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Emerging quantum phenomena in van der Waals materials

Guest Editors:
Hyejin Ryu: Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Choongyu Hwang: Pusan National University, Korea

Submission Status: Closed |   Submission Deadline: 29 February 2024


This collection is no longer accepting submissions.


Nano Convergence is calling for submissions to our Collection on Emerging quantum phenomena in van der Waals ma-terials. The collection aims to introduce and review recent advances in the various physical properties of van der Waals materials, focusing particularly on thermoelectric, structural, magnetic, and Kondo effects from the perspective of transport and electronic structures.

About the collection

Van der Waals (vdW) materials, such as graphene, boron nitride, and transition metal dichalcogenics (TMDs), con-sist of atomic planes bonded by weak vdW interactions. These materials host a wide range of electrical, optical, topological, structural, chemical, magnetic, and thermoe-lectric properties. The various quantum characteristics contained in vdW systems offer an ideal platform for fun-damental scientific research as well as material property engineering and device applications. 

Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to the following: 

• Multifunctional van der Waals (vdW) quantum materi-als 
• Thermoelectric property engineering 
• Magnetic properties of vdW materials 
• Electronic band struc-ture engineering

  1. Dimensional modifications play a crucial role in various applications, especially in the context of device miniaturization, giving rise to novel quantum phenomena. The many-body dynamics induced by dimensional...

    Authors: Tae Gyu Rhee, Nguyen Huu Lam, Yeong Gwang Kim, Minseon Gu, Jinwoong Hwang, Aaron Bostwick, Sung-Kwan Mo, Seung-Hyun Chun, Jungdae Kim, Young Jun Chang and Byoung Ki Choi
    Citation: Nano Convergence 2024 11:21
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  2. Tunability of interfacial effects between two-dimensional (2D) crystals is crucial not only for understanding the intrinsic properties of each system, but also for designing electronic devices based on ultra-t...

    Authors: Hyobeom Lee, Hayoon Im, Byoung Ki Choi, Kyoungree Park, Yi Chen, Wei Ruan, Yong Zhong, Ji-Eun Lee, Hyejin Ryu, Michael F. Crommie, Zhi-Xun Shen, Choongyu Hwang, Sung-Kwan Mo and Jinwoong Hwang
    Citation: Nano Convergence 2024 11:14
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  4. The thermoelectric performance of SnSe strongly depends on its low-energy electron band structure that provides high density of states in a narrow energy window due to the multi-valley valence band maximum (VB...

    Authors: Ji-Eun Lee, Kyoo Kim, Van Quang Nguyen, Jinwoong Hwang, Jonathan D. Denlinger, Byung Il Min, Sunglae Cho, Hyejin Ryu, Choongyu Hwang and Sung-Kwan Mo
    Citation: Nano Convergence 2023 10:32
    Content type: Full Paper Published on:

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This Collection welcomes submission of Research Articles. Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have read our submission guidelines. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system. During the submission process, under the section additional information, you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "The Inequality of Uncertainty" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.