As electronic devices get smaller, the materials needed to create them get smaller as well. Nanoscience is the study of extremely small materials that find uses in energy storage, electronics, health and safety applications and more.
Now a team led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has developed a new self-assembly method to fabricate multilayered 2D nanosheets. A nanosheet is an extremely small, lasagna-like material made of ultrathin layers of polymers and nanoparticles.
These nanosheets have significantly reduced the number of defects compared with previous methods, which will extend the shelf life of some consumer electronics. Because the nanosheets synthesized by this new method are recyclable, this method could also enable a sustainable manufacturing approach that reduces the number of parts on an electronic device that need to be dumped into landfills.
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