Meanings
nounmicrocleavage (countable and uncountable, plural microcleavages)
plural microcleavages
- countableuncountablecleavage to form very thin layers
Very recently, a new 2D material phosphorene named after its parent black phosphorous was mechanically exfoliated by scotch tape based microcleavage method from a layered bulk black phosphorus and also a single layer phosphorene was obtained by plasma-assisted fabrication process 9 10 .
2015 July 22, M. Umar Farooq, Arqum Hashmi, Jisang Hong, “Anisotropic bias dependent transport property of defective phosphorene layer”, in Scientific Reports, volume 5, →DOI
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