Layered materials are taking centre stage in the ever-increasing research effort to develop
material platforms for quantum technologies. We are at the dawn of the era of layered …

Magnetism in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials has recently emerged as
one of the most promising areas in condensed matter research, with many exciting emerging …

Hexagonal boron nitride (h‐BN) has emerged as a strong candidate for two‐dimensional
(2D) material owing to its exciting optoelectrical properties combined with mechanical …

Despite their partial ionic nature, many-layered diatomic crystals avoid internal electric
polarization by forming a centrosymmetric lattice at their optimal van der Waals stacking …

Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) logic circuits at their ultimate scaling
limits place extreme demands on the properties of all materials involved. The requirements …

Reducing the dimensionality of layered materials can result in properties distinct from their
bulk crystals,–. However, the emergent properties in atomically thin samples, in particular in …

Van der Waals heterostructures are fabricated by layer-by-layer assembly of individual two-
dimensional materials and can be used to create a wide range of electronic devices …

As the first in a large family of 2D van der Waals (vdW) materials, graphene has attracted
enormous attention owing to its remarkable properties. The recent development of simple …

A variety of monolayer crystals have been proposed to be two-dimensional topological
insulators exhibiting the quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE), possibly even at high …

Phosphorene, an emerging two-dimensional material, has received considerable attention
due to its layer-controlled direct bandgap, high carrier mobility, negative Poisson's ratio and …