Graphene has been hailed as one of the greatest inventions in modern history—yet it hasn't really done much of anything, just ...

Researchers have revealed new insights into rhombohedral stacking in graphene, reporting on how it behaves as a semiconductor ...

Scientists are investigating how structures made from several layers of graphene stack up in terms of their fundamental physics and their potential as reconfigurable semiconductors for advanced ...

Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi, a physicist who studies 2D materials at the University of California, Irvine, likens the ...

When multiple layers of graphene are stacked on top of each other, the resulting material is known as graphite, which is commonly used as the "lead" in pencils. However, the mechanical properties of ...

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You may recognize graphite as the "lead" in a pencil, but besides helping you ... on the rich physics of superconductivity in multilayer graphene, which is a single layer of carbon atoms.

Rhombohedral pentalayer graphene is essentially a special form of pencil lead. Pencil lead, or graphite, is composed of graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in hexagons resembling a ...

“A typical pencil lead consists of about 10 million layers of graphene.” Hexagonal stacking, also known as AB stacking, occurs when even-numbered graphene layers are aligned, with the odd ...