Catalysis of carbon dioxide photoreduction on nanosheets: fundamentals and challenges

Z Sun, N Talreja, H Tao, J Texter… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The transformation of CO2 into fuels and chemicals by photocatalysis is a promising strategy
to provide a long‐term solution to mitigating global warming and energy‐supply problems …

Rise of silicene: A competitive 2D material

J Zhao, H Liu, Z Yu, R Quhe, S Zhou, Y Wang… - Progress in Materials …, 2016 - Elsevier
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 …

Elemental analogues of graphene: silicene, germanene, stanene, and phosphorene

S Balendhran, S Walia, H Nili, S Sriram, M Bhaskaran - small, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The fascinating electronic and optoelectronic properties of free‐standing graphene has led
to the exploration of alternative two‐dimensional materials that can be easily integrated with …

Germanene: the germanium analogue of graphene

A Acun, L Zhang, P Bampoulis… - Journal of physics …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, several research groups have reported the growth of germanene, a new member
of the graphene family. Germanene is in many aspects very similar to graphene, but in …

Elemental two-dimensional nanosheets beyond graphene

X Kong, Q Liu, C Zhang, Z Peng, Q Chen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The great success of graphene has encouraged the fast development of other two-
dimensional (2D) nanosheets, which have attracted extensive attention in different scientific …

Silicene, a promising new 2D material

H Oughaddou, H Enriquez, MR Tchalala… - Progress in Surface …, 2015 - Elsevier
Silicene is emerging as a two-dimensional material with very attractive electronic properties
for a wide range of applications; it is a particularly promising material for nano-electronics in …

Silicene: a review of recent experimental and theoretical investigations

M Houssa, A Dimoulas, A Molle - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Silicene is the silicon counterpart of graphene, ie it consists in a single layer of Si atoms with
a hexagonal arrangement. We present a review of recent theoretical and experimental …

A theoretical review on electronic, magnetic and optical properties of silicene

S Chowdhury, D Jana - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Inspired by the success of graphene, various two dimensional (2D) structures in free
standing (FS)(hypothetical) form and on different substrates have been proposed recently …

Beyond graphene: Clean, hydrogenated and halogenated silicene, germanene, stanene, and plumbene

F Bechstedt, P Gori, O Pulci - Progress in Surface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
The fascinating electronic and optoelectronic properties of freestanding graphene and the
possible inclusion of novel two-dimensional (2D) systems in silicon-based electronics have …

Stanene: a promising material for new electronic and spintronic applications

JK Lyu, SF Zhang, CW Zhang, PJ Wang - Annalen der Physik, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The attractive mechanical and electronic properties of freestanding graphene has led to the
exploration of two‐dimensional (2D) materials which can be integrated with contemporary …