Nature Materials, Published online: 26 August 2019; doi:10.1038/s41563-019-0464-7Layered 2D sheets can present impressive molecular sieving properties, but suffer from limited water stability. Here, a membrane composed of MoS2 sheets functionalized by hydrophobic groups displays stability and high performance for desalination under reverse osmosis.
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Nature Materials, Published online: 01 August 2019; doi:10.1038/s41563-019-0469-2Author Correction: Ultralow-loss polaritons in isotopically pure boron nitride
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Nature Materials, Published online: 19 June 2019; doi:10.1038/s41563-019-0410-8Measuring the 1s–2p splitting of direct and indirect excitons in van der Waals heterostructures allows their binding energy and dynamics to be determined.
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Nature Materials, Published online: 21 May 2019; doi:10.1038/s41563-019-0394-42D materials face challenges along the road to commercialization, with increasing efforts being made in order to satisfy industrial needs.
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Nature Materials, Published online: 21 May 2019; doi:10.1038/s41563-019-0359-7Electronic and photonic devices based on graphene have unique properties, leading to outstanding performance figures of merit. Mastering the integration of this unconventional material into an established semiconductor fabrication line represents a critical step towards commercialization.
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Nature Materials, Published online: 21 May 2019; doi:10.1038/s41563-019-0341-4The past few years have witnessed significant development in graphene research, yet a number of challenges remain for its commercialization and industrialization. This Comment discusses relevant issues for industrial-scale graphene synthesis, one of the critical aspects for the future graphene industry.
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Nature Materials, Published online: 21 May 2019; doi:10.1038/s41563-019-0366-8Disorder in two-dimensional materials largely affects their properties and performance. This Perspective discusses disorder sources in graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides, the progress in disorder control, and possible uses of disorder.
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Atomic and electronic reconstruction at the van der Waals interface in twisted bilayer grapheneAtomic and electronic reconstruction at the van der Waals interface in twisted bilayer graphene, Published online: 15 April 2019; doi:10.1038/s41563-019-0346-zAn investigation of the structural and transport properties of bilayer graphene as a function of the twist angle between the layers reveals atomic-scale reconstruction for twist angles smaller than a critical value.
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Ultrafast transition between exciton phases in van der Waals heterostructuresUltrafast transition between exciton phases in van der Waals heterostructures, Published online: 08 April 2019; doi:10.1038/s41563-019-0337-0Femtosecond pump–probe measurements of Coulomb correlations in WS2/WSe2 heterostructures reveal the interlayer exciton binding energy, determined from the 1s–2p resonance, as well as the dynamics of the conversion of intra- to interlayer excitons.
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Nonlinear anomalous Hall effect in few-layer WTe2Nonlinear anomalous Hall effect in few-layer WTe<sub>2</sub>, Published online: 25 February 2019; doi:10.1038/s41563-019-0294-7A nonlinear anomalous Hall effect, allowed for certain point group symmetries, is observed in metallic WTe2.
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Addressing the isomer cataloguing problem for nanopores in two-dimensional materialsAddressing the isomer cataloguing problem for nanopores in two-dimensional materials, Published online: 14 January 2019; doi:10.1038/s41563-018-0258-3Nanopores in 2D materials have various possible lattice isomers, making relevant quantitative analysis difficult. An isomer-cataloguing framework is developed to address this problem, demonstrating remarkable agreement between simulated and experimental data.
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Realistic cataloguing of nanoporesRealistic cataloguing of nanopores, Published online: 14 January 2019; doi:10.1038/s41563-018-0273-4Despite an enormous number of nanopores that could, in principle, be formed in atomically thin materials, advanced modelling reveals that in typical experiments rather limited ensembles of most likely nanopores should be observed.
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How slow can you go?How slow can you go?, Published online: 31 December 2018; doi:10.1038/s41563-018-0272-5Use of graphene in a transistor configuration offers an alternative to metal electrodes for the recording of ultraslow neural potentials that occur in neurologic diseases.
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High-resolution mapping of infraslow cortical brain activity enabled by graphene microtransistorsHigh-resolution mapping of infraslow cortical brain activity enabled by graphene microtransistors, Published online: 31 December 2018; doi:10.1038/s41563-018-0249-4Arrays of graphene microtransistors are used to record infraslow cortical brain activity. The reduced signal drift and the array compatibility with optical imaging techniques make these devices useful for monitoring of brain physiology.
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Ionic modulation and ionic coupling effects in MoS2 devices for neuromorphic computingIonic modulation and ionic coupling effects in MoS<sub>2</sub> devices for neuromorphic computing, Published online: 17 December 2018; doi:10.1038/s41563-018-0248-5Electric control of Li+ ion migration within MoS2 multilayer films allows the realization of memristive devices that can be connected in-plane to show synaptic competition and cooperation behaviours.
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Electric-field induced structural transition in vertical MoTe2- and Mo1–xWxTe2-based resistive memoriesElectric-field induced structural transition in vertical MoTe<sub>2</sub>- and Mo<sub>1–x</sub>W<sub>x</sub>Te<sub>2</sub>-based resistive memories, Published online: 10 December 2018; doi:10.1038/s41563-018-0234-yA vertical electric field is shown to induce reversible transitions between a semiconducting 2H phase, a distorted transient structure and a conducting Td phase in MoTe2 and Mo1–xWxTe2 multilayers, and used to realize vertical resistive random access memories.
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Memristors with distorted structuresMemristors with distorted structures, Published online: 10 December 2018; doi:10.1038/s41563-018-0257-4Structural transitions departing from the known phases of MoTe2 are induced by applying a vertical electric field to multilayers of this material. These distorted structures show distinct conducting states that can be used for resistive memories.
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Revealing molecular-level surface redox sites of controllably oxidized black phosphorus nanosheetsRevealing molecular-level surface redox sites of controllably oxidized black phosphorus nanosheets, Published online: 10 December 2018; doi:10.1038/s41563-018-0230-2Black phosphorus is being considered for energy storage but its rate and cycling capabilities are limited by intrinsic (de-)alloying. Molecular-level surface redox sites on oxidized black phosphorus can now be coupled with graphene via strong interlayer bonding.
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Highly mechanosensitive ion channels from graphene-embedded crown ethersHighly mechanosensitive ion channels from graphene-embedded crown ethers, Published online: 26 November 2018; doi:10.1038/s41563-018-0220-4Tuning ionic permeation across nanoscale pores is important for areas ranging from nanofluidic computing to drug delivery. Complex formation between crown ethers and dissolved metal ions is used to demonstrate graphene-based ion channels with high mechanosensitivity.
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Scaling-up phase selectionScaling-up phase selection, Published online: 23 November 2018; doi:10.1038/s41563-018-0226-yA method to selectively grow pure metallic-phase monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides marks an important step towards industrially viable nano-(opto)electronic technologies based on two-dimensional materials and their hierarchical assemblies.
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