Dec 13 2018 25 mins 77
In this episode of Physics World Weekly we’re celebrating the Physics World 2018 Breakthrough of the Year. Announced today, the honour has gone to Pablo Jarillo-Herrero of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US and colleagues for making the discovery that led to the development of “twistronics”. The researchers discovered Mott insulator behaviour in pristine bilayer graphene when the orientation of the two layers were twisted by a specific angle. Physics World journalists discuss the award-winning work, along with other 2018 research highlights across core physics, materials science, environment and energy research, as well as medical physics and biophysics. If you enjoy what you hear, then you can subscribe via the Apple podcast app or your chosen podcast host.
