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Graduate student Lebing Chen displays chromium triiodide crystals he made in a Rice University laboratory. Stacked layers of atomically thin 2D chromium triiodide have unusual electronic and magnetic properties that could prove useful for "spintronic" technologies that encode information in the spins of electrons. (Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)

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