In applications to water desalination, one might expect that a more hydrophilic crystal would be preferable to a hydrophobic one because a ... and that hydrophobicity can both help and hinder water ...

Two-dimensional materials are substances with ... The overlap of different crystal lattices can give rise to a Moire structure with long range periodicity. While this feature has been heavily ...

MXenes – pronounced 'max-eens' – first discovered in 2011, are ceramics that comprise one of the largest families of two-dimensional (2D) materials. MXenes are made from a bulk crystal called MAX. 2D ...

Their work, published in Nature Photonics, demonstrates a novel technique to bring light waves to a complete standstill by ...