Phyllosilicate minerals are an emerging class of naturally occurring layered insulators with
large bandgap energy that have gained attention from the scientific community. This class of …

Phyllosilicates have emerged as a promising class of large bandgap lamellar insulators.
Their applications have been explored from the fabrication of graphene-based devices to 2D …

Talc is an insulating layered material that is stable at ambient conditions and has high-
quality basal cleavage, which is a major advantage for its use in van der Waals …

Water is the matrix of life, and its confinement in nanocavities is a central topic from
geophysics to nanotribology. Phyllosilicate layered minerals provide natural nanocavities for …

Phyllosilicate minerals, which form a class of naturally occurring layered materials (LMs),
have been recently considered as a low-cost source of two-dimensional (2D) materials …

Advanced van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure devices rely on the incorporation of high
quality dielectric materials which need to possess a low defect density as well as being …

High-performance polymers incorporating liquid lubricants can be exploited to fabricate
sundry solid-liquid composites for self-lubricating parts in the frontier industries, while the …

Biotite, an iron-rich mineral belonging to the trioctahedral mica group, is a naturally
abundant layered material (LM) exhibiting attractive electronic properties for application in …

Unique structure and ability to control the surface termination groups of MXenes make these
materials extremely promising for solid lubrication applications. Due to the challenging …

Pyrophyllite, with the chemical formula Al 2 Si 4 O 10 (OH) 2, is a naturally occurring and
abundant van der Waals mineral belonging to the group of phyllosilicates. It is very soft …