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    Fast and scalable synthesis of a variety of transition metal telluride nanosheets by solid lithiation and hydrolysis is demonstrated and several interesting quantum phenomena were observed, such as quantum oscillations and giant magnetoresistance.

    • Liangzhu Zhang
    • , Zixuan Yang
    •  & Hui-Ming Cheng

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    | Open Access

    The stacking of freestanding ferroelectric perovskite layers with controlled twist angles results in a peculiar pattern of polarization vortices and antivortices that emerges from the flexoelectric coupling of polarization to strain gradients.

    • G. Sánchez-Santolino
    • , V. Rouco
    •  & J. Santamaria

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    Using valley-resolved scanning tunnelling spectroscopy, twisted WSe2 bilayers are studied, including incommensurate dodecagon quasicrystals at 30° and commensurate moiré crystals at 21.8° and 38.2°.

    • Yanxing Li
    • , Fan Zhang
    •  & Chih-Kang Shih

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    Monolithic three-dimensional integration of two-dimensional field-effect transistors enables improved integration density and multifunctionality to realize ‘More Moore’ and ‘More than Moore’ technologies.

    • Darsith Jayachandran
    • , Rahul Pendurthi
    •  & Saptarshi Das

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    | Open Access

    Minimization of kinetic energy leads to ferromagnetic correlations between itinerant electrons in MoSe2/WS2 moiré lattices even in the absence of exchange interactions.

    • L. Ciorciaro
    • , T. Smoleński
    •  & A. İmamoğlu

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    We report the production of MoS2 nanosheets with high phase purity, showing that the 2H-phase templates facilitate epitaxial growth of Pt nanoparticles, whereas the 1T′ phase supports single-atomically dispersed Pt atoms.

    • Zhenyu Shi
    • , Xiao Zhang
    •  & Hua Zhang

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    Stacks of van der Waals superconductor heterostructures comprising many layers and several blocks of two-dimensional materials have been grown in a highly controllable manner at a wafer scale using a high-to-low temperature strategy.

    • Zhenjia Zhou
    • , Fuchen Hou
    •  & Libo Gao

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    Thermodynamic evidence of both integer and fractional Chern insulators at zero magnetic field is reported in small-angle twisted bilayer MoTe2 by combining the local electronic compressibility and magneto-optical measurements.

    • Yihang Zeng
    • , Zhengchao Xia
    •  & Jie Shan

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    A moiré quasicrystal constructed by twisting three layers of graphene with two different twist angles shows high tunability between a periodic-like regime at low energies and a strongly quasiperiodic regime at higher energies alongside strong interactions and superconductivity.

    • Aviram Uri
    • , Sergio C. de la Barrera
    •  & Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

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    The primary pair density wave state has been discovered in a monolayer iron-based high-Tc superconductor, providing a platform to study the interplay between the correlated electronic states and unconventional Cooper pairing in high-Tc superconductors.

    • Yanzhao Liu
    • , Tianheng Wei
    •  & Jian Wang

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    The discovery of an orbital Fulde–Ferrell–Larkin–Ovchinnikov state in the multilayer Ising superconductor 2H-NbSe2, in which the translational and rotational symmetries are broken, enables the preparation of such states in other materials with broken inversion symmetries.

    • Puhua Wan
    • , Oleksandr Zheliuk
    •  & Jianting Ye

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    | Open Access

    A single-element ferroelectric state is observed in a black phosphorus-like bismuth layer, in which the ordered charge transfer and the regular atom distortion between sublattices happen simultaneously and ferroelectric switching is further visualized experimentally.

    • Jian Gou
    • , Hua Bai
    •  & Andrew Thye Shen Wee

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    | Open Access

    High-integration-density 2D–CMOS hybrid microchips for memristive applications are made demonstrating in-memory computation and electrical response suitable for the implementation of spiking neural networks representing an advance towards integration of 2D materials in microelectronic products and memristive applications.

    • Kaichen Zhu
    • , Sebastian Pazos
    •  & Mario Lanza

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    The epitaxial synthesis of high-density, vertically aligned arrays of two-dimensional (2D) fin-oxide heterostructures is described, enabling the fabrication of 2D fin field-effect transistors with high electron mobility and desirable low-power specifications.

    • Congwei Tan
    • , Mengshi Yu
    •  & Hailin Peng

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    A van der Waals crystal, niobium oxide dichloride, with vanishing interlayer electronic coupling and considerable monolayer-like excitonic behaviour in the bulk, as well as strong and scalable second-order optical nonlinearity, is discovered, which enables a high-performance quantum light source.

