The discovery and control of new phases of matter is a central endeavour in materials
research. The emergence of atomically thin 2D materials, such as transition-metal …

Triggered by the growing needs of developing semiconductor devices at ever‐decreasing
scales, strain engineering of 2D materials has recently seen a surge of interest. The goal of …

Near the 100th anniversary of the discovery of ferroelectricity, so-called sliding
ferroelectricity has been proposed and confirmed recently in a series of experiments that …

MAX phases are a large family of materials with more than 150 different compositions that
have been extensively investigated during the last 25 years. They present a layered …

The outstanding chemical and physical properties of 2D materials, together with their
atomically thin nature, make them ideal candidates for metaphotonic device integration and …

Group 6 transition metal dichalcogenides (G6-TMDs), most notably MoS2, MoSe2, MoTe2,
WS2 and WSe2, constitute an important class of materials with a layered crystal structure …

Accurate and reliable quantification of tumor biomarkers in clinical samples is of vital
importance for early stage diagnosis and treatment of cancer. However, a poor specificity of …

In a recent report, room-temperature vertical ferroelectricity was experimentally shown in
WTe2 bilayer, while its mechanism of ferroelectric switching without vertical ion …

Recent progress in two-dimensional ferroelectrics greatly expands the versatility and
tunability in van der Waals heterostructure based electronics. However, the switching …

The development of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors has attracted widespread
attentions in the scientific community and industry due to their ultra-thin thickness, unique …