Team claims to have created a sample of stanene
Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - 09:00
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with members from Stanford University and several institutions in China is claiming to have found a way to create a sample of stanene—a one-atom thick mesh (buckled honeycomb) of tin that theories have predicted could be used to conduct electricity with zero loss due to heat. In their paper published in the journal Nature Materials, the team describes the process they used to create their sample and the problems they encountered when trying to test its conductivity.