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

If this light-activated stuff works, it could make building robots easier - or make lazing about under the Sun quite a ...

The human body moves through a coordinated effort of skeletal muscles, working in concert to generate force. While some ...

A team of Chinese researchers has developed a new interfacial synthesis strategy to fabricate high-performance crystalline ...

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

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

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 ushered in a new era of ...

The manufacturing technique involves melting and squeezing pure metals between two rigid van der Waals anvils under high ...

Researchers have discovered a new method to generate electricity using small plastic beads. By placing these beads close together and bringing them into contact, they generate more electricity than ...

Chinese researchers are exploring the potential of organic materials to develop a new type of hard drive that could ...