My research is about a type of 2D materials, which are materials that are really really thin: only one layer of atoms/molecules thick. These materials occur in crystals, which are stacks of the 2D layers held on top of one another by weak electronic forces. The goal of my research was to pull apart and isolate single layers from the crystal, and then stack those layers on top of one another to make artificial crystals, which could be used for other research or technologies.