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Synthesis and Properties of Low-Dimensional Materials

Low-dimensionality is acribed to materials that exhibit large anisotropic ratios in some intensive physical properties. For example, pseudo- one-dimensional materials typically have significantly greater optical, magnetic, electrical, and/or mechanical properties in one dimension with respect to the orthogonal directions. Similarly, pseudo-two-dimensional complexes exhibit pronounced physical properties in two dimensions with respect to the remaining dimension. These enhanced properties arise from cooperative interactions manifested by linear chain (1-D) or layer (2-D) structures, which principally occur in the solid. For years, advancement in this area of science was dominated by synthetic chemistry; however, in the last decade physicists have characterized the unique properties exhibited by these materials.

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