Carla Boix, Eugenio Coronado, Samuel Mañas
Carla Boix, Eugenio Coronado, Samuel Mañas A team from the Institute of Molecular Science (ICMol) of the University of Valencia has taken a step forward in the field of twistronics, an area that brings together physics, chemistry and nanotechnology towards the search and control of new and extraordinary properties in graphene and other two-dimensional materials. The work appears published in the journal Nature Materials. rials . Twistronics is an emerging field that explores the ability of two-dimensional materials to provide themselves, when their stacked layers are rotated, with new electrical, magnetic and optical properties. One of the most unique results in this field was the observation of superconductivity in graphene (2019) by rotating two stacked layers of this sheet material from graphite at a small angle. The study now published in Nature Materials demonstrates, for the first time, that two-dimensional materials other than graphene can also present emerging and unexplored properties. Specifically, the ICMol team has discovered that a magnetic bilayer rotated at an angle of 90 degrees exhibits spectacular magneto-transport properties, such as the appearance of magnetic multistates with memory effects.
