Progress in the discovery of new materials has been accelerated by the development of
reliable quantum-mechanical approaches to crystal structure prediction. The properties of a …

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 …

At the atomic-cluster scale, pure boron is markedly similar to carbon, forming simple planar
molecules and cage-like fullerenes. Theoretical studies predict that two-dimensional (2D) …

A variety of two-dimensional materials have been reported in recent years, yet single-
element systems such as graphene and black phosphorus have remained rare. Boron …

Although the hydrogen evolution reaction of the triangular borophene has been studied, the
stability and hydrogen evolution reaction of the currently known borophene structure are …

We present an overview of the main techniques for production and processing of graphene
and related materials (GRMs), as well as the key characterization procedures. We adopt …

The synthesis of 2D materials with no analogous bulk layered allotropes promises a
substantial breadth of physical and chemical properties through the diverse structural …

Graphene is famous for being a host of 2D Dirac fermions. However, spin-orbit coupling
introduces a small gap, so that graphene is formally a quantum spin Hall insulator. Here we …

Abstract 2D materials have attracted considerable attention in the past decade for their
superlative physical properties. These materials consist of atomically thin sheets exhibiting …

Using systematic evolutionary structure searching we propose a new carbon allotrope,
phagraphene [fæ'græfi: n], standing for p enta-h exa-hept a-graphene, because the structure …