{"id":1191,"date":"2020-01-12T07:47:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T06:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2020-01-12T07:47:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T06:47:59","slug":"the-superpowers-of-super-thin-materials-in-materials-science-2-d-is-the-new-3-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/2020\/01\/12\/the-superpowers-of-super-thin-materials-in-materials-science-2-d-is-the-new-3-d\/","title":{"rendered":"The Superpowers of Super-Thin Materials: In materials science, 2-D is the new 3-D"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Researchers are taking super-thin layers of materials and stacking them  into three-dimensional blocks that have properties distinct from both  2-D and conventional 3-D materials.  The craze for 2-D chemistry began in 2004, when two researchers at the University of Manchester used cellophane tape to peel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/30\/science\/graphene-physics-superconductor.html\">one-atom-thick layers of carbon from chunks of graphite, forming graphene<\/a>.  Graphene is identical to graphite and diamond in composition, but the  thinness gives it very different properties: It is flexible,  transparent, extremely strong and an exceptional electrical and thermal  conductor. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/07\/science\/physics-materials-electronics.html?algo=random&amp;fellback=false&amp;imp_id=992628617&amp;imp_id=778798394&amp;action=click&amp;module=editorsPicks&amp;pgtype=Article&amp;region=Footer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"New York Times (opens in a new tab)\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers are taking super-thin layers of materials and stacking them into three-dimensional blocks that have properties distinct from both 2-D and conventional 3-D materials. The craze for 2-D chemistry began in 2004, when two researchers at the University of Manchester used cellophane tape to peel one-atom-thick layers of carbon from chunks of graphite, forming graphene. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[61,63],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging","tag-graphene","tag-materials-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}