A Kansas State University chemical engineer has discovered
that a new member of the ultrathin materials family has great potential to
improve electronic and thermal devices.
Vikas Berry, William H. Honstead professor of chemical
engineering, and his research team have studied a new three-atom-thick material
-- molybdenum disulfide -- and found that manipulating it with gold atoms
improves its electrical characteristics. Their research appears in a recent
issue of Nano Letters.