Wonder material silicene has suicidal tendencies

The semiconductor industry of the future had high expectations of the new material silicene, which shares a lot of similarities with the 'wonder material' graphene. However, researchers of the MESA+ Research Institute of the University of Twente - who recently managed to directly and in real time film the formation of silicene - are harshly bursting the bubble: their research shows that silicene has suicidal tendencies. The research has been published by the renowned academic journal Applied Physics Letters.

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