{"title":"Homophase bilayers: more than just the sum of their monolayers.","authors":"M Feuerbacher","doi":"10.1107/S2053273325001573","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Twisted homophase bilayers, stacks of two rotated monolayers such as graphene, exhibit remarkable physical properties absent in their constituent monolayers. The structure of bilayer systems is dominated by a moiré effect and critically depends on the twist angle. Quiquandon & Gratias [Acta Cryst. (2025), A81, 94-106] develop a crystallographic framework for rigorous description of the structure of bilayers, including systems without a coincidence lattice. They offer a set of tools that can describe the structure of any arbitrary bilayer system and enable the connection with its physical properties.</p>","PeriodicalId":106,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances","volume":" ","pages":"91-93"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances","FirstCategoryId":"1","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S2053273325001573","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/2/25 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Twisted homophase bilayers, stacks of two rotated monolayers such as graphene, exhibit remarkable physical properties absent in their constituent monolayers. The structure of bilayer systems is dominated by a moiré effect and critically depends on the twist angle. Quiquandon & Gratias [Acta Cryst. (2025), A81, 94-106] develop a crystallographic framework for rigorous description of the structure of bilayers, including systems without a coincidence lattice. They offer a set of tools that can describe the structure of any arbitrary bilayer system and enable the connection with its physical properties.
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Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances publishes articles reporting advances in the theory and practice of all areas of crystallography in the broadest sense. As well as traditional crystallography, this includes nanocrystals, metacrystals, amorphous materials, quasicrystals, synchrotron and XFEL studies, coherent scattering, diffraction imaging, time-resolved studies and the structure of strain and defects in materials.
The journal has two parts, a rapid-publication Advances section and the traditional Foundations section. Articles for the Advances section are of particularly high value and impact. They receive expedited treatment and may be highlighted by an accompanying scientific commentary article and a press release. Further details are given in the November 2013 Editorial.
The central themes of the journal are, on the one hand, experimental and theoretical studies of the properties and arrangements of atoms, ions and molecules in condensed matter, periodic, quasiperiodic or amorphous, ideal or real, and, on the other, the theoretical and experimental aspects of the various methods to determine these properties and arrangements.