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Volume 13 Issue 3, March 2018

Computational quest for 2D materials

Two-dimensional materials with a unique set of physical and chemical properties and the tangible potential for various electronic and optoelectronic applications have generated a substantial amount of experimental studies. Yet, all these works are based on only a few dozens of practically exfoliable materials. Using high-throughput calculations, N. Mounet and co-workers have now succeeded in identifying 1,825 potentially exfoliable two-dimensional materials and predicted some of their essential physical properties. The cover is an artist's depiction of diverse two-dimensional materials. The different colours represent different atoms in each flake. Some of the flakes are atomically thin and some consists of a few atomic layers.]

See Mounet, N et al. and Eriksson, O

Image: Giovanni Pizzi, EPFL, Switzerland. Cover Design: Alex Wing

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