Huanyao Cun

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of the main techniques for production and processing of graphene and related materials (GRMs), as well as the key characterization procedures, adopting a 'hands-on' approach, providing practical details and procedures as derived from literature and from the authors' experience, in order to enable the reader to reproduce the results.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the boron nitride nanomesh, a corrugated single layer of hexagonal borons nitride (h-BN) with a 3.2 nm honeycomb superstructure formed on a Rh(111) surface, can trap individual argon atoms at distinct subsurface sites at room temperature.

TL;DR: The setup of an apparatus for chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and its characterization on four-inch wafers in ultra high vacuum (UHV) environment is reported and delivers high quality single layers of h-BN and thus grants access to large area UHV processed surfaces, which had been hitherto restricted to expensive, small area single crystal substrates.

TL;DR: Large-area hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) promises many new applications of two-dimensional materials, such as the protective packing of reactive surfaces or as membranes in liquids, but scalable production beyond exfoliation from bulk single crystals remained a major challenge.

TL;DR: Initial stages of a chiral phase transition in the monolayer of a quinacridone derivative on the Au(111) surface were investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy at submolecular resolution and are significant for the understanding and control of chiralphase transitions in related molecular systems like liquid crystals.