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Stacks on stacks on stacks

By precisely stacking two sheets of graphene at a specific angle, the resulting moiré superlattice superconducts. Extending this notion, researchers have now found superconductivity in four- and five-layer graphene moiré stacks.

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Fig. 1: Schematic drawing of MAT4G.

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