The NWO has awarded a Vidi grant to Sonia Conesa-Boj, Associate Professor at the department of Quantum Nanoscience, for her research on Moire materials from one-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures.

Van der Waals materials are most peculiar, since they keep functioning even when stripped bare-bones down to layers with single-atomic thickness. In the same way as one can assemble monumental constructions with humble Lego bricks, van der Waals materials can also be combined such that novel unexpected properties emerge, such as electrical currents that can flow indefinitely. This research will design novel classes of van der Waals materials based on a one-dimensional, pillar-like configuration suitable for building blocks of nanometer-sized electronic circuits and ultra-secure quantum communications and will study them with atomic resolution using electron-based microscopes.

Read more about the research project of Sonia Conesa-Boj and her seven fellow Delft researchers who also received the funding here.