After metal formation, the anvils serve as protective layers, encapsulating the 2D metal and preventing it from oxidizing or degrading when exposed to the environment. The researchers used their ...

In the manufacturing process, pure metals are melted and compressed under high pressure between two rigid vdW anvils. The ...

They then continued this “vdW squeezing” until the opposite sides of the anvils cooled to room temperature and 2D sheets of metal formed. The team produced five atomically thin 2D metals using this ...