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The new nanoscale manufacturing process draws zinc to the surface of a liquid, where it forms sheets just a few atoms thick. Credit: Xudong Wang

After 6 yrs of painstaking effort, Uni of Wisconsin-Madison materials scientists believe the tiny sheets of the semiconductor zinc oxide they’re growing could have huge implications for the future of a host of electronic and biomedical devices. Xudong Wang et al have developed a technique for creating nearly 2D sheets of compounds that do not naturally form such thin materials. Nanomaterials have unique electronic and chemical properties compared to identically composed materials at larger, conventional scales. Until now, they were limited to working with naturally occurring 2-D nanosheets eg graphene...