In a classic of scholarship,“On the Shoulders of Giants,”[1] Robert K. Merton, a great
sociologist of science, traces the involuted history of a remark by Isaac Newton,“If I have …

Hardness can be defined microscopically as the combined resistance of chemical bonds in
a material to indentation. The current review presents three most popular microscopic …

Abstract Two‐dimensional (2D) transition‐metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have emerged as
promising catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) that play a crucial role in …

Elastic stability criteria are widely employed to prove the being of the lattice. Sin'ko and
Smirnov have reported the applicable criteria under isotropic pressure and given the …

Nanoclusters like fullerenes as the unit to build intriguing two-dimensional (2D) topological
structures is of great challenge. Here we propose three bridged fullerene monolayers and …

Carbon is an element with extremely versatile bonding properties and theoretical
calculations have suggested the possible existence of several hundred structural allotropes …

We reported a developed methodology to design superhard materials for given chemical
systems under external conditions (here, pressure). The new approach is based on the …

Crystal structure prediction at high pressures unbiased by any prior known structure
information has recently become a topic of considerable interest. We here present a short …

A method is introduced to stochastically generate crystal structures with defined structural
characteristics. Reasonable quotient graphs for symmetric crystals are constructed using a …

Elemental silicon has a large impact on the economy of the modern world and is of
fundamental importance in the technological field, particularly in solar cell industry. The …