[Animats]

Wow. Go over to [1] and read the papers. This is good stuff. When someone finds new physics, interesting things result.

Tungsten disulfide/boron nitride superconductors? That's a new direction.

This article describes a new research result as a new research result, not as "trillion dollar industry by 2027". That helps credibility.

[1] https://physics.mit.edu/faculty/long-ju/

[nomel]

As someone who knows nothing about this, how is something like "Tungsten disulfide/boron nitride" selected? Is it based on some models? Or, is it more of a random walk?

[gaze]

They're two materials that 2D materials people commonly stock. BN is thought to be a pretty innocuous insulator. Might as well be the lettuce of the sandwich. However, it's now showing that it has effects on the nearby layers, so people are playing with it in heterobilayer devices.

A large part of the field of 2D materials is just trying stuff.

[mensetmanusman]

They are choosing from a subset of materials that can form stable 2D crystals in order to test effects of relative twist angles on their energy bands.

[halflife]

Are 2d crystals the depth of 1 molecule?

[mensetmanusman]

One layer of somewhat coplanar atoms.

[m463]

otoh, "a graphene device produced a mythical form of superconductivity"

:)

[simpaticoder]

>This article describes a new research result as a new research result, not as "trillion dollar industry by 2027".

I don't like that language either, but it may be wise to understand that different audiences are reading this, and it may be effective for the author to reach the others in this way. And besides, in general it's easier for a rationalist to ignore such language than it is for an industrialist to add it.

[exmadscientist]

Bollocks. "Hype language" has a very strong correlation with people who don't know what they're talking about. (Probably because most people who use it do not, in fact, know what they're talking about, even if some might.) So other experts in the field will look down on you if you speak like a British university press release.

[simpaticoder]

I agree with you. I just think it is wasted effort to complain about the quality of press releases. I am consigned to their poor quality, and my solution is to read primary sources.