On a Saturday afternoon in the fall of 2021, Silvio Decurtins was leafing through a paper with a title that could have been pulled from a comic book for mathematically inclined teens: “Plato’s Cube ...

Various surface/interfacial micro/nanostructures have been widely used in solar cells 1,2,3,4, light emitting diodes 5, surface wetting and adhesion 6,7,8, metamaterials 9,10,11,12, cell biophysics 13 ...

Neurons come in an astounding assortment of shapes and sizes, forming a thick inter-connected jungle of cells. Now, neuroscientists have found that there is a simple pattern that describes the ...

An international team of surface scientists has now developed a simple method to produce large and very clean 2D samples from a range of materials using three different substrates. Ever since the ...

Optics meets 2D materials: a simple probe light beam exiting an optical moiré lattice can be chopped up into diffuse streaks or confined into a single bright spot, depending on the twist angle in the ...

The Scotch tape method, also known as micromechanical cleavage or mechanical exfoliation, is a simple yet powerful technique used to isolate thin layers of two-dimensional (2D) materials from their ...