A collaborative research team, headed by Professor Zhang Shuchen—a specially-appointed professor at the University of Science and Technology of China—alongside researchers from Purdue University in the U.S. and ShanghaiTech University, has achieved a significant breakthrough in the realm of novel semiconductor materials. For the first time, they have successfully accomplished the controllable fabrication of in-plane programmable, atomically flat 'mosaic'-patterned heterojunctions within two-dimensional ionic soft lattice materials. This achievement paves a fresh avenue for the advancement of high-performance light-emitting and integrated devices. The pertinent research outcomes were published online in the esteemed journal Nature on January 15.
