In recent years, silica films have emerged as a novel class of two-dimensional (2D)
materials. Several groups succeeded in epitaxial growth of ultrathin SiO 2 layers using …

Electronic properties of crystals are inherently pertained to crystalline symmetry, so that
amorphization that lowers and breaks symmetry is detrimental. One important crystalline …

Disordered nanoporous and “hard” carbons are widely used in batteries and
supercapacitors, but their atomic structures are poorly determined. Here, we combine …

The topological properties of materials are, until now, associated with the features of their
crystalline structure, although translational symmetry is not an explicit requirement of the …

Amorphous topological states, which are independent of the specific spatial distribution of
microscopic constructions, have gained much attention. Recently, higher-order topological …

An atomically smooth silica bilayer is transferred from the growth substrate to a new support
via mechanical exfoliation at millimeter scale. The atomic structure and morphology are …

Patchy colloids promise the design and modelling of complex materials, but the realization
of equilibrium patchy particle structures remains challenging. Here, we assemble pseudo …

The recent experimental discovery of a semi two-dimensional silica glass has offered a
realistic description of the random network theory of a silica glass structure, initially …

We investigate the structure and electronic spectra properties of two-dimensional
amorphous bismuthene structures and show that these systems are topological insulators …

The random network theory has been the long-accepted structural model for silica glasses.
Now, a large bilayer silica sheet that was recently imaged with STM in atomic resolution …