Dabbling in the rich color palette of van der Waals bonded layered materials

COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

Abstract

The modest-strength van der Waals bond hits the sweet spot for facilitating the assembly of layered materials. I will discuss some recent experimental and theoretical explorations of van der Waals heterostructures, often with in-plane sp2-bonded components including boron nitride and graphene. The materials can themselves display novel physics and chemistry, or be used as aids for exploring the properties of complementary nanomaterials via electrical transport, optics, high resolution transmission electron microscopy, and scanning tunneling microscopy.

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Authors

  • Alex Zettl

    Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory