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February 13, 2020

Illustration of a bend in bilayer graphene

Illustration of a bend in bilayer graphene.

[Research supported by a National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Center grant (DMR 1720633).]

To learn more about this research, see the University of Illinois news story Graphene: The more you bend it, the softer it gets. (Date image taken: September 2019; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Feb. 13, 2020)

Credit: Blanka Janicek, Pinshane Huang research group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


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