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SUBMITTER: Velicky M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5316834 | biostudies-other | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nature communications 20170213
Weak interlayer interactions in van der Waals crystals facilitate their mechanical exfoliation to monolayer and few-layer two-dimensional materials, which often exhibit striking physical phenomena absent in their bulk form. Here we utilize mechanical exfoliation to produce a two-dimensional form of a mineral franckeite and show that the phase segregation of chemical species into discrete layers at the sub-nanometre scale facilitates franckeite's layered structure and basal cleavage down to a sin ...[more]