Experimental Demonstration of an Electride as a 2D Material.

@article{Druffel2016ExperimentalDO,
  title={Experimental Demonstration of an Electride as a 2D Material.},
  author={Daniel L. Druffel and Kaci L. Kuntz and Adam H. Woomer and F. M. Alcorn and Jun Hu and Carrie L. Donley and Scott C. Warren},
  journal={Journal of the American Chemical Society},
  year={2016},
  volume={138 49},
  pages={
          16089-16094
        }
}
Because of their loosely bound electrons, electrides offer physical properties useful in chemical synthesis and electronics. For these applications and others, nanosized electrides offer advantages, but to-date no electride has been synthesized as a nanomaterial. We demonstrate experimentally that Ca2N, a layered electride in which layers of atoms are separated by layers of a 2D electron gas (2DEG), can be exfoliated into two-dimensional (2D) nanosheets using liquid exfoliation. The 2D flakes… 
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