Scientists have made metal sheets that are just a few atoms thick. Using their new method, researchers developed 2D sheets of bismuth, gallium, indium, tin, and lead that were hundreds of ...

Du says the process was conceived eight years ago, but only recently bore fruit when the team discovered that the MoS 2 layers kept the thin metal sheets stable. “A single layer of free-standing ...

For now, it's not known exactly what properties these exotically thin metal sheets may have, but their relatively large sizes are said to create new possibilities for practical applications.

That's jargon for "we pressed a microscope slide against the liquid metal and hope the oxide stuck to it." Stick it did. Microscopy showed that, for each of the three metals, sheets of a thin film ...

an atomically thin layer of carbon. “This is just a starting point,” he says. “Now, other people can step in and start studying” the metal sheets’ properties. The properties of 2D ...