BACKGROUND The electron can be considered as a tiny magnet, with two opposite poles
defining its magnetic field associated with the spin and orbital motion. When such minuscule …

The exponentially growing works on 2D materials have resulted in both high scientific
interest and huge potential applications in nanocatalysis, optoelectronics, and spintronics …

Since the discovery of Dirac physics in graphene, research in 2D materials has exploded
with the aim of finding new materials and harnessing their unique and tunable electronic …

Profound scientific attention has been devoted to the expansive family of functional 2D
materials soon after the isolation of graphene and the discovery of Dirac physics. Of …

Nanoscale ferroelectric 2D materials offer the opportunity to investigate curvature and strain
effects on materials functionalities. Among these, CuInP2S6 (CIPS) has attracted …

Low-dimensional multiferroicity, though highly scarce in nature, has attracted great attention
due to both fundamental and technological interests. Using first-principles density functional …

Polar van der Waals chalcogenophosphates exhibit unique properties, such as negative
electrostriction and multi-well ferrielectricity, and enable combining dielectric and 2D …

Layered materials with phase transitions, such as charge density wave (CDW) and magnetic
and dipole ordering, have potential to be exfoliated into monolayers and few‐layers and …

CuCrP2S6, a van der Waals magnet having stacked layers of 2D honeycomb lattice made of
CuS3 triangles and CrS6 octahedra, exhibits an A‐type antiferromagnetic order with the …

Using the Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire approach, we study stress-induced transformations
of polarization switching in ferrielectric Cu In P 2 S 6 nanoparticles for three different shapes …