Creating designer quantum states of matter atom-by-atom

AA Khajetoorians, D Wegner, AF Otte, I Swart - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Advances in high-resolution and spin-resolved scanning tunnelling microscopy, as well as
atomic-scale manipulation, have enabled the bottom-up, atom-by-atom creation and …

Two-dimensional topological semimetals

X Feng, J Zhu, W Wu, SA Yang - Chinese Physics B, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The field of two-dimensional topological semimetals, which emerged at the intersection of
two-dimensional materials and topological materials, has been rapidly developing in recent …

Experimental realization and characterization of an electronic Lieb lattice

MR Slot, TS Gardenier, PH Jacobse, GCP Van Miert… - Nature physics, 2017 - nature.com
Geometry, whether on the atomic or nanoscale, is a key factor for the electronic band
structure of materials. Some specific geometries give rise to novel and potentially useful …

Topological states in engineered atomic lattices

R Drost, T Ojanen, A Harju, P Liljeroth - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Topological materials exhibit protected edge modes that have been proposed for
applications in, for example, spintronics and quantum computation. Although a number of …

Transformation between 2D and 3D covalent organic frameworks via reversible [2+ 2] cycloaddition

T Jadhav, Y Fang, CH Liu, A Dadvand… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We report the first transformation between crystalline vinylene-linked two-dimensional (2D)
polymers and crystalline cyclobutane-linked three-dimensional (3D) polymers. Specifically …

Blue phosphorene oxide: strain-tunable quantum phase transitions and novel 2D emergent fermions

L Zhu, SS Wang, S Guan, Y Liu, T Zhang, G Chen… - Nano Letters, 2016 - ACS Publications
Tunable quantum phase transitions and novel emergent fermions in solid-state materials are
fascinating subjects of research. Here, we propose a new stable two-dimensional (2D) …

Repair of critical-sized bone defects in rabbit femurs using graphitic carbon nitride (gC3N4) and graphene oxide (GO) nanomaterials

AA Sadek, M Abd-Elkareem, HN Abdelhamid… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Various biomaterials have been evaluated to enhance bone formation in critical-sized bone
defects; however, the ideal scaffold is still missing. The objective of this study was to …

Self-Intercalated 1T-FeSe2 as an Effective Kagome Lattice

ZM Zhang, BC Gong, JH Nie, F Meng, Q Zhang… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
In kagome lattice, with the emergence of Dirac cones and flat band in electronic structure, it
provides a versatile ground for exploring intriguing interplay among frustrated geometry …

Engineered electronic states in atomically precise artificial lattices and graphene nanoribbons

L Yan, P Liljeroth - Advances in Physics: X, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The fabrication of atomically precise structures with designer electronic properties is one of
the emerging topics in condensed matter physics. The required level of structural control can …

On‐surface synthesis of nitrogen‐doped Kagome graphene

R Pawlak, X Liu, S Ninova, P D'astolfo… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nitrogen‐doped Kagome graphene (N‐KG) has been theoretically predicted as a candidate
for the emergence of a topological band gap as well as unconventional superconductivity …