You may know how buildings are built or how to make a sandwich. But what about assembling novel devices out of 2d materials that are a few atoms thick? In this video, Professor James Teherani shows you, step-by-step, how to build new nano devices based on the same principle of stacking. The materials that we layer here can be used to make electronic devices.

What’s exciting is that this technique opens up a whole new toolbox for building materials with entirely new functionalities. And, incredibly, we can place these ultra thin material on whatever substrate we want — perhaps on a bio-compatible polymer for an implantable device, or on a plastic film for flexible electronics, or on an silicon chip to supplement the capabilities of conventional electronics.