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Papers, preprints and press stories about 2D materials, collected automatically from 137 feeds and tagged by audience, material and topic. The tags come from keyword rules, so a few of them will be wrong.
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The development of efficient noble-metal-free platforms for selective Hg(II) detection remains highly desirable for cost-effective and sustainable Hg(II) sensing. In this context, thiol engineering is one of the most widely...
In the glossary: Photocatalysis and electrocatalysis, Sensor, Band structure
The growing demand for high-capacity, fast-charging, and durable rechargeable batteries has intensified the search for advanced electrode materials, with two-dimensional materials offering large surface-to-mass ratios and short ion-diffusion pathways. Here, pristine and Co-doped Janus HfSSe monolayers were investigated…
In the glossary: Chalcogenide, halide and pnictide, Janus 2D material, Battery electrode
Two-dimensional layers coupled by position-dependent interlayer tunnelling host a layer pseudo-spin whose polarization is a controllable internal degree of freedom. We introduce the quantum geometry of this layer pseudo-spin: a mixed tensor formed from the interband Berry connection and the layer matrix element, which…
In the glossary: Zeeman effect, Quantum metric, Nonlinear optics
Recent quantum-oscillation measurements in rhombohedral graphene reveal an abrupt increase in the dominant frequency and the emergence of additional frequencies as the carrier density is lowered toward superconductivity. Noninteracting band models can account for multiple frequencies but do not explain the upward jump.…
In the glossary: Fermi surface and nesting, Bernal and rhombohedral stacking, Doping
Magnetic fields are widely used to brighten spin-forbidden dark excitons, but the inverse effect on an optically bright exciton has remained largely unexplored. We demonstrate the complementary phenomenon of magnetic-field-induced darkening of a bright exciton in Mo0.68W0.32Se2. At 4.2 K, an in-plane magnetic field up…
In the glossary: Alloy and solid solution, Exciton, Dark exciton
We study an artificial graphene ring described by the low-energy two-valley Dirac Hamiltonian with a uniform mass term. When the ring is threaded by an Aharonov-Bohm flux, the problem reduces to a second-order radial equation solved by Bessel functions. We give the exact secular equation and, for narrow rings, closed…
In the glossary: Time-reversal symmetry, Topological phase, Valley
Electrons in graphene move like massless relativistic particles, making them exceptionally mobile but difficult to trap because Klein tunnelling permits unimpeded passage through electrostatic barriers. This challenge extends to atomic collapse and hadron confinement. Twisted trilayers form Bernal and rhombohedral…
In the glossary: Dirac cone, Fermions and bosons, Density of states
The flow of molecularly confined water has attracted considerable interest in recent years. Yet despite their exquisite character, current nanofluidic devices cannot probe molecular water flow beyond the linear-response regime, while nanomechanical force- based approaches have produced markedly inconsistent results.…
In the glossary: Two-dimensional (2D) material, 2D membrane, AFM
A major challenge in calculating electron-phonon coupling at interfaces from first principles is the prohibitive computational cost due to the large supercells involved. Here, we present an efficient approach, which builds the electron-phonon matrix of weakly bound heterostructures from the properties of the isolated…
In the glossary: Electron–phonon coupling, Phonon, Van der Waals heterostructure
Constructing the frozen manifold for entangled bands requires balancing exact reproduction of the target bands with sufficient variational freedom to build a well-localized subspace from the broader Bloch pool. We present a workflow that systematically determines the energy ceiling for a target number of selected…
In the glossary: Wannier functions, Wavefunction, Disorder and localisation
The Gutzwiller projection produces a well-known ansatz for spin-liquid and quantum Hall ground-state wavefunctions that is amenable to numerical simulation, with the Laughlin wavefunction being the most celebrated example. A long-standing issue is the precise relation between the Gutzwiller projection and the closely…
In the glossary: Quantum spin liquid, Wavefunction, Fermi surface and nesting
Two-dimensional halide perovskites host strongly bound excitons whose fine structure governs polarization selection rules and radiative recombination, yet spectral features in phenethylammonium lead iodide ((PEA)2PbI4) remain controversially assigned. Here, polarization-resolved low-temperature photoluminescence (PL)…
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are widely investigated for electrochemical and photoelectrochemical energy conversion applications, yet the oxidation processes that govern their stability in reactive electrolytes remain poorly understood. Here, we systematically compare dark electrochemical and illuminated…
In the glossary: TMDC, Etching, Chalcogenide, halide and pnictide
