{"id":103596,"date":"2020-03-11T01:22:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T08:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/two-dimensional-metals-open-pathways-to-new-science"},"modified":"2020-03-11T01:22:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T08:22:52","slug":"two-dimensional-metals-open-pathways-to-new-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/two-dimensional-metals-open-pathways-to-new-science","title":{"rendered":"Two-dimensional metals open pathways to new science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-dimensional-metals-open-pathways-to-new-science.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An atomically thin materials platform developed by Penn State researchers in conjunction with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Oak Ridge National Lab will open a wide range of new applications in biomolecular sensing, quantum phenomena, catalysis and nonlinear optics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have leveraged our understanding of a special type of graphene, dubbed epitaxial graphene, to stabilize unique forms of atomically thin metals,\u201d said Natalie Briggs, a doctoral candidate and co-lead author on a paper in the journal <i>Nature Materials<\/i>. \u201cInterestingly, these atomically thin metals stabilize in structures that are completely different from their bulk versions, and thus have very interesting properties compared to what is expected in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/bulk+metals\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bulk metals<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, when metals are exposed to air they rapidly begin to oxidize\u2014rust. In as short as one second, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/metal+surfaces\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">metal surfaces<\/a> can form a rust layer that would destroy the metallic properties. In the case of a 2-D <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/metal\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">metal<\/a>, this would be the entire layer. If you were to combine a metal with other 2-D materials via traditional synthesis processes, the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+reactions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical reactions<\/a> during synthesis would ruin the properties of both the metal and layered material. To avoid these reactions, the team exploited a method that automatically caps the 2-D metal with a single layer of graphene while creating the 2-D metal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An atomically thin materials platform developed by Penn State researchers in conjunction with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Oak Ridge National Lab will open a wide range of new applications in biomolecular sensing, quantum phenomena, catalysis and nonlinear optics. \u201cWe have leveraged our understanding of a special type of graphene, dubbed epitaxial graphene, to stabilize [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}