Nagoya University-led researchers produce 2D sheets of tin atoms predicted to have exotic uses in electronics. Nagoya, Japan - Sometimes it pays to be two-dimensional. The merits of graphene, a 2D ...

Imagine a material so thin that it consists of a single layer of atoms, yet it possesses strength, flexibility, and electrical properties that outmatch those of materials thousands of times thicker.

Adding fluorine atoms (yellow) to a single layer of tin atoms (gray) should allow a predicted new material, stanene, to conduct electricity perfectly along its edges (blue and red arrows) at ...