Nature Communications (May 2020)

Universal mechanical exfoliation of large-area 2D crystals

  • Yuan Huang,
  • Yu-Hao Pan,
  • Rong Yang,
  • Li-Hong Bao,
  • Lei Meng,
  • Hai-Lan Luo,
  • Yong-Qing Cai,
  • Guo-Dong Liu,
  • Wen-Juan Zhao,
  • Zhang Zhou,
  • Liang-Mei Wu,
  • Zhi-Li Zhu,
  • Ming Huang,
  • Li-Wei Liu,
  • Lei Liu,
  • Peng Cheng,
  • Ke-Hui Wu,
  • Shi-Bing Tian,
  • Chang-Zhi Gu,
  • You-Guo Shi,
  • Yan-Feng Guo,
  • Zhi Gang Cheng,
  • Jiang-Ping Hu,
  • Lin Zhao,
  • Guan-Hua Yang,
  • Eli Sutter,
  • Peter Sutter,
  • Ye-Liang Wang,
  • Wei Ji,
  • Xing-Jiang Zhou,
  • Hong-Jun Gao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16266-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Here, the authors develop a one-step, contamination-free, Au-assisted mechanical exfoliation method for 2D materials, and isolate 40 types of single-crystalline monolayers, including elemental 2D crystals, metal-dichalcogenides, magnets and superconductors with millimetre size.