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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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