Researchers show that precisely layering nano-thin materials creates excitons -- essentially, artificial atoms -- that can act as quantum information bits, or qubits.

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

Chinese scientists have recently achieved the fabrication of single-atom-layer metals with a thickness of merely ...

A novel atomic-level manufacturing method, vdW squeezing, allows for the creation of 2D metals at the angstrom thickness ...

Since the groundbreaking discovery of graphene in 2004, the dizzying pace of progress in two-dimensional (2D) materials has ...

A new way to create ultra-thin layers of metals makes it possible for scientists to study a new and unusual class of 2D ...

Researchers are exploring materials like carbyne and borophene as stronger alternatives to graphene. Find out how these ...

The National Graphene Institute (NGI) at The University of Manchester is marking its 10th anniversary, celebrating a decade ...

A researcher from the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Physics (IOP) conducts research on two-dimensional (2D) metal ...

Scientists are investigating how structures made from several layers of graphene stack up in terms of their fundamental physics and their potential as reconfigurable semiconductors for advanced ...

By taking two flakes of 2D material and twisting them together, researchers can access unusual properties that could be used ...