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 …

Synthesis of bilayer borophene

C Chen, H Lv, P Zhang, Z Zhuo, Y Wang, C Ma, W Li… - Nature Chemistry, 2022‏ - nature.com
As the nearest-neighbour element to carbon, boron is theoretically predicted to have a
planar two-dimensional form, named borophene, with novel properties, such as Dirac …

Structures, properties and application of 2D monoelemental materials (Xenes) as graphene analogues under defect engineering

Z Huang, H Liu, R Hu, H Qiao, H Wang, Y Liu, X Qi… - Nano Today, 2020‏ - Elsevier
From the group-IIIA (borophene), to the group-IVA (silicene, germanene and stanine), as
well as the group-VA (phosphorene, arsenene, antimonene and bismuthene) and even the …

Recent progress in emergent two-dimensional silicene

G Shan, H Tan, R Ma, H Zhao, W Huang - Nanoscale, 2023‏ - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

Silicene: A promising anode for lithium‐ion batteries

J Zhuang, X Xu, G Peleckis, W Hao… - Advanced …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Silicene, a single‐layer‐thick silicon nanosheet with a honeycomb structure, is successfully
fabricated by the molecular‐beam‐epitaxy (MBE) deposition method on metallic substrates …

Density Functional Theory Study of the Silicene-like SiX and XSi3 (X = B, C, N, Al, P) Honeycomb Lattices: The Various Buckled Structures and Versatile Electronic …

Y Ding, Y Wang - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2013‏ - ACS Publications
Using the density functional theory calculations, we systematically investigate the structures
and properties of silicene-like SiX and XSi3 (X= B, C, N, Al, P) hexagonal heterosheets. For …

A first-principles study of gas adsorption on germanene

W **a, W Hu, Z Li, J Yang - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2014‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The adsorption of common gas molecules (N2, CO, CO2, H2O, NH3, NO, NO2, and O2) on
germanene is studied with density functional theory. The results show that N2, CO, CO2, and …

Recent advances of monoelemental 2D materials for photocatalytic applications

R Hu, GC Liao, Z Huang, H Qiao, H Liu, Y Shu… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
As a sustainable environmental governance strategy and energy conversion method,
photocatalysis has considered to have great potential in this field due to its excellent optical …

Silicene as a highly sensitive molecule sensor for NH 3, NO and NO 2

W Hu, N **a, X Wu, Z Li, J Yang - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2014‏ - pubs.rsc.org
On the basis of first-principles calculations, we demonstrate the potential application of
silicene as a highly sensitive molecule sensor for NH3, NO, and NO2 molecules. NH3, NO …