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Researchers at EPFL identified potential unidimensional nanomaterials, including what could be the thinnest metallic wire, using computational methods to study the structural properties of over 780,000 crystals. Their findings spotlight 14 materials with potential uses in electronics and quantum studies. Credit: NCCR MARVEL
Researchers at EPFL have employed computational tools to look for new 1-D materials that could be exfoliated from known three-dimensional crystals. Out of an initial list of over 780,000 crystals, they came up with a list of 800 1-D materials, out of which they selected the 14 best candidates – compounds that have not been synthesized as actual wires yet, but that simulations suggest as feasible.
The researchers started from a collection of over 780,000 crystals, taken from various databases found in the literature and held together by van der Waals forces, the sort of weak interactions that happen when atoms are close enough for their electrons to overlap.
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