Discovering a New Form Of Magnetism in Magnetic Graphene
Thought LeadersDr. Matthew CoakDepartment of Physics, The University of WarwickCavendish Laboratory, The University of Cambridge
AZoNano speaks with Dr. Matthew Coak from the University of Warwick and the University of Cambridge, leader of an international team that has identified a new form of magnetism in so-called magnetic graphene - this could lead to new ways of understanding superconductivity in this unusual type of material.
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We have measured the magnetic properties of a layered material under extreme conditions of pressure. We carried out the first high-pressure neutron diffraction study on the TMPS3 family of van-der-Waals materials (TM = a transition-metal), compounds currently under intense research scrutiny worldwide.
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Physicists Discover a Strange New Form of Magnetism Within Magnetic Graphene
9 FEBRUARY 2021
From childhood, we are taught that the world exists in three physical dimensions. That s true, for the most part, but it skips over something quite fascinating: the strange two-dimensional world of nanoscale materials, like the wonder material graphene.
Graphene and its engineered, single-layer counterparts do in fact exist in three dimensions, albeit just barely – sitting right on the fringe, atomically speaking. That s because these so-called 2D materials are only one atom thick, embodying an incredible structural thinness that lends them all sorts of weird powers.
Now, in a new study led by physicists from the University of Cambridge, scientists have pulled off the same kind of magnetic feat with a different two-dimensional material called iron phosphorus trisulfide (FePS
Researchers have identified a new form of magnetism in so-called magnetic graphene, which could point the way toward understanding superconductivity in this unusual type of material.