Now, however, researchers from the Institute of Physics (IOP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a convenient, universal, atomic-level manufacturing technique—called vdW squeezing—for ...

atomic-level manufacturing technique—called vdW squeezing—for the production of 2D metals at the angstrom thickness limit. This study was recently published in Nature. The manufacturing ...

This research by the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, pushes the thickness of 2D metal materials to the angstrom scale ... with only one or a few atomic layers.

When materials are created on a nanometer scale—just a handful of atoms thick—even the thermal energy present at room ...

Zhang Guangyu, corresponding author of the study, said the research pushes the thickness of 2D metal materials to the angstrom scale ... with only one or a few atomic layers.

This method, known as vdW squeezing, is a convenient and universal manufacturing technique that allows researchers to make the metal layer in the Angstrom thickness limit, i.e., the atomic scale.

One angstrom equals to 0.1 nanometers. This unlocks new possibilities for next-generation electronics, quantum computing, and high-efficiency catalysis. 2D materials are special substances with only ...

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