By taking two flakes of special materials that are just one atom thick and twisting them at high angles, researchers at the ...

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

A group of Carnegie Mellon University researchers recently devised a method allowing them to create large amounts of a ...

A Chinese research team has successfully developed a single-atom-thick metal layer, with a thickness just one ...

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

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

In an article published in the journal Nature on Thursday, the researchers said that compared to their bulkier counterparts, ...

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

"Although the functionalities displayed by two dimensional (2D ... that such materials are typically crystals that are only one atom thick and can be applied in a variety of fashions, including ...