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2D and thin-film copper synthesized via magnetron sputtering

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Two-dimensional metals have gained great attention in recent years. However, most of these metals possess relatively strong chemical bonding in three directions; therefore, it is difficult to synthesize 2D metals. In this paper, we prepared 2D and thin- film copper materials via magnetron sputtering. 2D and thin-film copper are formed due to the accumulation of strain and stress associated with different coefficients of thermal expansion for the metal and substrate. SEM and AFM studies suggest that the minimum thickness of a freestanding single layer is approximately 1 nm, with lateral dimensions up to a few millimeters.

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The author thanks for financial support from the grant of the Ministry of Education, Youth- and Sports of Czech Republic (Grant No. LM2023037), the European Regional Development Fund Project, the project NANOMAT CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/17_048/0007376 and the project of Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice “Excellent teams”2023, the grant of Hebei Normal University (Grant No. L2021B12) and the HeBei NSF (Grant No. QN2023054).

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  1. College of Physics, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, 050024, China

    Bin Gu, Guangyu Wen & Bo Zhang

  2. Faculty of Chemical Technology, Institute of Applied Physics and Mathematics, University of Pardubice, Studentska 95, Pardubice, 530 02, Czech Republic

    Janicek Petr

  3. Faculty of Chemical Technology, Center of Materials and Nanotechnologies, University of Pardubice, Nam. Cs. Legii 565, Pardubice, 530 02, Czech Republic

    Janicek Petr & Tomas Wagner

  4. Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, Studentska 573, 532 10, Pardubice, Czech Republic

    Tomas Wagner

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GW and BG: carried out the experiment. PJ: conducted COMSOL simulation. BZ: wrote the manuscript with support from TW. TW: supervised the project.

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Gu, B., Wen, G., Zhang, B. et al. 2D and thin-film copper synthesized via magnetron sputtering. MRS Communications (2024). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43579-024-00529-4

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