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 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 …

Monolayer topological insulators: silicene, germanene, and stanene

M Ezawa - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2015 - journals.jps.jp
We report the recent progress on the theoretical aspects of monolayer topological insulators
including silicene, germanene and stanene, which are monolayer honeycomb structures of …

Achieving controllable multifunctionality through layer sliding

M Ali, M Yousaf, J Munir - Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, 2024 - Elsevier
Dynamical variation of physical properties in a controllable fashion provides exciting
possibilities to obtain multifunctional materials. In this work, layer-sliding is employed to …

Gas adsorption on silicene: a theoretical study

J Feng, Y Liu, H Wang, J Zhao, Q Cai… - Computational Materials …, 2014 - Elsevier
The adsorption of several common gas molecules on silicene has been studied using
density functional theory (DFT). The most stable configurations, the corresponding …

Tunable electronic and magnetic properties of graphene/carbon-nitride van der Waals heterostructures

A Bafekry, B Akgenc, SF Shayesteh, B Mortazavi - Applied Surface Science, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we explore the electronic properties of C 3 N, C 3 N 4 and C 4 N 3 and
graphene (Gr) van der Waals heterostructures by conducting extensive first-principles …

Interfacial thermal conductance of a silicene/graphene bilayer heterostructure and the effect of hydrogenation

B Liu, JA Baimova, CD Reddy, AWK Law… - … applied materials & …, 2014 - ACS Publications
van der Waals heterostructures, obtained by stacking layers of isolated two-dimensional
atomic crystals like graphene (GE) and silicene (SE), are one of emerging nanomaterials for …

Tuning the electronic properties of graphene–graphitic carbon nitride heterostructures and heterojunctions by using an electric field

A Bafekry, M Neek-Amal - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Integration of graphene-based two-dimensional materials is essential for nanoelectronics
applications. Using density-functional theory, we systematically investigate the electronic …

Effects of interlayer coupling and electric fields on the electronic structures of graphene and MoS 2 heterobilayers

W Hu, T Wang, R Zhang, J Yang - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Combining the electronic structures of graphene and molybdenum disulphide (MoS2)
monolayers in two-dimensional (2D) ultrathin graphene and MoS2 heterostructures has …

Silicene: Recent theoretical advances

LC Lew Yan Voon, J Zhu… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Silicene is a two-dimensional allotrope of silicon with a puckered hexagonal structure
closely related to the structure of graphene and that has been predicted to be stable. To …