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

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A novel atomic-level manufacturing method, vdW squeezing, allows for the creation of 2D metals at the angstrom thickness ...

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

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

Kathleen Stebe, Richer & Elizabeth Goodwin Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE), is tackling this ...