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    The local layer alignment in a wide range of trilayer graphene structures has been extracted by interferometric four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy, uncovering the complex picture of lattice reconstruction in twisted trilayers.

    • Isaac M. Craig
    • , Madeline Van Winkle
    •  & D. Kwabena Bediako

  • Editorial |

    After a decade of intense activity, the Graphene Flagship has helped to establish an incipient European graphene industry, yet mainstream commercialization of graphene products continues to be hindered by limited market readiness and industry acceptance.

  • Letter |

    Employing an oxidation-activated charge transfer strategy to oxidize transition-metal dichalcogenides into transition-metal oxides, the authors imprint plasmonic cavities with laterally abrupt doping profiles and nanoscale precision demonstrating plasmonic whispering-gallery resonators.

    • Brian S. Y. Kim
    • , Aaron J. Sternbach
    •  & D. N. Basov

  • Article |

    Vibrational spectroscopy now allows for the exploration of lattice vibrational properties at the chemical-bond level, revealing the impact of chemical-bonding configurations and atomic mass on local phonon modes in graphene with a new level of sensitivity.

    • Mingquan Xu
    • , De-Liang Bao
    •  & Wu Zhou

  • News & Views |

    Twisted bilayer graphene is epitaxially grown between two adjacent Cu(111) surfaces, with the twist angle controlled by the rotation of the Cu foils as designed.

    • Seong-Jun Yang
    •  & Cheol-Joo Kim

  • Article |

    Angle tunability in twisted bilayer graphene is crucial in promoting its applications of twistronics. Here an angle replication strategy is developed to obtain centimetre-scale bilayer graphene with arbitrary twist angles.

    • Can Liu
    • , Zehui Li
    •  & Kaihui Liu

  • News & Views |

    By exploiting subfemtosecond control of light pulses, researchers demonstrate an ultrafast logic gate based on the waveform-dependent photocurrent generated by real and virtual carriers in graphene.

    • Klaas-Jan Tielrooij

  • Article |

    High-quality wafer-scale single-crystal monolayer graphene is achieved on sapphire substrate, by epitaxially growing graphene at the Cu(111)/sapphire interface and then detaching Cu film via immersion in liquid nitrogen and rapid heating.

    • Junzhu Li
    • , Mingguang Chen
    •  & Xixiang Zhang

  • News & Views |

    Heterogeneous microscale contacts between molybdenum disulfide and graphene or hexagonal boron nitride layers demonstrate ultralow friction independent of their relative orientation with residual drag that originates from edge effects.

    • Oded Hod
    •  & Michael Urbakh

  • Article |

    Complete strain tensor fields of twisted bilayer graphene are quantitatively mapped, revealing two-regime reconstruction mechanics depending on twist angle.

    • Nathanael P. Kazmierczak
    • , Madeline Van Winkle
    •  & D. Kwabena Bediako

  • Review Article |

    Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene plays host to many interesting phenomena, including superconductivity. This Review highlights key research results in the field, points toward important open questions, and comments on the place of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene in the strongly correlated quantum matter world.

    • Eva Y. Andrei
    •  & Allan H. MacDonald

  • Article |

    Hyperspectral Raman imaging is used to visualize defects in polycrystalline graphene under ion bombardment, showing zero-dimensional and one-dimensional defects in grains and at grain boundaries, respectively, and preferential self-healing at the grain boundaries.

    • P. Vinchon
    • , X. Glad
    •  & L. Stafford

  • News & Views |

    Two studies investigate the behaviour of localized interlayer excitons in van der Waals heterostructures, offering insights into their dipolar interactions and the effect of moiré trapping potentials for the design of quantum optical applications based on 2D materials.

    • Alexander Tartakovskii

  • Comment |

    This is a turning point for nanofluidics. Recent progress allows envisioning both fundamental discoveries for the transport of fluids at the ultimate scales, and disruptive technologies for the water–energy nexus.

    • Lydéric Bocquet

  • News & Views |

    Bending of few-layer graphene leads to interlayer slip, and slipping lowers the bending stiffness. Beyond a critical bending angle, the graphene layers bend like a stack of paper, with a state of superlubricity for interlayer slip.

    • Rui Huang

  • Article |

    Mechanical fatigue occurs under cyclic stress much lower than the tensile strength, but this has not been investigated for 2D materials. Here, graphene is found to have a fatigue life of 109 cycles.

