Peter Blake

TL;DR: This work reports the fabrication of narrow and smooth capillaries through van der Waals assembly, with atomically flat sheets at the top and bottom separated by spacers made of two-dimensional crystals with a precisely controlled number of layers, using graphene and its multilayers as archetypalTwo-dimensional materials to demonstrate this technology.

TL;DR: A remedial approach based on cleavage, transfer, alignment, and encapsulation of air-sensitive crystals, all inside a controlled inert atmosphere, which offers a venue to significantly expand the range of experimentally accessible two-dimensional crystals and their heterostructures.

TL;DR: In this paper, soft magnetic NiFe electrodes have been used to inject polarized spins into graphene, and a 10% change in resistance has been observed as the electrodes switch from the parallel to the antiparallel state.

TL;DR: Graphene is the first example of truly two-dimensional crystals - it's just one layer of carbon atoms as mentioned in this paper and it turns out that graphene is a gapless semiconductor with unique electronic properties resulting from the fact that charge carriers in graphene obey linear dispersion relation.

TL;DR: It is shown that graphene deposited on a substrate has a non-negligible density of atomic scale defects and the effect of such impurities on electron transport is evaluated by mimicking them with hydrogen adsorbates and measuring the induced changes in both mobility and Raman intensity.