# Engineering Polar Vortices via Strain Soliton Interactions in Marginally Twisted Multilayer Graphene

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2026-07-02T04:30:35.564675Z

## Updated at

2026-07-06T04:54:35.025400Z

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2026-07-06T07:27:58.428674Z

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## First published url

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c05666

## Date published

2025-01-29

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2025-1-29

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journal_article

## Manuscript type

accepted_manuscript

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## Title

- title: Engineering Polar Vortices via Strain Soliton Interactions in Marginally
    Twisted Multilayer Graphene
  title_type: original
  lang: en

## Description

- description: Strain solitons have been widely observed in van der Waals materials
    and their heterostructures. They can manifest as one-dimensional (1D) wires and
    quasi-two-dimensional (2D) networks. However, their coexistence within the same
    region has rarely been observed, and their interplay remains unexplored. Here,
    employing lateral piezoresponse force microscopy, we show that 1D linear solitons
    and 2D moiré solitons appear simultaneously and interact in twisted multilayer
    graphene. In twisted monolayer–bilayer graphene, when a linear soliton intersects
    with moiré solitons, the polarization reverses across the intersections, splitting
    a polar vortex into two vortices. Interestingly, when a linear soliton is parallel
    to a moiré soliton, they can annihilate each other in certain case, resulting
    in the unification of polar vortices. In twisted monolayer–trilayer graphene,
    linear solitons from different interfaces can be resolved. Our results provide
    new insights for the interplay between different solitons and pave a new way for
    engineering moiré physics.
  description_type: abstract
  lang: en

## Creator

- name: Yuhao Li
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4469-5468
- name: Hai Meng
  role: author
- name: Yuanhao Wei
  role: author
- name: Hanhao Zhang
  role: author
- name: Minmin Xue
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6629-6436
- name: Shengsheng Lin
  role: author
- name: Takashi Taniguchi
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1467-3105
- name: Kenji Watanabe
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3701-8119
- name: Zhuhua Zhang
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6406-0959
- name: Yan Shi
  role: author
- name: Xinran Wang
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3975-1667
- name: Yi Shi
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1082-0315
- name: Fengcheng Wu
  role: author
- name: Zaiyao Fei
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5433-2778

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organization: American Chemical Society (ACS)

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## Keyword

- subject: Strain soliton
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- subject: Twisted multilayer graphene
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- subject: Moiré superlattice
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## Rights

- description: This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Article
    that appeared in final form in Nano Letters, copyright © 2025 American Chemical
    Society. To access the final published article see https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c05666.
  identifier: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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## Embargo

start_date: 2025-01-21
end_date: 2026-01-21

## Journal

- title: Nano Letters
  issn: '15306984'
  volume: '25'
  issue: '4'
  start_page: 1584
  end_page: 1592

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