Quantum materials have attracted much attention in recent years due to their exotic and
incredible properties. Among them, van der Waals materials stand out due to their weak …

The ability to change material properties through phase engineering has long been sought,
with the goal of ad hoc tunability of the physical and chemical properties of the transformed …

Pressure has long been recognized as a fundamental thermodynamic variable but its
application was previously limited by the available pressure vessels and probes. The …

Using compressive mechanical forces, such as pressure, to induce crystallographic phase
transitions and mesostructural changes while modulating material properties in …

Two‐dimensional layered graphene‐like crystals including transition‐metal dichalcogenides
(TMDs) have received extensive research interest due to their diverse electronic …

Multivalent ternary nitride materials, which combine two metal cations with a nitrogen anion
in equal amounts and charge balanced stoichiometry, tend to have relatively simple …

Abstract 2D materials and their heterostructures (HSs) hold great promises for a number of
future applications, owing to their unique layered structure and excellent properties, both of …

Abstract 2D materials possess wide‐tuning properties ranging from semiconducting and
metallization to superconducting, etc., which are determined by their structure, empowering …

Pressure profoundly alters all states of matter. The symbiotic development of ultrahigh-
pressure diamond anvil cells, to compress samples to sustainable multi-megabar pressures; …

Engineering different two-dimensional materials into heterostructured membranes with
unique physiochemical properties and molecular sieving channels offers an effective way to …