Using two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) ferromagnets in spintronic devices can enhance their performance through well-controlled vdW interfaces and reduced power consumption. Cr2Te3 appears as a promising candidate because of its strong perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, but the Curie temperature is limited to…
In the glossary: Phase transition, Van der Waals gap, Annealing
Sliding ferroelectricity in van der Waals materials offers an appealing route to compact, nonvolatile, atomically thin ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJs) with low switching energy, but achieving a large resistance contrast in such devices remains challenging because the weak out-of-plane polarization provides…
In the glossary: Magnetoresistance, Sliding ferroelectricity, Quantum tunnelling
When an ensemble of emitters is confined within an optical wavelength, its radiation can become correlated, leading to cooperative emission. In two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) electron-hole bilayers, strong light-matter coupling enables the formation of interlayer excitons (IXs), long-lived…
In the glossary: Diode and p–n junction, Interlayer exciton, Photon
We investigate interlayer excitons in MoSe2/WSe2 heterostructures using time-resolved photoluminescence and second-order autocorrelation measurements across a wide range of excitation powers and bath temperatures. By analyzing the photoluminescence amplitude and lifetime of the interlayer exciton state with the lowest…
In the glossary: Interlayer exciton, Exciton, Van der Waals heterostructure
Bacterial infections pose a severe threat to public health worldwide, and overuse of traditional antibiotics induces bacterial resistance, limiting the efficacy of conventional therapies. Two-dimensional violet phosphorus nanosheets (VPNS) have emerged as promising photodynamic antibacterial materials owing to their…
Chemical signals in living plants are spatially confined, rapidly consumed, and strongly dependent on the delivery history of exogenous regulators, creating a need for bioelectronic interfaces that can interrogate molecular dynamics directly within intact tissues. Here, we integrate a nitric oxide (NO) nanoprodrug with…
In the glossary: Molecular dynamics and machine-learned potentials, Charge transfer, Pump–probe spectroscopy
Interface engineering is a pivotal strategy for achieving superior thermochemical stability and distinct acid-base and redox active sites in heterogeneous nanocatalysts. We report a morphology-controlled, porous MnOx/α-Al2O3 nanocatalyst with well-defined interfaces for efficient chemical upcycling of PET waste bottles…
In the glossary: TEM, Photocatalysis and electrocatalysis, Nanosheet
Two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit distinctive physical, chemical, and electronic-structure properties that make them highly attractive for energy storage and conversion applications. However, the synthesis routes, performance metrics, and article-level metadata...
In the glossary: Two-dimensional (2D) material, Band structure
According to reports, a graphene-based anti-corrosion coating technology has been deployed at scale on the cross-sea bridge of Xiangshan Port in east China's Zhejiang Province. Stretching about 8.28 kilometers across the port, the bridge is part of China's first cross-sea suburban railway and currently holds the record…
In the glossary: Composites and coatings
The three-dimensional topological insulator Bi2Te3 hosts topological Dirac states on its two-dimensional surfaces. These Dirac states show spin-momentum locking, which usually implies a tangential Rashba-like spin texture. One can alter the properties of the Dirac states by dividing a slab of such a material into two…
In the glossary: Topological insulator, Topological phase, Van der Waals gap
Transient absorption spectroscopy is a widely used technique for investigating ultrafast electronic dynamics, where transient optical signals are generally interpreted as arising from excitations within the material hosting the probed optical transition. A distinct form of transient absorption spectroscopy, termed…
In the glossary: Van der Waals heterostructure, Pump–probe spectroscopy, Exciton
Electric hidden unconventional collinear magnetism, in which a perpendicular electric field (\(\mathcal{E}_z\)) lifts the \(\mathcal{PT}\)-enforced degeneracy and selectively releases the hidden crystallographic constraints in conventional 2D antiferromagnets to drive emergent magnetic phases, has remained largely…
In the glossary: Ferromagnet and antiferromagnet, MOKE, Space group and crystal system
It is commonly believed that a bulk photovoltaic current requires broken spatial inversion symmetry. However, in this work, we demonstrate that dc photocurrents can arise in centrosymmetric solids from the bilinear coupling between the electric and magnetic components of light. This magnetoelectric bulk photovoltaic…
In the glossary: Multiferroic, Photovoltaic effect, Inversion symmetry
We present a boundary integral method for evaluating electron repulsion integrals (ERIs) in dielectric environments of piecewise constant permittivity. This generalizes conventional bare-Coulomb ERIs by incorporating screening from structured dielectric surroundings, such as the substrates and/or encapsulating layers…
