Physicists discover important new property for graphene
Feb 8, 2021 · Graphene has been found to have the electronic property of ferroelectricity. The work by MIT researchers and colleagues could usher in faster information-processing paradigms.
Physicists measure a key aspect of superconductivity in “magic-angle ...
Feb 5, 2025 · Physicists measured how readily a current of electron pairs flows through “magic-angle” graphene, a major step toward understanding how this unusual material superconducts.
Physicists discover — and explain — unexpected magnetism in an ...
Jan 23, 2025 · MIT physicists have created an ultrathin, two-dimensional material with unusual magnetic properties. They did so by working with three layers of graphene. Each layer is composed of only a …
MIT physicists find unexpected crystals of electrons in an ultrathin ...
Feb 26, 2025 · MIT physicists report the discovery of electrons forming crystalline structures in a material billionths of a meter thick. The material, rhombohedral pentalayer graphene, joins a family of …
A graphene roll-out | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Apr 17, 2018 · MIT engineers have developed a scalable manufacturing process that spools out strips of graphene for use in ultrathin membranes.
From a five-layer graphene sandwich, a rare electronic state emerges ...
Oct 18, 2023 · When stacked in five layers in a rhombohedral pattern, graphene takes on a rare “multiferroic” state, exhibiting both unconventional magnetism and an exotic electronic behavior …
Insulator or superconductor? Physicists find graphene is both
Mar 5, 2018 · Physicists at MIT and Harvard University have found that graphene, a lacy, honeycomb-like sheet of carbon atoms, can behave at two electrical extremes: as an insulator, in which electrons …
MIT physicists discover a new type of superconductor that’s also a ...
May 22, 2025 · MIT scientists were surprised to discover a “chiral superconductor” — a material that conducts electricity without resistance, and also, paradoxically, is magnetic — in rhombohedral …
New self-assembling material could be the key to recyclable EV ...
Aug 28, 2025 · MIT researchers designed molecules that can serve as the electrolyte in a lithium-ion battery and then quickly break apart at the end of the battery’s life, making it easier to recycle all of …
Electrons become fractions of themselves in graphene, study finds
Feb 21, 2024 · MIT physicists have observed fractional quantum Hall effect in simple pentalayer graphene. The finding could make it easier to develop more robust quantum computers.