Kagome graphene promises exciting properties

Kagome graphene promises exciting properties

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210216100134.htm

Researchers around the world are searching for new synthetic materials with special properties such as superconductivity -- that is, the conduction of electric current without resistance. These new substances are an important step in the development of highly energy-efficient electronics. The starting material is often a single-layer honeycomb structure of carbon atoms (graphene).

Theoretical calculations predict that the compound known as "kagome graphene" should have completely different properties to graphene. Kagome graphene consists of a regular pattern of hexagons and equilateral triangles that surround one another. The name "kagome" comes from Japanese and refers to the old Japanese art of kagome weaving, in which baskets were woven in the aforementioned pattern.