{"id":120471,"date":"2021-03-11T20:24:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T04:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/sushi-like-rolled-2d-heterostructures-may-lead-to-new-miniaturized-electronics"},"modified":"2021-03-11T20:24:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T04:24:50","slug":"sushi-like-rolled-2d-heterostructures-may-lead-to-new-miniaturized-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/sushi-like-rolled-2d-heterostructures-may-lead-to-new-miniaturized-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Sushi-like rolled 2D heterostructures may lead to new miniaturized electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sushi-like-rolled-2d-heterostructures-may-lead-to-new-miniaturized-electronics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The recent synthesis of one-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures, a type of heterostructure made by layering two-dimensional materials that are one atom thick, may lead to new, miniaturized electronics that are currently not possible, according to a team of Penn State and University of Tokyo researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Engineers commonly produce heterostructures to achieve new device properties that are not available in a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/single+material\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">single material<\/a>. A van der Waals <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/heterostructure\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heterostructure<\/a> is one made of 2D materials that are stacked directly on top of each other like Lego-blocks or a sandwich. The van der Waals force, which is an attractive force between uncharged molecules or atoms, holds the materials together.<\/p>\n<p>According to Slava V. Rotkin, Penn State Frontier Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, the one-dimensional van der Waals heterostructure produced by the researchers is different from the van der Waals heterostructures engineers have produced thus far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent synthesis of one-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures, a type of heterostructure made by layering two-dimensional materials that are one atom thick, may lead to new, miniaturized electronics that are currently not possible, according to a team of Penn State and University of Tokyo researchers. Engineers commonly produce heterostructures to achieve new device properties [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120471","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}