#2dmaterials

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Unlocking the future of superconductors in non-van-der Waals 2D polymers

In a groundbreaking achievement, researchers from Peking University's School of Materials Science and Engineering, led by Professor Jin-Hu D

Two-dimensional coordination polymers (2D MOFs) have rapidly emerged as promising materials for electronic applications. Their modular lattice design, formed by metal centers and conjugated ligands, allows exceptional control over electronic states, enabling applications in quantum transport and superconductivity. This work challenges the traditional view of 2D MOFs as insulators, presenting them as tunable frameworks for next-generation superconducting materials.

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Light reveals secrets encoded in chiral metasurfaces

By leveraging the concept of chirality, or the difference of a shape from its mirror image, EPFL scientists have engineered an optical metas

By leveraging the concept of chirality, or the difference of a shape from its mirror image, EPFL scientists have engineered an optical metasurface that controls light to yield a simple and versatile technique for secure encryption, sensing, and computing.

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University of Manchester researchers unveil breakthrough in quantum nanotechnology

The Manchester team, led by Dr Ivan Vera-Marun, has fully encapsulated monolayer graphene in hexagonal boron nitride, an insulating and atom

The Manchester team, led by Dr Ivan Vera-Marun, has fully encapsulated monolayer graphene in hexagonal boron nitride, an insulating and atomically flat 2D material, to protect its high quality. By engineering the 2D material stack to expose only the edges of graphene, and laying magnetic nanowire electrodes over the stack, they successfully form one-dimensional (1D) contacts.

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Scientists achieve breakthrough in harnessing heat to control magnetism in 2D materials

Groundbreaking research led by Dr. Maciej Dąbrowski at the University of Exeter has developed ultrafast, laser-driven magnetic domain mem...

Groundbreaking research led by Dr. Maciej Dąbrowski at the University of Exeter has developed ultrafast, laser-driven magnetic domain memories using 2D van der Waals materials. By leveraging their unique properties—low thermal conductivity and anisotropic heat dissipation—the team manipulated magnetism with sub-picosecond precision using laser pulses, turning heat management into an advantage. Controlling magnetic layer thickness enhanced heat dissipation and recovery, paving the way for efficient, non-volatile memory devices without external magnetic fields. Published in Nature, this study promises faster, smaller data storage solutions and advances in quantum technologies.

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MIT physicists find unexpected crystals of electrons in new ultrathin material

MIT physicists report the unexpected discovery of electrons forming crystalline structures in a material only billionths of a meter thick.

In a paper published Jan. 22 in Nature, the team describes how electrons in devices made, in part, of the new material can become solid, or form crystals, by changing the voltage applied to the devices when they are kept at a temperature similar to that of outer space. Under the same conditions, they also showed the emergence of two new electronic states that add to work they reported last year showing that electrons can split into fractions of themselves.

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Rice-led study finds 2D carbon material is 8 times tougher than graphene, resists cracking

Even the strongest crack under pressure, a problem materials scientists have long been grappling with. For instance, carbon-derived material

This is great news for 2D materials, which have enabled transformative innovations across multiple fields from faster and more efficient electronics to high-capacity energy storage, advanced sensors and wearable technologies. To be able to put their extraordinary properties to even further use, materials scientists have to contend with their brittleness, which has so far limited their real-world application.

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New on-chip device uses exotic light rays in 2D material to detect molecules

Molecules have some sort of fingerprints, unique features that can be used to differentiate them. Each type of molecule, when illuminated wi

Researchers have developed a highly sensitive detector for identifying molecules via their infrared vibrational “fingerprint”. Published in Nature Communications, this innovative detector converts incident infrared light into ultra-confined "nanolight" in the form of phonon polaritons within the detector´s active area. This mechanism serves two crucial purposes: it boosts the overall detector´s sensitivity and enhances the vibrational fingerprint of nanometer-thin molecular layer placed on top of the detector, allowing this molecular fingerprint to be more easily detected and analyzed.

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Physics with a twist: FSU researchers publish new findings on graphene

When it comes to electrically conductive nanomaterials, graphene — stronger and lighter than steel and more conductive than copper — has bee

The team, led by Assistant Professor Guangxin Ni, along with Assistant Professor Cyprian Lewandowski and graduate research assistant Ty Wilson, found that the conductivity of twisted bilayer graphene is not heavily impacted by physical or chemical manipulations and instead depends more on how the material’s minute geometry structure changes by interlayer twisting — a revelation that opens the door for additional studies on how lower temperatures and frequencies impact graphene’s properties.