Ever since the initial synthesis of graphene kicked off the search, people have been aware of the potential advantages of finding new 2-D materials. Graphene is a layer of carbon atoms, bound together ...

Ball-and-stick illustration of how boron atoms (red balls) would be arranged in borophene. The holes at the centres of the hexagonal cells can also be seen. (Courtesy: Lai-Sheng Wang) Two ...

(Nanowerk News) It’s official: Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is the iron man of 2D materials, so resistant to cracking that it defies a century-old theoretical description engineers still use to ...

In the field of 2D electronics, the norm used to be that graphene is the main protagonist and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is its insulating passive support. Researchers of the Center for ...