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Caption: Researchers have found that the gallium arsenide and bismuth telluride are actually separated by a thin layer of a hitherto unsuspected third material -- gallium telluride. The materials are held together by the weak forces of van der Waals bonds.
Credit: James LeBeau, North Carolina State University
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