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ArticleNano letters2026

van der Waals Nanochemical Reactors.

Zhaoyi Joy Zheng, Haosen Guan, Danrui Ni, Guangming Cheng, Yanyu Jia, Ipsita Das, Yue Tang, Ayelet J Uzan-Narovlansky, Lihan Shi, Kenji Watanabe and 4 more

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Article in Nano letters, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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14 authors.

Zhaoyi Joy ZhengDepartment of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7016-4447
Haosen GuanDepartment of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.
Danrui NiDepartment of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6916-1281
Guangming ChengPrinceton Materials Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5852-1341
Yanyu JiaDepartment of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6061-8441
Ipsita DasDepartment of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.
Yue TangDepartment of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.
Ayelet J Uzan-NarovlanskyDepartment of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.
Lihan ShiDepartment of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.
Kenji WatanabeResearch Center for Electronic and Optical Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-3701-8119
Takashi TaniguchiResearch Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-1467-3105
Nan YaoPrinceton Materials Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4081-1495
Robert J CavaDepartment of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3294-6867
Sanfeng WuDepartment of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6227-6286

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synthesizing single crystals suitable for quantum electronic discoveries remains challenging for many emerging materials. We introduce van der Waals (vdW) stacks as nanochemical reactors for single-crystal synthesis and demonstrate their broad applicability in growing both elemental and compound crystals at the micrometer scale. By encapsulating atomically thin reactants that are stacked compactly with inert vdW layers, we achieve nanoconfined synthesis with the resulting crystals remaining encapsulated. As a proof of concept, we synthesized isolated single crystals of elemental tellurium and distinct types of Pd-Te compounds. Structural characterization confirms the high crystalline quality of the products. We observe the intrinsic semiconducting gap of tellurium and superconductivity in nonstoichiometric PdTe

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nanoreactorssynthesisvan der Waals materials

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