between two layers of X atoms. Due to their extraordinary optical and electrical properties, 2D ...