Heteroepitaxial growth of single-crystal films typically requires stringent matching of the specific lattice ordering with the underlying substrate. Now, amorphous MoTe2 thin films are shown to transform into wafer-scale 2D single-crystals through seeded growth on the surface of any arbitrary substrate.
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Ren, H., Duan, X. & Huang, Y. Any surface will do. Nat. Synth 1, 672–673 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44160-022-00154-w
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