Metals, as most know them, are good conductors of electricity. That's because the countless electrons in a metal like gold or ...

Chinese scientists have recently achieved the fabrication of single-atom-layer metals with a thickness of merely ...

A RIKEN study shows that squeezing the right amount of potassium ions between the atomic layers of molybdenum disulfide can ...

Sheets of bismuth, gallium, indium, tin and lead can now be made just a few atoms thick by crushing them at a high temperature and pressure between two sapphires ...

To squeeze metals such as bismuth and tin, they used "atomically flat" molybdenum disulfide as an anvil. "The metallic films produced by this method measure 6.3 to 9.2 angstrom in thickness — almost ...

The biggest challenge was finding a sufficiently flat anvil to squeeze the metal layers. The researchers eventually selected sapphire, which is very hard, and they coated it in molybdenum ...

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