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. 2024 Jul 31;15:6472. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-50900-1

Fig. 1. vdW materials are promising platforms for hosting surface and extraordinary phase transitions.

Fig. 1

a phase diagram illustrating ordinary, surface and extraordinary phase transitions and the special point. BD bulk disordered, SD surface disordered, SO surface ordered, BO bulk ordered. Js, mean-field surface interaction, Jb, mean-field bulk interaction. b, c illustrations of intralayer and interlayer interactions strengths, J and J, in b 3D ionic crystals and c quasi-2D van der Waals crystals.