Building a printing press for new quantum materials
(PHYSorg.com Nanotechnology)

Checking out a stack of books from the library is as simple as searching the library`s catalog and using unique call numbers to pull each book from their shelf locations. Using a similar principle, scientists at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)-a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory-are teaming with Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to create a first-of-its-kind automated system to catalog atomically thin two-dimensional (2-D) materials and stack them into layered structures. Called the Quantum Material Press, or QPress, this system will accelerate the discovery of next-generation materials for the emerging field of quantum information science (QIS).