According to Physics World, researchers have gained new insights into strain relaxation in van der Waals heterostructures — engineered materials made by stacking atomically thin layers of different compounds. When these layers have mismatched atomic spacing, they create strain. The research explores how these nanoscale structures naturally accommodate and relieve that stress, findings that could inform the design of next-generation nanoelectronics and quantum devices.

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