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'Mind the gap' between atomically thin materials

For the first time, researchers have grown a single atomic layer of tungsten diselenide on a one- atom-thick substrate of graphene with pristine interfaces between the two layers using an industrially scalable technique.


http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/science...141117.htm

This is really interesting stuff. There is virtually no limit to the kind of 'synthetic' materials they can make by applying different elements one layer at a time. I particularly like how strong a single layer of graphene can be. I wonder how strong several layers of the stuff can be. Maybe we might be looking at 0.1 mm-thin shatter-proof glasses for our smart phones or bullet proof glass thinner than a human hair. Who knows what the future holds for this new technological frontier.