Research progress on penta-graphene and its related materials: Properties and applications

MA Nazir, A Hassan, Y Shen, Q Wang - Nano Today, 2022 - Elsevier
The most direct and efficient strategy in designing and synthesizing new materials is to
change the structural building units, which could lead to a new paradigm shift. Penta …

Epitaxial growth and structural properties of silicene and other 2D allotropes of Si

L Masson, G Prévot - Nanoscale Advances, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Since the breakthrough of graphene, considerable efforts have been made to search for two-
dimensional (2D) materials composed of other group 14 elements, in particular silicon and …

Thermoelectric penta-silicene with a high room-temperature figure of merit

Z Gao, JS Wang - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2020 - ACS Publications
Silicon is one of the most frequently used chemical elements of the periodic table in
nanotechnology (Goodilin et al., ACS Nano 2019, 13, 10879–10886). Two-dimensional …

Double-pentagon silicon chains in a quasi-1D Si/Ag (001) surface alloy

C Hogan, A Sette, VA Saroka, S Colonna… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Silicon surface alloys and silicide nanolayers are highly important as contact materials in
integrated circuit devices. Here we demonstrate that the submonolayer Si/Ag (001) surface …

Ultra-low lattice thermal conductivity of monolayer penta-silicene and penta-germanene

Z Gao, Z Zhang, G Liu, JS Wang - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
We study the lattice thermal conductivity of two-dimensional (2D) pentagonal systems, such
as penta-silicene and penta-germanene. Penta-silicene has been recently reported, while …

Ternary pentagonal BNSi monolayer: Two-dimensional structure with potentially high carrier mobility and strong excitonic effects for photocatalytic applications

MJ Varjovi, ME Kilic, E Durgun - Physical Review Materials, 2022 - APS
In recent years many attempts have been made to discover new types of two-dimensional
(2D) nanostructures with novel properties beyond the hexagonal crystals. The prediction of …

Penta-SiCN: A highly auxetic monolayer

SB Sharma, IA Qattan, M Jaishi… - ACS Applied Electronic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The negative Poisson's (NPR) ratio in a two-dimensional (2D) material is a counterintuitive
mechanical property that facilitates the development of nanoscale devices with sophisticated …

Screening two-dimensional pyroelectric materials based on pentagonal chains with large shift current

J **n, Y Guo, Q Wang - Physical Review Materials, 2023 - APS
The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) of two-dimensional (2D) polar crystals has received
considerable attention in recent years due to its potential applications in high-efficiency …

Penta carbides: Two-dimensional group-IV semiconductors containing dimers for nanoelectronics and photocatalytic water splitting

ME Kilic, KR Lee - Physical Review Materials, 2021 - APS
The discovery of novel materials with superior tailored properties is highly attractive for nano-
and optoelectronics. Inspired by penta graphene, we introduce a novel family of two …

Observation of one-dimensional Dirac fermions in silicon nanoribbons

S Yue, H Zhou, Y Feng, Y Wang, Z Sun, D Geng… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Dirac materials, which feature Dirac cones in the reciprocal space, have been one of the
hottest topics in condensed matter physics in the past decade. To date, 2D and 3D Dirac …