Researchers at IMDEA Nanociencia have developed an analytical method to explain the formation of a quasi-perfect 1D moiré pattern in twisted bilayer graphene. The pattern, naturally occurring in piled ...

Graphene’s remarkable combination of mechanical flexibility, high carrier mobility and unique two-dimensional electronic structure has made it a focal point for strain engineering approaches aimed at ...

Predicting how continuous microscopic strains alter local bond lengths and hopping energies has required computationally taxing physics simulations, frustrating attempts to efficiently scan the ...

In a recent article published in Scientific Reports, researchers presented a comprehensive study on the development and performance evaluation of silver-coated laser-induced graphene (LIG) strain ...

Think you know everything about a material? Try giving it a twist­—literally. That’s the main idea of an emerging field in condensed matter physics called “twistronics,” which has researchers ...

Researchers from The University of Manchester and the University of Warwick finally solved the long-standing puzzle of why graphene is so much more permeable to protons than expected by theory. A ...

Working in a theoretical group frequently entails having conversations in front of the data to clarify the narrative that nature is attempting to convey. An intriguing discovery was made at the Madrid ...

Twisted layers of graphene, for example, have been shown to behave in ways that single sheets have not, including acting like magnets, like electrical superconductors, or like a superconductor’s ...