The integration of dissimilar materials into heterostructures has become a powerful tool for
engineering interfaces and electronic structure. The advent of 2D materials has provided …

Nanomaterials have emerged as an amazing class of materials that consists of a broad
spectrum of examples with at least one dimension in the range of 1 to 100 nm. Exceptionally …

Two-dimensional materials provide extraordinary opportunities for exploring phenomena
arising in atomically thin crystals. Beginning with the first isolation of graphene, mechanical …

As a key structural parameter, phase depicts the arrangement of atoms in materials.
Normally, a nanomaterial exists in its thermodynamically stable crystal phase. With the …

Owing to the thinness and large lateral size, 2D Si materials exhibit very promising
prospects as the high‐performance anodes of lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs). However, the …

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted tremendous research interest since the
breakthrough of graphene. Their unique optical, electronic, and mechanical properties hold …

The isolation of graphene in 2004 from graphite was a defining moment for the “birth” of a
field: two-dimensional (2D) materials. In recent years, there has been a rapidly increasing …

Silicene, germanene and stanene are part of a monoelemental class of two-dimensional
(2D) crystals termed 2D-Xenes (X= Si, Ge, Sn and so on) which, together with their ligand …

The first-principles band theory paradigm has been a key player not only in the process of
discovering new classes of topologically interesting materials, but also for identifying salient …

Silicene, a silicon analogue of graphene, has attracted increasing attention during the past
few years. As early as in 1994, the possibility of stage corrugation in the Si analogs of …