{"id":214832,"date":"2025-05-27T01:14:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T06:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/a-new-molecular-model-of-bilayer-graphene-with-higher-semiconducting-properties"},"modified":"2025-05-27T01:14:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T06:14:05","slug":"a-new-molecular-model-of-bilayer-graphene-with-higher-semiconducting-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/a-new-molecular-model-of-bilayer-graphene-with-higher-semiconducting-properties","title":{"rendered":"A new molecular model of bilayer graphene with higher semiconducting properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-molecular-model-of-bilayer-graphene-with-higher-semiconducting-properties.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Juan Casado Cord\u00f3n, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Malaga, considers graphene\u2014an infinite layer of carbon atoms\u2014as one of the greatest discoveries of the last 20 years due to its \u201cunique properties\u201d such as high electrical and thermal conductivity or its great flexibility and, also, resistance. Qualities that become exceptional, he explains, with a recently found evolution consisting in joining two layers of this material\u2014bilayer graphene.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Malaga, led by Casado Cord\u00f3n, and from the Complutense University, under the coordination of Professor Nazario Mart\u00edn, have taken a step further and created an unprecedented molecular model of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/bilayer+graphene\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bilayer graphene<\/a> that is capable of controlling rotation, which in turn allows controlling conductivity and achieving \u201cpotentially spectacular semiconducting properties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The result is a new model molecule of bilayer graphene. \u201cBy designing covalently bound molecular nanographenes we can simulate the search for the magic angle between graphene-like sheets, which is where semiconductivity is achieved, a key property in, for example, the construction of transistors, the basic units of computers,\u201d explains this scientist from the Faculty of Science. This finding has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41557-025-01810-2\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Nature Chemistry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Casado Cord\u00f3n, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Malaga, considers graphene\u2014an infinite layer of carbon atoms\u2014as one of the greatest discoveries of the last 20 years due to its \u201cunique properties\u201d such as high electrical and thermal conductivity or its great flexibility and, also, resistance. Qualities that become exceptional, he explains, with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214832","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=214832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}