In general, when you measure material properties such as optical permittivity, your measurement doesn’t depend on the direction in which you make it. However, recent research has shown that this is ...

Van der Waals forces, once deemed too weak for structural integrity, have been shown to create stable, highly porous frameworks with exceptional thermal resilience and reversible assembly, paving the ...

Researchers from the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto University, have developed the first three-dimensional van der Waals open frameworks. This discovery challenges the common ...

Certain two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals-bonded bilayers (e.g., WTe₂ and h-BN) exhibit “sliding ferroelectricity (SF),” where electric polarization arises from specific stacking configurations ...

Join us for an insightful webinar highlighting cutting-edge research in 2D transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and their applications in quantum optics. This session will showcase multimodal ...

Chief among these is surface contamination introduced by standard handling techniques, which often rely on polymer-based supports to transfer or stack layers. Even ...

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Surface functionalization of nanostructured metal oxides with catalysts is a promising and versatile method across various chemical research fields. It is extensively employed in catalysis-based ...