New buried-growth process enables 2D arrays of position- and orientation-controlled diamond qubits

Researchers at Kanazawa University, in collaboration with Diamond and Carbon Applications (Germany), have developed a ...

Strain creates moiré 2D materials without twisting or stacking, opening more scalable route

Cornell researchers have developed a new way to create moiré patterns—atomic-scale structures that can give materials unusual ...
Nanowerk

Low-dimensional Materials: 0D, 1D, and 2D Nanostructures Explained

In one sentence: Low-dimensional materials are solids in which one, two, or all three external dimensions are reduced to length scales that confine electrons, phonons, or photons, so that quantum ...
Nature

Two-dimensional materials articles from across Nature Portfolio

Two-dimensional materials are substances with a thickness of a few nanometres or less. Electrons in these materials are free to move in the two-dimensional plane, but their restricted motion in the ...