Strain engineering is a promising way to tune the electrical, electrochemical, magnetic, and
optical properties of 2D materials, with the potential to achieve high‐performance 2D …

The quest for realizing and manipulating ever smaller man-made movable structures and
dynamical machines has spurred tremendous endeavors, led to important discoveries, and …

Nanomechanics has brought mesoscopic physics into the world of vibrations. Because
nanomechanical systems are small, fluctuations are significant, the vibrations already …

Mechanical deformation of a crystal can have a profound effect on its physical properties.
Notably, even small modifications of bond geometry can completely change the size and …

Understanding how microscopic spin configuration gives rise to exotic properties at the
macroscopic length scale has long been pursued in magnetic materials,,,–. One seminal …

Van der Waals magnets provide an ideal playground to explore the fundamentals of low-
dimensional magnetism and open opportunities for ultrathin spin-processing devices. The …

With the outstanding mechanical properties, van der Waals (vdW) materials have attracted
extensive attention in the research of straintronics in the past decade. In this perspective, we …

The 2D ternary transition metal phosphorous chalcogenides (TMPCs) have attracted
extensive research interest due to their widely tunable band gap, rich electronic properties …

Micro-and nanoelectromechanical systems have numerous applications in sensing and
signal transduction. Many properties benefit from reducing the system size to the nanoscale …

Magnetostriction, coupling between the mechanical and magnetic degrees of freedom, finds
a variety of applications in magnetic actuation, transduction and sensing,. The discovery of …