"The thickness of these 2D metals is just one millionth of a piece of A4 paper and one 200,000th of the diameter of a human hair. If a 3-meter-long metal cube were pressed into a single-atom layer ...

The method can be applied to any metal with a low melting point, and the team has used it to make 2D sheets of bismuth, gallium, indium, lead and tin. The feat was reported today in Nature 1.

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a class of two-dimensional (2D) materials with unique electronic and optical properties. Composed of transition metal atoms (such as tungsten, molybdenum, ...

This innovative material, developed by researchers at the Institute of Physics (IOP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, opens up a new frontier in 2D metal research, and it holds the potential to ...

In an article published in the journal Nature on Thursday, the researchers said that compared to their bulkier counterparts, their ultra-thin metal sheets – especially one-atom-thick bismuth ...

But the new approach allows “large-scale, truly 2D metals” to be produced. For now, it's not known exactly what properties ...