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The field of two-dimensional topological semimetals, which emerged at the intersection of two-dimensional materials and topological materials, have been rapidly developing in recent years. In this article, we briefly review the progress in…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-17 Xiaolong Feng , Jiaojiao Zhu , Weikang Wu , Shengyuan A. Yang

Among various 2D materials, graphene has received extensive research attention in the past 2-30 years due to its fascinating properties. The discovery of graphene has provided a huge boost and a new dimension to materials research and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 S. Y. Gao , Y. F. Jiang , J. W. Sun , Z. H. Zhang

The application of new materials in nanotechnology opens new perspectives and enables ground-breaking innovations. Two-dimensional van der Waals materials and more specific, 2D chalcogenides are a promising class of new materials awaiting…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-12 Wouter Mortelmans , Stefan De Gendt , Marc Heyns , Clement Merckling

The field of 2D materials-based nanophotonics has been growing at a rapid pace, triggered by the ability to design nanophotonic systems with in situ control, unprecedented degrees of freedom, and to build material heterostructures from…

Twisted van der Waals (vdW) materials have emerged as a promising platform for exploring exotic quantum phenomena and engineering novel material properties in two dimensions, potentially revolutionizing developments in spintronics. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Fengjun Zhuo , Zhenyu Dai , Kai Chang , Hongxin Yang , Zhenxiang Cheng

The vertical integration of multiple two-dimensional (2D) materials in heterostructures, held together by van der Waals forces, has opened unprecedented possibilities for modifying the (opto-)electronic properties of nanodevices. Graphene,…

Atomically thin group-VIB transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have recently emerged as a new class of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors with extraordinary properties including the direct band gap in the visible frequency range, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 Gui-Bin Liu , Di Xiao , Yugui Yao , Xiaodong Xu , Wang Yao

Two-dimensional (2D) materials for their versatile band structures and strictly 2D nature have attracted considerable attention over the past decade. Graphene is a robust material for spintronics owing to its weak spin-orbit and hyperfine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 K. L. Chiu

Two-dimensional materials (2DM) and their derived heterostructures have electrical and optical properties that are widely tunable via several approaches, most notably electrostatic gating and interfacial engineering such as twisting. While…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Haoning Tang , Yiting Wang , Xueqi Ni , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Shanhui Fan , Eric Mazur , Amir Yacoby , Yuan Cao

Two dimensional (2D) magnets have emerged as a compelling platform for spin based nanoelectronics, enabling atomic scale control of magnetic order, interfaces, quantum geometry, and symmetry. Here, we highlight recent advances in 2D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Bing Zhao , Roselle Ngaloy , Lalit Pandey , Himanshu Bangar , Divya P. Dubey , Saroj P. Dash

The rapid development of two-dimensional (2D) materials has reshaped modern nanoscience, offering properties that differ fundamentally from their bulk counterparts. As experimental discovery accelerates, the need for reliable computational…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-19 Ahsan Javed , Mahvish Shaheen , Muhammad Shahbaz , M. Sufyan Ramzan , Rafi Ullah , Wei Jiang

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

Recently, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) semiconductors have been utilized for investigating quantum phenomena because of their unique band structures and novel electronic properties. In a quantum dot (QD), electrons are confined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Gang Luo , Zhuo-Zhi Zhang , Hai-Ou Li , Xiang-Xiang Song , Guang-Wei Deng , Gang Cao , Ming Xiao , Guo-Ping Guo

2D materials find promising applications in next-generation devices, however, large-scale, low-defect, and reproducible synthesis of 2D materials remains a challenging task. To assist in the selection of suitable substrates for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-08 Tara M. Boland , Arunima K. Singh

The dynamics of suspended two-dimensional (2D) materials has received increasing attention during the last decade, yielding new techniques to study and interpret the physics that governs the motion of atomically thin layers. This has led to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Peter G. Steeneken , Robin J. Dolleman , Dejan Davidovikj , Farbod Alijani , Herre S. J. van der Zant

The study of atomically thin two-dimensional materials is a young and rapidly growing field. In the past years, a great advance in the study of the remarkable electrical and optical properties of 2D materials fabricated by exfoliation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Andres Castellanos-Gomez , Vibhor Singh , Herre S. J. van der Zant , Gary A. Steele

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, especially their most prominent member, graphene, have greatly influenced many scientific areas. Moreover, they have become a base for investigating the relativistic properties of condensed matter within the…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are among the most promising candidates for beyond-silicon electronic, optoelectronic and quantum computing applications. Recently, their recognized importance sparked a push to discover and characterize novel…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-21 Davide Campi , Nicolas Mounet , Marco Gibertini , Giovanni Pizzi , Nicola Marzari

The exfoliation of two naturally occurring van der Waals minerals, graphite and molybdenite, arouse an unprecedented level of interest by the scientific community and shaped a whole new field of research: 2D materials research. Several…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-11 Riccardo Frisenda , Yue Niu , Patricia Gant , Manuel Muñoz , Andres Castellanos-Gomez

Moir\'e materials, typically confined to stacking atomically thin, two - dimensional (2D) layers such as graphene or transition metal dichalcogenides, have transformed our understanding of strongly correlated and topological quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-09 Ilya Popov , Elena Besley