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A direct thermoplastic foaming method enables scalable production of superelastic, multifunctional cellular-structured monoliths from diverse two-dimensional nanomaterials.
Combined experiment and modeling show that thermal fluctuations of protruding edge functional groups of graphene nanopores modulate the pore size, enabling thermally-activated molecular transport for high-temperature hydrogen separation.
Understanding and controlling the quantum friction remain challenging. Here, the authors reveal pseudo-Landau levels splitting induced quantum friction at solid-solid interfaces via engineering the nanocurvature geometry of folded graphene edges.
The authors demonstrate that the response of the flexural vibrations of twisted bilayer graphene can be hysteretic depending on the angle between the lattices of the layers, finding that the quality factors of the vibrations are enhanced compared to untwisted bilayers.
A novel nanomaterial features the ideal surface chemistry for removing emerging, persistent organic contaminants from drinking water, leading to a swift transition from fundamental research to large-scale applications.
A strong and tough human muscle-like actuator fibre is developed by exploiting 2D graphene fillers within a liquid crystalline elastomer matrix. Reversible percolation of the graphene filler network endows the artificial muscle with a work capacity and power density beyond those of human or mammalian muscles.
An article in Communications Engineering reports the upcycling of waste plastics from vehicles into graphene that can be then used as an additive in foams for cars.
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.
