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Much effort has been made to modify the properties of transition metal dichalcogenide layers via their environment as a route to new functionalization. However, it remains a challenge to induce large electronic changes without chemically…
In this short review, we provide an overview of recent progress in deploying advanced characterization techniques to understand the effects of local inhomogeneities in moir\'e heterostructures over multiple length scales. Particular…
Two-dimensional (2D) materials offer a valuable platform for manipulating and studying chemical reactions at atomic level, owing to the ease of controlling their microscopic structure at the nanometer scale. While extensive research has…
In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) a moir\'e pattern forms that introduces a new length scale to the material. At the 'magic' twist angle of 1.1{\deg}, this causes a flat band to form, yielding emergent properties such as correlated…
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