I was doing some solo explorations on Nb3Cl8 when my advisor was like “yo dis fella do’on Nb3I8” and I’m like “damn them halogens bruh” and that’s how this collaboration happened.
– Tharindu Fernando (second author), whose involvement was serendipitous. He spent much longer addressing the reviewers’ feedback compared to generating the results in the paper.
Regmi, S., Fernando, T., Zhao, Y. et al. Spectroscopic evidence of flat bands in breathing kagome semiconductor Nb3I8. Commun Mater 3, 100 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-022-00318-3