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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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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
Fractional Chern insulators bring the fractional quantum Hall effect, with its anyonic excitations, to zero magnetic field. So far they have been realized in moiré materials, where the long superlattice period weakens electronic interactions and confines these phases to cryogenic temperatures. Early proposals instead…
In the glossary: Kagome lattice, Fractional Chern insulator, Quantum Hall effect
Two-dimensional quadratic band crossing point (QBCP) semimetals serve as a fertile platform for interaction-driven quantum criticality, nevertheless, the role of the complete fermion-fermion interactions remains largely unexplored. To address this, we systematically investigate the low-energy physics of a spin-1/2…
In the glossary: Quantum critical point, Nematic order, Fermions and bosons
The extrinsic bulk photovoltaic effect from asymmetric electron-defect scattering can make an important contribution to the total photocurrent and is highly diagnostic of defect type. We present an ab initio Boltzmann framework combining optical excitation with electron-phonon and symmetric and skew electron-defect…
In the glossary: Photovoltaic effect, Electron–phonon coupling, Anisotropy
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, Substrate
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
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
Borophene is a compelling 2D material known for its considerable structural diversity, and its lack of a band gap can be overcome by synthesis of hydrogenated borophene, also known as borophane. However, with the realization of semiconductor borophane polymorphs, understanding the mechanisms controlling their band gaps…
In the glossary: Magic angle, Band gap, Semiconductor
MXenes have emerged as a versatile class of two-dimensional materials with exceptional electrical, chemical, and surface properties. However, thinner members, such as Ti2CTx MXene, remain far less explored because of their limited structural stability and high susceptibility to oxidation. In this study, we investigate…
In the glossary: MXene, Stoichiometry, Etching
Voltage fluctuations, light fluctuations, temperature fluctuations—any fluctuations are troublesome and thus undesirable. They don't just cause discomfort; in engineering and medical applications, they affect the accuracy of measurements or introduce errors in controls. Even at the minute level of quantum phenomena…
Charge-transfer doping provides a nondestructive route to tune two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), but selectively patterned n-type dopants effective across different TMD channels remain limited. Here, ultrathin bismuth oxide (BiOx) is used as an n-type charge-transfer doping and passivation layer…
In the glossary: Charge transfer, Doping, TMDC
Heterostructures of 2D materials offer high tunability of magnetic properties, including current-induced magnetization switching by unconventional spin–orbit torques. The microscopic mechanisms governing spin-torque switching in van der Waals systems, however, remain insufficiently understood. Here, we investigate…
In the glossary: Spintronics, Van der Waals heterostructure, Skyrmion and the Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction
The Ag nanocube-on-mirror plasmonic nanocavity achieves strong photoluminescence enhancement and resonance-tunable exciton–trion emission balance, switching monolayer WS 2 emission from trion-dominated to exciton-dominated.
High-density integration in modern electronic components induces severe heat accumulation, compromising operational stability and device longevity. Traditional metallic thermal conductors are heavily restricted by their substantial mass density and poor...
In the glossary: Thermal conductivity, MXene, Anisotropy
Transition metal dihalides are promising magnetic van der Waals materials because of their structural simplicity, chemical stability, and compatibility with nanofabrication. While magnetic order in these systems is typically associated with bulk-like monolayers, its relation to interfacial phases remains largely…
In the glossary: XAS, STM, Point defect
Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) defects are promising building blocks for quantum photonics and sensing, yet their nonlinear optical signatures remain poorly understood. We use first-principles calculations to determine the polarization-resolved linear, second-order, and third-order susceptibilities of multilayer h-BN…
In the glossary: Nonlinear optics, Silicon photonics, SHG
Single photon emitters (SPEs) in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers are attractive for quantum information applications. Strain in the monolayer, induced by underlying Mie resonators, localizes SPEs to positions co‐located with photonic hotspots, providing control over their optical properties. However…
In the glossary: Quantum emitter, Photon, Substrate
Sensitive ammonia (NH3) detection at room temperature (RT) is essential for environmental monitoring, industrial safety, and emerging energy technologies. However, developed semiconductor sensors often suffer from insufficient NH3 response magnitude, slow response kinetics, and a requirement for elevated temperatures.…
In the glossary: Chalcogen vacancy, Point defect, Sensor
Chemical functionalization of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is an effective tool to fine tune its physico-chemical properties. Typically, this process occurs in two steps, first the exfoliation of bulk MoS2 and...
In the glossary: Exfoliation
Accumulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide demands innovations in sorbent technologies capable of direct CO2 removal from ambient air. Herein, we report the aqueous miscible organic solvent treatment (AMOST) of borate-intercalated layered double hydroxides (LDHs), forming highly exfoliated Mg3Al-LDH nanosheets, and…
In the glossary: Nanosheet, Exfoliation, Intercalation
The Kondo effect in strongly correlated systems arises from the antiferromagnetic coupling between itinerant conduction electrons and localized magnetic moments, giving rise to a variety of exotic quantum phenomena. Two-dimensional moiré superlattice systems provide a highly tunable platform featuri… [Phys. Rev. Lett.…
In the glossary: Bernal and rhombohedral stacking, Strong electron correlation, Magnetic moment
The discovery of jacutingaite, Pt 2 HgSe 3 , shows how a rare mineral from Brazil can have big implications for quantum materials research. Pt 2 HgSe 3 in its bulk form has been found to be a weak topological insulator and mirror-protected crystalline topological insulator, while its monolayer is predicted to realize a…
In the glossary: Topological phase, Mirror symmetry, Topological insulator
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