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Giant elastoresistance in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene
Science · By Xuetao Ma, Zhaoyu Liu, Jiaqi Cai, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Xiaodong Xu, Jiun-Haw Chu & Matthew Yankowitz ·
The Brief · written from 2 sources
- Researchers report giant elastoresistance in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, where strain changes electrical resistance.
- The study was published in Science, volume 394, issue 6825, pages 768-772, in November 2026.
- Experiments in this field use robotic manipulators to stack and twist two single-atom-thick carbon sheets.
Why it matters
Showing that strain can tune resistance in magic-angle graphene offers a new way to control its electronic behaviour, which matters for researchers studying correlated and superconducting states in 2D materials.
Who’s affected
- condensed matter physicists
- materials scientists working on two-dimensional materials
- #graphene
- #strain
- #elastoresistance
- #2d materials
- #condensed matter
Science, Volume 394, Issue 6825 , Page 768-772, November 2026.
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