/newsroom/taxonomy/term/13081/all en /newsroom/channels/news/team-canadian-and-italian-researchers-breaking-new-ground-materials-science-322263 <p>A study by a team of researchers from Canada and Italy recently published in <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-020-0682-z"><i>Nature Materials</i></a> could usher in a revolutionary development in materials science, leading to big changes in the way companies create modern electronics.</p> <p>The goal was to develop two-dimensional materials, which are a single atomic layer thick, with added functionality to extend the revolutionary developments in materials science that started with the discovery of graphene in 2004.</p> Wed, 20 May 2020 13:35:01 +0000 justin.dupuis@mcgill.ca 211845 at /newsroom