Non-van der Waals quasi-2D materials; recent advances in synthesis, emergent properties and applications

AP Balan, AB Puthirath, S Roy, G Costin, EF Oliveira… - Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
The discovery of novel materials that are stable at ambient conditions with emergent
functionalities is a pressing need of the 21st century to keep the pace of social and …

Two-dimensional non-van der Waals magnetic layers: functional materials for potential device applications

C **, L Kou - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials have attracted extensive research
attention in recent years due to their promising potential for use in nanoscale spintronic …

Data-driven quest for two-dimensional non-van der Waals materials

R Friedrich, M Ghorbani-Asl, S Curtarolo… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) materials are frequently associated with the sheets forming bulk
layered compounds bonded by van der Waals (vdW) forces. The anisotropy and weak …

Facile and environmentally friendly synthesis of highly efficient two-dimensional hematene nanosheets for photocatalytic applications

PY Motlagh, A Khataee, A Hassani, Y Orooji - Journal of Industrial and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Exfoliation of bulk hematite (α-Fe 2 O 3), as an environmentally friendly, nontoxicity, and low-
cost semiconductor oxide, exhibited greater photocatalytic activity under visible light …

Theoretical prediction of two-dimensional materials, behavior, and properties

ES Penev, N Marzari, BI Yakobson - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Predictive modeling of two-dimensional (2D) materials is at the crossroad of two current
rapidly growing interests: 2D materials per se, massively sought after and explored in …

Multiferroic decorated Fe 2 O 3 monolayer predicted from first principles

J Shang, C Li, X Tang, A Du, T Liao, Y Gu, Y Ma, L Kou… - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Two-dimensional (2D) multiferroics exhibit cross-control capacity between magnetic and
electric responses in a reduced spatial domain, making them well suited for next-generation …

Tailoring the electronic and magnetic properties of hematene by surface passivation: insights from first-principles calculations

Y Wei, M Ghorbani-Asl… - The Journal of Physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Exfoliation of atomically thin layers from non-van der Waals bulk solids gave rise to the
emergence of a new class of two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as hematene (Hm), a …

Magnetic State Control of Non-van der Waals 2D Materials by Hydrogenation

T Barnowsky, S Curtarolo, AV Krasheninnikov… - Nano …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Controlling the magnetic state of two-dimensional (2D) materials is crucial for spintronics. By
employing data-mining and autonomous density functional theory calculations, we …

Origin of strain tunability in flat valence band and ultrahigh shear piezoelectricity in superflexible non–van der Waals graphitic monolayers (, As, Sb)

H Seksaria, A Kaur, A De Sarkar - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Utilizing the exceptional characteristics of two-dimensional (2D) materials for solid-state
electronic devices presents an appealing strategy that could potentially address the need to …

Quantum sensing of antiferromagnetic magnon two-mode squeezed vacuum

ALE Römling, A Kamra - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Néel ordered antiferromagnets exhibit two-mode squeezing such that their ground state is a
nonclassical superposition of magnon Fock states. Here we theoretically demonstrate that …