Nov 06, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Mimicking how plants convert sunlight into energy has long been a dream for scientists aiming to create renewable energy solutions. Artificial photosynthesis is a process that seeks to replicate nature’s method, using sunlight to drive chemical reactions that generate clean energy. However, creating synthetic systems...
Robotics enables cleaner interfaces in stacked sheets of layered 2D materials
Nov 06, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers used a special robotic system to assemble very large pieces of atomically clean two-dimensional materials into stacks. The study, published in Small ("Mechanisms of Interface Cleaning in Heterostructures Made from Polymer-Contaminated Graphene"), involved materials called graphene heterostructures. These are sheets just atoms thick made...