Stone to Silicon

Materials · 2018

Magic-angle graphene

Two graphene sheets twisted by 1.1 degrees become a superconductor.

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero's MIT group reported superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene in 2018. Twist angle became a new knob for designing materials.

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