But the new approach allows “large-scale, truly 2D metals” to be produced. For now, it's not known exactly what properties ...

This innovative material, developed by researchers at the Institute of Physics (IOP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, opens up a new frontier in 2D metal research, and it holds the potential to ...

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a class of two-dimensional (2D) materials with unique electronic and optical properties. Composed of transition metal atoms (such as tungsten, molybdenum, ...

"The thickness of these 2D metals is just one millionth of a piece of A4 paper and one 200,000th of the diameter of a human hair. If a 3-meter-long metal cube were pressed into a single-atom layer ...

Prof. ZHANG Guangyu from IOP, corresponding author of the study, said that the vdW squeezing technique offers an effective atomic-level method for manufacturing 2D metal alloys, as well as amorphous ...