Nature Communications (Jul 2016)

Van der Waals pressure and its effect on trapped interlayer molecules

  • K. S. Vasu,
  • E. Prestat,
  • J. Abraham,
  • J. Dix,
  • R. J. Kashtiban,
  • J. Beheshtian,
  • J. Sloan,
  • P. Carbone,
  • M. Neek-Amal,
  • S. J. Haigh,
  • A. K. Geim,
  • R. R. Nair

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12168
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Molecules trapped between the layers of two-dimensional materials are thought to experience high pressure. Here, the authors report measurements of this interfacial pressure by capturing pressure-sensitive molecules and studying their structural changes, and show that it can also induce chemical reaction.