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- Physicists discover important new property for graphene
A new property Graphene is composed of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in hexagons resembling a honeycomb structure Since the material’s discovery, scientists have shown that different configurations of graphene layers can give rise to a variety of important properties
- Physicists measure a key aspect of superconductivity in “magic-angle . . .
Physicists measured how readily a current of electron pairs flows through “magic-angle” graphene, a major step toward understanding how this unusual material superconducts
- MIT physicists find unexpected crystals of electrons in an ultrathin . . .
MIT physicists report the discovery of electrons forming crystalline structures in a material billionths of a meter thick The material, rhombohedral pentalayer graphene, joins a family of materials with exotic properties that may have other “relatives ”
- Electrons become fractions of themselves in graphene, study finds
MIT physicists have observed fractional quantum Hall effect in simple pentalayer graphene The finding could make it easier to develop more robust quantum computers
- MIT physicists discover a new type of superconductor that’s also a . . .
MIT scientists were surprised to discover a “chiral superconductor” — a material that conducts electricity without resistance, and also, paradoxically, is magnetic — in rhombohedral graphene
- Researchers design one of the strongest, lightest materials known
A team of researchers at MIT has developed one of the strongest lightweight materials known, by compressing to fuse flakes of the two-dimensional form of carbon known as graphene The new material, a sponge-like configuration with a density of just 5 percent, can have a strength as much of 10 times that of steel
- Study: Superconductivity switches on and off in “magic-angle” graphene . . .
The graphene layers are sandwiched in between boron nitride layers (in blue and purple) The angle and alignment of each layer enables the researchers to turn superconductivity on and off in graphene with a short electric pulse
- Insulator or superconductor? Physicists find graphene is both
Physicists at MIT and Harvard University have found that graphene, a lacy, honeycomb-like sheet of carbon atoms, can behave at two electrical extremes: as an insulator, in which electrons are completely blocked from flowing; and as a superconductor, in which electrical current can stream through without resistance
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