According to a report in Nature(via Interesting Engineering), researchers from the Chinese Academy of Physics can create super-thin sheets, just one or two atoms thick, out of materials including ...

Du says the process was conceived eight years ago, but only recently bore fruit when the team discovered that the MoS 2 layers kept the thin metal sheets stable. “A single layer of free-standing ...

In an article published in the journal Nature on Thursday, the researchers said that compared to their bulkier counterparts, their ultra-thin metal sheets – especially one-atom-thick bismuth ...

an atomically thin layer of carbon. “This is just a starting point,” he says. “Now, other people can step in and start studying” the metal sheets’ properties. The properties of 2D ...