Our NanoNews Digest Sponsors Home > Press > Shapeshifting crystals-varying stability in different forms of gallium selenide monolayers: Researchers investigate the structure and properties of a recently identified polymorph of gallium selenide crystal layer The P and AP phases of a GaSe monolayer CREDIT Hirokazu Nitta from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Abstract: The gallium selenide monolayer has been recently discovered to have an alternative crystal structure and has diverse potential applications in electronics. Understanding its properties is crucial to understand its functions. Now, scientists from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and the University of Tokyo have explored its structural stability, electronic states, and transformation of crystal phases.