Magnetic materials form the basis of technologies that play increasingly pivotal roles in our lives today, including sensing and hard-disk data storage. The findings, published in the journal Nature, show that magnetic properties can exist even in the 2D realm - opening a world of potential applications. "We envision that new information technologies may emerge based on these new 2D magnets," said Xu. However, no 3D magnetic substance had previously retained its magnetic properties when thinned down to a single atomic sheet. There, you can get even more exotic phenomena not seen in the monolayer alone or in the 3D bulk crystal," Xu added.

Source: India Today June 11, 2017 06:41 UTC