Confined fluids and electrolyte solutions in nanopores exhibit rich and surprising physics
and chemistry that impact the mass transport and energy efficiency in many important …

Material integration strategies, such as epitaxial growth, usually involve strong chemical
bonds and are typically limited to materials with strict structure matching and processing …

Two-dimensional heterostructures (2D HSs) have emerged as a new class of materials
where dissimilar 2D materials are combined to synergise their advantages and alleviate …

Realizing the full potential of any materials system requires understanding and controlling
disorder, which can obscure intrinsic properties and hinder device performance. Here we …

Since the discovery of mechanically exfoliated graphene in 2004, research on ultrathin two-
dimensional (2D) nanomaterials has grown exponentially in the fields of condensed matter …

Two-dimensional layered materials (2DLMs) have been a central focus of materials
research since the discovery of graphene just over a decade ago. Each layer in 2DLMs …

The recent chemical exfoliation of layered MAX phase compounds to novel two-dimensional
transition metal carbides and nitrides, the so-called MXenes, has brought a new opportunity …

In recent years, two-dimensional atomic-level thickness crystal materials have attracted
widespread interest such as graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), silicene …

Heterostructures formed by stacking layered materials require atomically clean interfaces.
However, contaminants are usually trapped between the layers, aggregating into randomly …

Controlling the strength of interactions is essential for studying quantum phenomena
emerging in systems of correlated fermions. We introduce a device geometry whereby magic …