# Unconventional domain tessellations in moiré-of-moiré lattices

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## First published url

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08932-0

## Date published

2025-05-22

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2025-5-22

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## Title

- title: Unconventional domain tessellations in moiré-of-moiré lattices
  title_type: original
  lang: en

## Description

- description: Imposing incommensurable periodicity on the periodic atomic lattice
    can lead to complex structural phases consisting of locally periodic structure
    bounded by topological defects. Twisted trilayer graphene (TTG) is an ideal material
    platform to study the interplay between different atomic periodicities, which
    can be tuned by twist angles between the layers, leading to moiré-of-moiré lattices.
    Interlayer and intralayer interactions between two interfaces in TTG transform
    this moiré-of-moiré lattice into an intricate network of domain structures at
    small twist angles, which can harbour exotic electronic behaviours. Here we report
    a complete structural phase diagram of TTG with atomic-scale lattice reconstruction.
    Using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) combined with a new interatomic potential
    simulation27,28, we show several large-scale moiré lattices, including triangular,
    kagome and a corner-shared hexagram-shaped domain pattern. Each domain is bounded
    by a 2D network of domain-wall lattices. In the limit of small twist angles, two
    competing structural orders—rhombohedral and Bernal stackings—with a slight energy
    difference cause unconventional lattice reconstruction with spontaneous symmetry
    breaking (SSB) and nematic instability, highlighting the importance of long-range
    interlayer interactions across entire van der Waals layers. The diverse tessellation
    of distinct domains, whose topological network can be tuned by the adjustment
    of the twist angles, establishes TTG as a platform for exploring the interplay
    between emerging quantum properties and controllable nontrivial lattices.
  description_type: abstract
  lang: en

## Creator

- name: Daesung Park
  role: author
- name: Changwon Park
  role: author
- name: Kunihiro Yananose
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- name: Eunjung Ko
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- name: Byunghyun Kim
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- name: Rebecca Engelke
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- name: Xi Zhang
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- name: Konstantin Davydov
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- name: Matthew Green
  role: author
- name: Hyun-Mi Kim
  role: author
- name: Sang Hwa Park
  role: author
- name: Jae Heon Lee
  role: author
- name: Seul-Gi Kim
  role: author
- name: Hyeongkeun Kim
  role: author
- name: Kenji Watanabe
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3701-8119
  organization: National Institute for Materials Science
- name: Takashi Taniguchi
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1467-3105
  organization: National Institute for Materials Science
- name: Sang Mo Yang
  role: author
- name: Ke Wang
  role: author
- name: Philip Kim
  role: author
- name: Young-Woo Son
  role: author
- name: Hyobin Yoo
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organization: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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## Keyword

- subject: Twisted trilayer graphene
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- subject: Moiré lattice
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- subject: Lattice reconstruction
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## Rights

- description: 'This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after
    peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of
    use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements,
    or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08932-0'
  identifier: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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## Embargo

start_date: 2025-05-14
end_date: 2025-11-14

## Journal

- title: Nature
  issn: '00280836'
  volume: '641'
  issue: '8064'
  start_page: 896
  end_page: 903

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