Materials that are incredibly thin, only a few atoms thick, exhibit unique properties that make them appealing for energy storage, catalysis and water purification. Researchers have now developed a ...

In recent years, electronics engineers have been trying to identify semiconducting materials that could substitute for ...

A review paper by scientists at Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication presented  a thorough review of the existing research landscape, encapsulating the notable progress in swiftly expanding ...

Researchers have found that a two-dimensional carbon material is tougher than graphene and resists cracking—even the ...

What makes 2D materials so interesting for researchers is their outstanding physical and chemical properties in contrast to their bulk counterparts. Inspired by the unique optical and electronic ...

Researchers from the Physical Chemistry and Theory departments at the Fritz Haber Institute have found a new way to image layers of boron nitride that are only a single atom thick. This material is ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Two-dimensional van der Waals (vdW) materials are composed of strongly bonded layers of molecules with weak bonding between the layers. Layered van der Waals heterostructures are ...

What Makes Molybdenum Disulfide a Very Important 2D Material for Industrial Applications? Apart from graphene, another group of 2D materials is used for various industrial applications. These are the ...

Since the discovery of graphene in 2004, the world’s first ‘modern’ 2D material, hundreds of others have been isolated, each with a wide range of useful and interesting properties. The boom in 2D ...

Conventional electronic devices rely on the generation, transport, manipulation, and detection of electric charge carriers, such as electrons and holes. Spintronics employs the intrinsic angular ...