Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Embedding atomic cobalt into graphene lattices to activate room-temperature ferromagnetism

  • Wei Hu,
  • Chao Wang,
  • Hao Tan,
  • Hengli Duan,
  • Guinan Li,
  • Na Li,
  • Qianqian Ji,
  • Ying Lu,
  • Yao Wang,
  • Zhihu Sun,
  • Fengchun Hu,
  • Wensheng Yan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22122-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Graphene has shown incredible promise as ideal material for numerous fields; however its use in spintronics has been hampered by the lack of intrinsic magnetism. Here, Hu et al succeed in embedding Cobalt in the graphene lattice, creating robust room-temperature ferromagnetism.