Our group has developed a novel polymer-free approach for stacking van der Waals crystalsIn this work, we introduce a new stacking method that uses thin mica crystals to assemble van der Waals heterostructures. The concept is simple and elegant:
why use polymers to handle van der Waals materials if we can simply use another van der Waals material instead?This approach enables relatively straightforward fabrication of heterostructures with ultraclean interfaces and surfaces, with the potential to improve device performance across many areas of 2D materials research.
For more details, see our paper in
Nature Communications:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72554-xWe are also open to collaborations. If you are interested in learning and applying this method in your own research, please feel free to get in touch.
