TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it has confirmed the world's first self-recovery property of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG), a van der Waals (vdW)-layered material, in joint research with the Solid Mechanics Laboratory (Hirakata Laboratory) of Kyoto University's Graduate School of Engineering. This achievement is expected to extend the operational lifetime of micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) by utilizing vdW-layered ma. ...