    • Teng Cui
    • , Sankha Mukherjee
    •  & Tobin Filleter

  • Article |

    The bending stiffness of few-layer graphene is shown to decrease significantly with the bending angle due to shear and slip between the atomic layers, which culminate in superlubric behaviour as the bending angle further increases.

    • Edmund Han
    • , Jaehyung Yu
    •  & Arend M. van der Zande

  • Comment |

    The past few years have witnessed significant development in graphene research, yet a number of challenges remain for its commercialization and industrialization. This Comment discusses relevant issues for industrial-scale graphene synthesis, one of the critical aspects for the future graphene industry.

    • Li Lin
    • , Hailin Peng
    •  & Zhongfan Liu

  • Editorial |

    2D materials face challenges along the road to commercialization, with increasing efforts being made in order to satisfy industrial needs.

  • Comment |

    Electronic and photonic devices based on graphene have unique properties, leading to outstanding performance figures of merit. Mastering the integration of this unconventional material into an established semiconductor fabrication line represents a critical step towards commercialization.

    • Daniel Neumaier
    • , Stephan Pindl
    •  & Max C. Lemme

  • News & Views |

    Use of graphene in a transistor configuration offers an alternative to metal electrodes for the recording of ultraslow neural potentials that occur in neurologic diseases.

    • Jed A. Hartings

  • News & Views |

    Researchers have developed a graphene plasmonics detector that is suitable for fast-response and high-resolution detection of infrared photons at room temperature.

    • Zhe Fei

  • Article |

    Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy with nanometre spatial resolution and low-energy electron microscopy/diffraction reveal that interaction with the Cu substrate can induce up to 7.5% lattice expansion in graphene adlayers.

    • Chaoyu Chen
    • , José Avila
    •  & Maria C. Asensio

  • News & Views |

    Local controlled deposition of graphene on a moving polycrystalline substrate, in the presence of a fast-flowing buffer gas, allows the evolutionary selection of the fastest-growing crystallites, forming macroscopic graphene monocrystals.

    • Daniele Passerone

  • Letter |

    A device is presented that can detect mid-infrared plasmons in graphene encapsulated by hexagonal boron nitride via the thermoelectric effect; the natural decay product of the plasmons (electronic heat) is converted into a measurable voltage signal.

    • Mark B. Lundeberg
    • , Yuanda Gao
    •  & Frank H. L. Koppens

  • News & Views |

    Graphene is used as a capping sheet to synthesize 2D gallium nitride by means of migration-enhanced encapsulation growth. This technique may allow the stabilization of 2D materials that are not amenable to synthesis by traditional methods.

    • Nikhil A. Koratkar

  • Letter |

    The half-Heusler GdPtBi is reported to exhibit negative longitudinal magnetoresistance. This is attributed to the chiral anomaly due to the formation of Weyl nodes with an applied magnetic field. The anomaly is also found to suppress the thermopower.

    • Max Hirschberger
    • , Satya Kushwaha
    •  & N. P. Ong

  • Feature |

    Graphene is extensively researched in China. Xiaoyue Xiao, Yichun Li and Zhaoping Liu illustrate how the China Innovation Alliance of the Graphene Industry aims to harness this for commercial opportunities.

    • Xiaoyue Xiao
    • , Yichun Li
    •  & Zhaoping Liu

  • Editorial |

    Biomedical applications for graphene are attracting interest from academics and industrial partners aiming to develop next-generation medical devices and therapies.

  • Letter |

    A magnetic exchange field confined within graphene and higher than 14 T, an enhancement of the spin generation, and a ferromagnetic ground state are found in the graphene/EuS heterostructure—a model of a 2D-material/magnetic-insulator system.

    • Peng Wei
    • , Sunwoo Lee
    •  & Ching-Tzu Chen

  • News & Views |

    Quantification of structural disorder and electron localization in superlattices of colloidal nanocrystals shows that minimizing variations in size and epitaxial connections is key to enhance the electronic properties of these materials.

    • Christophe Delerue

  • Letter |

    The interaction between graphene and the spins of molecular magnets grown on it has been studied. The coupling between graphene phonons, spins and Dirac fermions modifies—and may be used for controlling—the quantum spin dynamics.

    • Christian Cervetti
    • , Angelo Rettori
    •  & Lapo Bogani

  • News & Views |

    Large single-crystalline graphene monolayers have been synthesized on a Cu–Ni alloy using a local precursor feeding method with an enhanced growth rate. The fast production of wafer-scale single crystals brings graphene closer to real applications.

    • Li Lin
    •  & Zhongfan Liu

  • Research Highlights |

    • John Plummer

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