The graphene balloons routinely form when placing graphene on flat substrates and are usually considered a nuisance and therefore ignored. The Manchester researchers, led by Professor Irina Grigorieva ...

Then, in February this year, an MIT team led by physicist Long Ju spotted the same effect in pentalayer moiré graphene. This material consists of a layer of a two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride ...

A recent article in Scientific Reports detailed the characterization of disordered structures in graphene and monolayer hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) induced by low-energy argon ion irradiation.