    • Qiangbing Guo
    • , Xiao-Zhuo Qi
    •  & Andrew T. S. Wee

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    The authors show a hysteretic behaviour of superconductivity as a function of electric field in bilayer Td-MoTe2, representing observations of coupled ferroelectricity and superconductivity.

    • Apoorv Jindal
    • , Amartyajyoti Saha
    •  & Daniel A. Rhodes

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    A two-dimensional crystalline polymer of C60, termed graphullerene, is synthesized by chemical vapour transport, and mechanically exfoliated to produce molecularly thin flakes with clean interfaces for potential optoelectronic applications.

    • Elena Meirzadeh
    • , Austin M. Evans
    •  & Xavier Roy

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    Reduced dielectric screening in a free-standing heterobilayer results in higher formation efficiency of interlayer excitons and leads to strongly enhanced dipole–dipole interactions, enabling the observation of many-body correlations at the quantum limit.

    • Xueqian Sun
    • , Yi Zhu
    •  & Yuerui Lu

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    By forcing electron–hole pairs onto closed trajectories attosecond clocking of delocalized Bloch electrons is achieved, enabling greater understanding of unexpected phase transitions and quantum-dynamic phenomena.

    • J. Freudenstein
    • , M. Borsch
    •  & R. Huber

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    A heterodimensional superlattice consisting of an alternating array of a two-dimensional material and a one-dimensional material shows unconventional octahedral stacking and an unexpected room-temperature anomalous Hall effect.

    • Jiadong Zhou
    • , Wenjie Zhang
    •  & Zheng Liu

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    Fabrication of a low-dimensional metal halide perovskite superlattice by chemical epitaxy is reported, with a criss-cross two-dimensional network parallel to the substrate, leading to efficient carrier transport in three dimensions.

    • Yusheng Lei
    • , Yuheng Li
    •  & Sheng Xu

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    The ability to resolve single atoms in a liquid environment is demonstrated by combining a transmission electron microscope and a robust double graphene liquid cell, enabling studies of adatom motion at solid–liquid interfaces.

    • Nick Clark
    • , Daniel J. Kelly
    •  & Sarah J. Haigh

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    By intercalating layered 2D atomic crystals with selected chiral molecules, a new class of chiral molecular intercalation superlattices is reported, demonstrating highly ordered structures and achieving high tunnelling magnetoresistance and spin polarization ratios.

    • Qi Qian
    • , Huaying Ren
    •  & Xiangfeng Duan

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    Using an interlayer bonding cleavage strategy, a two-dimensional monolayer fullerene network is prepared; its moderate bandgap makes it a potential candidate for use in two-dimensional electronic devices.

    • Lingxiang Hou
    • , Xueping Cui
    •  & Jian Zheng

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    Using a chemical vapour deposition method, it is possible to epitaxially grow wafer-scale single-crystal trilayers of hexagonal boron nitride—an important dielectric for 2D materials—on Ni (111) foils by boron dissolution.

    • Kyung Yeol Ma
    • , Leining Zhang
    •  & Hyeon Suk Shin

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    Electrically controlled quantum confinement of excitons to below 10 nm is achieved in a 2D semiconductor by combining in-plane electric fields with interactions between excitons and free charges.

    • Deepankur Thureja
    • , Atac Imamoglu
    •  & Puneet A. Murthy

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    Sonication of layered metallacycle crystals gives free-standing nanosheets held together by weak non-covalent interactions, with chiral surfaces that show improved binding and enantiodiscrimination compared with individual metallacycle molecules.

    • Jinqiao Dong
    • , Lingmei Liu
    •  & Yong Cui

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    The essential properties of moiré materials and the progress and latest developments in the field are reviewed, and their fabrication and physics are discussed from a reproducibility perspective.

    • Chun Ning Lau
    • , Marc W. Bockrath
    •  & Fan Zhang

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    The quantum contribution to friction enables the rationalization of the peculiar friction properties of water on carbon surfaces, and in particular the radius dependence of slippage in carbon nanotubes.

    • Nikita Kavokine
    • , Marie-Laure Bocquet
    •  & Lydéric Bocquet

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    An electric-field-induced topological phase transition from a Mott insulator to a quantum anomalous Hall insulator in near-60-degree-twisted (or AB-stacked) MoTe2/WSe2 heterobilayers is reported.

    • Tingxin Li
    • , Shengwei Jiang
    •  & Kin Fai Mak

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