2 D materials

Sodium-Ion Batteries Offer an Attractive Alternative to Li-ion Batteries
Feb 8, 2014
Sodium-ion batteries offer an attractive alternative to Li-ion batteries not because they outperform Li-ion batteries, but mainly because of lower costs due to the the nearly unlimited supply of sodium. They are also an attractive ...

Tags: Li-ion batteries, ACS Nano, 2-D materials
We May Have Something to Join Mix in 2-D Universe That Will Go by Name "Borophene"
Feb 7, 2014
The world of two-dimensional (2-D) materials has just gotten a little more crowded. If graphene, boron nitride, molybendum disulfide and silicene weren’t quite enough, we now may have something to join the mix in the 2-D universe that ...

Tags: Borophene, Nature Communications, Scotch Tape, B36
Researchers Developed a New Technique for Creating a Two-Dimensional Hybrid Material
Jan 14, 2014
Some people believe that developing new manufacturing techniques for na noscale devices, like new types of epitaxy in which crystals are grown on a substrate, may in fact be more critical to producing the next generations of chips than ...

Tags: two-dimensional hybrid material, graphene, boron nitride