In the glossary: Dielectric screening, Dielectric, Band alignment
Weak localization in two-dimensional disordered electron systems originates from constructive interference between time-reversed scattering paths, giving rise to a logarithmically divergent quantum-interference correction to the dc conductivity. This behavior is generally suppressed when time-reversal symmetry (TRS) is…
In the glossary: Disorder and localisation, Time-reversal symmetry, Wavefunction
Atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides provide a promising material platform for optical phase manipulation, as rapid variations in their dielectric functions can give rise to topological phase singularities (PSs). However, PS evolution while preserving topological charge conservation has not yet been…
In the glossary: Semiconductor, Topological phase, Refractive index and dielectric function
With the rapid development of high-frequency communications, smart electronic devices and aerospace, the problem of electromagnetic interference has become increasingly severe, creating an urgent need for electromagnetic waves (EMWs) absorbing materials that combine high absorption efficiency, broadband response, light…
In the glossary: Shielding effectiveness, Machine learning, Composites and coatings
The introduction of an appropriate passivation layer is considered a viable strategy for improving the long-term stability and electrical performance of thin-film transistors (TFTs). In this study, an additional layer deposition strategy involving the deposition of a single-layer oxygen-related defect control layer on…
In the glossary: Charge carrier mobility, FET, Threshold-voltage variability
Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), particularly MoS2 and WSe2, are ideal candidates for constructing next-generation high-performance electronics due to their atomic thickness and excellent electrical tunability. However, interface contaminants and bubbles inevitably introduced during device…
In the glossary: Charge carrier mobility, FET, TMDC
In this study, reduced graphene oxide (rGO) fillers with electrical conductivities spanning nearly five orders of magnitude (4.2 × 10–4 – 20.58 S/cm) were prepared by hydrothermal reduction and incorporated at a fixed loading of 0.5 wt % into zinc-rich epoxy coatings containing 50 wt % zinc powder. The influence of the…
In the glossary: Composites and coatings, FTIR, Hydrothermal and solvothermal synthesis
Chiral spin textures such as skyrmions have attracted considerable attention due to their nontrivial topology, chirality, stability at the nanoscale, and potential for low-power spintronic devices. The recent discovery of intrinsic magnetism in van der Waals (vdW) materials and the ability to engineer their…
In the glossary: Rashba effect, Chirality, Van der Waals heterostructure
Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is a prototypical transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductor with excellent optical and electrical properties. In this study, the irradiation behavior of monolayer and multilayer MoS2 was compared under irradiation with 2 MeV protons at 300 K, at fluences of 1 × 1014, 1 × 1015, and 5 ×…
In the glossary: XPS, Fermi-level pinning, AFM
The electronic and transport properties of the two-dimensional (2D) cubic-Ga2O3 are systematically explored using Heyd–Scuseria–Ernzerhof (HSE) and Perdew–Burke–Ernzerhof functionals, as well as deformation potential theory, indicating the superior structural stability of the cubic monolayer compared with that of…
In the glossary: Charge carrier mobility, Anisotropy, Band gap
Utilizing first-principles calculations combined with the non-equilibrium Green’s function method, we systematically investigate the thermoelectric (TE) properties of GaSb and GaBi monolayers and their corresponding nanoribbons, with a particular focus on the influences of the edge states on the TE performance. First…
In the glossary: Thermoelectric effect, Nanoribbon, Topological phase
The discovery of novel two-dimensional (2D) carbon allotropes with tailored electronic and mechanical properties remains an important challenge in carbon materials research. Here, we predict a previously unexplored member of the tetra-penta-hexa (TPH) graphene family, termed TPH-M, through particle swarm optimization…
In the glossary: Young’s modulus and breaking strength, Strain, Molecular dynamics and machine-learned potentials
The newly synthesized two-dimensional (2D) carbon nitride with the stoichiometric formula, C3N, has attracted extensive attention due to its unusual properties, including high stiffness, remarkable thermal stability and conductivity, enhanced interfacial chemical activity, and promising applications in energy storage…
In the glossary: Stoichiometry, Honeycomb lattice, Quantum well and quantum dot
Altermagnetic materials with high-performance multipiezo effect have attracted tremendous attention for their potential applications in information storage and logic operations. Here, we propose an altermagnetic monolayer Ti2ClIO with excellent dynamic, thermal, and mechanical stabilities. The monolayer Ti2ClIO…
In the glossary: Piezoelectricity, Altermagnet, Semiconductor
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