Modern Technology Helps Discover Beryllonitrene, a New 2D Material
Written by AZoMApr 28 2021
An international research team including scientists from the University of Bayreuth has used modern high-pressure technology to successfully discover, for the first time, a previously unknown two-dimensional (2D) material.
A single beryllonitrene layer consists of BeN4 pentagons and Be2N4 hexagons. The beryllium atoms are shown as grey balls, nitrogen atoms as blue balls. Image Credit: M. Bykov.
Named beryllonitrene, the new material features nitrogen and beryllium atoms that are arranged regularly. It exhibits a unique electronic lattice structure that is highly promising for quantum technology applications.
The production of this material necessitated a compression pressure of about one million times more than the pressure of the Earth’s atmosphere. The findings of the study have been reported by the researchers in the
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