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 …

Presently Si-based field-effect transistors (FETs) are approaching their physical limit, and
further scaling their gate length down to the sub-10 nm region is becoming extremely …

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 …

Free-standing silicene, a silicon analogue of graphene, has a buckled honeycomb lattice
and, because of its Dirac bandstructure, combined with its sensitive surface, offers the …

Silicene, the ultimate scaling of a silicon atomic sheet in a buckled honeycomb lattice,
represents a monoelemental class of two-dimensional (2D) materials similar to graphene …

Graphene, an atomic monolayer of carbon atoms in a honeycomb lattice realized in 2004,
has rapidly risen as the hottest star in materials science due to its exceptional properties …

Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have been serving as one the most critical
components of fast growing technologies, such as the mobile electronic and electrified …

Silicon‐based biomaterials play an indispensable role in biomedical engineering; however,
due to the lack of intrinsic functionalities of silicon, the applications of silicon‐based …

During the last decade, there has been considerable interest of researchers towards the use
of two-dimensional (2D) materials for the electronic device implementations. The main …

Although graphene is by far the most famous example of two-dimensional (2D) materials,
which exhibits a wealth of exotic and intriguing properties, it suffers from a severe drawback …