Substrate engineering for wafer-scale two-dimensional material growth: strategies, mechanisms, and perspectives

T Zhao, J Guo, T Li, Z Wang, M Peng, F Zhong… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The fabrication of wafer-scale two-dimensional (2D) materials is a prerequisite and
important step for their industrial applications. Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is the most …

Understanding epitaxial growth of two-dimensional materials and their homostructures

C Liu, T Liu, Z Zhang, Z Sun, G Zhang, E Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The exceptional physical properties of two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials
have been extensively researched, driving advances in material synthesis. Epitaxial growth …

Recent advances in ultrathin chiral metasurfaces by twisted stacking

Z Han, F Wang, J Sun, X Wang, Z Tang - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial chiral nanostructures have been subjected to extensive research for their unique
chiroptical activities. Planarized chiral films of ultrathin thicknesses are in particular demand …

Vapour-phase deposition of two-dimensional layered chalcogenides

T Zhang, J Wang, P Wu, AY Lu, J Kong - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) layered materials are attracting a lot of attention because of
unique physicochemical properties that are intriguing for both fundamental research and …

Ferroic phases in two-dimensional materials

P Man, L Huang, J Zhao, TH Ly - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) ferroics, namely ferroelectric, ferromagnetic, and ferroelastic
materials, are attracting rising interest due to their fascinating physical properties and …

Towards the scalable synthesis of two-dimensional heterostructures and superlattices beyond exfoliation and restacking

J Li, X Yang, Z Zhang, W Yang, X Duan, X Duan - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides, which feature atomically thin geometry
and dangling-bond-free surfaces, have attracted intense interest for diverse technology …

Nonlinear physics of moiré superlattices

L Du, Z Huang, J Zhang, F Ye, Q Dai, H Deng… - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Nonlinear physics is one of the most important research fields in modern physics and
materials science. It offers an unprecedented paradigm for exploring many fascinating …

Stacking order engineering of two-dimensional materials and device applications

C Fox, Y Mao, X Zhang, Y Wang, J Xiao - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Stacking orders in 2D van der Waals (vdW) materials dictate the relative sliding (lateral
displacement) and twisting (rotation) between atomically thin layers. By altering the stacking …

Van der Waals epitaxy of tunable moirés enabled by alloying

M Fortin-Deschênes, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi, F Xia - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
The unique physics in moiré superlattices of twisted or lattice-mismatched atomic layers
holds great promise for future quantum technologies. However, twisted configurations are …

Reconfiguring nucleation for CVD growth of twisted bilayer MoS2 with a wide range of twist angles

M Xu, H Ji, L Zheng, W Li, J Wang, H Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Twisted bilayer (TB) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) beyond TB-graphene are
considered an ideal platform for investigating condensed matter physics, due to the moiré …