EXCITING MOMENTS ON THE EDGE
Raj Pandya, University of Warwick, UK, Chris Howard, University College London, UK, Peter Christianen, HFML-FELIX Nijmegen. For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that phosphorene nanoribbons – thin pieces of black phosphorus, only a few nanometers wide (figure 1, bottom) – exhibit both magnetic and semiconducting properties at room temperature. [...]