An international team has added another two-dimensional material to the expanding list that started with graphene. Hematene is a three-atom-thick iron oxide mono-layer, which has been made at Rice University in Texas by exfoliating it from the naturally-occurring iron ore heamatite (or ‘hematite’). Transmission electron image shows a single sheet of hematene. Scale bar 0.5μm ...

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