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📢📢📢 Attention!! 📢📢📢 We have Europeanised our website from .es to .eu, you can now download WSxM here 👉🏽 wsxm.eu Please, spread the word! 📢📢

In short: more stability, better workflows, and multiple bug fixes across acquisition, lithography, and configuration handling.

4️⃣ We also resolved some channel/configuration saving issues, including cases where settings were not written correctly under specific channel configurations.

📢📢📢 WSxM Update – New versions available to download with Fixes & Improvements! ✨ Thanks to everyone who reported bugs and helped us track these down, keep on letting us know if you spot anything else. #WSxM #SoftwareUpdate🧵👇

Happy birthday indeed!!! 👏👏👏🥳

Using 37% phosphoric acid for ~10 s on human dentin 🦷 effectively demineralises while preserving collagen ultrastructure. Etching beyond that degrades fibrils without added benefit, which is important for optimizing adhesive dentistry protocols 2/2 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🔊 #WSxMpaperofthemonth W Alzubaidi, E Ganss, @MinaVaez, @Neshatian_M, @Aguayo_SD, @SomogyiGanss, L Bozec «Balancing Demineralisation and Collagen Integrity: A Nanoscale Analysis of Etching Time in Human Dentin» in International Dental Journal 1/2

The authors image the elusive near-commensurate CDW in doped monolayer TiSe2, showing that it is not phase slips of a complex CDW, but Ising-type domain walls between two intertwined real CDWs, coupled to an unexpected nematic lattice modulation. 2/2 pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

🔊 #WSxMpaperofthemonth W Wan, M N Gastiasoro, D Muñoz-Segovia, P Dreher, M M Ugeda @m_ugeda, F de Juan «Near-commensuration from Intertwined Charge Density Waves in Single-Layer TiSe2» in @NanoLetters 1/2

The authors present a new 2D carbon allotrope via on-surface synthesis. STM/AFM+DFT show tunable bandgaps: direct for graphene-type pores, smaller indirect for biphenylene-type. The material is air-stable and CO-affine→promising for sensing & devices 2/2 advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

🔊 #WSxMpaperofthemonth P Angulo-Portugal, M Irizar, L Huang, M Sarker, MA Ashoush, ZM Abd El-Fattah, ..., @dgoteyza, @SinitskiiLab, @Aranko, M Corso, I Piquero-Zulaica «A Functional 2D Carbon Allotrope Combining Nanoporous Graphene and Biphenylene Segments» in #AdvMater 1/2

The authors used a blue-phosphorene buffer to grow epitaxial Te nanoribbons on Cu(111). They achieved the self-assembly of ordered, three-atom-wide zigzag ribbons with a 1T-MoS₂-like structure, 0.51 eV gap, and ≈1000 cm² V⁻¹ s⁻¹ mobility. 2/2 advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

🔊 #WSxMpaperofthemonth W Gao, C Hua, Q Zheng, W Dou, P Yu, Y Zhu, M Zhou, T Niu, from @Beihang1952 and #SuzhouLaboratory, «Atomically Precise Bottom-Up Growth of Semiconducting Te Nanoribbons» in #AdvFunctMater 1/2

The authors used #AFM to show that 💧#water trapped between atomically flat surfaces just a few molecules thick shows ferroelectric-like dielectric constants (~1000) and superionic-level conductivity ⚡ 2/2 nature.com/articles/s4158…

🔊 #WSxMpaperofthemonth R Wang, M Souilamas @nnajdrom, A Esfandiar, @reneif07, @Simone_Benaglia, H Nevison-Andrews, Q Yang, J Normansell, @pablerasares, G Ferrari, A Principi, AK Geim, @lfumagalli28 «In-plane dielectric constant and conductivity of confined water» in @Nature 1/2

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STM is used to directly visualize how doping tunes charge density waves in 2D Cr₂Se₃. Hole doping suppresses ordering, while electron doping reshapes it into a 3√3 × 3√3 phase revealing new insights into doping-ordering interplay in #2Dmaterials 2/2 science.org/doi/full/10.11…

🔊 #WSxMpaperofthemonth Sisheng Duan & Jian Gouet al. «Doping-tunable charge ordering in semiconducting single-layer Cr2Se3» in @ScienceAdvances 1/2