{"id":214959,"date":"2025-05-29T01:04:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T06:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/glaphene-2d-hybrid-material-integrates-graphene-and-silica-glass-for-next-generation-electronics"},"modified":"2025-05-29T01:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T06:04:42","slug":"glaphene-2d-hybrid-material-integrates-graphene-and-silica-glass-for-next-generation-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/glaphene-2d-hybrid-material-integrates-graphene-and-silica-glass-for-next-generation-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Glaphene: 2D hybrid material integrates graphene and silica glass for next-generation electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/glaphene-2d-hybrid-material-integrates-graphene-and-silica-glass-for-next-generation-electronics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of the most promising materials for future technologies come in layers just one atom thick, such as graphene, a sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, prized for its exceptional strength and conductivity. While hundreds of such materials exist, truly merging them into something new has remained a challenge. Most efforts simply stack these atom-thin sheets like a deck of cards, but the layers typically lack significant interaction between them.<\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers led by Rice University materials scientists has succeeded in creating a genuine 2D hybrid by chemically integrating two fundamentally different 2D materials\u2014graphene and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/silica+glass\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">silica glass <\/a>\u2014into a single, stable compound called glaphene, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/adma.202419136\" target=\"_blank\">a study published<\/a> in <i>Advanced Materials.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe layers do not just rest on each other; electrons move and form new interactions and vibration states, giving rise to properties neither material has on its own,\u201d said Sathvik Iyengar, a doctoral student at Rice and a first author on the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the most promising materials for future technologies come in layers just one atom thick, such as graphene, a sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, prized for its exceptional strength and conductivity. While hundreds of such materials exist, truly merging them into something new has remained a challenge. Most efforts simply [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214959","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}