All believed that the Russians might soon have an atomic plane ready for testing. The U.S.’s atomic-plane project has been slowed down three times since 1946 because critics argued that it was ...

The exotic material is built from atomic planes composed of Vanadium atoms arranged on a so-called kagome lattice—a pattern of interlaced triangles and hexagons—stacked on top of one another, with ...

The presence of dislocations permits atomic planes to slip "one atomic row at a time." Dislocations interact with the microstructure of the material and these interactions are responsible for their ...

In a perspective review written for Nature, Sir Andre and Dr Irina Grigorieva, from The University of Manchester, discuss how layered materials can be split into isolated atomic planes and then ...