Phyllosilicates have emerged as a promising class of large bandgap lamellar insulators.
Their applications have been explored from the fabrication of graphene-based devices to 2D …

Phyllosilicate minerals are an emerging class of naturally occurring layered insulators with
large bandgap energy that have gained attention from the scientific community. This class of …

Water is the matrix of life, and its confinement in nanocavities is a central topic from
geophysics to nanotribology. Phyllosilicate layered minerals provide natural nanocavities for …

Talc is an insulating layered material that is stable at ambient conditions and has high-
quality basal cleavage, which is a major advantage for its use in van der Waals …

Phyllosilicate minerals, which form a class of naturally occurring layered materials (LMs),
have been recently considered as a low-cost source of two-dimensional (2D) materials …

The stacking of few layers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and their
heterostructures allows us to create new structures, observe new physical phenomena, and …

We review the main developments and first commissioning experiments at the CARNAÚBA
X-ray nanoprobe beamline, recently installed at the brand-new Sirius 4th-generation …

Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures have attracted much
attention due to their unique properties in photocatalysis, electronics, and energy storage …

Biotite, an iron-rich mineral belonging to the trioctahedral mica group, is a naturally
abundant layered material (LM) exhibiting attractive electronic properties for application in …

Pyrophyllite, with the chemical formula Al 2 Si 4 O 10 (OH) 2, is a naturally occurring and
abundant van der Waals mineral belonging to the group of phyllosilicates. It is very soft …