New super-thin '2D' metal sheets could enable ultra-low power chips and can you guess how they're made? Yup, by squishing stuff really hard
The Chinese Academy of Physics researchers claim the method can be applied to any metal with a low melting point. This ...
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Metal sheets 100,000x thinner than a hair developed, can transform electronics
Scientists have made metal sheets that are just a few atoms thick. Using their new method, researchers developed 2D sheets of ...
Metal sheets, ultra-thin feats: are China’s 2D metals the future of electronics?
In an article published in the journal Nature on Thursday, the researchers said that compared to their bulkier counterparts, ...
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From Cans To Sheet Metal, With Ease
Aluminium drinks cans make a great source of thin sheet metal which can be used for all manner of interesting projects, but it’s safe to say that retrieving a sheet of metal from a can is a ...
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Metals can be squeezed into sheets just a few atoms thick
Du says the process was conceived eight years ago, but only recently bore fruit when the team discovered that the MoS 2 layers kept the thin metal sheets stable. “A single layer of free-standing ...
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Move over graphene! Scientists forge bismuthene and host of atoms-thick metals
Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi, a physicist who studies 2D materials at the University of California, Irvine, likens the ...
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sheet metal
Sheet metal is very easy to form, including the pressing in of intricate shapes with dies and a hydraulic press, but the dies themselves are slightly harder to come by. What if we could 3D print ...
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Metal sheets, ultra-thin feats: are China’s 2D metals the future of electronics?
In an article published in the journal Nature on Thursday, the researchers said that compared to their bulkier counterparts, their ultra-thin metal sheets – especially one-atom-thick bismuth ...