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Diving into interlayer confinement

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Noble gas atoms sandwiched in bilayer graphene are directly visualized with scanning transmission electron microscopy, revealing solid and liquid-like dynamics of two-dimensional cluster structures at room temperature under encapsulation.

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Fig. 1: Structure of noble gas clusters sandwiched in bilayer graphene.

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Xu, T., Sun, L. Diving into interlayer confinement. Nat. Mater. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-024-01850-y

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