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As "2D" materials (i.e. materials just a few atoms thick) continue to gain prominence, understanding their symmetries is critical for unlocking their full potential. In this work, we present comprehensive tables that tabulate the rod group…

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Advanced microscopy and/or spectroscopy tools play indispensable role in nanoscience and nanotechnology research, as it provides rich information about the growth mechanism, chemical compositions, crystallography, and other important…

Molecular self-assembly is a well-known technique to create highly functional nanostructures on surfaces. Self-assembly on two-dimensional materials is a developing field and has already resulted in the discovery of several rich and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-04 Avijit Kumar , Kaustuv Banerjee , Peter Liljeroth

Designer heterostructures can now be assembled layer-by-layer with unmatched precision thanks to the recently developed deterministic placement methods to transfer two-dimensional (2D) materials. This possibility constitutes the birth of a…

Two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials derived from non-van der Waals solids are promising due to their fantastic physical and chemical properties, but it remains challenging to obtain 2D atomic laminates with high stability owing to the strong…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-16 Zhiguo Du , Zongju Cheng , Qi Zhao , Haiyang Wang , Qi Zhu , Hao Chen , Xiao Chen , Bin Li , Shubin Yang

The successful exfoliation of graphene from graphite has brought significant attention to predicting new two-dimensional (2D) materials that can be realized experimentally. As a consequence, first-principles studies of novel 2D materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-08 Asha Yadav , Carlos Mera Acosta , Gustavo M. Dalpian , Oleksandr I. Malyi

Two-dimensional (2D) materials present an exciting opportunity for devices and systems beyond the von Neumann computing architecture paradigm due to their diversity of electronic structure, physical properties, and atomically-thin, van der…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-26 Xiwen Liu , Keshava Katti , Deep Jariwala

Polymer nanocomposites based on 2D materials as fillers are the target in the industrial sector, but the ability to manufacture them on a large scale is very limited, and there is a lack of tools to scale up the manufacturing process of…

The Materials Project crystal structure database has been searched for materials possessing layered motifs in their crystal structures using a topology-scaling algorithm. The algorithm identifies and measures the sizes of bonded atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-08 Michael Ashton , Joshua Paul , Susan B. Sinnott , Richard G. Hennig

We revisit the problem of polytypism in layered $\textit{MX}_2$ materials, with a view to reinterpreting the phase space accessible to this family. Our starting point is to develop a simple, constructive and compact label for the most…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-03 Emma H. Wolpert , Simon J. Cassidy , Andrew L. Goodwin

The past decade has seen rapid growth in the number of experimentally realized two-dimensional (2D) materials with diverse chemical and physical properties. However, information on their crystal structure, synthesis routes, and measured or…

Many-body physics of electron-electron correlations plays a central role in condensed mater physics, it governs a wide range of phenomena, stretching from superconductivity to magnetism, and is behind numerous technological applications. To…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-09 Anupam Bhattacharya , Ivan Timokhin , Ratnamala Chatterjee , Qian Yang , Artem Mishchenko

Entangled structures such as textiles and architected materials are often doubly periodic. Due to this property and their finite transverse thickness, the symmetries of these materials are described by the crystallographic layer groups.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-12 Sonia Mahmoudi , Elizabeth J. Dresselhaus , Michael S. Dimitriyev

The symmetry of a crystal structure with a three-dimensional (3D) lattice can be classified by one of the 230 space group types. For some types of crystals, e.g. crystalline films, surfaces, or planar interfaces, it is more appropriate to…

Self-assembly processes provide the means to achieve scalable and versatile metamaterials by "bottom-up" fabrication. Despite their enormous potential, especially as a platform for energy materials, self-assembled metamaterials are often…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-03-09 Jelena Wohlwend , Georg Haberfehlner , Henning Galinski

Two-dimensional (2D) graphene-like layered semiconductors provide a new platform for materials research because of their unique mechanical, electronic and optical attributes. Their in-plane covalent bonding and dangling-bond-free surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-29 Zhiming Shi , Xinjiang Wang , Yuanhui Sun , Yawen Li , Lijun Zhang

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have wide applications in superconductors, quantum, and topological materials. However, their rational design is not well established, and currently less than 6,000 experimentally synthesized 2D materials have…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-18 Rongzhi Dong , Yuqi Song , Edirisuriya M. D. Siriwardane , Jianjun Hu

This paper reviews machine learning applications and approaches to detection, classification and control of intelligent materials and structures with embedded distributed computation elements. The purpose of this survey is to identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Dana Hughes , Nikolaus Correll

Bidimensional materials are ideally viewed as having no thickness, as their name suggests. Their optical response have been previously modelled by a purely bidimensional surface current or by a very thin film with some contradictory…

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