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Growing tunable moiré matter

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An alloy engineering approach is developed to reliably grow atomically thin bilayers with predictable and tunable moiré patterns.

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Fig. 1: Growing moiré heterostructures with tunable periodicity by engineering the lattice mismatch of alloy monolayers.

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This work was supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division.

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    David B. Geohegan, Alexander A. Puretzky & Kai Xiao

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Geohegan, D.B., Puretzky, A.A. & Xiao, K. Growing tunable moiré matter. Nat. Mater. 23, 308–309 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01618-w

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