2D materials Research update Touch-responsive indium tin oxide is very thin and flexible Normally brittle material can be rolled up like a tube Read article: Touch-responsive indium tin oxide is very thin and flexible
2D materials Interview Making it in 2D materials research Mar Garcia Hernandez describes fabrication challenges and solutions for 2D materials Read article: Making it in 2D materials research
Business and innovation Blog Graphene for physicists, materials scientists, and engineers Further thoughts about graphene headphones, plus a rule for distinguishing between different types of single(ish)-layer carbon Read article: Graphene for physicists, materials scientists, and engineers
2D materials Research update Ultra-flat graphene goes wrinkle free Proton-assisted growth smooths out the carbon sheet Read article: Ultra-flat graphene goes wrinkle free
Instrumentation and measurement Research update Lithium-6 enriched semiconductor is efficient detector of thermal neutrons Compact detectors based on 2D material could find a range of applications Read article: Lithium-6 enriched semiconductor is efficient detector of thermal neutrons
2D materials Research update Thin ice reveals its secrets Non-contact atomic force microscopy reveals a new two-dimensional ice-growth process Read article: Thin ice reveals its secrets
Optics and photonics Research update Moiré patterns created in light Optical moiré lattices exhibit the same physics seen in twisted 2D crystals Read article: Moiré patterns created in light
Culture, history and society Podcasts Looking forward to a new decade of physics, listening to graphene-based headphones Tune in to the first weekly podcast of the 2020s Read article: Looking forward to a new decade of physics, listening to graphene-based headphones
2D materials Research update Machine learning could reveal graphene oxide’s real structure More than 20,000 possible structure candidates are used to find truly representative models Read article: Machine learning could reveal graphene oxide’s real structure
2D materials Blog A decade of Physics World breakthroughs: 2018 – Discovery of ‘magic-angle graphene’ Hamish Johnston looks at what has happened since the 2018 Physics World Breakthrough of the Year for the discovery of magic-angle graphene Read article: A decade of Physics World breakthroughs: 2018 – Discovery of ‘magic-angle graphene’